BWT Strollers recent walk

[corvus]

We had an opportunity as retirees and self employed members to head into the Walls on Friday good idea ,crap weather.
We assembled at the Walls car park said g'day donned full wet weather gear and headed up the track to Trappers Hut where we decided to "do lunch" as it was still precipitating hard.Onwards and up to Wild Dog Creek Campsite for another "Smoko"
still in poor weather then into "the Walls" which FF described in detail as visibility on the peaks was nil.Break in the weather when we hit the Pencil Pine Forest enabled us to take in the beauty of this area,onwards to Dixons Kingdom and this is where we set up camp as the snow was just teasing us and two hours later we had 20 cm of soft snow ,this continued overnight and in the morning we had 30 to 50 cm .
Consensus next morning was to head out as "peak bagging " was futile considering the conditions ,track finding was a task however geoskid proved his worth and thanks to his ability we ended up back at the Wild Dog Campsite after experiencing horrendous gale force blasts of wind that picked up ice particles which hit us with ferocity from both front and back as the wind sent it into a "whirliwillyi" I was so glad to descend out of this .
Weather waxing and waning we met several parties heading to Wild Dog and beond who were happy to head into what we had retreated from including one young man who was heading off at 4.30 pm from the registration booth wearing light runners with the attitude that "all was cool" he would have made it to Tappers Hut b4 dark which would have been the least cool of his nights sleeps IMHO.
Really good walk and thanks to geoskid,flyfisher,(foghorn perhaps guest or newby ) good fellowship and experience.
corvus
I expect photos to follow soon

[MJD]

Lovely weather for a walk - did someone have some new wet weather gear that required a field test or something?

[corvus]

No it was all well and truly used (except for FF's new ultra expensive overpants) some of us have been doing this for many years with aged gear to suit
c

[flyfisher]

Didn't know they made gear that old Corvus.
BTW the new MD overpants are super. Totally dry and no sweat build up etc, not so with the hydronaught coat by another maker.--Always feels damp and clammy.

FF

[Nuts]

Hiya Corvus, Looks like a memorable trip... kinda (well sorta) sad i missed out. Hey, lucky you had that foghorn

[sthughes]

Sounds like fun (no really I like that sorta stuff occasionally)
I c FF isn't breaking has record of always bringing something new and usually pricey

[corvus]

Your absence was noted
c

[corvus]

Hiya Corvus, Looks like a memorable trip... kinda (well sorta) sad i missed out. Hey, lucky you had that foghorn

Yes Nuts we had a ball and "foghorn" was a bundle of laughs sometimes
c

[flyfisher]

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj197/flyfisher670/?action=view&current=wallstodixonskingdominsnow023.flv
looking out from dixons kingdom hut

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj197/flyfisher670/?action=view&current=wallstodixonskingdominsnow055.flv
west wall to damascus gate

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj197/flyfisher670/?action=view&current=wallstodixonskingdominsnow052.flv
trying to shelter from the wind


http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj197/flyfisher670/?action=view&current=wallstodixonskingdominsnow056.flv
snow blowing in the central basin,WOJ


Just a little of the weather on a recent trip to the walls.

FF

[Son of a Beach]

Brilliant! Makes me wish I was there.

(although if I was there at the time, I might have wished I wasn't!)