Ask John Blay, author of On Track, what the Bundian Way is and he gives you a simple answer.
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"The Bundian Way is an ancient walking track that some people took on their way going between the far South Coast around Twofold Bay and the High Country," he says.
But it's a simple answer which hides a dazzling complexity and mystery - not only for John himself, but for the generations of First Nations people who walked the hundreds of kilometres from ocean to mountain.
A program called "Scenes from the Bundian Way", which will debut as part of the Canberra International Music Festival, will attempt to unpick some of the mysteries of the track.
Composer Damian Barbeler is producing original music to accompany sounds and images from his journeys along the route, while John will read excerpts from his book On Track, searching out the Bundian Way.
Spending years in the forests of the south east, the book chronicles John's quest to join the dots between the alps and the coast.
It's a highway rich in history. The route saw people heading back and forth for ceremonies, trade in artefacts and corroborees. But for a long time it wasn't used and was in danger of being forgotten.
"People had just stopped using it," says Blay. "The old Kooris, two generations back, they used to walk everywhere. And I knew a couple of elders at Wallaga Lake who knew the route through there and we just have to follow their directions."
He's now part of a mission to secure funding and investment for hiking infrastructure to open up to the public what he believes is one of the world's great walks.
"Some parts of it are really difficult. But it's a magic walk in a lot of ways, it's a bit like a pilgrimage.
"It goes through such amazing scenic country like the Snowy River and it's incredibly beautiful. Some bits of it are really wild."
For composer Damian Barbeler, Scenes from the Bundian Way is really a celebration of the track itself.
"It's about how extraordinary and contrasting our country is even in that relatively short journey," Barbeler says.
Barbeler walked parts of the route over twelve months and aimed to capture that diversity through his work.
"It's points along the way where we're looking at texture and colour and light, and then the next piece could be totally different in its colour, and its sounds, because that is how the landscape is."
Barbeler says that, in walking the route, it feels as if time compresses and he felt connected to the generations of First Nations People who undertook the same journey for thousands of years.
"It gives you that longer view of history," he says.
"It gives you that sense of how over generations and generations, when they say they have a connection to the land, it's not just a concept of connection, they feel like they are a part of the land when they're in it, an integral part of it."
It is, Barbeler says, a musical landscape in a lot of ways.
"In Indigenous languages we know that with the cadence of words, the sounds of vowels that they try and capture something of the physical landscape.
"I'm kind of walking in a tradition that's already long established, and I'm just trying to do that in music."
Blay is passionate about the landscape for the way it constantly changes before you.
"I love the area around the Snowy River either side of it, which is so steep, incredibly steep and scenic and dry, so dry from up on top," he says.
"From the Ingeegoodbee River side it's lush and beautiful and green and then suddenly you drop off down towards the Snowy and it's like a desert and all the vegetation changes and you come in amongst all the Cypress pines that Banjo Patterson wrote about in his big poem, The Man from Snowy River."
- Scenes from the Bundian Way will be at the Kambri Cultural Centre at the ANU on the 7th and 8th of May. Tickets at kambri.com.au. For more information about the Canberra International Music Festival, visit cimf.org.au.