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spring on King William 1

Postby tigercat » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 9:50 am

A stunning sunny spring day on KW1 and Milligan. I got geographically :lol: and scrubbily challenged contouring to avoid snow drifts and ran out of time for Pit. A really fine day walk. I may have been following the remnants of Bigbird's footsteps in the snow.
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KW1
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Gell, food for thought
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Frenchmans Cap behind Milligan and Pit
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Milligan
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby tigercat » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 9:59 am

KW1, Milligan and Pit from the Queenstown Highway.
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby gayet » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 10:05 am

I need more free time!

Or perhaps I just need to organise myself better.....

Lovely day for it.
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby biggbird » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 5:22 pm

Awesome shots of a great walk! Somehow I think that our footprints had probably been destroyed by then, and besides, the prints from my last trip wouldn't have taken you all the way to the top anyhow ;) Tried again a couple of weekends ago and turned back about 500m from the summit due to deep drifts of snow, wind and falling snow. Disappointing, as I would have loved to have seen it from the top with a good covering of snow, but such is life in Tassie in winter I fear!

Glad to see you got to the top :) One more off the list!
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby tibboh » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 5:40 pm

Nice photos C, looks like a good day in the office, I'm jealous :D
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby tigercat » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 6:51 pm

Have you been to the summit of KW1 yet Bigbird?
I also went to Little Hugel the next day, snow meant I would not even contemplate the full Hugel.
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby biggbird » Thu 05 Sep, 2013 8:03 pm

Sure have, went a few weeks before my second attempt on a lovely day. Got out to Milligans and Pitt too which was nice!
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby stepbystep » Fri 06 Sep, 2013 8:52 am

Great shots tiger! Had some amazing weather recently. I actually got sunburnt on my recent trot.
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Re: spring on King William 1

Postby tigercat » Fri 06 Sep, 2013 10:57 am

Thanks SBS. Were you on Frenchmans Cap ? Yes, wonderful weather window and now the cold fronts return,
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