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Victoria specific bushwalking discussion. Please avoid publishing details of access to sensitive areas with no tracks.Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sat 21 Apr, 2012 8:26 pm
Hi everyone,
I've been reading up on the Alpine National Park and I discovered that in August 1936, Mick Hull, Howard Michell and Cleve Cole attempted the first Winter crossing of the Bogong High Plains. The group became lost in a blizzard and Cole died of Hypothermia while Hull and Michell were saved by a rescue party. I was just wondering, to this day, have the Bogong High Plains ever been crossed in Winter? If anybody knows anything about this, I'd love to find out more about it.
Sam.
I've been reading up on the Alpine National Park and I discovered that in August 1936, Mick Hull, Howard Michell and Cleve Cole attempted the first Winter crossing of the Bogong High Plains. The group became lost in a blizzard and Cole died of Hypothermia while Hull and Michell were saved by a rescue party. I was just wondering, to this day, have the Bogong High Plains ever been crossed in Winter? If anybody knows anything about this, I'd love to find out more about it.
Sam.
Re: Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sat 21 Apr, 2012 9:59 pm
I know a friend of mine and a few others did the Alpine walking track, Walhalla to Thredbo in the winter of 1981, does that count?
Last edited by Puddle Duck on Sat 21 Apr, 2012 10:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sat 21 Apr, 2012 10:08 pm
Yes, they certainly have. But that said, although it may seem a relatively simply task these days, we simply stand on the shoulders of giants.
Sat 21 Apr, 2012 11:29 pm
Puddle Duck wrote:I know a friend of mine and a few others did the Alpine walking track, Walhalla to Thredbo in the winter of 1981, does that count?
Whoa! Wasn't that the amazing snow season of ~4metre snow depths?
Re: Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sat 21 Apr, 2012 11:54 pm
I had a mate in Wodonga who did it a few times- I don't think it's that unusual. He used skis though.
Re: Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sun 22 Apr, 2012 11:51 am
Have some mates who snowshoed from Sunnyside to St Bernard a few years ago. I think it took them a week.
Re: Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Sun 22 Apr, 2012 3:07 pm
So it certainly has been done before then, on numerous occasions. Thanks everyone!
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Wed 25 Apr, 2012 11:07 am
Stew63 wrote:Puddle Duck wrote:I know a friend of mine and a few others did the Alpine walking track, Walhalla to Thredbo in the winter of 1981, does that count?
Whoa! Wasn't that the amazing snow season of ~4metre snow depths?
Yes a huge season that year.
They planned to snow shoe from Walhalla to Mt Hotham and then pick up skis, as in a normal season there would've been a few days walk to get to the snow line and carrying skis below the tree line would've been a PITA. However in 1981 they could've skied on the second day !!
Re: Bogong High Plains Crossing in Winter
Tue 01 May, 2012 10:07 am
OMG Yes 1981 was a heck of a season, and in those days I couldn't and didn't ski, never made Bogong summit that year but did traverse Hotham to Big River and return
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