Trail distance needed at Mt Stirling

[David M]

Can someone please tell me the distance from Telegraph Box Junction to Bluff Spur Memorial Hut along the Bluff Spur Trail? Thanks.

[neilmny]

About 4.3 km and pretty much all up hill.

[David M]

Thanks. Roughly how steep is it? Would you say moderate?

[neilmny]

Thanks. Roughly how steep is it? Would you say moderate?

Not sure how to rate by terms such as moderate, it a fairly personal perception as to how hard a walk is.
It's an ascent of about 380 metres from TBJ to Bluff Spur Hut so a little under 9% on average.
The summit is about another 100 metres higher and less than a kilometer away.
Bluff Spur trail varies in steepness but has very little flat or descent.

[Franco]

David,
Take a look at this blog :
http://trailsandtracks.blogspot.com.au/ ... s-hut.html
the trail is pretty much like that all the way.
Some minor "steepish" bits but it is a 4 wheel drive track , nothing too steep or dangerous

[paidal_chalne_vala]

The Bluff spur trail is a graded track for summer 4 wd Tonka toys. I go up there at least twice every winter. With a full overnight pack in snow shoes you will be sweating no matter how cold it is.
It is nothing like the NW spur of Mt Feathertop or the Staircase on Mt Bogong or the Western ridge of Mt Howitt. They are properly steep ascents.

[neilmny]

The summer 4WD access reference on the Bluff Spur trail is not correct PCV.
4WD vehicles cannot access the Bluff Spur trail or any Stirling resort trail at any time of year.
The trails for the Striling resort area are closed all year and the only vehicles permitted on them are maintenance vehicles.
The track, between GGS, or more accurately the gate a little south of GGS Hut, to Craigs Hut, is an open 4WD track that is closed for winter. The roads in the area that are for general traffic, such as Circuit road and the one that passes over near the summit, are not closed and gated resort trails but some are closed for the winter.