After last Fridays big dump of snow I decided to head up to Mushroom Rocks in Baw Baw NP to check it out covered in the white stuff. Their was a little more snow than I anticipated though, well before reaching the small town of Erica I was driving past snow in the paddocks. As it turned out I had to park after only getting around 1 kilometre up Mt Erica Road, this was due to tree falls mainly but the deep snow would have stopped me eventually anyway.
The walk up through the fresh snow on Mt Erica Road was actually really nice, a real winter wonderland kind of scene. By the time I got up to the Mt Erica Car Park the snow was almost knee deep. The track from the car park to Mushroom Rocks was fairly hard going (for an old bloke!) apart from wading through the ever deepening snow I had to tunnel underneath a few sections of snow covered trees that were basically forming a snow covered canopy over the track.
It took me around 4 hours to get up to Mushroom Rocks and according to the GPS I walked just over 8 kilometres on the climb (yeah, I'd parked a long way down Mt Erica Road). The sun appeared while I ate my lunch at Mushroom Rocks so the walk back down was almost as slow, although that was mainly due to me stopping to take photos. Over all I climbed 559m and walked 16.1 kilometres for the day, all in all a good day out really. As usual I've done a post on my blog if anyone wants to check out some more photos, http://goinferalonedayatatime.blogspot. ... -park.html