Bushwalk Australia

DIXONS KINGDOM HIT


TAKE A GOOD TENT



THE VIEW FROM THE DOOR



GEOSKID PACKING UP



POWDER IN THE TREES



HEADING OUT



NEARING DAMASCUS GATE



TOWARDS LAKE SALOME



HALLS BUTTRESS

Just a few pics from a snowier than expected trip to the walls

Brrrrrrrr

that looks magical! What sort of tent was the collapsed one?

Hi TCP , it was just a little Coleman 2 person I think, but it went down just after dark with about 2 hours worth of snow on it.
Luckily the hut had a large dry bunk.



FF

G'Day FF
How mutch snow do you think fell on that night?
Thanks
Darren

Great pics,
That was a really nice lot of snow. Would have been a great trip.
Thanks for the pictures

Hey wow!!

On Saturday I thought it felt like you might have seen a bit of snow up there on the weekend, but I didn't ever think you'd get that much. Looks like a great trip guys.

L8r.

Fantastic pictures. It's a truly beautiful place, and the snow just makes it look even more magical.

Great Photos FF,
I trust you will be posting more.
Hope you have recovered ,the cold weather must have helped my heel spur and gout as it is a lot less painful than it was at the start of the walk.
corvus

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I will try to dig up some photos from two years ago of us standing, and in one case jumping up and down, on the lakes in the walls. Difficult to find a place to pitch the tents then, we did not have snow pegs

Hi Darren, I reckon we had about 300-400mm of snow on friday nightand early saturday morning.
It was beautiful dry powder snow too. On the walk out through the central basin the wind was picking up the powder and blasting it straight into our faces.Made the going a bit tough at times as we were forced to about turn and wait for it to die down then continue. All fun.

FF

haha I had a cheap tent that collapsed under snow in that exact place! although I only realised when I woke up with the tent against my face
Did any snow shoes come in handy?

They were considered but knocked back"it wont be that bad"would have been helpful in above knee to thigh deep stuff however we managed albeit with sore hidden muscles
c

One more



WEST WALL FROM HERODS GATE

FF

G'day FF photos in text ??
c

Bit of a struggle sometimes mate.

FF

flyfisher wrote:Hi TCP , it was just a little Coleman 2 person I think, but it went down just after dark with about 2 hours worth of snow on it.
Luckily the hut had a large dry bunk.



FF

SWEET I just bought one of those- a 3 man model! I KNEW I should have saved up for that Hilleberg!!!!!

I wouldn't worry too much TCP as that tent was pitched in a hurry and may not have had all its guys etc. The larger one might benefit from the extra size.
Also not 100% sure about what type of Coleman or how old.

FF

flyfisher wrote:Bit of a struggle sometimes mate.

FF

Dont give up cause I think they will be really good.
c

Brett wrote:

corvus wrote:Great Photos FF,
the cold weather must have helped my heel spur and gout as it is a lot less painful than it was at the start of the walk.
corvus

Be careful Corvus they have shoot horses with less problems than that

Thankfully I am but in horse terms a 3yo with many gallops and (dare I say ) jumps left in me for years to come
c

Very nice photos FF, looks like you guys would have had a magic time of it up there.

Nice photos FF, it's a top spot and all that snow turns it into something totally different . Looks like a challenging trip boys. We had some snow in the area end of December but nothing like that. It looks like you managed to stay on the duck boards walking back to Wild Dog Creek, how difficult was that?

looks like you managed to stay on the duck boards

It was very difficult, the boards were mostly covered and 2 board wide duckboards are very easy to miss when you can't see where to tread.

The very widely spaced track markers do not help in snowy conditions either.

FF

Looks awesome FF, hope you boys had fun!
I'm still on the big island in 28 ish degree temps - makes me super keen to get up in the good ol Tassie snow and ice this weekend! Love the winter

FF

FF

Good pics what about more
c

Some were short videos which I have been unable to post. My attempt was the text photos which you referred to earlier.
I will see if it can be done. The AULRO (landrover owners) forum has recently posted a series of videos in Tas from a recent trip.I was trying to do the same but I don't know if it's possible in this forum.
They were done through Photobucket which is the photo hosting site which I use. More on this later.I would love to show the vids of the wild weather

FF