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Party - Rob Hynes, Alex Debono, Dave Noble
Day 1
- Bus from Hobart to Lake St Clair - arriving there about
lunchtime. We walked up the Cuvier Valley to Lake Petrarch - and
camped at the lake.
Above - Alex in the Cuview Valley
Above - At Lake Petrarch it was possible to walk a long way out into
the lake in shallow water. At this part of the lake there is a really
nice campsite.
Above - sand ripples
Above - Mt Olympus from Lake Petrarch at dusk.
Day 2 - In the morning we went on a daywalk up Mt Olympus - traversing part of the plateau. Back to Lake Petrarch for lunch. After lunch as we walked to Byron Gap it started raining heavily (this was the only real rain of the trip) - so we canceled plans for a climb up Mt Byron. We continued on to Narcissus and then camped near the turn off to the Pine Valley track.
Above - Alex and Rob on the summit of Mt Olympus
Above - View north from Mt Olympus
Day 3
- Walked up to Pine Valley and climbed on to the Acropolis
Plateau for an early camp. We climbed up the Acropolis in the
afternoon.
Above - Alex on the true summit of the Acropolis
Above - Acropolis pinnacle with the Geryon behind
Day 4 -
Back down to Pine Valley - then up to the Labyrinth to
camp at Lake Elysia. In the afternoon, Rob and Alex climbed Walled Mt
(I was suffering from a cold). The usual large number of ants were
present in the Labyrinth - and this time even the islands in the lake
were covered in ants!
Above - rocks and reflections, the Labyrinth
Above - Labyrinth lake and the Acropolis behind
Above - Dusk - the Acropolis
Above - Dusk - The Geryon
Above - Dusk - The Geryon
Above - Dawn, The Geryon from our campsite
Above - Lake Elysia
Day 5
- Perfect fine weather - climbed Mt Hyperion and the north
peak of the Geryon and went over Big Gun Pass to camp on Mt Massif.
On the Geryon we met up with some police search and rescue personnel
searching for a missing girl. We had a nice sunset from Mt Massif.
Above - mist - the Labyrinth
Above - mist - The Geryon
Above - pineapple grass - Du Cane tops
Above - search and rescue chopper over the Geryon
Above - View from the Geryon north peak.
Above - our next objective - Big Gun Pass and Mt Massif
Above - Looking back from the Du Cane tops - the pinnacle ridge of
the Acropolis with a party near the summit
Above - tarn above Big Gun Pass
Continue to Page 2 - Mt Massif
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