February Plains

[RobinRedbreast]

Am planning a walk in this area soon but not sure if it is feasible to do a one way walk in 2 days from the northern end of the plains to the south, walking out via Arm River track leaving a car at either end?. Can anyone give me advice about what is the terrain like, and are there any decent campsites around the halfway mark? Thanks in advance.

[Ent]

Are you planning to start at the Basil Steers Hut and drop down to the Warragal Creek? This should give you the clearest run. Be interested as you go as this is on my to do list.

I believe that Basil Steers used this route as huts are at either end.

[RobinRedbreast]

We have just returned from there this evening. Due to the poor weather forecast, we decided just to walk to the northern huts this weekend and walked out as the snow started to fall. We stayed last night in Hut 2 and there were several entries in the logbook from people who have walked north to south or vice versa. It sounds like there might be campsites near Lake How. We have certainly added it to our ToDo List to do when the weather is more settled. It sounds like it can get very foggy and snowy up there.

[ILUVSWTAS]

It sounds like it can get very foggy and snowy up there.

Funny, I was just listening to the ABC's CHARACTER OF THE HIGHLANDS IN TASMANIA and they mentioned this area and the folk who hunted up here and built the huts. It's got me very interested.

And chance of PM'ing me with the location of the huts?? I know roughly where smurf hut is......

[Ent]

Hi

On the weekend we walked from the start of February Plains through to Lake Steers. It was rather damp underfoot but apart from that with some careful scrub dodging very easy to get around. It was rather cold at minus ten.

It is a good place to practice navigation but a GPS is handy.

Cheers