RossageRoll wrote:Hello fellow bushwalkers!
We are thinking about doing frenchmans and walking back out to the highway via the irenabyss but am wondering about how best to minimise scrub bashing and what the water situation is like between the Franklin river and the road. I've never used a yabbie tube before and avoiding it would be great if possible (i'll use one if i have to of course:))
Thanks
Thylaseen wrote:... lost the old road on the way down and ended up scrub bashing to pick it up again.
RossageRoll wrote:Found the track out of the irenabyss ok and had no issues finding the track/route until the last mini-ridge coming into mary ck where we completely lost the track and didn't find it until the base of flat bluff the next day
The debate i reckon is: should you just smash through the plain or go around on the eastern ridge?
RedQuinn wrote:Thanks all for the info. Considerig doing Frenchmans and Irenabyss in April as a replacement for the W Arthurs if the area there is still closed. Re the crossing of the river at Irenabyss. How do people negotiate this and get their packs across? One of our party is prepared to swim, nude, with a rope and somehow make a line to lift the rest of the packs across. Is this feasible from your experience?
RedQuinn wrote:Thanks all for the info. Considerig doing Frenchmans and Irenabyss in April as a replacement for the W Arthurs if the area there is still closed. Re the crossing of the river at Irenabyss. How do people negotiate this and get their packs across? One of our party is prepared to swim, nude, with a rope and somehow make a line to lift the rest of the packs across. Is this feasible from your experience?
danman wrote:If you were to go the other way... ie. starting at Nelson Falls, where do you head in?
I noticed a few hundred metres up the road from Nelson's there's an old farm gate and fallen down bridge. Is this where the old 4x4 track starts from?
Diin0z wrote:Does anyone have a current GPX file of the trail that they are prepared to share? Hoping to complete this first week in February 2021.
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