Brett, sthughes, pomysi, Julafreak his guest Gee and myself made a somewhat later than anticipated start from Fergy's - weather was magnificent and the views were as expected - stunning.
It took the best part of 3 hrs to get to the summit and was well worth the effort.
From this point Julafreak and myself headed on towards Hugel while the others decided(wisely) to go back via Shadow Lake.
The walk to Hugel was interesting with a thick scrub band in the deepest part of the saddle where we stumbled across an unnamed tarn with a pleasant campsite.
After the scrub the rock scree was a pleaasure and we both enjoyed the challenge as the rocks got larger the higher we went, with the going becoming quite tricky at the top.
Getting off the summit proved tricky but we finally got down and spent far longer than expected making our way through a mixture of low and very thick scrub on our way to Little Hugel.
By the time we hooked up with the track up Little Hugel we were about an hour behind schedule and decided to leave that for another day.
The trip back past Forgotten and Shadow Lakes was made at pace and we arrived back at camp around 6.
Hugel was an awesome peak and great fun to climb on a great day.
Was not looking forward to the drive to Hobart in the dark, but arrived around 8.15 without any roadkill - except about 4 million insects on my windscreen.
Cheers,sbs
But he did really well and finished running - literally, hope he is sore today 'coz I am.
We were very impressed at the level of gear that you had acquired. Maybe a warmer top next time though I bet you appreciated the rain coat to block the wind on Mount Rufus though the more insulated of us managed just fine in T-shirts and lightweight shirts 
