Mt Byron,Cuvier and Manfred

[pazzar]

Hi everyone,

I have written up a trip report for my latest solo adventure. To save hassles of uploading heaps of photos again, you can check it out here on my trip report page.

http://pazzarthepeakbagger.blogspot.com ... serve.html

Cheers,

Jared

[DaveNoble]

Good trip - Hard work in the heat!

Dave

[tigercat]

Great trip report and photos. Cuvier and Goulds Sugarloaf sound very tempting, Manfred I am not so sure! I also struggled with heat, dehydration and scrub finding my way off Thetis to Leonards tarn on Jan 3. I came off far too far to the SW and then had to double back to the tarn. I will never try to bash thru fagus again!
Cheers C

[pazzar]

Thanks! I recommend Manfred as a return day trip from Cuvier - much easier.

[ollster]

Nice work Paz, Doogs and I have pretty much decided to head in there (again, for me, but this time I'll do GSL and CH) this weekend seeing the SW is a firey mess.

Cuvier and Goulds Sugarloaf sound very tempting, Manfred I am not so sure!

Manfred is pretty easy off track, but yeah, do it from Cuvier and not up from Lk Marion. It's a bit of a slog from Marion, and has some pretty ordinary sections of overhanging myrtle which is a bugger to push/climb through with packs. Not to mention the cliffs, but they're (as with most forested cliff sections around that area) pretty easy to skirt if you head a couple of hundred metres in the correct direction.

[PeterJ]

Enjoyed reading the article you wrote Jared. Some aspects reminded me of the time I did the walk and had to descend to the Marion valley, so i dug out the write up and posted in my walking blog.

[wander]

Nice report, many thanks. I have looked at this wander from Du Cane area wondered how much scrub would be involved.

[naturelover]

Thanks; enjoyed reading that.

[doogs]

As Ollster mentioned earlier on in the thread that we had planned to do a similar trip to Pazz a couple of weeks ago, which we did an succeeded. The route we took was from Narcissus over Byron to camp at Cuvier Shelf on the first day, day 2 was out to Goulds Sugarloaf and then dropping down to Lake Petrarch and the final day was the short walk out down the Cuvier Valley.

Cuvier Shelf camping

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The Shelf looking east

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Mount Manfred from the slopes of Mount Cuvier

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Goulds Sugar Loaf

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One of the best summit panoramas in the state

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[doogs]

more..

looking back to Goulds Sugarloaf from near lake Petrarch

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camping on the beach at Lake Petrarch

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sunset over the beach at Lake Petrarch

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[tigercat]

Great photos. Encourages me to visit the area, perhaps next summer.

[wander]

Sweet work.