Woke to a perfect day.
Even though this was supposed to be our ‘rest day’, you réalise pretty quickly just how slow going the traverse is. Up down, up down, and lots of scrambling and pack yoga. What normally takes an hour, takes 4 and sometimes more.
Half the day was spent scrambling around Mount Hayes where Peter Dombrovskis died.
We had a swim in Square Lake which was stupid freezing.
Even though the photos of Lake Oberon are almost cliché, there’s nothing like seeing it for real and in beautiful light.
We stayed watching for almost an hour before the long and treacherous descent down to the campsite.
Because our next day’s decisions were so dependent on weather, I ran back up to Mt Orion for a weather report.
There was still quite a bit of snow up on the summit, and I stayed up there for ages photographing the changing light before some heavy cloud and rain suddenly came through, then a a quick descent back for dinner with the crew in bleaker conditions.
Even though this was supposed to be our ‘rest day’, you réalise pretty quickly just how slow going the traverse is. Up down, up down, and lots of scrambling and pack yoga. What normally takes an hour, takes 4 and sometimes more.
Half the day was spent scrambling around Mount Hayes where Peter Dombrovskis died.
We had a swim in Square Lake which was stupid freezing.
Even though the photos of Lake Oberon are almost cliché, there’s nothing like seeing it for real and in beautiful light.
We stayed watching for almost an hour before the long and treacherous descent down to the campsite.
Because our next day’s decisions were so dependent on weather, I ran back up to Mt Orion for a weather report.
There was still quite a bit of snow up on the summit, and I stayed up there for ages photographing the changing light before some heavy cloud and rain suddenly came through, then a a quick descent back for dinner with the crew in bleaker conditions.
With the next couple of days looking like holding weather wise (and After a round of schnapps), we were all in very good spirits. Oberon is traditionally the point of deciding on whether to continue along the 2 most challenging stretches of the traverse, or to return back along the ( safer) way and back down moraine A.
Even though no rain was forecast, everything got saturated overnight.
That’s how the Western Arthurs are.
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