Our Trek in June July School Holidays of 2007 was my first time on the famous Track and I was very nervous. Although I walk a lot for work at home, our town is very flat and it was difficult to find suitable training spots to prepare for what had been described to me as 'walking up and down stairs, in sticky mud for up to 10 hours at a time, in hot humid conditions…'. As I looked towards our start point at Owers Corner from Bomana War Cemetery that first overcast day, I was fairly concerned that my back stairs training was not going to be enough..