GAME: Where am I?

[tasadam]

I'm not a good game player because I'm too lazy to get maps out. But I wonder what the name of the water is that flows down towards Cascade Brewery? Cascades, perhaps...
I might get a map out later and see what I can find if no-one else gets it.

Name the feature you're close to - that would be Mt Wellington!

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Cascades...I mean really.
The best thing about this game for me has been, not just an insight into areas I've not been too/may never get too, not just the great photos, but a real improvement in searching through maps and connecting the dots so to speak. Unfortunately it distracts me from my work just a bit too easily.
Let's just say the feature is watery.

[eggs]

Well I have driven to the top of Mt Wellington a few times, and done a short walk down to the Lost World [should have stayed longer], but have never explored around the range.

But I do read this site - and if someone suggests a "feature" on Mt Wellington, and the hint is that it is waterery but not a waterfall - I might hazard a guess that it could be Disappearing Tarn?

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Getting closer, maybe 30-40 mins from Disappearing Tarn - a highlight of the winter just gone.
Wellington Park is a wonderful place, many attractions for all sorts, some more accessible than others.
My favorite walk is The Icehouse -Sth Wellington Track under snow - magical - but this isn't near that track.
Who said it wasn't a waterfall? I just said it wasn't "The Cascades" There are lots of waterfalls in the park.
sbs

[eggs]

So are you looking across to Montagu Thumbs with Cathedral Rock a bit obscured?

ie from above Wellington Falls?

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Yes indeed.
I met a German backpacker swimming in one of the pools above the falls - I enlisted his help to paint my house!
Your go

[eggs]

That's a new one. Go bushwalking to get your house painted.
Doesn't seem to work for me.

Anyway - this might be a bit tougher.

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Tougher indeed....nice photo.

Me thinks the Denison or Spires.
I'll say The Denisons maybe, Bonds Crag?

[eggs]

Ah - what exotic places you name.
Maybe - one day....

No - this is much closer to civilisation and further west.

[Son of a Beach]

The rock looks like conglomerate.

[eggs]

Yes - lots & lots of this in the area

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The rock looks like conglomerate.

That's why I thought Denison's, maybe near Rhona - a path fairly well travelled, but exotic - yes.

Let's try Mt Zeehan? I recall you spent a honeymoon(?) over that way, looked more SW than West Coast though.

Here's some great info on conglomorate, http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&l ... ia&spell=1

2nd link down, the PDF

[eggs]

Not Mt Zeehan. I can't rightly remember if it is conglomerate, but I suspect not. This is a lot higher than Mt Zeehan.

West Coast? - yes, worked in a mine there for 2 months while at uni. That is when I did most of my West Coast walking.
Passed through on my honeymoon and climbed 2 peaks (Owen & Zeehan) and got rained out on 2 walks a few years later.
After a long break returned Jan 2008 and did a great overnighter with most of the family.
And we whipped up Murcho last Jan.

Edit - Interesting links - another search item suggests Zeehan could be part of this conglomerate block.
However, when you stand on an extensive block of conglomerate that is a few hundred metres thick and so uniform in structure, you will have to forgive me if I do not think of its source as a braided stream.
"High energy" is obviously correct, but something far larger and more energetic than a braided river would be needed to form and maintain such a massive structure.
I suspect this deduction was based on preconceptions of what was possible in the past, which is perfectly understandable. We all interpret within frameworks.
However, some schools of modern geology have become more favourably disposed to the idea of catastrophe dominating the rock record.

[tasadam]

Then I wonder what the view southeast of Owen is like in the morning?
Total guess of course, not familiar with them.

[whynotwalk]

Looks like the Tyndall Range to me.

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Edit - Interesting links - another search item suggests Zeehan could be part of this conglomerate block.
However, when you stand on an extensive block of conglomerate that is a few hundred metres thick and so uniform in structure, you will have to forgive me if I do not think of its source as a braided stream.
"High energy" is obviously correct, but something far larger and more energetic than a braided river would be needed to form and maintain such a massive structure.
I suspect this deduction was based on preconceptions of what was possible in the past, which is perfectly understandable. We all interpret within frameworks.
However, some schools of modern geology have become more favourably disposed to the idea of catastrophe dominating the rock record.

It looks interesting, I haven't read it yet, I'm TRYING to work here

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whynotwalk has it.
The top of Mt Tyndall - with the remnants of the trig point on the left. Looking NNW late afternoon.

[whynotwalk]

A top spot eggs - especially when you wander over that very open plateau and suddenly discover the plunge into Lake Huntly!!

Okay ... this one might be a bit tricky, given the relative lack of background detail.

cheers

Peter

[tasadam]

Those rocks look "cathedral mountain-ish" to me, but I cannot place the location. So I thought I'd post what I did to recognize the rocks in case it helps someone else -

[whynotwalk]

Wrong part of the state Adam. And the geology won't help much - it's dolerite.

A small hint: it's off track, but within cooee of a very popular track,

cheers

Peter

[tasadam]

Other thought was the Eliza / Anne / Lot area. Hey, without checking my photos, how about near Shelf Camp? That would make it early morning (which explains the slippers!)

[whynotwalk]

Sorry Adam - wrong again. But I may have led you up the garden path

Wrong part of the state Adam.

It's actually within 10km of Cathedral Mt ... I was thinking you meant Cathedral Rock (nr Mt Wellington) ...

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is it on Doris with Ossa in the background

[tasadam]

is it on Doris with Ossa in the background

If it is, I wonder where he camped...

[eggs]

I suspect the mountain in cloud is the Ducaine Range. Seems to match the profile.

[whynotwalk]

Not Ossa - but somewhere in the next mountain mass south of Ossa. The place we camped is definitely NOT a regular campsite, and it was in the evening after some hard walking - hence the slippers

[whynotwalk]

eggs is close - if no one else can be more specific we might give his "soft-boiled" answer a tick.

I'll be off by 4:45, so let's see if someone gets closer before I go,

cheers

Peter

[eggs]

You threw me with your answer. I had been thinking Traveller Range - not the Ducaine ridgeline.

But checking out the distinctive gully in the 2nd photo at http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1783&p=15131&hilit=castle+crag#p14958
it appeasr you may be on the top of Falling Mountain/Castle Crag.

[whynotwalk]

Close enough eggs - Big Gun Pass is the key. We were traversing the Du Cane Range, and in this pic. I'm looking back towards part of Geryon. Had two perfect evenings on the range, and really took our time. I wouldn't want to be there in adverse weather conditions.

Okay ... I'll flip it to eggs

[eggs]

Not sure I really got that one?
If it was above Big Gun Pass you would have been on Massif?

Anway old slide - should be easy enough.