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Great Alpine Walk – Day Six

Ozgreg — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:48:22 +0000

Day Six, last Day of walking holiday before our return back to Melbourne on Day 7 Today’s gentle walking was around the Harrietville / Bright Area which is well known for it’s gold mining back during the early part of the 1930’s. (You will see in the photos, plenty of left over mining activities, with plenty of sluices, tailings, mines and shafts.) Our walk also took us along the Oven River, which I have been told, during autumn is not to be missed due to all the colours of the autumn leaves. The Oven’s river looked inviting, maybe next time I will take a tube and float down the river like we saw a number of people doing..

Great Alpine Walk – Day Five

Ozgreg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:00:55 +0000

Day 5, up to Mt Feathertop we go! Mt Feathertop is Victoria’s second highest mountain only being beaten by Mt Bogong, which stands another 64 meters taller. The trip up to Feathertop has some spectacular view, at times it was hard to concentrate walking along Razorback Ridge with such spectacular views! After taking in the views at Mt Feathertop it was off to complete the three hour very long descent down to Harrietville .

Great Alpine Walk – Day Four

Ozgreg — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:23:39 +0000

Day Four, the sun was shining again, so out came the sunblock and off came the layers, which was so different from yesterday’s weather! Today we started from Mt Hotham on our way back towards Dinner Plains, stopping for a break then taking a sharp climb up to Mount Tabletop to take in the views. Although this was a long walk, it was mostly a gentle grade giving us plenty of time to take in the views of snowgums, more cattle huts, abandoned cattle yards and mountain jaw dropping views.