Bushwalk Australia

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 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?

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.

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?

I had a mate in Wodonga who did it a few times- I don't think it's that unusual. He used skis though.

Have some mates who snowshoed from Sunnyside to St Bernard a few years ago. I think it took them a week.

So it certainly has been done before then, on numerous occasions. Thanks everyone!

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 !!

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