BWT Strollers recent walk
Posted: Sun 17 May, 2009 8:16 pmWe 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
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
