Hopetoun

[wander]

I'm looking for any info on Hopetoun. It looks like an interesting traverse with a bit of scrub to get up each end. The only useful data found to date is a little on David Noble's site.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Check out Kevin Doran (MJD's father) 's book FEDERATION PEAK. He has a bit of info on the difficult ascent of this monster.

and there's this.

http://www.wildtiger.biz/index.php?tracknotes&id=6

[wander]

Thanks for the Brandon Lee link, will digest this later. Can't say I can find a copy of the book noted, but will look harder later this week.

I was contemplating this range as a link between from East of Picton to The Arthur Plains, but it is now clear that it is an escapade all in itself and a bit more to chew than just a link to avoid using the Eastern Arthurs as a link.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Thanks for the Brandon Lee link, will digest this later. Can't say I can find a copy of the book noted, but will look harder later this week.

I was contemplating this range as a link between from East of Picton to The Arthur Plains, but it is now clear that it is an escapade all in itself and a bit more to chew than just a link to avoid using the Eastern Arthurs as a link.

you would be much much much faster to use the eastern arthurs i would have thought. it's a small range and once on top can be traversed in one single long day.


http://www.despublish.com/Feder_synopsis.htm

[Taurë-rana]

I have been up Hopetoun from the Cracroft Junction. From what I remember it was scrub bashing through forest on the way up and back, not the worst I've been in though but I was young and fit and just had a day pack. On top it was lots of scrambling up and down over multiple peaks. We didn't all get time to reach the top so it must have been a long day.

[mjdalessa]

The only notes to it I've seen are Keith Lancasters journals, that wildtiger report and a short section in chapman's southwest book.

[Summit_Bagger]

I'm also thinking about heading down to Hopetoun at some stage in a week or two, I'm struggling to find much information about it, does anyone have much info?

any help at all would be fantastic!

[Son of a Beach]

Moved to "Tasmania" forum.

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