Overlandman wrote:Can he have a steak and spa at Cradle?
Read where his air mattress has a leak and needs to be blown up regularly.
MrWalker wrote:will need to camp just outside the park, since he won't make waterfall Valley tonight.
Warin wrote:MrWalker wrote:will need to camp just outside the park, since he won't make waterfall Valley tonight.
Humm looking at the Cradle Mt-Lake St Clair National Park boundary .. it is actually quite close to Pencil Pine Creek ... the western side is 'Reynolds Falls Nature Recreation Area' ... He has stopped well outside the NP .. but still a fair hike to Waterfall Valley! About 6km to get to the very start of the OLT.
north-north-west wrote:The rivers will be higher and faster and much more dangerous. How much white water experience does he have?
ILUVSWTAS wrote:I'm heading off to do the OT tomorrow and am hoping to pass him on the way and simply say gday mate, you go. You just keep on going!
ILUVSWTAS wrote:I'm heading off to do the OT tomorrow and am hoping to pass him on the way and simply say gday mate, you go. You just keep on going!
ILUVSWTAS wrote:Seems to me people here want him to stop ? Why do you want him to stop??
I don't know Louis at all but the person I see from his online posts will not stop. He will ration the food he has and go on. Even if it means not eating for a day or 2.
I'm heading off to do the OT tomorrow and am hoping to pass him on the way and simply say gday mate, you go. You just keep on going!
Warin wrote:Off at 10.08.. see what you mean about late starts.
That does not leave much time to climb Cradle and get to Waterfall Valley...
jmac wrote: I expressed upon him in the strongest possible terms not to attempt the Gordon Gorge, but he remains very keen to look at it. He wants to ascend the southern KWs from the gap, traverse south and drop off towards the air strip, then work his way towards Gordon Vale and the Gorge. He remembers some of that line from last time. He knows the Gordon can possibly be paddled from about Gell River junction down, with an interminable number of logs to negotiate. I proposed two routes to him; 1) I showed him the traverse from Gell River via the Spires, Shining/Conical/Pokana to L Gordon, in an attempt to dissuade him from considering the Gorge, and 2) the clear ridge from the low northern end of the Stepped Hills down to Boyes Basin for a similar result.
He tried to find a paddler willing to do the Gordon Gorge with him. There was no acceptance at the time he departed. He was still indicating that he wants to at least enter it's top end and look at it; although I advised him that escape routes from it are few and difficult.
Overlandman wrote:He has summited Cradle Mountain and maybe overnighting at Kitchen Hut.
Edit. Heading towards Waterfall Valley.
MrWalker wrote:He couldn't stay in Kitchen Hut because you can only use that in an emergency. And this is clearly not an emergency because he didn't need to spend three hours climbing Cradle Mt.
bushwalker zane wrote:
MrWalker wrote:He couldn't stay in Kitchen Hut because you can only use that in an emergency. And this is clearly not an emergency because he didn't need to spend three hours climbing Cradle Mt.
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