Mountain Walks – 2015

Tasmania

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SW Tasmania – Mount Field National Park – 6-9 March 2015

We squeezed in 2 day-walks and 2 short walks between presentations in Melbourne and Hobart.

Russell Falls and Big Trees Short Walks:

Amidst the Swamp Gums ...
... Euc. regnans,
very tall ...
... rainforest-like,
buttressed ...
... and be-mossed
With garden gnomes,
well, pademelons ...
... so-called because
they're melons with feet
Dicksonia antarctica
Russell Falls
Why they called
them man-ferns
Horseshoe Falls
Always offer to
take a photo ...
... for the nice couple
who are there
at the same time

Tarn Shelf

This is the best of the three day-walks within the Park. Here's someone else's notes and map. He says "15.3 kms and 582 metres". Another source erroneously (and somewhat dangerously) said 12.3km. In the very wet, very windy, and 100m-visibility conditions we had, my estimate was 600m and 18km. A great walk, even so.

Knights who say 'Yi!',
on the Urquhart Track ...
... just above
Lake Dobson
Trunks,
low-altitude
but which Euc.?
Trunks,
high-altitude
Euc. coccifera ...
... aka Snow Gum
in Tasmania only
Richea pandanifolia,
with a 'view'
The Shelf, and 300m
drop to Lake Seal
E. coccifera, at
1200m, amidst tarns
Windswept, wet,
low vegetation
With emergent
autumn colours
Brief respite, in the
lee of a low-lying tarn
Lunch in the
Lake Newdegate hut
Why they're called
'coccifera'/cochineal
Twilight Tarn,
latish afternoon
Unintended
Impressionism
An easy part
of the track

Mt Eliza (50km SW)

A good unsealed road leads out to two of the dams that enabled the flooding of the original Lake Pedder.
Mt Eliza is a shorter walk and somewhat lower than Mt Ann behind it. About 750m to the hut or 950m to Mt Eliza itself, but a very direct walk, and hence relatively short and a little lung-and-leg-bursting.

Starting out
The first leg is the
hill on the right
First view back ...
... over the (enlarged)
Lake Pedder
Driving on up
the very direct path
Nearing the top
of the first leg
On the second leg,
with Button-Grass
The best third of
the panorama
View from the hut,
200m below the peak,
100m below the cloud
Another 25km West,
showing some of the Arthurs

Mt Wellington

A short walk on the peak above Hobart.

South-east over
peninsulas and islands
Amidst dolerite
boulders
With an effortlessly
soaring ...
Wedgetailed Eagle
for company

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Contact: Linda or Roger

Created: 15 March 2015; Last Amended: 16 March 2015