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ILUVSWTAS
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King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:24 am

A great walk to the King William Range which included 2 days of sun, 2 days of amazingly strong wind, snow hail and rain and some of the worst scrub imaginable.....
Also some easy ridge top walking and some cliff traversing, a great night at a lovely little hut, and some amazingly strong alcohol aptly named RAMPAGE!!!!
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Pack inspection
Hobhouse And KW Lakes.JPG
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:27 am

more.
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Prince of wales range
Prince Of Wales From KWIII.JPG
POW from KWIII
Camping On The KW Range.JPG
Camp at 1200mtrs on the King William range
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:29 am

more..
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KWII
Traversing The KW Range.JPG
Traversing Cliffs
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:31 am

more...
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KW From Lake Rufus.JPG
Morning light from lake Rufus
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The Canoe launch
Sunlight On Peaks From Lake Rufus.JPG
Sunlit KW peaks
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:39 am

Great pics and looks like a great walk! Love the last pic especially - very atmospheric and moody. Can you give a summary of the route taken?

Cheers,
Alliecat
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:41 am

WOW, great photos ILUVSWTAS!

Looks like you had a wonderful journey.....some really interesting weather in some of those photos too........keep it up!
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 10:56 am

Was waiting on this post....great stuff, hope I get there one day :D
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 12:35 pm

Is that Diamond Peak on the skyline in one of those photos?

K.
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 12:36 pm

Sure is! The "jewel" of the southwest!
We will be there in around 3 months time :)
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 12:53 pm

Someone has already requested your route details, but it appears you started from the Butler Gorge (packhauling??) and headed onto the southern block with KW2 & KW3 on it.
You didn't traverse the Northern block?
One presumes that if that was the case the scrub was on the ascent up from Lake Rufus?

And the canoe (kayak?) was for the walk or just for novelty?
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 1:04 pm

The canoe was at Lake Rufus hut and had a sizeable hole in it....
Didnt traverse the Northern block due to the Snow/whiteout conditions and winds that had most of our tents flattened during the night (except the Minarets of course) walking was even difficult in the wind with the smaller guys getting literally knocked flat on the ground. So we decided to depart the range and leave Slatters peak for another day..... the first 2 days however were in ideal conditions.

The following morning at lake Rufus (800mtr elevartion) we even had snow on the ground.
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Re: King William Range

Mon 26 Oct, 2009 4:26 pm

that last shot is pretty cool. looks cold! hard to believe when im down here enjoying the warmer weather around at the moment..
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Re: King William Range

Tue 27 Oct, 2009 10:14 am

Here are two action shots as we picked our way around the cliffs above the south western end of Lake Rufus.
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Above Lake Rufus
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Heading for the only break in the cliff line
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Re: King William Range

Tue 27 Oct, 2009 10:29 am

Glad no one went for a tumble... I wonder if we'd have gone that way if we had known about the low-side cliffs?
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Re: King William Range

Tue 27 Oct, 2009 1:43 pm

On past experience: "we go anywhere".
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Re: King William Range

Wed 28 Oct, 2009 8:16 am

I thought the motto was "anything, anytime"?
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Re: King William Range

Wed 28 Oct, 2009 4:44 pm

Wow sounds like the Goodies have hit town :lol:
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Re: King William Range

Wed 28 Oct, 2009 7:25 pm

Wow!! not for me now, looks too much like easium falloffium which leads to getting hurt or dead :lol:
Nice pics though.
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Re: King William Range

Wed 28 Oct, 2009 7:32 pm

Yup sure was! Biggus Cliffus! And sukus leechus were a plenty too! Within an hour of walking Ollster took his gaitor off to find about 6 crawling about under there...
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Re: King William Range

Wed 28 Oct, 2009 9:48 pm

ILUVSWTAS wrote:Yup sure was! Biggus Cliffus! And sukus leechus were a plenty too! Within an hour of walking Ollster took his gaitor off to find about 6 crawling about under there...


There were 6 on my LEFT leg. Another 4-5 on my right...

I tucked my trousers into my socks after that, old man cycle commuter style! ;-)
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Re: King William Range

Thu 29 Oct, 2009 7:46 am

All that pure living you lead has given you desirable blood!

either that or leeches like rampage....
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