Overland Track - July 2009

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Overland Track - July 2009

Postby DaveNoble » Tue 28 Jul, 2009 9:03 pm

Hi

Photos of a recent trip along the Overland Track are online via this menu page -

http://www.david-noble.net/Tasmania/Res ... /Menu.html

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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby tasadam » Tue 28 Jul, 2009 9:55 pm

That's a lot of great photos as usual Dave.
A fantastic pictorial account of much of what you will see during a winter traverse.
I went in to Pelion Hut for a few days the weekend just gone and it rained Friday night a fair bit, and Saturday night a LOT. We thought about Oakleigh as well, but the torrent that was the Arm River track on the way in suggested what you found in that creek crossing.
Good to see you made it up Pelion East - We tried on Friday but couldn't get up the rocks on the chimney, they were covered in ice and it was WAY dangerous, so instead we sidled round to the east side. Then it snowed on us.
That Windy Bert hut looks like it would be cold - all that head space, the heat would go straight up and stay there, no wonder it is hard to heat.
Yes those "pink things" on the rocks are either a fungus or a lichen, if I think of it when I locate my book I will attempt to identify them, they are quite common.
One thing, do you think 22 degrees is a little excessive? :wink:

We went up the Douglas Creek to those falls as well, they were a lot fuller for us.

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No swimming? Gee, why not?
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Phil » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 9:50 am

Fantastic photos Dave, I thoroughly enjoyed the gallery, looks like you guys had a great time!
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Nuts » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 10:32 am

*Nice set of photos Dave, I really like some of the ice shots.
*Are those snowshoes or toboggins? :D
*WR/BN Hut actually does warm up quite easily after a slow start, it does retain some of the heat during the night also (just).
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Son of a Beach » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 10:39 am

Nuts wrote:WR/BN Hut actually does warm up quite easily after a slow start, it does retain some of the heat during the night also (just).


It's quite a hike from the kitchen to the bunk rooms too, which keeps you in training for the next day's walking.
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Mickeymoo » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 11:25 am

Fantastic stuff as usual Dave, very enjoyable to have a browse through.
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby kanangra » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 11:37 am

Dave,

I really enjoyed your photos as usual. Great depth of colour. I also agree that the guy from Widerness Tours is excellent.

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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby DaveNoble » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 6:06 pm

tasadam wrote:One thing, do you think 22 degrees is a little excessive? :wink:

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Yes - have to agree. I think we went a bit overboard at our first coal supplied hut. And I hadn't used brown coal before. The brickets were in good condition and left nice air gaps - so they burnt really strongly. And the flu must have drawn really well.

In contrast - at Pine Valley - the flu did not draw at all well on one of the days - and it took a few goes to get the fire going. I used a few short bits of bike inner tube as fire starters - they normally burn well, but in that stove they just went out. A full broadsheet page of newspaper (Sydney Morning Herald no less) went out as well! Once going - we used the stove to dry out a lot more kindling size firewood for the next time. It was quite a windy day however. Next time we lit the stove it went fine.

The Echo point stove is good - and we lit it well - but it ever got really hot - but it is a small hut - and it was quite warm.

The huts with the gas stoves never seemed to get hotter than 13 degrees - but that was fine, and it was warmer near the stove - and they did seem good for drying wet socks and boots.

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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Crum » Wed 29 Jul, 2009 10:12 pm

Great photos there. Some of those ice ones are really interesting. Would actually love to do this walk at some stage
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Re: Overland Track - July 2009

Postby Robbo » Thu 30 Jul, 2009 5:04 pm

Thanks, Dave

Excellent photos, and inspirational in that I am again enthused to do this walk in winter.

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