BWT 5th Anniversary Walk - Arm River Track, March 23-25 2012

[corvus]

This was in my opinion a very sucessful Anniversary Walk caught up with old friends and made new ones
Winter like Snow condition was a feature and curtailed some of our planned activities but it happens like that sometimes
corvus

[norts]

It was nice to put some faces to names. I enjoyed my weekend. It was very relaxing after we actually got there. It was a bit wild getting there.

Some good conversation, alot of gear talk and some gourmet cooking.

Nik, not happy, the after dinner speech didn't happen, where was the speech about thanking us for coming out in such atrocious weather and what a great group of people we were.

Actually I should be soft on him as he did have a flat tyre when he got back to his car.

Roger

[Bluegum Mic]

Agreed. Fantastic weekend meeting some wonderful people. And as someone who lives and breathes the snow I absolutely adored the show mother natured turned out. Simply magic.

Thankyou again for some good laughs and great company. Also very big thanks to Gayet for the lift (and 4WD demo and to myrtlegirl for showing me the plane wreck. Made for a great walk in the deep snow.

Cheers

Mic

[north-north-west]

Only five years old. OK, I'll watch my language from now on.

[corvus]

Only five years old. OK, I'll watch my language from now on.

This is a walk you would have enjoyed nice snow of three kinds ,flakes,sago and wet and not really cold,
so you cook from within
corvus

[Son of a Beach]

Thanks to all who came along on this walk. I reckon that 10 people was a pretty good turn out.

I had a ball, even though it ended up being a fairly lazy walk. The weather wasn't suitable for climbing mountains on the Saturday. Then yesterday when it was suitable, I had to get home early. I walked out in 2 hours 45 minutes, but then found that my car had a flat tyre. It still made it home before 2:00pm to spend the afternoon with my family as promised.

As others have said, I really enjoyed meeting some of you, and catching up with others I've met in the past.

The snow was fantastic walking in. I love walking in dry snow when there's no wind. And I'm soooooo glad I slept in the tent and not in Snoresville that night! Pelion Hut was quite full on the first night (but nearly empty on the second night), so it was well worth the very numb fingers setting up the tent.

I'll post a few pictures shortly.

[Ent]

Hi

A great trip. Sonia enjoyed it very much. As we came in on Saturday we had fresh snow. Track finding would have been fun but luckily a ranger had headed out so it was just a case of following his footprints. I am amazed that he looks like never to have put a foot wrong finding the twelve inch board walk under snow. I am impressed and do not impress easily.

Any so good cooking of real food and company made it a good weekend out.

Cheers

[Son of a Beach]

I didn't take a lot of photos and some of them are just the classic shots that everyone would expect from such a trip (ie, Pillinger, Oakleigh). But here's a few of them anyhow.

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Pillenger and Price on Friday afternoon

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Early Saturday morning I was very happy with how well the Goondie shed snow overnight

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Oakleigh and the plain Saturday morning

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Snow curling off the roof

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Barn and Oakleigh Saturday afternoon

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Ent and Sonia's dinner Saturday night - Fresh mashed spud, asparagus, fresh salmon steaks with cajun seasoning, fresh Pelion-Hut-made salsa

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Pillenger, Ducanes, etc from half way along Arm River Track Sunday morning

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[ILUVSWTAS]

Hi

A great trip. Sonia enjoyed it very much. As we came in on Saturday we had fresh snow. Track finding would have been fun but luckily a ranger had headed out so it was just a case of following his footprints. I am amazed that he looks like never to have put a foot wrong finding the twelve inch board walk under snow. I am impressed and do not impress easily.

Any so good cooking of real food and company made it a good weekend out.

Cheers

GPS Brett.

[tasadam]

Looks like you all had fun! Sorry I couldn't be a part of it. Excellent to see a bit of snow!

[Ent]

GPS.

Ghee I wish mine would put me within 12" of zig zaging board walk Beside when I chatted to him he did not appear to have a GPS out. Me thinks many years of walking the track and some hidden magical power. It was an impressive feat of putting his feet. What amazed me there was no false leads just long strides hitting the board walk every step. Made what could have been a "fun" trip in dead easy for us. Also highlighted that an easy track to amble in without snow suddenly becomes harder as you notice rather few makers above the snow. It was a large snow dump and he was the first person over it so no natural hollows where new snow filled in the old path.

Yes with a map and my GPS plus I have done it a few times I would have eventually got through but probably with a fair bit of criss-crossing the track. Now I have a plot so be interested to see how precise it is when I load up the in and the out tracks. Promising the track length is within a hundred metres of the two plots.

Cheers

[Sonia]

Nice to put some faces to names and good to see some gender balance.
Re the meal - according to Simon the Pelion-Hut made salsa needs home-made sweet chilli sauce so looks like I will need to improve for next time around!

[corvus]

Nice to put some faces to names and good to see some gender balance.
Re the meal - according to Simon the Pelion-Hut made salsa needs home-made sweet chilli sauce so looks like I will need to improve for next time around!

Hey Sonia ,
That Salsa looked good enough to eat and welcome to the Forum.
corvus

[Son of a Beach]

Yeah, fancy bringing commercially produced sweet chilli sauce on a bushwalk, instead of the raw ingredients to make your own sauce on the spot!

[sim1oz]

Sounds like you had an amazing weekend. Sorry we missed you all by only a day, but this was our first time on the Overland Track and we really wanted to finish it and weren't sure what the Tasmanian weather would throw at us. Here is one of my favourite photos walking from New Pelion Hut to Kia Ora as the snow fell.

Wombat prints (I think) on the duckboard

Look forward to meeting you all another time.

[South_Aussie_Hiker]

I wouldn't be adverse to the extra weight of carrying in some Bourbon to wash it all down, but Woodstock????

[Ent]

I wouldn't be adverse to the extra weight of carrying in some Bourbon to wash it all down, but Woodstock????

Yeap 2.25 litres. Looks like I failed the UL test, yet again But in my defence I did attempt to save weight as they are the 6% ones so lighter than the 4.8% ones as alcohol weighs less compared to water. Actually a prefer Scotch straight but did not want to go too UL as I have my reputation to preserve

Cheers

[norts]

Well it didnt get out over to your table but we were passing around two flasks one with Cointreau( thanks Myrtlegirl) and the other had Glen Livet( thanks me). So there was some UL.

Roger

[South_Aussie_Hiker]

Hi Ent!

My comment wasn't so much having a go at the weight of said cans, but that if you are happy to carry the weight, there are a myriad of better Bourbon options than Woodstock!

In fact, a 2.25 kilo brick would probably have tasted the same