Mersey River Circuit
Posted: Sat 22 Jun, 2013 8:23 amEnjoyed a mostly sunny, rain-free, cold trip around the Mersey. The huts allowing a winter trip without being tent bound for 14 hours.
Left work 8.30 am, drove up and then walked through Lees paddocks onto the further paddocks. Much appreciative of the landholders who allow us use of their huts.
Next day a delightful walk, initially through frosted paddocks and then Myrtle forests alongside the Mersey and up to the Overland, crossing the Mersey below Fergusson Falls and walking offtrack through forests until picking up a pad above McCoy Falls in the Never Never and walking on to Junction Lake Hut.
After a long pack day it was time for an easier day. I set off with a day pack to the Mountains of Jupiter via Lake Artemis, knowing that the Abels guide suggested 1+1/2 hrs for the trip one way. 6 hours later I returned to the hut rather weary having found some scrub on the mountain! Admittedly it was a leisurely trip with a picnic at the lake and an unnecessarily circuitous route up the mountain.
Walked out on the Moses Creek track which I found much easier than expected. I had walked the track previously in the reverse direction missed the track around Grail falls and scrub bashed several hundred metres at the cost of considerable suffering!
Some photos
Left work 8.30 am, drove up and then walked through Lees paddocks onto the further paddocks. Much appreciative of the landholders who allow us use of their huts.
Next day a delightful walk, initially through frosted paddocks and then Myrtle forests alongside the Mersey and up to the Overland, crossing the Mersey below Fergusson Falls and walking offtrack through forests until picking up a pad above McCoy Falls in the Never Never and walking on to Junction Lake Hut.
After a long pack day it was time for an easier day. I set off with a day pack to the Mountains of Jupiter via Lake Artemis, knowing that the Abels guide suggested 1+1/2 hrs for the trip one way. 6 hours later I returned to the hut rather weary having found some scrub on the mountain! Admittedly it was a leisurely trip with a picnic at the lake and an unnecessarily circuitous route up the mountain.
Walked out on the Moses Creek track which I found much easier than expected. I had walked the track previously in the reverse direction missed the track around Grail falls and scrub bashed several hundred metres at the cost of considerable suffering!
Some photos
- Frost in the Paddocks
- Mersey
- Near Hartnett falls
- Upper Clarke falls
- Ice on Junction Lake
