Blue Peaks

[Rick]

Hi guys,

Has anyone hiked into the Blue Peaks from Lake Mckenzie recently?

I am planning to head in during March and was wondering if the track is easy to follow? I will have 1:25000 maps and a GPS!

Cheers
Rick

[Son of a Beach]

A couple of years old now but this topic (from the walk which started this website in the first place) includes a good description of how easy it can be to lose this track from a few different peoples perspectives, as of a couple of years ago.

[Drifting]

Can you let us know how it goes, and provide some pics?

[Son of a Beach]

PS. The summary of the topic I linked to above is that the track is reasonably easy to follow for most of the way, but there are a number of places where it is quite vague and easy to miss, and with most cairned tracks, there can be conflicting cairns in some spots (ie, cairns going in more than one direction). If you do lose the track, there is very little in the way of landmarks, so navigating by map and compass can be difficult (and the iron in the rock can affect the compass too). Visibility can be reduced to almost nothing by fog at any time of year, and of course snow would also make the track very difficult to follow.

There's decent camping at the first set of lakes once you get in there, but it is not quite as nice as Little Throne, about another half hour further along (in my opinion). Any of the lakes east of Little Throne are also great.

[Drifting]

I wonder if it would be worth putting some stakes in on the trek?

[Rick]

Thanks for the replies!

[trepur]

I have just been down the track. The start is not as on the map but a few hundred metres before. There is a concrete platform on the left which is about where the track starts. Once you are on it it is fine.