we hauled water from Camp Creek past the saddle and up onto the Viking - a great campsite off to the south.
BTW, there is now a rope in the hole on the climb up the Viking - although the reason why escapes me. It's much easier (and faster) to climb around and over the log (on the true right).
It's a wilderness area - just sayin'Lophophaps wrote:Might there be a case for such places to have tanks?
I found it fairly easy using the rope, but haven't tried not using it.
What's your planned route up out of the Wonnangatta, Drew? If you want detailed info on campsite, track conditions, alternatives to Zeka Track, pm me.
Might there be a case for such places to have tanks?
IMO that's not wilderness - just because it's marketed as wilderness doesn't make it so. It was wilderness decades ago but that's well gone now - you have to duck the choppers ferrying out in the food and ferrying out the poo (hopefully in that order )Lophophaps wrote:8-9000 people a year, a major track, many side tracks, and huts
I've been up two different spurs upstream and down one (down is definitely easier). This trip went up the spur a bit over a km upstream - carried 5L up to a dry camp at the top - hard work but great fun.Drew wrote: I'm curious about the one that starts further upstream too. Have you done that one?
Just confirming, as of 26 Apr, Viking Saddle is dry - no water at the usually reliable point (1070m contour, down the NE side) nor a bit further down at the base of the 20m drop.
There was, however, good water at Camp Creek and Mac Springs - a normal flow rate for this time of year.
We're heading up on Friday. Unless we hear otherwise I think we'll have to assume it's dry and carry water from Camp Creek, but of course we'd rather not! Hoping to camp near Viking summit, so a top up at the saddle would be handy. 150mm in April and 110mm in May (at Buller) - surely that's enough to replenish the spring?
Was expecting navigational challenge from Viking Sth onwards, end of dry months many have pushed through so easily tracked
Knee high scrub from off viking sth, followed cliff line, good map-to-ground features and foot pad. Pink tape everywhere towards the bottom, so just took a bearing and walked tree to tree. Scrub bash up unnamed spur, plenty sambar tracks towards top.beats Zeka spur track.
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