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Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Mon 07 Jan, 2013 5:07 pm
by pazzar
Hi everyone,

I have written up a trip report for my latest solo adventure. To save hassles of uploading heaps of photos again, you can check it out here on my trip report page.

http://pazzarthepeakbagger.blogspot.com ... serve.html

Cheers,

Jared

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Mon 07 Jan, 2013 6:23 pm
by DaveNoble
Good trip - Hard work in the heat!

Dave

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Mon 07 Jan, 2013 6:37 pm
by tigercat
Great trip report and photos. Cuvier and Goulds Sugarloaf sound very tempting, Manfred I am not so sure! I also struggled with heat, dehydration and scrub finding my way off Thetis to Leonards tarn on Jan 3. I came off far too far to the SW and then had to double back to the tarn. I will never try to bash thru fagus again!
Cheers C

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Mon 07 Jan, 2013 6:42 pm
by pazzar
Thanks! I recommend Manfred as a return day trip from Cuvier - much easier.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Tue 08 Jan, 2013 8:48 am
by ollster
Nice work Paz, Doogs and I have pretty much decided to head in there (again, for me, but this time I'll do GSL and CH) this weekend seeing the SW is a firey mess.

tigercat wrote:Cuvier and Goulds Sugarloaf sound very tempting, Manfred I am not so sure!


Manfred is pretty easy off track, but yeah, do it from Cuvier and not up from Lk Marion. It's a bit of a slog from Marion, and has some pretty ordinary sections of overhanging myrtle which is a bugger to push/climb through with packs. Not to mention the cliffs, but they're (as with most forested cliff sections around that area) pretty easy to skirt if you head a couple of hundred metres in the correct direction.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Tue 08 Jan, 2013 8:12 pm
by PeterJ
Enjoyed reading the article you wrote Jared. Some aspects reminded me of the time I did the walk and had to descend to the Marion valley, so i dug out the write up and posted in my walking blog.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Wed 09 Jan, 2013 9:48 am
by wander
Nice report, many thanks. I have looked at this wander from Du Cane area wondered how much scrub would be involved.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Thu 10 Jan, 2013 11:31 am
by naturelover
Thanks; enjoyed reading that.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Tue 29 Jan, 2013 5:06 pm
by doogs
As Ollster mentioned earlier on in the thread that we had planned to do a similar trip to Pazz a couple of weeks ago, which we did an succeeded. The route we took was from Narcissus over Byron to camp at Cuvier Shelf on the first day, day 2 was out to Goulds Sugarloaf and then dropping down to Lake Petrarch and the final day was the short walk out down the Cuvier Valley.
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Cuvier Shelf camping
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The Shelf looking east
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Mount Manfred from the slopes of Mount Cuvier
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Goulds Sugar Loaf
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One of the best summit panoramas in the state
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Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Tue 29 Jan, 2013 5:06 pm
by doogs
more..
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looking back to Goulds Sugarloaf from near lake Petrarch
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camping on the beach at Lake Petrarch
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sunset over the beach at Lake Petrarch
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Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Thu 31 Jan, 2013 7:22 am
by tigercat
Great photos. Encourages me to visit the area, perhaps next summer.

Re: Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

PostPosted: Thu 31 Jan, 2013 8:10 am
by wander
Sweet work.