The Can Assist K2K trek is about to begin.

Manager Jennifer Youman and Debra Marks from Oberon Visitor Information Centre and Oberon Council corporate planner Joanne Barton will be setting off tomorrow on a gruelling three-day trek through the Kanangra Boyd National Park to raise funds for the local branch of Can Assist.

Led by guide, National Park Ranger Jules Bros the women will begin at Kanangra Walls tomorrow and will trek 49 kilometres through bushland, scaling rock faces and crossing rivers to reach Katoomba by Sunday.

Ranger Jules Bros has done the trek a number of times and will be carrying a personal locator beacon which can be used in case of emergency, which does not include pizza delivery.

The girls will be camping out in possible sub zero temperatures overnight, with only their supplies to keep them warm, before setting off on a long hike each day, the most challenging of which will be a 15 kilometre hike with a 680 metre ascent thrown in for good measure.

The trek was originally planned for May, but had to be called off due to unforeseen circumstances, but now the girls are both excited and nervous about the challenge ahead of them.

Weeks of rigorous training, which has included setting off with packs on back through many forests around Oberon, and even losing each other in that tiny piece of bushland near Oberon Dam, will be coupled with navigation skills learned from finding one’s way out of similar locations, such as Penrith Plaza, to survive the trek.

The girls have already raised more than $3000 to support the local branch of Can Assist and help those in the community dealing with cancer and, all jokes aside, it is a selfless task for these local girls to brave winter in bushland for three days and two nights to raise funds for this cause. Please dig deep Oberon and support the girls on their trek. Donations can be made at the Oberon Visitor Information Centre.