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Murchison
Posted: Sat 28 Dec, 2013 8:59 pm
by tigercat
Re: Murchison
Posted: Sun 29 Dec, 2013 8:43 am
by Davo1
Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.
Haven't done this one, one day, don't know about the actual summit though
Re: Murchison
Posted: Sun 29 Dec, 2013 9:12 am
by tibboh
Davo1 wrote:Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.
Haven't done this one, one day.
+1
Love the quartz filled tension fractures.
Re: Murchison
Posted: Sun 29 Dec, 2013 5:59 pm
by pazzar
Davo1 wrote:Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.
Haven't done this one, one day, don't know about the actual summit though
The summit is actually fairly gentle, not airy at all.
There is some pretty amazing camping to be had at the tarn in the first picture, just a steep descent down to it!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Sun 29 Dec, 2013 8:09 pm
by tigercat
Thanks Davo1
The approach to the summit is much easier than it looks in the photo in dry conditions. There is a slope just before this where one contours across steeply including a section for about 2-3 m with a ledge for the feet, and good holds for the hands, above a very big drop.
Tibboh, amazing quartz bands in some of the rocks and just stunning rock architecture.
My favourite 3/4 day mountain walk in the state
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 30 Dec, 2013 12:59 pm
by Davo1
Thanks for the info pazzar & tigercat.
May give it a try, in saying that I am finding things that never used to bother me are now sometimes starting to concern me somewhat.
Natures way of telling me I'm aging I suppose
I best be doing it soon
Cheers
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 30 Dec, 2013 1:14 pm
by stepbystep
Davo1 wrote:Thanks for the info pazzar & tigercat.
May give it a try, in saying that I am finding things that never used to bother me are now sometimes starting to concern me somewhat.
Natures way of telling me I'm aging I suppose
I best be doing it soon
Cheers
Stunning at Fagus time mate. Stunnninngg!!!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 30 Dec, 2013 3:21 pm
by Davo1
[/quote]Stunning at Fagus time mate. Stunnninngg!!![/quote]
Won me!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Wed 08 Jan, 2014 2:01 pm
by Schmeed
The picture with the Quartz Veins in it, is showing a textbook formation of a gash fracture. A extension fracture filled with quartz mineralisation fluid, it is also experiencing some deformation (movement) during crystallisation to give the gash like appearance.
I am a geology student and this is the best and cleanest example of a gash fracture I've ever seen
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 13 Jan, 2014 6:44 pm
by north-north-west
Schmeed wrote:I am a geology student and this is the best and cleanest example of a gash fracture I've ever seen
- PsychoRock, Pyramid Peak, Jukes Range
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 27 Jan, 2014 6:42 pm
by Peak Bagpiper
I thought Mt Murchison was a cracker of a climb. We got up in time to be on the summit at sunset on Australia Day 2014.
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 27 Jan, 2014 8:19 pm
by corvus
Magic which lilt did you play ?? and as it was on Australia day hope it was that wee tune by Robert Tannahil of Paisley Scotland "The Bonny Woods of Craigalee"
corvus
Re: Murchison
Posted: Tue 28 Jan, 2014 5:05 pm
by Peak Bagpiper
First tune is always 'Mist Covered Mountains'. Sometimes it's the last as well!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Tue 28 Jan, 2014 7:03 pm
by corvus
Peak Bagpiper wrote:First tune is always 'Mist Covered Mountains'. Sometimes it's the last as well!
A good wee tune but I thought that you might have Played Waltzing Matilda words by ABP tune by Tannahil
corvus.
Re: Murchison
Posted: Wed 29 Jan, 2014 9:54 am
by Phil
One of my fave day walks Mount Murchison!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Thu 30 Jan, 2014 10:15 am
by Peak Bagpiper
corvus wrote:Peak Bagpiper wrote:First tune is always 'Mist Covered Mountains'. Sometimes it's the last as well!
A good wee tune but I thought that you might have Played Waltzing Matilda words by ABP tune by Tannahil
corvus.
To each their own, corvus! The only place I took a nationalistic bent was when I played La Marseillaise. But that was on Frenchmans, so it seemed appropriate!
Re: Murchison
Posted: Thu 30 Jan, 2014 11:14 am
by doogs
The day before Australia Day is Burns Night to celebrate the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. It's a big thing in Scotland, especially when the haggis is piped into the room where it is to be eaten... don't suppose you piped a haggis up and then recited 'Ode to a haggis'? I'm sure Corvus would've been nibbling on a nice big haggis on the 25th
Re: Murchison
Posted: Thu 30 Jan, 2014 3:21 pm
by iandsmith
Enough of the photos already (very inspirational). Where does the walk start from; how long does it take roughly (while taking 200 pictures). I've gazed at the place from Rosebery and knew there would be a walk but I never got around to asking anyone as I was too busy doing other things.
Cheers all
Re: Murchison
Posted: Thu 30 Jan, 2014 7:09 pm
by corvus
doogs wrote:The day before Australia Day is Burns Night to celebrate the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. It's a big thing in Scotland, especially when the haggis is piped into the room where it is to be eaten... don't suppose you piped a haggis up and then recited 'Ode to a haggis'? I'm sure Corvus would've been nibbling on a nice big haggis on the 25th
doogs much as I love the "Bard" I believe he borrowed traditional Airs whereas Tannahil wrote that Tune,last time I ate Haggis was in the Restaurant Kitchen of an Italian Chef
and the first and last time my children ate Haggis was from a can my mum brought back from her many trips back to Scotland (Tassie Neeps were good)
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corvus
Re: Murchison
Posted: Mon 03 Feb, 2014 1:20 pm
by Peak Bagpiper
iandsmith wrote:Enough of the photos already (very inspirational). Where does the walk start from; how long does it take roughly (while taking 200 pictures). I've gazed at the place from Rosebery and knew there would be a walk but I never got around to asking anyone as I was too busy doing other things.
Cheers all
Turn onto the Anthony Road just before Rosebery. Go up 8.9km and there is a blue sign and stone steps on your right. We took a very, VERY leisurley pace, taking heaps of photos and were on the summit in 3.5 hours. You can do it in 2. After you climb the saddle, there's a flat bit looking east where you take in a gobsmacking view of a cross-section of the Overland Track. We camped overnight there.