Dreamer wrote:Happy trails bigkev. I plan to get started mid Nov, might catch you on the trail between Hotham & Thredbo (or in a bar at Thredbo!). Heads up...a group raising money for Cathy Freeman Foundation has started south-to-north and encounted up to waist deep snow (maybe up to 800mm) in parts on first days out (on October 14th), although that's probably only for relatively short sections. See updates and photo here: https://www.facebook.com/OneStepataTime2017/
AWTtrekker wrote:Hey mate, are you going solo? We are heading off from Walhalla only a couple of days after you. How many days are you walking the track over? We may end up crossing paths
anne3 wrote:Good luck! I've guesstimated that our paths might cross around the NSW boarder. Hope all goes well for you (and me). Catch you out there, Anne.
walkon wrote:Good luck Kev, Anne, trekker and anyone else going for a long stroll.
Enjoy the walk peeps it's a beautiful journey. I'm getting itchy feet just thinking of it.
You don't have to be great to start. Though you have to start to be great.
ofuros wrote:Have a great trip, bk.
peregrinator wrote:Judging by your many previous informative posts/blogs (on walks here, there and everywhere), I am eagerly anticipating updates about this latest expedition. Whether it goes well, not so well or perhaps both, I'm sure they will be excellent reading. Good luck and successful staggering!
neilmny wrote:Good luck Kev. I'm ready looking forward to your goin' feral write up.
Safe travels to all in the class of 17.
Lophophaps wrote:Kev and AWT Trekker, the timing looks good in that the creeks will be more likely to be working, such as at Magdala and Viking Saddle. By the time you reach the Bogong High Plains the snow will hopefully be gone, and at KNP there should just be drifts. Please note that the first 596 kilometres is the hardest. Think about the log book entry at Cascade Hut, northbound, day 13. A slower pace as befits my advanced age seems best.
AWTtrekker wrote:I suspect you'll be just ahead of us the whole way Kev. We will be at Hotham on the 8th and Thredbo on the 26th, but if you get delayed at all or have any dramas we won't be too far behind you We are a group of three, my father and myself(I'm female despite what many here have mistakenly thought LOL) and another gentleman.
Xplora wrote:Well done Kev. Big River is dropping so the you may be good to get up T spur. Currently 1.3m at Joker. Normal summer level is 1m there which means the T spur cross is good. I work on 1.2m at Joker to be passable at T spur. Hoping the chain is still in place and any report will be welcomed. I can pass on directly to PV any problems that concern them from where you are until you cross the border.
Lophophaps wrote:Kev, the trip sounds interesting so far. On your Viking day, where did you start? I did Johnies to SOBO 11 months ago and it was a generally easy to follow, with a few trees across the track north of the tank here and there. The last 2-300 metres distance to the creek is quite steep, and I lost the route on the creek flats just before the spur. The section to west of Buenba Hut site, 815374, is track on-off quite a bit. From Buenba Hut site it may be easier going east along the track instead of SE across the plain. The latter involves hitting the track end on, and it's a bit boggy.
I had lunch at about 1200 metres on the Johnnies Top Spur, reasonably flat, athough I cannot recall a clearing. It should be possible to camp there. The 1200 metre lunch was the first decent flat spot that I could find above the creek, and I really wanted to get a few contours over before eating. Note that the climb from the Benambra Road to Johnnies Top is 900 metres and 15 kilometres, a fair step. I went Johnnies Top to the Mitta Mitta River in a day, but this was mostly downhill. This is why I like camping on summits - the next day starts downhill. My best effort was Bogong: 18 metres up, some 1200 metres down.
Mark F wrote:I also did it SOBO a few years ago after a very wet winter. Like Lophophaps the section at the bottom where one left the ridge was very vague and the high water level added to the problems. I ended up camping about 10m up from the river on the ridge, rather rocky but managed to find a poor site and get the tent up. The climb was pretty straight forward, steep and on the ridge for the first part and then climbing more gently across the slope as I rose towards Johnnies Top. I expect descending it would be important not to drop too far down before ending up on the crest of the ridge. I would tend to either camp at the tank on Johnnies Top or a km or more past the bottom of the ridge.
bigkev wrote:What's the go with the long ridge running down off Johnnies Top? I was thinking of topping up my water at the tank and then heading down the ridge to camp, somewhere before it drops off steeply down to Buenba Creek. Am I likely to find a small, flatish opening on the top half of the ridge?
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