15
January
2009
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.
Ozgreg
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13
January
2009
Day Three, the OMG walk from Falls Creek to Mount Hotham. Boots on nice and early with the day starting out as light drizzle and fog, which became heavier drizzle and more fog, and lastly just to make the trek more special, some hail! After almost seven hours, I think everyone was very please to see our final destination, Mount Hotham Village!
I been told that the views along the way should have been jaw dropping but as you can see from the photos, we got to see a LOT of fog!
Ozgreg
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12
January
2009
Day two was certainly the easiest in terms of walking, as we basically followed the various Aqueduct’s built around Falls Creek during the early hydro-electricity schemes between the 1930’s and 1950’s. During the day we checked out some of the cattlemen’s huts, which are now used as emergency shelters for skiers since cattle has been banned from the high mountain areas back in 2006. Although the snow gum’s all look dead, they are not, and you should be able to spot plenty of signs of how the Australian bush regenerates since the area was devastated by bush fires back in 2006.
Ozgreg
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