north-north-west wrote:Accommodation for the workers was extensive, much of it built on the seismic station access road - the sites are still obvious now.
bauera wrote:However it does appear from the 1979 Wedge that McKays Track may have continued north past the Coronets and Sentinel Range to the new Strathgordon Road.
tas-man wrote:LISTmap aerial photos ... dated 9th March 1971 when the impoundment was already starting to fill.
guyburns wrote:bauera wrote:However it does appear from the 1979 Wedge that McKays Track may have continued north past the Coronets and Sentinel Range to the new Strathgordon Road.
Info from Peter Sim's Lake Pedder book (p118), paraphrased:
The Scenery Preservation Board approved a new access track to be cut in to Lake Pedder from the Hydro's Gordon Road by the Hobart Walking Club… The decision was made at a meeting on 11 August 1967… The marking of this new track was undertaken by HWC members, including Frank Morley, who said after it was completed that it was "well marked"… It crossed the Sentinels over a low pass and after about a two-hour walk there was a "good vantage point" that enabled a view of the lake. The new walk took about 4 hours.
north-north-west wrote:Nice, icefest.
Part of the old route up Secheron from the real lake is still there, too; not the pad, but cairns that are older than I am. Amazing how long such traces persist.
icefest wrote:north-north-west wrote:Nice, icefest.
Part of the old route up Secheron from the real lake is still there, too; not the pad, but cairns that are older than I am. Amazing how long such traces persist.
Don't get me started on Secheron. That northeastern route should be illegal.
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