Richmond Range Walk
Day 4 - Side trip to Mt Starveall
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Above - Albert walking up Hacket Ck

Above - Red Beech leaves




Above - ferns


Above - a huge area had been devastated by a windstorm - DOC worked had
been through with chainsaws and cut a new track

Above - Beech tree buttress roots

Above - Staveall Hut - on the bushline

Above - stunted Mountain Beech on the bushline

Above - Edelweiss

Above - it was an easy ridge up from the hut to the peak

Above - Vegetable sheep and the Hacket Peaks

Above - Vegetable sheep

Above - View from the summit of Mt Starveall

Above - Me on the summit of Mt Starveall

Above - looking north


Above - a small stunted pine

Above - tussocks


Above - Vegetable sheep

Above - Vegetable sheep

Above - Vegetable sheep

Above - Looking back down the ascent ridge

Above - Mountain Beech

Above - Red Beech leaves


Above - Lichen

Above - Forest

Above - Lichen

Above - Forest

Above - Buttress roots

Above - Ferns


Above - a small creek


Above - a juvenile Lancewood
Continue to Day 5 - Hacket Hut to Rocks Hut via
Totara Saddle
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