Mt Anne Epic.

[dee_legg]

Hi all, spent the last weekend up on the Mt Eliza Plateau. Beautiful place, thought you might like to see some photos.


From the hut.

Mt Anne from half way up Eliza.

Across the Plateau.




Lake Judd, Schnells Ridge, Federation Peak and Precipitious Bluff.

[walkinTas]

Stunning stuff dl. Looks like lots of fun.

[Mickeymoo]

Great photos, you must have had a magic time in such good weather up there!

[alex]

Some of my photos from the trip. some are pretty similar but oh well...
Was definitely lots of fun WalkinTas!


Sunset from the hut

Ascending Mt Eliza

Mt Anne from the slopes of Eliza

Mt Anne and the Eliza plateau

Our camp on the Eliza Plateau

Getting creative with the ipood!. not enough snow pegs

Dee_Legg on the plateau

[NickD]

Ah. It hurts to look at that photo. I have serious jealousy pain!!

[luke_vic]

Hi,
Looks like a great trip! A couple of questions, as I'd like to do this walk soon also...What was your itinerary? Did you need snow shoes or crampons? Did it snow while you were there?

Cheers

[dee_legg]

Hi luke_vic,
We left the car park on Friday afternoon and hit the snow line a couple of hundred metres below the hut. Got to the hut on dark basically. Saturday was pretty cruisey, only had to make it to the top of Eliza and find a good place to camp on the plateau... having said that the snow was pretty icy on the way up and i struggled with some of the bigger boulders but the guys were fine with it. Finding cairns was hard at times too.
Still didn't take too long and we spent the rest of the day exploring the plateau.
The Last day brought the worst weather for the entire trip, high winds and a bit of snow being blown around... we were just walking out the way we came.
We didn't have snow shoes or crampons but you would want them to reach the summit of Anne or do the circuit. A rope would also be handy to get to the summit.
No snow while we were there but we had exceptional weather compared to what had dropped all the snow.
Hope this helps and have fun, its an amazing area!

[luke_vic]

Hi dee_legg,

Thanks for your helpful information. Might give it a try in the coming weeks.

Cheers!

[red tag]

WOW ! breathtaking pics ... Mt. Anne brings back memories .. In early 1974, a young woman died there .. she fell from a precipice . At the time it happened, I was hitch hiking down Sandy Bay road and a young guy in a very old 1930's vintage hearse picked me up.. he told me about his involvement , of going down there to pick up the body . It was in all the newspapers at the time . Looking at the terrain in those amazing pics, I can now see how easy it would be to get into strife . Not an area for the inexperienced I would think.

Mike

[Taurë-rana]

Beautiful photos! They bring back memories for me too, I walked up to the hut one moonlit night with friends, I can't remember what the plan was but it started snowing which covered the track. We were lucky to find the hut, where we stayed for two days then walked out! One fellow didn't get out of his sleeping bag just about for the whole weekend!
The other thing about Mt Anne, there was a story going round when I started bushwalking about a bunch of mainlanders who did the Mt Anne Circuit but didn't cope with the exposure and basically bolted out, leaving a heap of gear in there. Does anyone know if this is true and what actually happened?

[red tag]

By coincidence.. Mt. Anne was featured on TV last night .. a national geographic show on tassie . The presenter or host, did it the easy way - in a helicopter ! They also flew over Frenchmans cap and so on.

Mike

[Robbo]

a national geographic show on tassie

Australian Geographic I believe... Yes I watched it with interest and realised that she walked very little, just dropped here and there out of the helicopter. But there was some good stuff as well, I thought.

Tony Robinson

[dee_legg]

Alex and I are going back to do the circuit on Thursday! very excited, hopefully will get to the top! also hopefully it will be good training for our fed trip in jan!
Wish i had of seen the show!

[lexharris]

Snow's the go... Nice shots, all of them. Oh you guys are making me very very envious...