tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059572548177882442024-03-13T08:36:21.403-07:00Boodoir inc.The rooms of my roamings...Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-8156943435611824092023-09-02T23:32:00.073-07:002023-09-13T23:53:11.769-07:00Baw Baw last hurrah<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It seems to be the trend that my ski seasons are increasingly bookended by early autumn and then late spring Baw Baw systems. Whilst this winter's snow season has been abysmal (the first in long time where I couldn't be bothered driving up to any of Victoria's 3 main resorts), I have still managed to ski each calendar month since May, including a fun 4 days at Thredbo with the boys, so not all bad. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The storm on Friday into Saturday was always going to be a Baw Baw special, and I got up at 4am to get there early so the snow would still be cold. There was a heap of trees down and crap on the road from the wild weather, and I needed to put chains on to get up the hill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The usual BB beauty, a complete rime forest, with some pretty light coming through later in the morning. The snow quality stayed fine, with some particularly lovely lines off Big Hill in very fine snow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had about a dozen runs, my achilles was starting to ache after a vertical kilometre of climbing, and you tire of transitioning for the short runs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As usual the hill to myself apart from a couple of snowboarders and some tourists enjoying snow-play. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggHsM36kfm4yVSH-nFe1yfxfDj3iDy1I5u0ImtQ7RDPbvMPb5if4Q316x5LrcELbzv6aMmJD9mcYPwbGX90rQgqEWypqOLbxMQWCXP_MA4g_YEh5GRhY5jxE60eVjRkxeExCZHvXjFkjb3lZYauavTPJERG6oP6kp0vSm2h0TPCPVrKNXFjEuhFjY1oSA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggHsM36kfm4yVSH-nFe1yfxfDj3iDy1I5u0ImtQ7RDPbvMPb5if4Q316x5LrcELbzv6aMmJD9mcYPwbGX90rQgqEWypqOLbxMQWCXP_MA4g_YEh5GRhY5jxE60eVjRkxeExCZHvXjFkjb3lZYauavTPJERG6oP6kp0vSm2h0TPCPVrKNXFjEuhFjY1oSA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Whilst the snow cover and quality were lousy, we still had all lifts running and top to bottom skiing. There was one down day because of wind (a week later one of the chairs blew off the cable with a bunch of snowboarders injured), and I took my eMTB up the Cascades which was bare but very pretty.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had a cracking lunch at Kareela, and I'd cooked 3 meals for the other nights.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Good wines, good lines, good times.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We've all agreed to make it an annual event!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbCDb8kEV5EiIiXFE_jYqlwnHtJxCR_yVeKCpvtIuTn69rqqrned7jEsG0cAnZ5GjjdtN06FEvgtA1n7xcetk3m5rKbvxU_yJsb_sgzlb_b2yZLjYrkmNZ64T011FqnwX-ar_MnFugjnGRDWFF3hnDYre4SQWZOIXruaOS3sb6pvSupWXKx6JDj5mDuLI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbCDb8kEV5EiIiXFE_jYqlwnHtJxCR_yVeKCpvtIuTn69rqqrned7jEsG0cAnZ5GjjdtN06FEvgtA1n7xcetk3m5rKbvxU_yJsb_sgzlb_b2yZLjYrkmNZ64T011FqnwX-ar_MnFugjnGRDWFF3hnDYre4SQWZOIXruaOS3sb6pvSupWXKx6JDj5mDuLI" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5bqsK-MD755RV9XSHdsZM0FUYAW3xMFWpXJLF8UJ1_0vxcAox_8pwUagVStox0m8gcrYiNcY4udKY26bQAg1QUfa39Zwsq020DvwGLyIEItel7SEcsUduHI1jIBjYjOIGXraVqo_QKwqso5-sd1A9bER76LU_LbfnZtFfmY_15T_5vhnMohFBiZxdDHg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5bqsK-MD755RV9XSHdsZM0FUYAW3xMFWpXJLF8UJ1_0vxcAox_8pwUagVStox0m8gcrYiNcY4udKY26bQAg1QUfa39Zwsq020DvwGLyIEItel7SEcsUduHI1jIBjYjOIGXraVqo_QKwqso5-sd1A9bER76LU_LbfnZtFfmY_15T_5vhnMohFBiZxdDHg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com0Thredbo, Thredbo NSW, Australia-36.4990449 148.3118522-64.188869745293744 113.1556022 -8.8092200547062625 -176.53189780000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-75883230621966739532023-06-19T16:26:00.065-07:002023-09-04T17:37:35.778-07:00Chez Craig<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Yesterday was pretty spesh.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Probably the biggest day out I’ve ever done in Oz, and all just last minute when my work for the next day got cancelled (by Covid, yay!), after a very intriguing Monday June storm. It was hard to decide where to aim for, but Baw Baw didn’t seem to have copped it as much as Buller, and I didn’t want too much driving, and also presumed there’d be trees down and low snow on some of my other preferred access roads.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">As I cut my sangas at 11pm Monday evening, I’d decided Stirling was the best bet.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">After Lilydale at 0500 the next morning, the thermometer didn’t get above zero for the rest of the day. The dawn was very pretty, with snow on The Paps and Timbertop, and glimpses of Buller looking extraordinary through clouds. Whilst the road up Stirling was just passable (not exactly great value for my $65 entry fee), I was the only car in the park, and set off in a foot of fresh powder from the car boot, into an otherworldly mountain ash paradise.</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8b99KpYckjsvWs3Kb1fuMoueav-PFCVH1XPuhuvd4yYIqCDVw3o6GU2UX4JzTAbiRbWgAS9fHmgc7hHq3wiaL6gLHei7HUJLrP_jWxOeyeAocoOwFyEAMAnULKkTQRyvCIW4XsIy6mA6XPm_yHIi0mvSWMcAvTCpZoB--OJxPVyXqMWJFp8zmyAh4Sic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8b99KpYckjsvWs3Kb1fuMoueav-PFCVH1XPuhuvd4yYIqCDVw3o6GU2UX4JzTAbiRbWgAS9fHmgc7hHq3wiaL6gLHei7HUJLrP_jWxOeyeAocoOwFyEAMAnULKkTQRyvCIW4XsIy6mA6XPm_yHIi0mvSWMcAvTCpZoB--OJxPVyXqMWJFp8zmyAh4Sic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Up higher, everything had been nuked by two feet of very cold Japanese like fluff that had fallen with little wind, and clung to everything.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">You don’t often see it like this very often in Oz, and it made cutting a trail a chore at times.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Whilst there was the occasional glimmer of good light, things had closed in up on the Stirling trig, and with fresh blisters and a chronic strained Achilles, I had misgivings about pressing on all the way out to Craigs.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; 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color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">It had taken 4 hours to get out to Craigs, and I had the same amount of skiing and climbing back to the car. The shortest day of the year was upon us, I didn’t have a torch, and wasn’t sure of my fitness.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">So with that in mind, I didn’t party on at Craig’s for all that long.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; 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font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Fortunately I’d noticed that some good soul had passed by during the day with a groomer, and so decided it’d be in my best interest to follow such down Stirling Spur.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">With a groomed trail, the long ski down was a hoot, with short little bursts of powder (and the occasional skate on rapidly tiring legs!).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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A shame that my tele lens is sitting somewhere on the Western Arthurs.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Anyway, what a day, very lucky indeed - if you got dished up a day’s ski tour like that on any other continent, you’d be pretty bloody stoked.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com0Mount Stirling, Mount Buller VIC 3723, Australia-37.1272222 146.4988889-64.624039749561334 111.3426389 -9.6304046504386633 -178.3448611tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-23680230832215416982023-05-07T22:44:00.002-07:002023-09-04T16:22:45.148-07:00Montane Fens<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">A nice full day of drivin, skiin, fishin, bikin and hikin.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">It was altogether a very strange weather system, not only for May, and I’d packed/unpacked/repacked a half dozen times over the weekend, originally considering longer drives w overnight camping options. But in the end just a long daytrip, but with LOTS of gear in the boot covering every base.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Early rise and a dozen runs at BB before i got too soaked and the snow turned mooshy. Usual BB magical rime kingdom, with the beech forests down lower also very pretty.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The Montane Fens has to be one of Victoria’s hidden treasures. Amazing it only recently got protected from logging, and also amazing I’ve never been there despite it having been on my radar most my life. They’ve properly gated it off now at the start of Newlands road with an extensive list of stuff you’re not allowed to do there any more. But despite perusing this list a couple of times, I could find no mention of mountain bikes, XC skis or fishing.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Unfortunately I’d packed my wife’s XC shoes, so the XC skis didn’t make the journey from the Fens, all the way up to Frangipani Saddle. Just as well as there were too many overhanging snow laden branches.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">I caught and released a couple of very nice brownies along the way. The Thompson which makes up the Fens, is even more beautiful upstream with extensive beech and myrtle forests, all very pretty under snow.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">At Frangipani, I decided to ditch the bike and climb up to Mt Whitelaw, up thé Upper Yarra walking trail through the most amazing forest of regnans.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Just before the AAWT, the snow got hard going and the trail hard to follow in the rain and mist so I turned back and retraced my steps to the bike.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Would otherwise be a good car pool trip to BB.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; 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Day 5<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We knew there was heavy rain and a cold front coming later in the day, and this was confirmed by the spectacular colours in the sunrise as we packed up camp very early to get up and over Scorpion and off the range.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Whilst it was almost 30km back to the car, it was mostly easy walking, which was possibly why Balti absently tripped on the shortcut section of Kappa Moraine and opened up his knee.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Fortunately it was the first time we’d had to delve into our medical kits, and we managed to clean things up and stem the bleeding without too much surgery. Pan was a huge help carrying his pack all the way back, and we even managed to keep the wound mud free. Unfortunately I’m pretty sure that this was also where I accidentally left my nice SLR camera, but hopefully someone finds it one day with an intact and dry memory card!</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">With the weather sombre, it felt surreal returning from Middle Earth, back to the gloom of ordinary earth.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">As the first drops of rain arrived (and a helicopter rescue was underway for another party up on the range after another fall causing a broken arm), we made it back to the car mid afternoon, and were soon back on the road to Maydena for a shower, a beer, a steak, a fire, and a comfy mattress.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">This was definitely the most beautiful hike or ski tour I’ve ever completed, up there with Antarctica in its effect on my spirit, and whilst it is also one of the hardest, I would do it again in a flash - especially if we could be guaranteed the same conditions. We count ourselves very lucky indeed, what a trip, what a place.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">(Whilst the stars were amazing, the aurora and star shots were actually taken from the Prom the following weekend. 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Day 4<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">If yesterday was type II fun, then the Beggary Bumps were definitely nudging type III.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">There are many internet posts on this section of the traverse, all of which we’d read, but nothing really prepares you for the exposure and context of it all. Whilst the notorious ‘Tilted Chasm’ is spectacular, there are far more sketchy scrambles, pack-hauling, and the normalisation of staking one’s life on the presence of a well-worn root or branch is intriguing. Whilst alternate routes exist for some of the more dangerous parts, there also sections that threaten to become impassable when the thin layer of topsoil washes away.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Most of the almost Amazonian jungle of this undulating ridge was shrouded in mist, very beautiful. Phil and I had both thought to pack gardening gloves which almost proved the single most important pieces of equipment for the whole trip; and I’ve never had to strap love handles before either, but the myrtle branches kept on trying to rip my pack off.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Then it all lifted, and we had spectacular views down to Lakes Ganymede, Jupiter and Saturn.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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Day 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We woke to another crazy beautiful day, Lake Oberon was a mirror, too lucky.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The 4 km to High Moor took us 8 hours and we never really stopped moving. It was just one long crazy jungle gym of rocks, roots and crazy verticals. The exposure is insane, and you frequently find your body in uncanny and unnatural positions, with the orographic cloud continuously drifting through from the north keeping it mystical, and the line of the ocean to our south.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We had to pack haul a few times, sideways, up or down through holes in the boulders, and some moments it felt as if gravity was the only constant.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">High Moor itself is stunning, with epic views over to Fed Peak.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We only met 2 other parties the whole trip, a couple of young guys, and an amazing family with 2 daughters 16 and 12. The 12 year old girl seemed pretty keen on keeping up with my 12 year old boy… and the 16 year old girl actually had her 16th birthday on High Moor, which we joined in for candles and a song. They'd recently lost their son/brother.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The stars were extraordinary that evening, with a faint aurora.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7K6Sz5adhulgp7DTEExODcp0nGzhETUATirLqiXoyNJwjxo8dnjE-dgmY-hmGFNYAfGysCRmyBYDJhOH-r1nfS_mgfqQ0VCHn2vWkdSKb8CL8S4S56HPKo8Nm3EJDix7KyTzLzxyPiQcdUZZfAmz570Dx4VEtVFcGy2OrKJhA0Lf7xI872eyjq2TlLgQ" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Day 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Woke to a perfect day.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">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.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Half the day was spent scrambling around Mount Hayes where Peter Dombrovskis died.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We had a swim in Square Lake which was stupid freezing.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Even though the photos of Lake Oberon are almost cliché, there’s nothing like seeing it for real and in beautiful light.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We stayed watching for almost an hour before the long and treacherous descent down to the campsite.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Because our next day’s decisions were so dependent on weather, I ran back up to Mt Orion for a weather report.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">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.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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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.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Even though no rain was forecast, everything got saturated overnight.</div></span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">That’s how the Western Arthurs are.</div></span></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcYJCHW9LL82Yc2h1ufBC_i0VcH_5Csx81heOy9jOyMA3FT5yuRSDeB0aXDOfYbU5PD9iplOziuj8Sd7fwvgXJ6Cf9QeCqrG2Mj4lU61ExM_QberGcCKNTtLjSzLC3xrVbcdvkdqZ47kuRtESqkE_ypfwnJon3cp2Gpk69HZQTb_nv4XyOp0gorhcU_Wo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcYJCHW9LL82Yc2h1ufBC_i0VcH_5Csx81heOy9jOyMA3FT5yuRSDeB0aXDOfYbU5PD9iplOziuj8Sd7fwvgXJ6Cf9QeCqrG2Mj4lU61ExM_QberGcCKNTtLjSzLC3xrVbcdvkdqZ47kuRtESqkE_ypfwnJon3cp2Gpk69HZQTb_nv4XyOp0gorhcU_Wo" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKPKlpqp-aXHlmPxeEJZvh0ZuHGeJyWJ_oCXxfYvg5AB8rHaQzntDbUGN8eOjk56IcUYbP386EMu5pIef_ZYT8JmNHMFjSFVl7wI1SD1Zr-zBx4DxiNTnQqCK4PbnztbVuJ34_SMmnJRxgfeiQpraAKsIdiJ6RMAJsBP54L8_QUvGLbnXz8xYyzLgUjDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKPKlpqp-aXHlmPxeEJZvh0ZuHGeJyWJ_oCXxfYvg5AB8rHaQzntDbUGN8eOjk56IcUYbP386EMu5pIef_ZYT8JmNHMFjSFVl7wI1SD1Zr-zBx4DxiNTnQqCK4PbnztbVuJ34_SMmnJRxgfeiQpraAKsIdiJ6RMAJsBP54L8_QUvGLbnXz8xYyzLgUjDA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3BX1Tn3MxSclS7BAC-pJi4qCbMBmr0Sq6X0eeoRf8JEmpCTtvBq775sRGSFGAZwWt46W8aHJIWapcsA0Y4wmqAJ6uQCnRTrwdwb6KjKl8EatnK-PgKyxrUIsWnEywaK4T3Pc-Cj4dZgF1QE7kY0z3z6T-hwr55KiS7_NoWvsCnangXshKKTm53PXvJpw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3BX1Tn3MxSclS7BAC-pJi4qCbMBmr0Sq6X0eeoRf8JEmpCTtvBq775sRGSFGAZwWt46W8aHJIWapcsA0Y4wmqAJ6uQCnRTrwdwb6KjKl8EatnK-PgKyxrUIsWnEywaK4T3Pc-Cj4dZgF1QE7kY0z3z6T-hwr55KiS7_NoWvsCnangXshKKTm53PXvJpw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkEwJaszzqtEdpwd4r12cCUyrDW3JFlgYVAZ9Eo4O23wxUqtHvwXutgS5cQXjlqB7gvK_cgcfmBCs8eoH8lF1haebJ4e7AqJwHBSt9kVjXK_QUHff6ClSEYrfD12Sdhv8hZ7lwoihnm5P-M2Mdb_AifbkZ6GRLX3Z6qK8yTR-tDXiuvUx1FVwhd-zS8Q4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkEwJaszzqtEdpwd4r12cCUyrDW3JFlgYVAZ9Eo4O23wxUqtHvwXutgS5cQXjlqB7gvK_cgcfmBCs8eoH8lF1haebJ4e7AqJwHBSt9kVjXK_QUHff6ClSEYrfD12Sdhv8hZ7lwoihnm5P-M2Mdb_AifbkZ6GRLX3Z6qK8yTR-tDXiuvUx1FVwhd-zS8Q4" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizaSO_mTvtYkJheGpa2mkYV5ai5GtsgsUC0zthez4bC6Kr_D6t5K4s4afbwVTsw4V3vzAeLgJJdjZueIWAogDQSlnORbYDP4ToBugU32qWxo0j7CJXl7iWwBqpzXr-CvDDpZmY3lDKrEr1aKjG0nge9QhBBfLJXbbND0XxR01hDsueikfoEAyZ3bSxbek" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizaSO_mTvtYkJheGpa2mkYV5ai5GtsgsUC0zthez4bC6Kr_D6t5K4s4afbwVTsw4V3vzAeLgJJdjZueIWAogDQSlnORbYDP4ToBugU32qWxo0j7CJXl7iWwBqpzXr-CvDDpZmY3lDKrEr1aKjG0nge9QhBBfLJXbbND0XxR01hDsueikfoEAyZ3bSxbek" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com0Scotts Peak Dam, Southwest TAS 7116, Australia-43.0307895 146.2966656-71.341023336178836 111.14041560000001 -14.720555663821152 -178.54708440000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-1562928651566929902023-04-10T20:53:00.059-07:002023-09-14T21:01:59.821-07:00Western Arthurs Traverse A to K. Day 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">So Phil and I have been trying for the WAT for a very long time now, but young kids and feral weather have never been kind.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We like the autumn light of Tassy, but have never seen the point of trying the traverse in bad weather when there’s little to see and the danger is only amplified.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">This year Balti had just had a bit of a growth spurt, and we also had Phil’s 2 stepsons Xan and Pan to help out with their youth.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">After weeks of nervously watching weather patterns, it looked as though we might just luck it this time, sneaking in after an Easter storm had delivered a deluge, with plenty of snow at higher elevations on most of Tassy’s mountains.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">I flew in to Hobart with the boys late Easter Monday, and we all set off early from Hobart the next morning, and were packed and hiking by 10 from Scott’s Peak dam.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Whilst the first couple of km entices you with classic Tassy beech and myrtle rainforest, the reality of mud soon makes itself apparent.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">You can only try the little side wombat runs for so long. It’s a real mess and they need to duckboard the whole thing before too much more damage is done.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Poles are invaluable, and we opted for Salomons and leggings. Gators are just extra weight and a waste of space. You just wash the mud off with every river crossing.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We had lunch at Junction Creek and Balti caught a few brownies but nothing big enough for dinner.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">It’s likely the first WAT with a fishing rod.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">And then began the long hard tedious slog up moraine ‘A’</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">After 10km of ankle to knee deep mud, moraine ‘A’ is a real bugger with a heavy pack. But shear elation at the top where you really get the Jack and the Beanstalk vibe - it is a totally different world to that we normally inhabit, very magical and very beautiful, unlike any other alpine environment.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Then a lovely saunter along the fabulous path through the alpine grasses, and an awesome sunset over Mt Hesperus now behind us and then down to Lake Cygnus where we pretty much had to set up camp in the dark.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">A very long day, but we had to make the most of the weather window that had been gifted us.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">The nomenclature of the range only adds to its wonder, but I think it’s also the very obvious glacial sculpting, as well as the rock garden sculptures. You see stone animals and figures in every direction. Gargoyles, turtles, lions, birds, dragons.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">And of course the range has its own weather pattern, with orographic cloud constantly changing the light drama and forms of the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: white;">(Blogger has completely jumbled up the order of the photos.)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Lots of MTBg, troutainbiking, some nice walks, a few good hauls of fish for smoked trout pate, and finishing with a nice little snow flurry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got a lot of cleaning up done in the front after the recent big tree-fall, and also spent a day packing for Tassy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiJMJfG92shvBC6DiUAVFJ12T0lPVWxbZ9tlET_EwaK6j6EM6Y8juwfYOOjUahAxHqB4iY1HS96afZCAv4WHKPdYyyumgmKoE_HunkRRwcPkIGFs7WK-2Kpr_uy0XUZFbyipJkyKkBBNCz1anBwQkwjJ6waJC2d_BModcBT-HXVYLjxievNekPNy9incU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiJMJfG92shvBC6DiUAVFJ12T0lPVWxbZ9tlET_EwaK6j6EM6Y8juwfYOOjUahAxHqB4iY1HS96afZCAv4WHKPdYyyumgmKoE_HunkRRwcPkIGFs7WK-2Kpr_uy0XUZFbyipJkyKkBBNCz1anBwQkwjJ6waJC2d_BModcBT-HXVYLjxievNekPNy9incU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">The flights and travel were actually really smooth, and we had a lovely catch up with most of the cousins in Lille, before a lovely couple of days in Touquet. Marie-Laure and I then caught the train to Paris to a sexy boutique hotel in Pigalle which used to be a brothel!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lots of wonderful walks, meals, and art and exhibitions, including an interesting few hours in Christies. 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text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Last week's storm meant one of the best ever starts to our fickle Australian ski season, with most of the mountain's trails set to open. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">There was also still snow down to low altitudes, and after a solid season of trountainbiking, Baz and I felt the need to raise the bar a little.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">With fishing season drawing to a close on Monday of the long weekend, the possibility of catching a trout on skis presented a rare opportunity. To his credit and enthusiasm, Baz had to dig through nearly a metre of snow to get down to worm terrain the night before, and then rig our rods. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We headed off on touring skis in the dark, hitting the upper Victoria by sunrise.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We got some beautiful light, and there were heaps of birds and beasts about. Lots of deer.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Anyway, a few smaller fry, not enough for a feed and it didn’t seem fair to keep any of them anyway before they laid their roe. And it d</span><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">idn’t matter because it was all too beautiful, and we were content enough with the morning, the hike out, and the proof of concept which we convinced ourselves was an Oz first.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We had some great skiing (minus the girls), some awesome meals, a bit of table tennis, some small ski tours out from DP with the dog, and it was nice to light the fire and settle down in front of it, as well as the usual Opening Weekend fireworks and festivities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj74cCkbIAERmMAYEnpkmdaCic8ZL9bzRi3rYhV00axFVy2mqEpa2ajpqN2NyzNRG7fU2-Ta77vNvgmK1a6r6w0JhqUlU_SAz0-fUxqgCC8KTTF3WTRpdk8w5cOK1N913zGZLt66fERk1Y3GWNHyohrGXjySgamNkPsrT8S5arL-fEVKwBRxfZzzND2" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com0Dinner Plain VIC 3898, Australia-37.0225125 147.2395831-64.5517456787354 112.0833331 -9.4932793212645983 -177.6041669tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-36226637866639825672022-04-11T20:32:00.015-07:002023-09-14T20:41:28.662-07:00Western Arthurs Traverse A to K. Day 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Woke to a perfect day.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">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.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Half the day was spent scrambling around Mount Hayes where Peter Dombrovskis died.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We had a swim in Square Lake which was stupid freezing.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Even though the photos of Lake Oberon are almost cliché, there’s nothing like seeing it for real and in beautiful light.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We stayed watching for almost an hour before the long and treacherous descent down to the campsite.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Because our next day’s decisions were so dependent on weather, I ran back up to Mt Orion for a weather report.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">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.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: white;">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.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Even though no rain was forecast, everything got saturated overnight.</div></span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">That’s how the Western Arthurs are.</div></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" class="placeholder" height="240" id="a5c24d098180f" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; 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Day 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">So Phil and I have been trying for the WAT for a very long time now, but young kids and feral weather have never been kind.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We like the autumn light of Tassy, but have never seen the point of trying the traverse in bad weather when there’s little to see and the danger is only amplified.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">This year my boy Balti had just had a bit of a growth spurt, and we also had Phil’s 2 stepsons Xan and Pan to help out with their youth.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">After weeks of nervously watching weather patterns, it looked as though we might just luck it this time, sneaking in after an Easter storm had delivered a deluge, with plenty of snow at higher elevations on most of Tassy’s mountains.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">I flew in to Hobart with the boys late Easter Monday, and we all set off early from Hobart the next morning, and were packed and hiking by 10 from Scott’s Peak dam.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: black; 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font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: white;">Whilst the first couple of km entices you with classic Tassy beech and myrtle rainforest, the reality of mud soon makes itself apparent.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">You can only try the little side wombats runs for so long. It’s a real mess and they need to duckboard the whole thing before too much more damage is done.</div></span><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Poles are invaluable, and we opted for Salomons and leggings. Gators are just extra weight and a waste of space. You just wash the mud off with every river crossing.</div></span><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">We had lunch at Junction Creek and Balti caught a few brownies but nothing big enough for dinner.</div></span><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">It’s likely the first WAT with a fishing rod.</div></span><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">And then began the long hard tedious slog up moraine ‘A’</div></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0HHbxztBicO2J-EZj9TO8a_ulxI79MicKCUqsD4htxiXIKEI95St1-TPENPvJ7MHlwz1-qVUWUoCYspXgAbhUQ8DxhhEejL5he-HSrur4VBA_pbbAANUUk1B1JLCkUrAxBxxm1DGKGObSIVs6cuOpsUeFhYNpVhxUpSdf-c9afcHBaTcbaeysqIwpXOA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0HHbxztBicO2J-EZj9TO8a_ulxI79MicKCUqsD4htxiXIKEI95St1-TPENPvJ7MHlwz1-qVUWUoCYspXgAbhUQ8DxhhEejL5he-HSrur4VBA_pbbAANUUk1B1JLCkUrAxBxxm1DGKGObSIVs6cuOpsUeFhYNpVhxUpSdf-c9afcHBaTcbaeysqIwpXOA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwDMfnwfQDV-x_7VkfKtW-4OiSox7UBqcU5k2vKDPlV7J4XZlNJ0viJG9VkBYm5GxqDnr9ntA-yXp6QO8QwXTJEqsQezDDw9qK38WoCNDCmr-j27XeQHFRHOF8DmOAE-C4Q419DDWoKkRAd-3U1uvLvOVRhzoZAUGb3wdkmCDbT9oMEVVohX5D_9YYguk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwDMfnwfQDV-x_7VkfKtW-4OiSox7UBqcU5k2vKDPlV7J4XZlNJ0viJG9VkBYm5GxqDnr9ntA-yXp6QO8QwXTJEqsQezDDw9qK38WoCNDCmr-j27XeQHFRHOF8DmOAE-C4Q419DDWoKkRAd-3U1uvLvOVRhzoZAUGb3wdkmCDbT9oMEVVohX5D_9YYguk" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0VYLipdD9WT1iuog_EFDUvU4wcmqZFEFMnwtyJiWI7Om1_FAriXfqa0glmo4MNeL_oKhPzEWhzbLCYrUbHqLQ-RRm_aCqfVQQH5vEuzqXoUqDwpikGsqAaf4mEfHnN3HAYnkxswxMUIhpVVnwk1hLnOxaD3hhmxsiLqcPmFPC8Jz2v5yOFXl3_YrwcQE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0VYLipdD9WT1iuog_EFDUvU4wcmqZFEFMnwtyJiWI7Om1_FAriXfqa0glmo4MNeL_oKhPzEWhzbLCYrUbHqLQ-RRm_aCqfVQQH5vEuzqXoUqDwpikGsqAaf4mEfHnN3HAYnkxswxMUIhpVVnwk1hLnOxaD3hhmxsiLqcPmFPC8Jz2v5yOFXl3_YrwcQE" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6awjAoAdOwedtgxosfkRJYVuASHbhwyRbuJCFaBvUAphFlK883dHqJO_7JaTZdujmWCgFB0xBr_m1LoxUw17eAa0RIzPSFUCLogWslRlpReJQmkCkiVdUV7GTk-SooDuQAyNBDn4AnEEKILL8jZLiwL6SYPdssmOxJXpfo4doCjLQwUJExQAT21Ijm_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6awjAoAdOwedtgxosfkRJYVuASHbhwyRbuJCFaBvUAphFlK883dHqJO_7JaTZdujmWCgFB0xBr_m1LoxUw17eAa0RIzPSFUCLogWslRlpReJQmkCkiVdUV7GTk-SooDuQAyNBDn4AnEEKILL8jZLiwL6SYPdssmOxJXpfo4doCjLQwUJExQAT21Ijm_w" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px;">After 10km of ankle to knee deep mud, moraine ‘A’ is a real bugger with a heavy pack. But shear elation at the top where you really get the Jack and the Beanstalk vibe - it is a totally different world to that we normally inhabit, very magical and very beautiful, unlike any other alpine environment.</span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Then a lovely saunter along the fabulous path through the alpine grasses, and an awesome sunset over Mt Hesperus now behind us and then down to Lake Cygnus where we pretty much had to set up camp in the dark.</span></div><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">A very long day, but we had to make the most of the weather window that had been gifted us.</div></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT22JGZrj4R-Gj1FJB5me2DuF9MqzPlPyCNlB-owtxrtiz2GHxY2JL1H6B9j_SMgM5Pxf9lztTevY62aRnZrHjSvzs2AS0J5JLeTJJHLWwhNhM5BbwNMPgpTVgHB1wKIb_Su04TPhzmsD28kfJHg90TiMo6c8I379CNnE0SW8h1YSVmDkz77K6EgN7Xu4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT22JGZrj4R-Gj1FJB5me2DuF9MqzPlPyCNlB-owtxrtiz2GHxY2JL1H6B9j_SMgM5Pxf9lztTevY62aRnZrHjSvzs2AS0J5JLeTJJHLWwhNhM5BbwNMPgpTVgHB1wKIb_Su04TPhzmsD28kfJHg90TiMo6c8I379CNnE0SW8h1YSVmDkz77K6EgN7Xu4" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidMyI4MXhPiCDKk-DnFhqmF82YJ36rpYxpWJDvoV7JnbOaubMeKr9GlkmmwLIIQeuATsLCeIWAfVcj3sM3fJIajgMZNCbQdXGFI4fC-DvYfqMaLw73pkl8edTxS3JJAbihk11DbrZVuyjWWHyfKYK5LowmXw-ew566vOHBu3n3vqQAgChw198lvmK7syc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidMyI4MXhPiCDKk-DnFhqmF82YJ36rpYxpWJDvoV7JnbOaubMeKr9GlkmmwLIIQeuATsLCeIWAfVcj3sM3fJIajgMZNCbQdXGFI4fC-DvYfqMaLw73pkl8edTxS3JJAbihk11DbrZVuyjWWHyfKYK5LowmXw-ew566vOHBu3n3vqQAgChw198lvmK7syc" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px;">The nomenclature of the range only adds to its wonder, but I think it’s also the very obvious glacial sculpting, as well as the rock garden sculptures. You see stone animals and figures in every direction. Gargoyles, turtles, lions, dragons.</span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">And of course the range has its own weather pattern, with orographic cloud constantly changing the light drama and forms of the mountains.</span></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiMsraOu2CYAdrHol7c5lyouwpatgFm_Wto1spnFS9y5TkvoPkODqoRWcvO3T7G6RSM-rBtYeOnT6j2K9TpalWAnife4ERPPq-0c0x3YP2qIsHawnxUu4u8LDrPlieu6VDWOmHmHL4i14YUW7_5V878zJIt3EQO3dLtRwcujj0XOXm4pSeFuc9mQXv-MM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiMsraOu2CYAdrHol7c5lyouwpatgFm_Wto1spnFS9y5TkvoPkODqoRWcvO3T7G6RSM-rBtYeOnT6j2K9TpalWAnife4ERPPq-0c0x3YP2qIsHawnxUu4u8LDrPlieu6VDWOmHmHL4i14YUW7_5V878zJIt3EQO3dLtRwcujj0XOXm4pSeFuc9mQXv-MM" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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In the meantime, Melaleuca at 9 years old has grown legs and a stamina compatible with Tassie hikes, although perhaps not the Arthurs...</span></span><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span> </span>And so with a shorter timeframe available, and with winter fast approaching, we decided on a traverse of the DuCane Range instead. I pulled Balti out of school for a few days, and we met up with Phil and Mellie in Hobart for some supplies, shopping and then a nice Salamanca steak. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span> </span>Then a comfy last sleep...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span> (</span>Click photos for large high res, apologies there's lots and they take a bit to load)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY1MAZyfQuulk3TtUb37xDSpSugUULmnB66qFJVO1GJoeDhWgQt2BKYRgbXjbDIbYxu0rc9GwDO13Nl96aWZ9pF4wOlzpbbW-m2MnB6d2_4jt0WccW7A4lQZ9fjhlTZuQ-4rGpC5niXOJsfbKnriLDMz_fKb8kAy15XzobcxbuFzBywvSVeMJFgoSU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY1MAZyfQuulk3TtUb37xDSpSugUULmnB66qFJVO1GJoeDhWgQt2BKYRgbXjbDIbYxu0rc9GwDO13Nl96aWZ9pF4wOlzpbbW-m2MnB6d2_4jt0WccW7A4lQZ9fjhlTZuQ-4rGpC5niXOJsfbKnriLDMz_fKb8kAy15XzobcxbuFzBywvSVeMJFgoSU" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw9cuY7SmHkTNvye1WYJfr6yJf4-8wSE8D9OKkmkCTTPklpwKOkj1suXiilwcZkxEIRvLZbX-aiobll5RPhWLyenOeATMD0lPXZgHfa7GdjXp8sWWSvUUQeHIuGAFDmUKeHYQzbVfd6zMzPWt1E3zyuHw2Bw-pbldfWHlRwjDoP8imWnrU9hkWqgbq=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Whilst Phil would leave and then return to an area in NSW devastated by floods, Tassie has had a warm and dry summer, and we couldn't believe our luck with the forecast. Lake St Clair is actually so dry that the ferry may soon not be able to make it to Narcissus Bay. We drove up in time for the midday boat from Cynthia, and were soon passing a heap of folk trudging the other way from the final stretch of the Overland. It was still warm enough for a few snakes underfoot to watch out for.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; text-align: left;">Balti had a fish in the Narcissus and nabbed a couple of nice brown trout for dinner. Walking up Pine Valley, it felt good to be once more immersed in Tasmanian rainforest, it is just so healthy, rich, beautiful and good for the soul.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; text-align: left;">We made Pine Valley Hut in around 4 hours and pitched camp. Whilst the hut is still open, it's under repair and pretty messy. Still we got the coal fire going to cook the trout in some foil I'd brought in case, and Phil also cooked up one of his very fine stews.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; text-align: left;">There were a few other couples there, including a pair who we would later find out were quite indignant we'd obviously bitten off way more than we could chew by bringing kids up that far away with us. Too funny. We hadn't even started climbing yet...</span></div><div><p><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYOZa51K0RU_km-nDdwrgtzziUDQlwQIopuWPCmKTVu8X4ts7wKWT3lWbaSyxkLhZ79LMoAbfukb2PJEukqwfBfwdGheQusrWOeiNA9iU9SSzYAzkaA4CZhWwMJV0bkOmUkru5ROB5n7ht6iNjQ9HBeKu5XL80Y87IkcumZnkRCVZj7bkGAcVhJTd8" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYOZa51K0RU_km-nDdwrgtzziUDQlwQIopuWPCmKTVu8X4ts7wKWT3lWbaSyxkLhZ79LMoAbfukb2PJEukqwfBfwdGheQusrWOeiNA9iU9SSzYAzkaA4CZhWwMJV0bkOmUkru5ROB5n7ht6iNjQ9HBeKu5XL80Y87IkcumZnkRCVZj7bkGAcVhJTd8=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202020; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGUeBcq8O0gGNOoX3by0Aj-Pm6nh7pt0K9Kji9zlr7MzUWlTfS1ECsk_86Ds_ZdII2G-upexfhl_Q38UDalCmFEoAKoAqjFMuSzJy4Z2_kBDK89lsMsoqlACqXGru8p4Kp0kpZUko12aaHGvugMOvIqyCAbVjSwhXJtK5PaheydbP4B2xgyaz5PKTg" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In fact the climb up to the Labyrinth whilst solid, wasn't too hard, and mostly enjoyable for the transition of rainforest to alpine, and especially the alpine trees of Tasmania, particularly the very unique and wonderful pencil pines and deciduous beech. whilst there were no golden hillsides, the Fagus had certainly begun to turn, and the Labyrinth, as anticipated, was stunningly beautiful.</span></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We eventually made it to our campsite, the Pool of Memories, supposedly the prettiest lake in Australia, with spectacular views and reflections of the Geryon and Acropolis. </span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span> These two monoliths are undoubtedly a pair of the most spectacular mountains in Australia, and I couldn't stop photographing them.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span> There was a fine dry grassy area beside the Pool, and I don't think I've ever set up camp anywhere so picturesque. After camp was established, Phil, Balti and I climbed up higher to Lake Helios, where we all had an extremely bracing swim. It was actually surprising just how cold the water was! Balti threw a few casts, but there were only tiny galaxias at these altitudes.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span> As the sun turned on a spectacle on the Geryon, </span>Phil cooked up one of his awesome lentil curries. True to form he did it all whilst recumbent. 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Overnight the wind had built up, and it had turned cold. Up in the high alpine, it looked like it was absolutely howling. Whilst we had originally planned to do the full traverse of the northern DuCane Range and move camp up to Mt Massif, that prospect now looked less appealing. We also knew that even worse weather was coming which might make the exit challenging, with the potential to miss our booked ferry. 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Up high, the wind was furious and it wouldn't have been much fun camping. The dolerite jungle gym up to the summit of the Geryon was fun, and then the views utterly breathtaking.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #202020; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpxg1BruHr9UWOe_vbhzh6SlGtZ3NmP2_2by0KcSq4uWQSnRs-oKPB225RA6Rw6J10twkN89KnKRyjrAGxi-sHoQDefpNx3-2gMJzSzT-rCxeHV-NEdu5l5Wig1xEAGHtdu5xKkN4YWp4M76qHu19h171BThbQnKnWT98SFjzZdULvX6SSiLq14ODZ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpxg1BruHr9UWOe_vbhzh6SlGtZ3NmP2_2by0KcSq4uWQSnRs-oKPB225RA6Rw6J10twkN89KnKRyjrAGxi-sHoQDefpNx3-2gMJzSzT-rCxeHV-NEdu5l5Wig1xEAGHtdu5xKkN4YWp4M76qHu19h171BThbQnKnWT98SFjzZdULvX6SSiLq14ODZ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI7xxaWuSt-fqTF0LTzdPhVdCIFkz74b7K4tyrp7aUX57X-jhRi4mIkYs_QWFiSIwQxZttTivauR4LlY1C5AHfkPKy-I3_2hRHpqYkWoFvugIEwQg1vPFLn1A8Ct25266Zc7PVznCaRxSitN7NzjUlL8wXeStbpOqhDcLZI857PxBgr6gE5bz0jpmf" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI7xxaWuSt-fqTF0LTzdPhVdCIFkz74b7K4tyrp7aUX57X-jhRi4mIkYs_QWFiSIwQxZttTivauR4LlY1C5AHfkPKy-I3_2hRHpqYkWoFvugIEwQg1vPFLn1A8Ct25266Zc7PVznCaRxSitN7NzjUlL8wXeStbpOqhDcLZI857PxBgr6gE5bz0jpmf=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #202020; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvFPJVwtWDgXj-ITEVe00Dsv8zKpxN8JA6_WEwlNfvSK4p-yQ3gw0P8TQJPME376ZGUBVcXblcBOtRt-7mH01iaAiqY3k1aHPWxVo90B5x8AEwJRi4gCtdkEWQUOZxfXw6gUDCe0Z-MxYX1dJCpqqkIf2yWOYGRxvxeCln4-aT-SfZtzyKQtO1dtsn" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvFPJVwtWDgXj-ITEVe00Dsv8zKpxN8JA6_WEwlNfvSK4p-yQ3gw0P8TQJPME376ZGUBVcXblcBOtRt-7mH01iaAiqY3k1aHPWxVo90B5x8AEwJRi4gCtdkEWQUOZxfXw6gUDCe0Z-MxYX1dJCpqqkIf2yWOYGRxvxeCln4-aT-SfZtzyKQtO1dtsn=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #202020; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8mM84JRLF_9wWJ2AOCJ6ul9JBxs-zvFGmbJ-J983TBOqvcaCBV13-HtOf7KIXhMPuBG8cD1k7MUo1JIYe9JVoWRV6vyluIBdvpxFgyZ8lHfk_kVzjkpcEsHvEyd6SjJAl99EAdnTXnigo0QDTdtp2NaqkBuLjsbebrown5w7OCW1v8Mfi_TOGOjia" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8mM84JRLF_9wWJ2AOCJ6ul9JBxs-zvFGmbJ-J983TBOqvcaCBV13-HtOf7KIXhMPuBG8cD1k7MUo1JIYe9JVoWRV6vyluIBdvpxFgyZ8lHfk_kVzjkpcEsHvEyd6SjJAl99EAdnTXnigo0QDTdtp2NaqkBuLjsbebrown5w7OCW1v8Mfi_TOGOjia=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We then made our own trail north to Lake Helios under the Hyperion for lunch. There were amazing views north to the very impressive Mt Ossa under cloud. It was good to get out of the wind as we strolled back down the pass. Back at camp, the kids got out on the lake with a sleeping mat, and I went for a run up to the extremely beautiful Lake Eos where I had a refreshing swim in some very deep green water. 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color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We knew there was a cold front arriving in the morning so we woke early and packed up camp in the dark. Just as we got the tents down and into our packs, the first drops of rain arrived, however the full front didn't hit us properly until an hour later once we were well off into the Labyrinth.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The descent was harder on my old knees than the climb, but soon the sun was out again and Balti and Mellie went for another fish in the Narcissus where both caught fish. Balti also found a Tassy freshwater crayfish. 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text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">After a shower back at Cynthia, a beer and burger never tasted so good. We had a pleasant stroll in the mist the next morning searching for platypus, and our usual stone skipping competition, before the drive back to Hobart with a brief fish on the Derwent for lunch. </span></span></div></span></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I definitely need to get back into this area on skis...</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="-apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlX5zYG3TjTKqj0nDaXTiP1WAv-K7jHnWjh4-yI0bJZiV7OKVu-6GhobEC89q1ZJOGxmQy-UyFwchE22OY6-jHj2GCQmOtS3kimYkHUiP0RFmD_mNUSk7wim184MG-lJ7Zf-9U2S63J3YmGWiuhCt8EZhZZft82rY_fCViZVH6Q84en_iPgz1uJx-t" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlX5zYG3TjTKqj0nDaXTiP1WAv-K7jHnWjh4-yI0bJZiV7OKVu-6GhobEC89q1ZJOGxmQy-UyFwchE22OY6-jHj2GCQmOtS3kimYkHUiP0RFmD_mNUSk7wim184MG-lJ7Zf-9U2S63J3YmGWiuhCt8EZhZZft82rY_fCViZVH6Q84en_iPgz1uJx-t=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8toPUuiv3GXcE2D5ZKr2cfBNYd06tOF__MUlj_XA125jyNWaZ7exNHqRzXAcxg4_qfeKxvDZYPgbItFVKy4poRxg77UACXVdc66niXX9sBq4Xza4qySmM1pogrxhEWhzFa5vabIePK0ttKA2xbbCVJJXRRvfPVzLs9vELQoFipWV8862TGRK0mynf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8toPUuiv3GXcE2D5ZKr2cfBNYd06tOF__MUlj_XA125jyNWaZ7exNHqRzXAcxg4_qfeKxvDZYPgbItFVKy4poRxg77UACXVdc66niXX9sBq4Xza4qySmM1pogrxhEWhzFa5vabIePK0ttKA2xbbCVJJXRRvfPVzLs9vELQoFipWV8862TGRK0mynf=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com022MV+Q2 Lake Saint Clair TAS, Australia-41.965584799999988 146.0425726-41.99110467290123 146.00824032460937 -41.940064927098746 146.07690487539062tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-12850409513887005312022-03-06T13:38:00.023-08:002022-03-31T14:45:58.858-07:00Trountainbiking sesh #2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our first trountainbiking expedition a couple weeks back was a bit alarming, with Balti riding over a very large tiger snake (and nearly falling on top of it), and then sighting another dozen snakes causing us to retreat back down to lower altitudes where we managed to bag a few nice brown trout.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the first breath of autumn though, we felt happier setting off in the dark that the snakes would still be in bed. Up high it was actually quite cool and the rainforest was glorious after rain. Balti caught an absolute stonker with his very first cast, and we got enough rainbows to fire up the smoker. We also got completely mauled by leaches, and both of us bled all the ay back to Melbourne.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpr20SJLM7YnqjKgDkJarFexhJ_sIuUDzyPiLC2dHowGYjSHS2UzmEB3gC_vhEHDv3qcj0k5-rAbw4zjUfiRsDzligQ1m2vQz48yXarvlGcUhTtx3Hllf2NjTe2KPSrZm1mUFcOanwvcAKHG-mDhtOGBObzs9tSdy5PwDNl7SFZB85pGZy1tCe8dBO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpr20SJLM7YnqjKgDkJarFexhJ_sIuUDzyPiLC2dHowGYjSHS2UzmEB3gC_vhEHDv3qcj0k5-rAbw4zjUfiRsDzligQ1m2vQz48yXarvlGcUhTtx3Hllf2NjTe2KPSrZm1mUFcOanwvcAKHG-mDhtOGBObzs9tSdy5PwDNl7SFZB85pGZy1tCe8dBO" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7XsdWpJa3xBMyEaLCUOwR0DutkbSdydystfGQvsb2T0VYr3mBxP42Bg1NnbdK0sukGyugKoluvZdXdnuHwYgHq9NtcGrsPsMeLbOGGfR-VT8MgFPdMDBJb8FE2AVeYujMkMOPcA-y1L83c-NTQF-lp6xS7iWb7Dq_H7kzSWNTy80sGitEzuncLzEh" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Left Melbourne 0400 and was putting chains on by 0600 at 1100m asl. Usual roadside wonderland that only BB delivers, from the mountain ash, tree-ferns, and beech forests, up into snow gum and alpine tea tree.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was planning on heading out to Mt Saint Gwinear, but had a first run on Maltese Falcon, and whilst describing November snow in Australia as 'powder' is possibly even illegal, it was pretty fast and silky smooth under foot.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decided to ski until the snow turned, or my legs gave way. 20 runs and 22km later, the snow finally warmed, but by this time I'd clocked all of BBs trails and only seen a couple of other people heading out on XCs. Best snow of the season!</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">An extraordinary day for winter, even more so with summer less than 2 weeks away.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjwxwF453KqUSRRf6d53XYJYEaR7fBY4XN0LrXPjzgYcE5_cAWwwkTZJcwdBkv3CFW9mqPGTLonunyVZBnF8qabCWlRwrlBakJjwN0BccOuorPMkXtx3BtMvHv1vLl7rb4EafS3S3IcQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjwxwF453KqUSRRf6d53XYJYEaR7fBY4XN0LrXPjzgYcE5_cAWwwkTZJcwdBkv3CFW9mqPGTLonunyVZBnF8qabCWlRwrlBakJjwN0BccOuorPMkXtx3BtMvHv1vLl7rb4EafS3S3IcQ/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">This year's HFWO was a pretty low key affair, and as we were still in lockdown we weren't really allowed. However we got a call from Alistair our new neighbour to say that a tree had fallen on the back deck, so needed to get up for urgent repairs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We passed through amazing flash floods in Traralgon on Thursday arvo, which turned to snow as we rounded the corner to DP. Friday morning was very pretty, and Chockie and I went a long run though fresh snow to Room With a View, and then Dead Timber Hill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the afternoon, Balti and I did a bit of troutainbiking down to the upper Vic River. we got a couple of tiddlers for catch and release, and the light was very pretty, with sun, rainbows and snow-showers. Then back to the fire, a movie, and a super yummy spaghetti bolognese cooked by Baz. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next morning saw another few cents of snow up on the hill, with cold and feral winds. Whilst the snow was slow old superglue requiring liberal lashings of wax (and pretty challenging on teles), it was still nice to be skiing this late into October.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We got a nice line down HV with the dog, and then a slow trudge back up to the car for the long haul back to Melbourne.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8uQxeIxfv4hXphvV4Veba-LqXyfEDGbf2gs3DEGt_87L9bakuQeENctDBCZRul9E8jRl-IdOu0z0UtTYoDF3oql5CXb-sKQRz6zDwrIT_M0PTO-kCOochz3KhUbx97TigN6QxBXH3drU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8uQxeIxfv4hXphvV4Veba-LqXyfEDGbf2gs3DEGt_87L9bakuQeENctDBCZRul9E8jRl-IdOu0z0UtTYoDF3oql5CXb-sKQRz6zDwrIT_M0PTO-kCOochz3KhUbx97TigN6QxBXH3drU/w400-h300/IMG_6411.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Saturday was gardening, paving, and obligatory soccer matches before the big game (with party pies) watching the Ds finally come home. We also had to get the boat ready which proved troublesome with all of the rain making the drive up from the beach impassable with the car, and needing much stonework. Then an early start for a sunrise launch from Duck Point, with the tides perfect for a day's outing on Corner Inlet. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Whilst we were after an early season snapper, it seemed the only fish wanting a feed were flatties in the channels west of Doughboy Island. We got quite a few of them and kept 4 nice ones for dinner. I've never seen Corner Inlet so calm and lake-like, and we also scored beautiful weather after a chilly morning. We also scored a friendly rendezvous with a couple of seals who were evidently finding more fish than us, and were very playful around the boat.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The ramp at Duck Point seems OK for an hour either side of high tide, and maybe even 2 hours either side for a higher tide. Navigation was easy with the Garmin App and sounder, but it's still not a body of water to mess with. We got back in time to clean the boat, fish and fishing gear, and then some more soccer. Baz beat me on our second match and I had to chase him down for a firm tickle.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We then got treated to the most glorious Prom sunset, with still golden light.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Balti crumbed and fried the fish and cooked up some chips for a very worthy feast before an attempt at watching Alien, however we were fast asleep before we knew it. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgEu_D3m6mlWDx6lI49TBLyz2hemDxpeyYBjb5W-B_C8wCBbNe8OuwSNuhU0_MJXrJWOrJhWi1b6b00EkpvcYlhNvA_coa02Cv2GO34_c5PyU9ELFnizJ8Ss6tT5OBHsBSX1q6sDAu_Qs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgEu_D3m6mlWDx6lI49TBLyz2hemDxpeyYBjb5W-B_C8wCBbNe8OuwSNuhU0_MJXrJWOrJhWi1b6b00EkpvcYlhNvA_coa02Cv2GO34_c5PyU9ELFnizJ8Ss6tT5OBHsBSX1q6sDAu_Qs/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Bogong to Hotham immortalised by Charles Derrick. But with ongoing lockdowns, yet another plan was shelved until next year. However, with regional restrictions easing, my son and I were at least (at last) allowed to venture further than 5km. Whilst it's a very long way down to the Cobungra and back up onto the BHPs, I felt that Balti was probably up for it. We planned to stay 2 nights in Young's Hut, and so instead of a tent I packed an inflatable wing and a pump instead! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Despite a decent base up high which we'd checked out from Dead Timber Hill the night before, everything north or west facing had been burnt off or washed away. But there was a decent late burst of snow in the forecast, and I was desperately keen to visit my favourite copse of snow gums on the Bogong High Plains, which I found just before mum passed away and have tried to visit as often as possible since.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It has to be said that I didn't have a whole lot of help sorting our backpacks in DP. Balti is 11 and still pretty useless, and was more absorbed in the footy (OK, so we both were a bit...). The next morning was raining at DP, so we waited for it to clear a bit before driving to the Brandy Creek trailhead where we were disappointed to find next to no snow at all. It was going to be a long bush walk in ski boots...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgj6nlBHV1tu7ZNbTVix2Lcdrp0VrnvqfsxAEQGATY-jl3OVugi9LLItoNxUOEaVo41lgbuss_IMYkW6ZAEZs1p6xR6vb7K0oB27AQiMjFX7Lc_tyGijYubfFETV7an_tGxiKI0cWoic/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgj6nlBHV1tu7ZNbTVix2Lcdrp0VrnvqfsxAEQGATY-jl3OVugi9LLItoNxUOEaVo41lgbuss_IMYkW6ZAEZs1p6xR6vb7K0oB27AQiMjFX7Lc_tyGijYubfFETV7an_tGxiKI0cWoic/w640-h480/IMG_5394.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitiTClMPkPSAE5PmjXEjbGLb7XhpGKXDkhvXBlC7Vr8pCbV0wn_uLAYQKMRSM7aO9VR56obQJPwu4Aiy-kJ54GE9z1TXXgxBCDN19-BLYjXo481J0S5hODA___7rtmCtDuJa-ZABWCCD0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitiTClMPkPSAE5PmjXEjbGLb7XhpGKXDkhvXBlC7Vr8pCbV0wn_uLAYQKMRSM7aO9VR56obQJPwu4Aiy-kJ54GE9z1TXXgxBCDN19-BLYjXo481J0S5hODA___7rtmCtDuJa-ZABWCCD0/w640-h480/IMG_5407.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Cobungra was very full and very cold from all the melt. Balti had a little (illegal!) fish whilst I lugged everything across, and then made sure he wasn't swept down to Omeo. There was a dead deer with huge antlers stuck on a log. With all of its fur washed off, it looked like a seal. We would see heaps of brumbies and deer all weekend right up into the snow line.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiQMqT9rtAeg99TMfvpWTv8ImGWRXCBFMVu-ss-hSF1wyeT5Yp4o993AGXjtxYJIP5d8FjdmO_-_Z9E6HngI2EQSI3bmsKf4x3tXA7Yp7zpyf6zpLWhRREiIsZ2foPKO4zLQ8HLnsArk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibiQMqT9rtAeg99TMfvpWTv8ImGWRXCBFMVu-ss-hSF1wyeT5Yp4o993AGXjtxYJIP5d8FjdmO_-_Z9E6HngI2EQSI3bmsKf4x3tXA7Yp7zpyf6zpLWhRREiIsZ2foPKO4zLQ8HLnsArk/w640-h480/IMG_5446.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KyRZUQoQhBTG6fZxWjIYvIcYFQwQdFcjLsLUlXqmOO4wHSoYnFgPq-7AHb_35VZ-1F4HisfablbBsNj2t4YjqN_Z1ESa0aG0UePEF96TBJAxfDsgxjldjQPUbuG1jdflnF8twr60m0A/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KyRZUQoQhBTG6fZxWjIYvIcYFQwQdFcjLsLUlXqmOO4wHSoYnFgPq-7AHb_35VZ-1F4HisfablbBsNj2t4YjqN_Z1ESa0aG0UePEF96TBJAxfDsgxjldjQPUbuG1jdflnF8twr60m0A/w640-h480/IMG_5430.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OU1ErDdfm7JKyuiR5VjjFuGH-FMebLYCIr1e1uLNN-A4i4DqbjsrKPQp2bTrGLKZChuA6FIeK54XXhRJiB80-8JEPw4kz2bpTfKik3vrl6Q0tm2lnRBFfexPva5xEM4HyRc42YYhGjk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OU1ErDdfm7JKyuiR5VjjFuGH-FMebLYCIr1e1uLNN-A4i4DqbjsrKPQp2bTrGLKZChuA6FIeK54XXhRJiB80-8JEPw4kz2bpTfKik3vrl6Q0tm2lnRBFfexPva5xEM4HyRc42YYhGjk/w640-h480/IMG_5442.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdR9JP0QwAkjFvZwfY3crUJbEpvXALOYcnsvUGIeRSmqxBuZ1pUYJXUc2wZYD3eSctMwyNpbUZXSq3d9xkp1hhDpaf7nl8u1Jxt1cR-YacQLtSoJBj8_rEjOvritC0qGvhl4GB1tCNr8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdR9JP0QwAkjFvZwfY3crUJbEpvXALOYcnsvUGIeRSmqxBuZ1pUYJXUc2wZYD3eSctMwyNpbUZXSq3d9xkp1hhDpaf7nl8u1Jxt1cR-YacQLtSoJBj8_rEjOvritC0qGvhl4GB1tCNr8/w300-h400/IMG_5418.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRrPtesLXlesgIBDBc1cImrsh0HWgq5XjZLfXQirmZyA_BEjxLmnT6tQHgD5w1r2xsmteWpd4MxUZIXXnaqwKeIV1IQLOsWY5jlNUUQwUGvDXenjzweEiAqQ0FtTXqQFRCe_m9OAv7O8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRrPtesLXlesgIBDBc1cImrsh0HWgq5XjZLfXQirmZyA_BEjxLmnT6tQHgD5w1r2xsmteWpd4MxUZIXXnaqwKeIV1IQLOsWY5jlNUUQwUGvDXenjzweEiAqQ0FtTXqQFRCe_m9OAv7O8/w640-h480/IMG_5401.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Someone on the forums suggested a while back that Paling Spur had been cleared. Well it hasn't, and is now almost impassable and quite challenging to navigate. Strava to the rescue again. A lot of the time the heath was over Balti's head. We finally got to put our skis on at 1500m.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZsROiP91e2Z5QQGaVWViajtxteDIhoQyGANmOmTyaW1R8C320kacK3LZ6D4AJxSlYEIbhQHpnjl7jInosc2wMSzoDNX0Lr6ObOKga3qYgZgQ3iyfWdbLoQGoKGeVuxawq4CbIHVWzw0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZsROiP91e2Z5QQGaVWViajtxteDIhoQyGANmOmTyaW1R8C320kacK3LZ6D4AJxSlYEIbhQHpnjl7jInosc2wMSzoDNX0Lr6ObOKga3qYgZgQ3iyfWdbLoQGoKGeVuxawq4CbIHVWzw0/w640-h480/IMG_5449+2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrMejDQc7Kg01NeGOudfLQHX2qUmSfEx6a1UGchtuDbd1uA_OsXk5xzPk0qhu_o9dCt6nj3StlAqrAUISOMyardJuBU6v5tXcgN3YQzNFSNKG7AOLu57akIAx2Dx14qs3Po7ZHJvwZs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrMejDQc7Kg01NeGOudfLQHX2qUmSfEx6a1UGchtuDbd1uA_OsXk5xzPk0qhu_o9dCt6nj3StlAqrAUISOMyardJuBU6v5tXcgN3YQzNFSNKG7AOLu57akIAx2Dx14qs3Po7ZHJvwZs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-lIf_BYi0Fi2pnZsnK_KZ0z0ldwocIXZvSob2qZT_Rwchq1TfaOJjVzWjzy0E39SeDVoKr1R6CjAOMiNiKOmYHrrdsImS-kZCBcD7sml0AbdeFxdTPhqdrvsG50Ds6g2ShWA3buQGSE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-lIf_BYi0Fi2pnZsnK_KZ0z0ldwocIXZvSob2qZT_Rwchq1TfaOJjVzWjzy0E39SeDVoKr1R6CjAOMiNiKOmYHrrdsImS-kZCBcD7sml0AbdeFxdTPhqdrvsG50Ds6g2ShWA3buQGSE/w400-h300/IMG_5460+2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrMejDQc7Kg01NeGOudfLQHX2qUmSfEx6a1UGchtuDbd1uA_OsXk5xzPk0qhu_o9dCt6nj3StlAqrAUISOMyardJuBU6v5tXcgN3YQzNFSNKG7AOLu57akIAx2Dx14qs3Po7ZHJvwZs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Despite the lack of cover, the Bundara Plains were as pretty as ever. The weather suddenly came in, and it felt like the start of winter. By the time we got near the hut, it was puking so hard that I found it difficult to find it. We got the fire going and set up beds and dinner. As well as leeches, Balti's boot removal also revealed some worrying blisters...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrMejDQc7Kg01NeGOudfLQHX2qUmSfEx6a1UGchtuDbd1uA_OsXk5xzPk0qhu_o9dCt6nj3StlAqrAUISOMyardJuBU6v5tXcgN3YQzNFSNKG7AOLu57akIAx2Dx14qs3Po7ZHJvwZs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrMejDQc7Kg01NeGOudfLQHX2qUmSfEx6a1UGchtuDbd1uA_OsXk5xzPk0qhu_o9dCt6nj3StlAqrAUISOMyardJuBU6v5tXcgN3YQzNFSNKG7AOLu57akIAx2Dx14qs3Po7ZHJvwZs/w640-h480/IMG_5479+2.jpeg" width="640" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ6-RoHBT4THCNfAGxJimlhlwleFyXtK-iu0TMXR4-NiOxpcajB5Vsmdm8q-K0HeYQ6S5OwIqY0r1ukmt83CQNJ0bheNK52JOYPE78ZfEnmsG2jy7TK5x05Mzt9oe_bYVOMVeOrSe881o/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ6-RoHBT4THCNfAGxJimlhlwleFyXtK-iu0TMXR4-NiOxpcajB5Vsmdm8q-K0HeYQ6S5OwIqY0r1ukmt83CQNJ0bheNK52JOYPE78ZfEnmsG2jy7TK5x05Mzt9oe_bYVOMVeOrSe881o/w640-h480/IMG_5494+2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZup8xtuWaD-s_1wP84Qdh4itYj_a7z1TIuIoD3BCWGZOP-ZBkCg3qL_huQEFYW_7r0tfAylJHXEZ2kIiNjLKWmanReZmOpUW4gzo77anpr0vN4Ii9LRYyuM4SCM1f7gSD60iD4cDwAm0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZup8xtuWaD-s_1wP84Qdh4itYj_a7z1TIuIoD3BCWGZOP-ZBkCg3qL_huQEFYW_7r0tfAylJHXEZ2kIiNjLKWmanReZmOpUW4gzo77anpr0vN4Ii9LRYyuM4SCM1f7gSD60iD4cDwAm0/w400-h300/IMG_5502+2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBpTQXoMmTiesZYMX38ukvAgGzVbULFjFeKhLPg2_GW6YWI9Eep6TjqlrACbQufwUvlZeWX6z8h9KC07nA2FG-L2q_hcdon0Xg2nDheuSwNtucDfOTkj-4vAPEydMmnQzCX5pjCotLHU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBpTQXoMmTiesZYMX38ukvAgGzVbULFjFeKhLPg2_GW6YWI9Eep6TjqlrACbQufwUvlZeWX6z8h9KC07nA2FG-L2q_hcdon0Xg2nDheuSwNtucDfOTkj-4vAPEydMmnQzCX5pjCotLHU/w640-h480/IMG_5503.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_4vAOv-sqsIjBthWD7lWJrcUAfim_Cikr-DiLQYbJ9LAH5Dt2EdmRF7M7EIUc-IJljq_DXLRSdBTZ8Hi_OuMqhjQnG2Ad9x-nN5y8uvOf27W8n3dq-3kZ7LxgtS1XntXH7bjTje4tM0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_4vAOv-sqsIjBthWD7lWJrcUAfim_Cikr-DiLQYbJ9LAH5Dt2EdmRF7M7EIUc-IJljq_DXLRSdBTZ8Hi_OuMqhjQnG2Ad9x-nN5y8uvOf27W8n3dq-3kZ7LxgtS1XntXH7bjTje4tM0/w400-h300/IMG_5509.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next day dawned very cold and pretty. There was 10cm of fresh dry snow, with ongoing flurries. We made our way up to "Annie's trees" where mum put on another spectacular light show for me. The ancient trees (I actually think that the six trees are all the one and the same tree...) were as glorious as ever and we spent a bit of time there before an other attempt on finding a nice line down into the Bundara...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL_CTNaFXzcsKVW6RZLRRW8hC6eLuFpiu5EG4YblbBARW2MIBFsVrbvxgoovC3k6ef-ooucw0o-wIQp-mLVAftK76lwF6ImGcKSohKfpOtmNRjLFtVHMN4eQzoUvsUv7wZTiw9HSdeK4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL_CTNaFXzcsKVW6RZLRRW8hC6eLuFpiu5EG4YblbBARW2MIBFsVrbvxgoovC3k6ef-ooucw0o-wIQp-mLVAftK76lwF6ImGcKSohKfpOtmNRjLFtVHMN4eQzoUvsUv7wZTiw9HSdeK4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbmBvzWFM43aV1JuRgant56SR0Bn1_ScJHXzv6xZL5IDDAelCqraP8Rp11a0NsRxPUpIbOHh6JuzDHLXbcjNfQ_cjpxHocA9nNGeV7xqcGDso7FtE9ji2QXiMLhFolg8V7bWijiXZ67A/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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You have to weave through a couple of copses, and there's solid forest east, and a cliff band west. Anyway, when it opened up it was obvious, and had collected nearly a foot of fresh snow. The top is gentle, but then a lovely steep middle section before dropping down to the river plains. The sun came out and so we climbed back up to Starvation Point for another magical run. 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Even thermo-moulding in double sox hadn't been enough to ward off the blisters and ischaemic pain so that another planned day out to Westons and beyond was going to be challenging. He was also supposed to be doing a bit of homeschooling, however the wifi in Young's wasn't great. There was also not a breath of wind for my wing. And so we decided to hoof it back home. Given that we'd already done 9km and 500m of up, it was going to be a very big afternoon... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyUqok-ooOXd05cbRyb4KVwdDRFLbsq-HrwLRV1iQTrAL-4FZx6ae7ha1lzWBb_N_kEUrhFwzUX07r8LTM0DcxmiaFJsMnYhYBlax3ZZ1059WtSHHpqhfuJYFlH_gtbRCUNl5s2Md8tc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyUqok-ooOXd05cbRyb4KVwdDRFLbsq-HrwLRV1iQTrAL-4FZx6ae7ha1lzWBb_N_kEUrhFwzUX07r8LTM0DcxmiaFJsMnYhYBlax3ZZ1059WtSHHpqhfuJYFlH_gtbRCUNl5s2Md8tc/w640-h480/IMG_5753.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4vMCep7A0AW9hv6TkzWfqFYxkbwF3BMiahU0Xl_TrRXZtyYqzuLV0ajTHHt1ABxWmbJd02OvfjFTn8UrGh_uCPLZ0-obdly1i0bnQZ_W3IZZUNQKPpq7UJ1FLC9h4AoFaIKVfiMPcCo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4vMCep7A0AW9hv6TkzWfqFYxkbwF3BMiahU0Xl_TrRXZtyYqzuLV0ajTHHt1ABxWmbJd02OvfjFTn8UrGh_uCPLZ0-obdly1i0bnQZ_W3IZZUNQKPpq7UJ1FLC9h4AoFaIKVfiMPcCo/w640-h480/IMG_5828.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMngwx5jOW7RuNOZmQ-fZYtAc8zAiaFn-nOPRS3p-LA5oDS4_dYX163J91kQkdeXwcKA4jxWYQrXRU3YlcrEJPf6pOd4PqHyZ2BDTUnjoT6HoOSjdFCsugtrQPQqlpQ4cD2ktKzZ3TjZI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMngwx5jOW7RuNOZmQ-fZYtAc8zAiaFn-nOPRS3p-LA5oDS4_dYX163J91kQkdeXwcKA4jxWYQrXRU3YlcrEJPf6pOd4PqHyZ2BDTUnjoT6HoOSjdFCsugtrQPQqlpQ4cD2ktKzZ3TjZI/w400-h300/IMG_5815.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf_viUHQhd7gTVza23-LqyDylK7sTylMLOIV4yuEVW2bJeTlFWK62Ac9IjqO0Cq3iqKoqnW1xGTTsRHTh6BNCgUl1c7I9GuT7iIw_-P9Welc6DbVmyctDS9p7y7wCbrkRQ7vAcK1A20E/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf_viUHQhd7gTVza23-LqyDylK7sTylMLOIV4yuEVW2bJeTlFWK62Ac9IjqO0Cq3iqKoqnW1xGTTsRHTh6BNCgUl1c7I9GuT7iIw_-P9Welc6DbVmyctDS9p7y7wCbrkRQ7vAcK1A20E/w640-h480/IMG_5780.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We got 3 nice ski runs down the south facing slopes on the way back, and then some battlefield skiing down the top part of Paling. Balti could preserve his feet by swapping into his Salomons for the hikes up the northern aspects. We got some astounding views of Feathertop before braving Paling Spur which was even harder now under snow which had settled all the way down to the valley. Whilst undressing to cross the Cobungra which was now even colder and faster, Balti saw a platypus only metres away.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The climb up Brandy Creek firetrail was a killer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can't actually recall being quite that exhausted in years.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We finally got back to the car under head-torch at 8pm, after 25km and over 1km of up for the day, most of it with full packs.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3YE4_mE1N-UEoi6R5UCCbI5L9rowNPYBs8OjmG0a64uiFjir7ouytmWitlVXACWx8ZgXD-SzT41s2Q00HK5_RqFkXmMoLx32F5LLtu5R8R-Al4rfTSZ-LkAGdgl002a-p3vFAiEaTSo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3YE4_mE1N-UEoi6R5UCCbI5L9rowNPYBs8OjmG0a64uiFjir7ouytmWitlVXACWx8ZgXD-SzT41s2Q00HK5_RqFkXmMoLx32F5LLtu5R8R-Al4rfTSZ-LkAGdgl002a-p3vFAiEaTSo/w640-h480/IMG_5796.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSR_hbOL3iKHOamT6Wo7QmMeig9RVrpR17eqLNQIPkufNJUmcVORlltcJu-v_7KcshesCUMd9PvsNnRdS3iYcJEcrHJIE4jyr2owaJIiKMWD8R18Mas6oyqjO_tlnylbp0_4kBm6RO8sU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSR_hbOL3iKHOamT6Wo7QmMeig9RVrpR17eqLNQIPkufNJUmcVORlltcJu-v_7KcshesCUMd9PvsNnRdS3iYcJEcrHJIE4jyr2owaJIiKMWD8R18Mas6oyqjO_tlnylbp0_4kBm6RO8sU/w640-h480/IMG_5833+2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnOO2t7F262BWelOwJEQiU7_8ppEPlDF26R7UfNvjO88sokLWLg5oZ9wTDhUS2Ic1IrqFXii8WaMrvP4hEp6x2QkdGOvC8h2Wu34D7etdtaIdKc7iO16CaDOPY63snYY-OaeHlM2rbgY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnOO2t7F262BWelOwJEQiU7_8ppEPlDF26R7UfNvjO88sokLWLg5oZ9wTDhUS2Ic1IrqFXii8WaMrvP4hEp6x2QkdGOvC8h2Wu34D7etdtaIdKc7iO16CaDOPY63snYY-OaeHlM2rbgY/w640-h480/IMG_5843.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01RAQlI_hbmKQxLRlBdA43NrO2q5_PL15aSGoNq1CtjD-LYywdrP2DW0R0nvEbX5KC_SEukJrICt-kDwglQ6CpXFQebZ73F9A2fvB8lRrX55_CJL2FAde2JKLGswWg_xW4TavdcIdO_Y/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01RAQlI_hbmKQxLRlBdA43NrO2q5_PL15aSGoNq1CtjD-LYywdrP2DW0R0nvEbX5KC_SEukJrICt-kDwglQ6CpXFQebZ73F9A2fvB8lRrX55_CJL2FAde2JKLGswWg_xW4TavdcIdO_Y/w640-h480/IMG_5853.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__S4sC4e7xldo-gU7sSwhzRZGm5PoEQXuEFoWVi08HIoErYX_SW5HhSX4eATSG-1YXBqeH7nbvKB-KVbm8Aa3e0Wn_zlM0E5G1jRulINYEz7qDj2AA0VEujQu_GU0JWondqIveCorK5Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__S4sC4e7xldo-gU7sSwhzRZGm5PoEQXuEFoWVi08HIoErYX_SW5HhSX4eATSG-1YXBqeH7nbvKB-KVbm8Aa3e0Wn_zlM0E5G1jRulINYEz7qDj2AA0VEujQu_GU0JWondqIveCorK5Q/w640-h480/IMG_5855.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Mike Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04040144646773398098noreply@blogger.com1Bundara River, Victoria, Australia-36.9762607 147.3715655-65.28649453617885 112.2153155 -8.6660268638211519 -177.47218450000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505957254817788244.post-61847272329106274232021-07-26T18:57:00.300-07:002021-08-05T19:57:13.733-07:00DP Lockdown #5 <p>Marie-Laure and I were trying for the third year in a row to get to Thredbo, But with NSW slowly turning into a Covid basket case, the boarders were shut down again and we resigned ourselves to skiing in Victoria instead. Then thanks to a pair of dim-witted NSW removalists, Covid was off and racing again in Victoria too, and I had to cancel the rest of my working week to escape Melbourne before we missed out altogether. But not before the France Vs Wallabies match and then a hearty Bastille Day party with our closest frog friends. There was also a fantastic incoming weather system, so I was mindful of getting up to DP ahead of a cold front which had road-closing potential.</p><p>It was lovely to be back in our place, just the two of us, with the fire roaring, a blanket of fresh snow, and lots of cooking. Whilst we were restricted to a 5km radius, DP were still maintaining the XC trails, and we had a few other adventures to some of our favourite old more remote places, as well as some new ones, including a solo down to the Upper Victoria River catchment which was very pretty with lots of kookaburras, roos and deer. Chockie was in his element. </p><p>Marie-Laure got heaps done in both bathrooms, and I got a bunch of odd jobs done.</p><p>With lockdown extended for another week, we decided to stay on up, so I went back to Melbourne and picked up the kids from dad and then drove back. We'd all been notified we needed covid tests after the rugby, so ML and I had had ours down in Omeo, and dad took the kids to the Alfred.</p><p>Despite a distinct lack of enthusiasm, I think the kids enjoyed (!) homeschooling from DP. We had another cracking storm, which made for some very pretty skiing, and some crazy ice down at Carmichael Falls. Balti and I also built an igloo, which was hard work - and even slept out (and homeschooled!) in it on the last night until the dog got cold!</p><p>Could have stayed the rest of winter, but with Victoria beating another round of the virus, unfortunately (!) we had to go back to real school. 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With mandatory covid tests (!!!!) ruling out heading off from the Great Alpine Road, I was curious to see if the Cobberas Plateau, which is in the Main Range' and Vic Alps' rain-shadow from traditional winter westerly systems, had benefitted from the East Coast Low which had brought heavy snow for the opening weekend the week before. It's something I've always thought likely - but I also just love this range. These are serious mountains of pink granite outcrops within a wilderness zone, providing headwaters for the Murray, Buchan, Snowy and Tambo Rivers, and the most isolated alpine range on the Australian mainland. </p><p style="text-align: center;">After throwing out invites to some of the usual suspects, I finally got a bite from my friend Perry, who couldn't really have understood what he was in for. The last time I saw Perry smiling over the next few days was at Dinner Plain on Monday night when he treated me to his awesome bouillabaisse, accompanied by a seriously good Chateauneuf-du-Pape. In return, I found some old wonky planks (and an EPIRB!) for him in the garage.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4c9kC60WFCLGc6cXXwvcJ4S-Drea-PPDD0RWnpZ1VZwV9PnndOHXgFowzAQkPVaFrINleK0xkzo5rsDfJNEWh-RZBAYtQsJSs3xn-Jnl7aJy1rce8OFYzlkEiBUORDn1A3oHPqjq6O3U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4c9kC60WFCLGc6cXXwvcJ4S-Drea-PPDD0RWnpZ1VZwV9PnndOHXgFowzAQkPVaFrINleK0xkzo5rsDfJNEWh-RZBAYtQsJSs3xn-Jnl7aJy1rce8OFYzlkEiBUORDn1A3oHPqjq6O3U/w400-h300/IMG_3583.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The next morning we sorted our packs and headed down into the Omeo Valley, which was completely iced over and very pretty. One of Victoria's most scenic drives, the Limestone Road, had signage suggesting that it was closed due to the recent storms which had caused chaos throughout Victoria, but these same signs might have escaped our attention. We managed to skirt the fallen trees and flooded watercourses, and arrived at the Cobberas trailhead in an hour and a half. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJY8phwkw61frX8VX0Jx1uMwKuYe72bkHBNasbe5Vle4TD6GyVKGDDbmi9smF4Btj0pDv-S21W7pG3nJA0871P5V22SjxQxjkD3OiUohWPc9iAG_N1KR0xYdwIWxdCMTt23FCW-BQho0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJY8phwkw61frX8VX0Jx1uMwKuYe72bkHBNasbe5Vle4TD6GyVKGDDbmi9smF4Btj0pDv-S21W7pG3nJA0871P5V22SjxQxjkD3OiUohWPc9iAG_N1KR0xYdwIWxdCMTt23FCW-BQho0/w640-h480/IMG_3588.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">After a brief ride myself to see how it fared uphill with a 20kg pack, boots and skis (great!), I handed the eMTB to Perry, and took back the reins of my Yeti for the 5km (very wet!) fire trail to The Playgrounds. The sun came out, and we got our first glimpses of Mt Cobberas with a healthy snowcap. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mbvnWPcdM_fBGZ8pXlRd7ao2wCxPSP6T4dvfTRqiHPGIjnZjjdrpFNttICAFkD0_KI9gCcN0hprIivy5CTiBeNGAnpJaqEAL4RaPEIr5KpO1LWCwuL66hR4AZ48nyg9jSVjqEPIXKbk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mbvnWPcdM_fBGZ8pXlRd7ao2wCxPSP6T4dvfTRqiHPGIjnZjjdrpFNttICAFkD0_KI9gCcN0hprIivy5CTiBeNGAnpJaqEAL4RaPEIr5KpO1LWCwuL66hR4AZ48nyg9jSVjqEPIXKbk/w640-h480/IMG_3614.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ754Q47wuwr4FHCTDJk9KWZLaY2wTjNgXbyszW1VoVV3L_gtBGi0TiwA3Z5NXfZIkyO6pEoQuam3U5JkA6JBuE8ornozH0KV5RErCtPl1aBCOqVKH2qUnR_PKUXsaZGyyIEEV4gaJZFo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ754Q47wuwr4FHCTDJk9KWZLaY2wTjNgXbyszW1VoVV3L_gtBGi0TiwA3Z5NXfZIkyO6pEoQuam3U5JkA6JBuE8ornozH0KV5RErCtPl1aBCOqVKH2qUnR_PKUXsaZGyyIEEV4gaJZFo/w640-h480/IMG_3610.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9YSM-cbKTpNRhGWT9o9XFIlOWSpHgkvYvAl__X2_8J37OtPAESza8BlH-Y3ReRUnlQq2fXrd5tcsNZlAF1OOnK_FUdbdcG1etjOlzd2l2wJbz0zdwpRheLU3G-jdoEDmeiYmP-KVDqs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9YSM-cbKTpNRhGWT9o9XFIlOWSpHgkvYvAl__X2_8J37OtPAESza8BlH-Y3ReRUnlQq2fXrd5tcsNZlAF1OOnK_FUdbdcG1etjOlzd2l2wJbz0zdwpRheLU3G-jdoEDmeiYmP-KVDqs/w640-h480/IMG_3600.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvG_M2lGRPXeBlqwbUyNIsu6NY6_d6_9ZRbSZcYBh9FECAg6s_sK8aOL1BHGjXqRwduwojnREnRVejGFVKAbcqfEDx35V8BsrRdujEYh5PnodvrN24XZCtEgLoFeQEtDUSqxe20nS0Frc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvG_M2lGRPXeBlqwbUyNIsu6NY6_d6_9ZRbSZcYBh9FECAg6s_sK8aOL1BHGjXqRwduwojnREnRVejGFVKAbcqfEDx35V8BsrRdujEYh5PnodvrN24XZCtEgLoFeQEtDUSqxe20nS0Frc/" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">Then a 5km sodden climb through heavy snow-affected shrubbery making for an ill-defined path, which was on occasion only righted by some terrific Strava topo mapping. There was enough snow when we topped the ridge at 1600m to boot up and start climbing on skis for the third leg of the mountain triathlon.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyqhJixWuhR_zWsqS-vQDjR0MWUaucHxorukO7rsT6hcd_M2SPlTCc5GxX_Jxz-yP_mWK7DUEt7rlbdoIXgQR6AzQidqK63I4vHHbfxNBWURhOQo3KE8Wk4SBsOv7Ak0SwuSafJS3-hc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyqhJixWuhR_zWsqS-vQDjR0MWUaucHxorukO7rsT6hcd_M2SPlTCc5GxX_Jxz-yP_mWK7DUEt7rlbdoIXgQR6AzQidqK63I4vHHbfxNBWURhOQo3KE8Wk4SBsOv7Ak0SwuSafJS3-hc/w400-h300/IMG_3627.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWjGMTavsbOoSRqMDiVVMCgcLN45395hCX2ELahg_lCYnxqjtsoHh9FVRMWr1PnVpq-yEBeYP6yMOmU9Z5PxUG26C8j_ALDBUVgRqFEI_q1_MN15dhfyMwyWanOWJR8COI4DJv4mCMos/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIWjGMTavsbOoSRqMDiVVMCgcLN45395hCX2ELahg_lCYnxqjtsoHh9FVRMWr1PnVpq-yEBeYP6yMOmU9Z5PxUG26C8j_ALDBUVgRqFEI_q1_MN15dhfyMwyWanOWJR8COI4DJv4mCMos/w640-h480/IMG_3619.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSPry1lOX9fBxQK387CjEWgS9EPsXauKCdSGh6GYyswRh1mL58_YrXgE5RT7QbSRKQeHjPwNiAyJ-ICHkHf6wgboCyZYKvoQrK5-gpU8du6iMZsIdVUcMHSYZBO2EuBaI4srdro15QMU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSPry1lOX9fBxQK387CjEWgS9EPsXauKCdSGh6GYyswRh1mL58_YrXgE5RT7QbSRKQeHjPwNiAyJ-ICHkHf6wgboCyZYKvoQrK5-gpU8du6iMZsIdVUcMHSYZBO2EuBaI4srdro15QMU/w320-h240/IMG_3630.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0j4MygCc6JIW6ju28YkuzwkUmjVFvx5nIIKkyLwiTAjoO_vKVfSc6Lv0irH59WF7DzfRjNugvNHA4aD9a0DJNKbucpyXmH3QzSDy8kZH_15ynnvS9PziSgx075tq596iv4T8lNATs8w/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0j4MygCc6JIW6ju28YkuzwkUmjVFvx5nIIKkyLwiTAjoO_vKVfSc6Lv0irH59WF7DzfRjNugvNHA4aD9a0DJNKbucpyXmH3QzSDy8kZH_15ynnvS9PziSgx075tq596iv4T8lNATs8w/w400-h300/IMG_3618.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSv22Hl1UwHXmqxs3crhE_dXhm-x4x6yjraY2eGclm_Jr1Z6nRWOy7O75TbFkAhLKlCcCCsUtYKj8GXsgQVg4eK3LeMX1vrQcCWf4jr0_cASOKox48JSB1rHYrRbk2hA0hQJU8gdd6Wc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSv22Hl1UwHXmqxs3crhE_dXhm-x4x6yjraY2eGclm_Jr1Z6nRWOy7O75TbFkAhLKlCcCCsUtYKj8GXsgQVg4eK3LeMX1vrQcCWf4jr0_cASOKox48JSB1rHYrRbk2hA0hQJU8gdd6Wc/w640-h480/IMG_3638.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Unfortunately the weather seemed to be turning, with high cloud and cirrus suggesting an encroaching bleak kind of badness. It was also the shortest day of the year, so I was anxious to find a place to pitch the tent before any further climbing. I found a nice glade at 1700m and quickly got the tent up. We ditched our packs before a hurried climb up to the summit. The southwest ridge has some amazing stands of ancient snow gums, which were still displaying their autumn colours of rusts and reds filtered by the weird veiled solstice light of the setting sun.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxAgR1taxZXD36R-ciPSQtqCRoY_NCXQdrHVRs50qJUkItgVRTrZGqqrBG9z2AgBCYHRMVlLbMJ4u-L4VTojV1xTY9CEPC6GFasdFzGvhz_GDVrK5E82sTtvgAV25YqeqpGntvQhhQrg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxAgR1taxZXD36R-ciPSQtqCRoY_NCXQdrHVRs50qJUkItgVRTrZGqqrBG9z2AgBCYHRMVlLbMJ4u-L4VTojV1xTY9CEPC6GFasdFzGvhz_GDVrK5E82sTtvgAV25YqeqpGntvQhhQrg/w640-h480/IMG_3644.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMPkuHr5jmR_7awjlK5q_xjsa9gANQBnaF8xr8w8tqHLCHMFB2UZp5H7PvLQvYgQL3BqN9mBMZ30YEks3x-ot037UbNg9d9kccGzN0mlAdvQX8FHJw5-G7LSpvRC2OKYPjcSoW6fwVCw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMPkuHr5jmR_7awjlK5q_xjsa9gANQBnaF8xr8w8tqHLCHMFB2UZp5H7PvLQvYgQL3BqN9mBMZ30YEks3x-ot037UbNg9d9kccGzN0mlAdvQX8FHJw5-G7LSpvRC2OKYPjcSoW6fwVCw/w640-h480/IMG_3651.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqutv3uih4cSAg1Ca81-G24oGxiEJ92kOJuQ8e7CSMCMHzlJJpi9v1fhuluGwdp8UIloSsLNX3-k-lTqhhdJehHYm4uVU6Z0TtSstP08q4QGYjDsfl8EqlJWs5gomOKAYlwD5aBNAC6DM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqutv3uih4cSAg1Ca81-G24oGxiEJ92kOJuQ8e7CSMCMHzlJJpi9v1fhuluGwdp8UIloSsLNX3-k-lTqhhdJehHYm4uVU6Z0TtSstP08q4QGYjDsfl8EqlJWs5gomOKAYlwD5aBNAC6DM/w640-h480/IMG_3647.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6N8zHXjBzMHzsStol9pDkFEY42qTQtuWUdcfADmL7flWp5fKKjPd_85OeVcRkQjtK98sRR6xZIC6Zw1iKeZuDnYjuzgXPjyiiYCC5AaMuj5x3KdVx5odr5cpSUzBvNC7Qp8447hjCMA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6N8zHXjBzMHzsStol9pDkFEY42qTQtuWUdcfADmL7flWp5fKKjPd_85OeVcRkQjtK98sRR6xZIC6Zw1iKeZuDnYjuzgXPjyiiYCC5AaMuj5x3KdVx5odr5cpSUzBvNC7Qp8447hjCMA/w640-h480/IMG_3640.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95uC7kXGudX0z-PwVTVrtVtQGof9jX_MTcuylu6jZP05lJ78S6hWwbSpyyR2DTirq9YLaFut0gWPe5UyH_7YGQOeseTBn3rnwBpZArnKoVjTpHSL60-bL1QbqYNbNCtlOgG_S_UEN1qg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95uC7kXGudX0z-PwVTVrtVtQGof9jX_MTcuylu6jZP05lJ78S6hWwbSpyyR2DTirq9YLaFut0gWPe5UyH_7YGQOeseTBn3rnwBpZArnKoVjTpHSL60-bL1QbqYNbNCtlOgG_S_UEN1qg/w640-h480/IMG_3642.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkPIGWgX0qrhV5eYM4OukDcju5Qk0pNUmYZ34FnN7GrVwnN6ZeK5Bg_pCN6NyXRhT_o_utEbwW9SKDsVcLUjx80p02H2eDwiyH0e1S_vpcCBRYJAIv-1gTbu56aXyyrqTaeR29c09Nt8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkPIGWgX0qrhV5eYM4OukDcju5Qk0pNUmYZ34FnN7GrVwnN6ZeK5Bg_pCN6NyXRhT_o_utEbwW9SKDsVcLUjx80p02H2eDwiyH0e1S_vpcCBRYJAIv-1gTbu56aXyyrqTaeR29c09Nt8/w640-h480/IMG_3643.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevLyh4nQoW5LShx8rVVQk3h72IHwNeHv2eNb-v7NeNQdl5J1PSxa_YPjdIxdrMVbcYDvEDm2iQnM_9kqhZ0jNE8YcMR_CssOmEeYthKEoQ3KJT2fNGZ4tmRYhxrHYQZBL-tN-HwzyBLA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevLyh4nQoW5LShx8rVVQk3h72IHwNeHv2eNb-v7NeNQdl5J1PSxa_YPjdIxdrMVbcYDvEDm2iQnM_9kqhZ0jNE8YcMR_CssOmEeYthKEoQ3KJT2fNGZ4tmRYhxrHYQZBL-tN-HwzyBLA/w640-h480/IMG_3675.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">By this time, Perry had almost hit the wall. When he lost one of his kicker skins, I left him to sort it out and made a final push for the summit trig. Whilst the trig itself was covered in ice, the granite tor next to it was easy enough to climb, and the views were amazing. I gazed enviously into the Murray Valley and the State with more sensible Covid restrictions than Victoria. Whilst I'd left my SLR and tele lens down in the tent, the Main Range seemed almost at hand, and huge. The Pilot was well loaded, as were Davies Plains.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uK8wU4DX3qw86ab0etIY-jwoRXkE1sVIukjrsTdH8moipUHwA6YJQTtt-2zuuUPaQmVW1HKP-d0cCdI200lIUzO20RBp85q0-RNiaX2Xbre68ploUfSGCiiyN-gug9xfnrQyiAMl2Os/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uK8wU4DX3qw86ab0etIY-jwoRXkE1sVIukjrsTdH8moipUHwA6YJQTtt-2zuuUPaQmVW1HKP-d0cCdI200lIUzO20RBp85q0-RNiaX2Xbre68ploUfSGCiiyN-gug9xfnrQyiAMl2Os/w640-h480/IMG_3658.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Zv-WHSPhW4Y-Bw_bN8Jskpautcaa-HNlyxewFkxHKtFlEAr6yzHb5XhLIUrHAwnWKZXpiAXiWeP1_f8Hf-WS-KC7FtxG3T6bH-QgytustRZjifo9GNk-HLxRfhhIM0imffD_4ZMTuMs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Zv-WHSPhW4Y-Bw_bN8Jskpautcaa-HNlyxewFkxHKtFlEAr6yzHb5XhLIUrHAwnWKZXpiAXiWeP1_f8Hf-WS-KC7FtxG3T6bH-QgytustRZjifo9GNk-HLxRfhhIM0imffD_4ZMTuMs/w640-h480/IMG_3663.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkcGbN75bLoNNE2QoCGKMZ8b8x0eJeEkqc9hal2F36FzSuI-NBthCrGO4Wwv9L-MIkvY83bXEq6MCJ6R8x_C5AMJd_oKbBiL4MSRKFZl0d6_vHR6p7yv0KL9pW-jGylPJ9QqABW8ZOOk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkcGbN75bLoNNE2QoCGKMZ8b8x0eJeEkqc9hal2F36FzSuI-NBthCrGO4Wwv9L-MIkvY83bXEq6MCJ6R8x_C5AMJd_oKbBiL4MSRKFZl0d6_vHR6p7yv0KL9pW-jGylPJ9QqABW8ZOOk/w640-h480/IMG_3664.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljTMOM_HUnLxXNk2F2p5kOfTiJ8No13dp1bSkIVmUWSlqXUIc5prtPIVGTyXlDFzpeEefkL3xoBD-bCi21_Sbh4qpd1AUh6dWMal8qNrS8ZCTIS3YjdbNanihJZLKDL0-ELkBzub00fM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljTMOM_HUnLxXNk2F2p5kOfTiJ8No13dp1bSkIVmUWSlqXUIc5prtPIVGTyXlDFzpeEefkL3xoBD-bCi21_Sbh4qpd1AUh6dWMal8qNrS8ZCTIS3YjdbNanihJZLKDL0-ELkBzub00fM/w640-h480/IMG_3670.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlYAmFpXQylh6qQBgDeB7FxIiMMPPz-lWezYqQtCM5feoYiu_nsxnLK_TGleXzDGTbQyNzCR3vqZzO7-EkezkJ9RaAJlNoM2XumeSCcET3HpncVf7Zg7-BViUBOX0u6VCnZccX17uOQA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlYAmFpXQylh6qQBgDeB7FxIiMMPPz-lWezYqQtCM5feoYiu_nsxnLK_TGleXzDGTbQyNzCR3vqZzO7-EkezkJ9RaAJlNoM2XumeSCcET3HpncVf7Zg7-BViUBOX0u6VCnZccX17uOQA/w640-h480/IMG_3660.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yAXhxOn-y7E48T00uNv6GQfz0lMyify8uO7wOkvPqgAXOxqul-EHBcYwHMJmtssWF38JWwL46_W4L4O6qlMWRcMUbeQ7bzjQBwBZ4DZOoFbPIwk_yE6JiL5ZWUi_VlIjJfMZL5mczyM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yAXhxOn-y7E48T00uNv6GQfz0lMyify8uO7wOkvPqgAXOxqul-EHBcYwHMJmtssWF38JWwL46_W4L4O6qlMWRcMUbeQ7bzjQBwBZ4DZOoFbPIwk_yE6JiL5ZWUi_VlIjJfMZL5mczyM/w640-h480/IMG_3653.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2tN56T0IOJLy2drV8CGmqkyreKam8sJEl0I2qS2Sf1qVHCbh4SEfSrs37C_yli_ThYdblSqv7wv4Bt1cBeUqxuBezJX5X5696VwXCA0zIU62ohcx-7YZ-k_9swwY4JnXhaSbODd6z4g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS2tN56T0IOJLy2drV8CGmqkyreKam8sJEl0I2qS2Sf1qVHCbh4SEfSrs37C_yli_ThYdblSqv7wv4Bt1cBeUqxuBezJX5X5696VwXCA0zIU62ohcx-7YZ-k_9swwY4JnXhaSbODd6z4g/w640-h480/IMG_3656.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I got in a few first turns for the season on scratchy ice, before bumping into Perry and guiding us down through a battlefield of lumpy icy obstacles, back to camp. Perry crashed into his sleeping bag, and I got a fire blazing to dry out (and melt, oops!) some of our sodden gear. After a largish day (16km and 650m of up, mostly with full packs), a couple cups of Perry's fine red and some pasta went down a treat.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">However I fear I might have lost yet another ski partner...</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_2XR8hFLTw_YzfE9-OoSGf-ajqoWAv9tpqgDo6HTyMsW89urz-emx1j8qfXHdEVm7GmsbaeSLSBqxrsHmUfWaq48Z3l-H9lZehL8L7VW32JdP0T66BkHhyAH2mvv0cFL_x162GBGPQE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_2XR8hFLTw_YzfE9-OoSGf-ajqoWAv9tpqgDo6HTyMsW89urz-emx1j8qfXHdEVm7GmsbaeSLSBqxrsHmUfWaq48Z3l-H9lZehL8L7VW32JdP0T66BkHhyAH2mvv0cFL_x162GBGPQE/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKqgirN22awcTPgOKdcFBjXpO2haQLjOeCunJRQp1Mc-5CY8-Awv9IKr9q-lKVo3IY1aM4S0kmQzDMDtuywe1KsB_hgzXGjVRLCubgAuGoSFFFsrykZMbMUWqihyL-n94IfKgy1s4e-Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">We had the most wonderful Adelaide weekend for my beautiful sister Em's birthday. Pen and her mob, and dad had driven over the day before, but we had to fly in through Fortress SA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Despite the chilly conditions, we had a picnic lunch on Saturday in the Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens, which were in full Autumn glory. It was wonderful to finally meet the lovely Elsa! The kids had a bit of kick to kick and then all of us a leisurely stroll around the lake. Then a totally yummy (and emotional!) birthday dinner at Em's. We all miss Annie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A lazy day on Sunday in the AGSA where we got to see the much anticipated Clarice Beckett, which was amazing, ethereal and sublime. One of the better exhibitions I've ever seen by any Australian artist, and certainly nobody has ever caught Melbourne or Port Phillip Bay so atmospherically (and what a sad incredible story, her life!). Then a super lunch at a tasty local Greek Restaurant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So great to all be together again in Adelaide!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPo-ZkTl-cD4VC4AlxH2RSVjK3Fgekz2ZMKcP0WROjLU0Y22AM1QPnVf4For_dt0qRuF5BvFNP00KrKatC-oqp9pIb7EWOuNpD6tMAxhZoTsgzzJkE4sZR4tF9fpDP4WX3SUE5rxxz9U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPo-ZkTl-cD4VC4AlxH2RSVjK3Fgekz2ZMKcP0WROjLU0Y22AM1QPnVf4For_dt0qRuF5BvFNP00KrKatC-oqp9pIb7EWOuNpD6tMAxhZoTsgzzJkE4sZR4tF9fpDP4WX3SUE5rxxz9U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsSy5rMfs1uPV8CJ0k-Kti5wzcvd8bY4qR-_AFTwOuT5PBo1AoyiUEFa5GA7ndahVSFePFhXbDl0C6e8sEDSr1pGlPYpDXiBRY1LGneRgcnk0bC9erPajff_mIhItmvp0Gj6EAMido0VA/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Overseas for Melburnians is only an hour away and, Covid or not, we're pretty lucky to have one of the more beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Wildernesses so close. We had lunch at MONA, and went through the gallery which has grown impressively since we were last there.</p><p>Then a two hour drive to Lake St Clair and the fabulous hotel at Pumphouse Point, which has been fitted into an abandoned 40s hydroelectric facility at the end of a long jetty. Lit up red at night against the mist and bleakness of a Tasmanian early winter, it really is incredibly atmospheric. Whilst it's quite communal, with shared dining, we were surprised to find that we were the only real walkers in a place where there's not much else to do unless you're there for the trout. </p><p>We caught the ferry to Echo Point on the second day and walked all the way back through the amazing primordial lakeside forest trail to Cynthia Bay with a beachside picnic halfway in pretty feral weather. However we were luckier the next day and climbed up high alpine moors to Mt Rufus for lunch on the early winter summit snowdrifts, then back the long way along the lesser walked path, down to Shadow lake through glacial tarns of cushionbush, snow-gum and pandani communities, and the most incredible cloud forests, which almost felt like we were walking though an ocean of coral gardens, with single ancient myrtles carrying entire ecosystems of species. A very big day out, but one of the more incredible day-walks I've ever done in Tas: it would make an insanely beautiful ski tour in the right conditions. I even got Marie-Laure trail running over the last ten kilometres to ensure we were back in time for sunset and dinner. </p><p>A good warm up for the Western Arthurs in November with Balti!</p><p>Apologies for all the photos, it was too beautiful.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg8d00afEbTW2PSIvWsJdYURf70zQuAmJxm3SUyIWYk4oOjiqn-M_0O_AxZUd2z8jFtFxbhVdIa5jLo6BrbuM_YWojYmXFvNliSxDRkhzw9VrmtcNw9IgsrH34-Id7AoCXCX683qz2txE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg8d00afEbTW2PSIvWsJdYURf70zQuAmJxm3SUyIWYk4oOjiqn-M_0O_AxZUd2z8jFtFxbhVdIa5jLo6BrbuM_YWojYmXFvNliSxDRkhzw9VrmtcNw9IgsrH34-Id7AoCXCX683qz2txE/w640-h480/IMG_2277.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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