Desert track

摘要

IT'S BETTER TO STAND to savour the morning view from Counts Point, 95 km west of Alice Springs in the MacDonnell Ranges. To get here you'll have set out early from a campsite — either at Serpentine Gorge, to the east, or Serpentine Chalet, west — and walked mostly uphill. So once you've stopped you'll cool quickly. Better to stay upright and lively — the quartzite underfoot is too sharp and cold to sit on anyway. Shift from foot to foot. And keep your eyes moving around the horizon.