Mt Riveaux

[tibboh]

Planning a walk to Mt Riveaux. Just wondered if anyone has any advice?
My thoughts were either a day walk from a Mt Picton campsite or direct ascent up the ridge from the Huon Track (over Pear Hill). I would prefer the Mt Picton approach if that isnt too scrubby.
Cheers.

[frenchy_84]

there is a well defined track from riveaux road,
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=7695&p=100643&hilit=mt+riveaux#p100643

[ILUVSWTAS]

Mt Picton approach is VERY scrubby. I have not heard of anyone attemping it this way in many decades.

There is a tagged track starting off Riveaux road.

[tibboh]

Excellent. Thanks for the advice.
How long roughly from Riveaux Rd return?

[ollster]

Excellent. Thanks for the advice.
How long roughly from Riveaux Rd return?

IIRC it was pretty quick. About 30mins road walking in each direction and then maybe 3hrs or so for the actual walk.

[Gabe69Scoparia]

Went up Mt Riveaux today (6/12/2024).

Definitely a solid bushbash, took me around 9 hours to complete, but I also got a bit sidetracked on the way back down trying the avoid the thick understorey (didn't work, ended up being a "longcut") and ended up having a look at the karst area. The First half of the ascent (left after the second locked gate) is very overgrown and I could not find any sort of flagging to even mark the start of the "track". So mustering up that famous Tasmanian grit I pushed up through the dense understorey vaguely following the GPX from HikingSETas's trip. (With lots of "this is what it must be like to be birthed" moments as you swim out of the undergrowth into a "clearing")

Around the second half of the way up there is a very hard to follow, super overgrown taped out "track" that goes all the way to the summit.

Despite the sweltering heat the clear skies made for awesome views of the Huon Valley and of coarse Mt Picton (I've attached some awful photos taken from my phone).

[north-north-west]

Oof. It was bad enough when I went in, which was as soon as possible after the roads were reopened. Hate to think what it would be like now. Pity, because it's a really good little peak, but at least you had good conditions for it.

[Gabe69Scoparia]

The views and peak were really soooooo beautiful but the mild heat stroke (the day was in hindsight too nice to go hiking) and running out of water and rawdogging the "oil" coloured (nutrient enriched) cutting grass swamp spring water some may consider a "tradeoff".

[north-north-west]

I remember most of all the dust and smell half-choking me when pushing through the lower regrowth (f a lot of Pomaderris amongst other things). Not the most pleasant start and finish to a day.

[wander]

Thanks for the report Gabe. I have looked at Mt Riveaux from Picton so many times and planned to go and visit but it sounds like fortuitously I have not been able to make time for it.