Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

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Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby andrewbish » Thu 13 Sep, 2012 10:38 pm

I got up to Mt Clear and King Billy No 2 a few weeks back. Here is my blog post about the trip.



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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby Tortoise » Thu 13 Sep, 2012 11:17 pm

Hey Andrew - interesting trip! Sounds like you made a very good decision to go with plan B, apart from the hunters. YIKES!! Glad you made it out intact.

I was surprised you used a floorless tent in the snow. Seems it'd be hard to keep stuff dry even if you had got your CCFoam mat. What was behind that decision? We used an old Ultimate 4 person tent (pyramid) that was brilliant in snow & high winds, but had a floor and a 'tunnel' entrance, and sturdy aluminium poles, so the tent didn't sag.

Re the semi-frozen socks & boots (you fared a little better than i did years ago) - we quickly learnt to put the wet sox in a plastic bag in the foot of our sleeping bags, and our boots in a bag toe-to-toe, with our 'pillow' arranged on that. Much more comfy and safer in the morning :-)

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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby andrewbish » Fri 14 Sep, 2012 5:48 am

Hi Tortoise

I have a floored tent but it weighs 3.5kg vs 600g for my mid. I use a Tyvek bivy to keep dry. I plan to make/buy a light, floored 4-season tent some time.

Thanks for the tip re socks and boots - will try it out next time.

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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby iGBH » Sat 15 Sep, 2012 11:00 pm

Interesting read. I remember as a kid driving on the track between King Billy 2 and Mt Clear. Was a great drive - think it is a bit of a shame this is now MVO.
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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby andrewbish » Sun 16 Sep, 2012 12:37 am

iGBH wrote:Interesting read. I remember as a kid driving on the track between King Billy 2 and Mt Clear. Was a great drive - think it is a bit of a shame this is now MVO.


I don't think mgmt have been up that track in a while - lots of fallen trees on it
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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby north-north-west » Tue 18 Sep, 2012 6:20 pm

andrewbish wrote:
iGBH wrote:Interesting read. I remember as a kid driving on the track between King Billy 2 and Mt Clear. Was a great drive - think it is a bit of a shame this is now MVO.

I don't think mgmt have been up that track in a while - lots of fallen trees on it


No-one drives through there in the winter. There's been enough wind this winter to drop a lot of trees.

IGBH: It's now a nice walk. Much better.
I think it was closed to keep cars away from the creek headwaters, and the track down the ridge. Fair enough, too.
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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby andrewa » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 9:53 pm

Hunters can be scary. I remember coming across a guy carrying a rike walking along a road on the east side of Mt Baw Baw once, as my yellow lab ( looking more and more like a small deer every time I looked at her!) and I went off fly fishing for the weekend.

I'm not quite sure why they need dogs if you can quietly walk along a road and see deer!

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Re: Mt Clear & King Billy No2 Winter Trip Report

Postby CaptainC » Tue 15 Jan, 2013 8:03 pm

That valley seems extremely popular with deer hunters these days. At Easter I saw several large camps of them along Brocks Rd.
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