Tasmania - Traverse of the King William Range, Spires and Prince of
Wales Range - Jan - Feb 1977
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Section 2 - Windy Lake - Mt Curly - The Spires - Denison River
We had been out 5 days so far - traversing the King William Range. Our last camp had
been on the Gell River. We spent the morning of the sixth day climbing
Permabulator Ridge.
Above - View from Perambulator Ridge loking towards Mt Curly and Lake
Curly
Above - Looking west towards the Spires
Above - Conical Peak and Windy Lake. We picked up our first airdrop
from the ridge above the lake
Above - Ian with one of the three airdrop bags strapped on his pack -
at the Windy Lake campsite. The weather deteriorated fast - so we spent
the afternoon in the tents.
The next day we were again stormbound. The day after that - the weather
started off bad - but it improved enough for us to head out on a side
trip to Lake Curly and Mt Curly
Above - Looking down to Lake Curly
Above - Ian on the beautiful beach of Lake Curly
Above - Looking up at our next objective - Mt Curly
Above - The peak had two summits - we were not sure which was highest -
so we climbed them both
We got back to Windy Lake for lunch - and then packed up and headed off
for the Spires
Above - Ian climbing up onto Conical Mountain
Above - Ian on top of Conical Mountain. Lookingtowards Lake Curly and
Mt Curly and on the far left - Wylds Crag and on the far right - the
peaks of the Denison Range
Above - Looking towards the Spires
Above - Ian on the misty tops
Above - Ian on the ridge to Shining Mountain
Above - Peter and Ian on Shining Mountain looking towards the Spires
Above - Our next campsite at the Font - a beautiful small lake in the
Spires
It was a nice place - but we spent the next two days in the tents -
stormbound
Above - Dawn from the Font - the weather was improving
Above - Peter looking back down to the Font. The two tents can be seen
to the right of the lake
Above - This colorful streak on the rock is called the "Flame"
Above - Peter looking back down to the Font
Above - Ian and Peter on the tops of the Spires. We did a long daywalk
south over False Dome, The Camel and the White Pyramid to Southern Cone
Above - Ian on the tops
Above - looking back
Above - The White Pyramid
Above - looking back (north) from the White Pyramid
Above - Looking south to Southern Cone
Above - Looking north from Southern Cone.
Above - Dave on the summit of Southern Cone. We reached the summit at
3:30pm and got back to the Font at 7:30pm. It had been a great daywalk
through truly magnificent country - involving routefinding and
scrambling and some scrub
The next day - we headed off and followed leads to the Denison River.
Above - Peter in rainforest on the banks of the Denison River - where
we camped.
Continue to next section - The Prince of
Wales Range
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