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Tasmania specific bushwalking discussion. Please avoid publishing details of access to sensitive areas with no tracks.Track to Potato Fields
Sat 28 Mar, 2009 9:02 pm
I have a bit of a query here.
Today my mate and I did a walk from The Springs to Wellington Falls. On the map we see that there is supposed to be a track from the Potato Fields to Mount South Wellington (where you then go down the Icehouse).
We tried to find it from the Potato Field end but to no avail.
So does anyone know if it actually exists?
Much thanks
Today my mate and I did a walk from The Springs to Wellington Falls. On the map we see that there is supposed to be a track from the Potato Fields to Mount South Wellington (where you then go down the Icehouse).
We tried to find it from the Potato Field end but to no avail.
So does anyone know if it actually exists?
Much thanks
Re: Track to Potato Fields
Thu 02 Apr, 2009 3:14 pm
You may find the start of this pad by walking to the very end (Wellington Falls side) of the potato field and following the edge of the rock scree (about half way up) to where the vegetation becomes lower.
Re: Track to Potato Fields
Fri 24 Apr, 2009 5:56 pm
Thanks for your kind reply SueOfTheSouth.
What Kev and I ended up doing was to come in from the top of the Devil's Gulch [hence up the Icehouse] and then down to the Potato Fields [entered between two cairns ].
We did have the odd problem after where the decent began [red dots and cairns] of the lack of markers and found that the track might have been originally tagged from the bottom up. Orange ribbons are quite faded and hard to see. And the same for the dual colour black-pink as well.
The latest Wellington Park Recreation Map has this track marked in, whereas older such maps have it missing. I wonder if this track is meant to become a feature or not. If so I think it needs better marking after you cross the narrow boulder field coming down. Up the top someone has been generous with pink ribbon and it looks like they might have ran out.
Are there any regulations about adding markers to help the next chap?
Cheers Muka
What Kev and I ended up doing was to come in from the top of the Devil's Gulch [hence up the Icehouse] and then down to the Potato Fields [entered between two cairns ].
We did have the odd problem after where the decent began [red dots and cairns] of the lack of markers and found that the track might have been originally tagged from the bottom up. Orange ribbons are quite faded and hard to see. And the same for the dual colour black-pink as well.
The latest Wellington Park Recreation Map has this track marked in, whereas older such maps have it missing. I wonder if this track is meant to become a feature or not. If so I think it needs better marking after you cross the narrow boulder field coming down. Up the top someone has been generous with pink ribbon and it looks like they might have ran out.
Are there any regulations about adding markers to help the next chap?
Cheers Muka
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