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Posted: **Sat 28 Dec, 2013 8:59 pm**

Photos from a trip to Mt Murchison in November.

: Quartz veins

: Murchison summit

: Eldon Peak, Lake Plimsoll

Posted: **Sun 29 Dec, 2013 8:43 am**

Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.

Haven't done this one, one day, don't know about the actual summit though

Posted: **Sun 29 Dec, 2013 9:12 am**

Davo1 wrote:Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.

Haven't done this one, one day.

+1
Love the quartz filled tension fractures.

Posted: **Sun 29 Dec, 2013 5:59 pm**

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!

Posted: **Sun 29 Dec, 2013 8:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon 30 Dec, 2013 12:59 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon 30 Dec, 2013 1:14 pm**

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!!!

Posted: **Mon 30 Dec, 2013 3:21 pm**

[/quote]Stunning at Fagus time mate. Stunnninngg!!![/quote]

Won me! :-)

Posted: **Wed 08 Jan, 2014 2:01 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon 13 Jan, 2014 6:44 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon 27 Jan, 2014 6:42 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon 27 Jan, 2014 8:19 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue 28 Jan, 2014 5:05 pm**

First tune is always 'Mist Covered Mountains'. Sometimes it's the last as well!

Posted: **Tue 28 Jan, 2014 7:03 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed 29 Jan, 2014 9:54 am**

One of my fave day walks Mount Murchison!

Posted: **Thu 30 Jan, 2014 10:15 am**

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!

Posted: **Thu 30 Jan, 2014 11:14 am**

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

Posted: **Thu 30 Jan, 2014 3:21 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu 30 Jan, 2014 7:09 pm**

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 :shock:

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) :lol:

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corvus

Posted: **Mon 03 Feb, 2014 1:20 pm**

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.

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