Peak Bagging Victoria

[andrewbish]

Ok, thanks. I'm up there in a few days, so it's of much interest to me.

[JamesMc]

I reckon the hardest peak in Victoria is 5 Mile peak. Does this mean it should get the most points?

JamesMc

[paidal_chalne_vala]

I agree that Mt Ligar/aka The crinolene via Long Hill Plateau is the toughest ascent and descent I have done in the Oz alps. There is hardly any track anymore, it is quite dangerous,over grown , scrappy ,rocky and slippery too and you need to be really effing fit and ready for any kind of weather too.
The matter of fitness comes into ascents on set tracks such as Mt Loch via the machinery spur and Feathertop via the Bungalow spur.

[Explorer_Sam]

All this I'm hearing about Mt Ligar/Crinoline, is making me want to climb it. Sounds like lots of fun!

[north-north-west]

I reckon the hardest peak in Victoria is 5 Mile peak. Does this mean it should get the most points?

If enough people agree with you.

[Explorer_Sam]

I will try to post in the next week sometime what I have done thus far in an excel document. It will have two colums, peaks and points. I might have to hand it over to someone else to do fill in other columns like Map, Location, Lat and Long.

[Kinsayder]

Looking forward to seeing it, Sam!

[north-north-west]

I've been thinking about this, and it seems we basically have two options: one is to give points for every tracked route and the common untracked ones, or to give the points for the most commonly used route.
While I love the idea of having every major route included, it would take a lot of work. Far too much, in fact. Just think about the plethora of options for Bogong. Going for the most common route still leaves a few questions (Bungalow or the Razorback for Feathertop, for instance?), but keeps it reasonably simple.

The other issue is whether to do as I have so far and omit anything that can be easily driven to (Selma, Victor, Useful, Donna Buang) or whether to include them with or without a proviso that a certain minimum distance must be covered to claim the points - which gets you back to the points for routes issue. There's no easy way around that one.

[stepbystep]

Ignore the routes and concentrate on the mountain itself. If you can drive to the trig so be it. Think about Tas would you exclude Mt Wellington? It has to have a point but if the road stopped at The Huon Rd you would give it 2 or 3.

[Explorer_Sam]

Thanks for the suggestions NNW and stepbystep, I appreciate them. I agree with stepbystep, we should just focus on the mountains themselves, because it makes it lots easier. Sorry I haven't posted up the excel document yet, I have been out the bush a couple of days this week and now I'm figuring out how to attach the file. What file extensions are allowed?

[Explorer_Sam]

Sorry for the delay. This is the best way I could do it: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7KN7-Q ... RFaVU/edit

That is a link to the Google document, you will have to download it. Hope it works

Sam.

[bmak]

You need to make it available to everyone

[Explorer_Sam]

Sorry about that guys, I wasn't aware. I just made it available so all can see now.

[bailz66]

Great work Explorer_Sam.

It looks like a good list. Would have loved to see a few 10's on the list. There also seems to be a few peaks missing. Mt Buffalo has some good walks.

I am still considering creating a web site for Peak Bagging if your still ok with that?

[Explorer_Sam]

G'day bailz66, I think it would be fantastic to see it turned into a web site! Of course I'm okay with that! I hope you decide to, it sounds great!

[north-north-west]

Ignore the routes and concentrate on the mountain itself. If you can drive to the trig so be it. Think about Tas would you exclude Mt Wellington?

I've been thinking about this a fair bit and yes, I would. I know it's as 'iconic' a peak as Cradle, but if you're going to have a points system for peak-bagging, the points should be commensurate with the difficulty of gaining the summit. It's ludicrous that you score as much for making a 100m walk from the furthest point of the Pinnacle carpark to the Wellington Trig as you do for the five hours or so it takes to get to the high point of Drys and back.