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Mark_O wrote:Great to read of winter exploits on the AAWT and the AWT. I've been trying to put together a list of winter trips along the AAWT but i'm sure there are many gaps to be filled in.
So far I've got:
A group from the Bendigo College of Advanced Education did the AWT from Walhalla to Tom Groggin in the winter trip of 1981. See Roger Caffin's article of this historic trip at http://www.bushwalking.org.au/bushwalking/BWAutumn12.pdf as well as reading about the original newspaper articles: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 6370362And: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 15,6409905
Glenn Tempest - (1985?) completed a solo 22 day Walhalla to Guthega winter trip involving 19 days of skiing. This to me rates as one of the most impressive alpine trips in Australian ski touring history given the gear he had and the speed at which he travelled. This trip was little publicised and hopefully he will write about it oneday on his blog site through http://www.osp.com.au
Craig McVeigh - (1997) 10 weeks according to the newspaper article Tony provided. Walhalla to Tharwa AAWT solo. This fits with information I had read of someone completing it around this time although I never knew who till now. An amazing extended solo effort in winter!
John Henzell completed Walhalla to Kosciuszko in 2000. He actually started at Wilson's Prom and experienced some poor/severe weather near Howitt so bi-passed the higher sections there and took a low-level route around Howitt into the Barry Mountains. His website report can be found at http://www.geocities.ws/john_henzell/kosciuszko.html
My brother Andrew Oates and I did a 43-day Walhalla to Tharwa AAWT trip in the winter of 2005. There are a couple of videos on Vimeo of it (two long videos or a short condensed version as well as an article written for the Walhalla Times) at: http://www.vimeo.com/channels/wildoates
Luke and Simon Perraton successfully completed a 46-day Licola-Howitt variant start to the AAWT to Tharwa in 2008. They were sponsored by Australian Geographic with their story featured as 'Icy Adventure'. Some details can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/icyadventure/
Cheers, Mark
north-north-west wrote:The chap to whom I gave a lift up to Round Mountain for Christmas last year led what I think he said was the first AAWT trip, and not much later did the whole thing again in winter. I'll have to dig out his emails and see exactly when this all went down.
Tony wrote:Thanks for all for the comments, I enjoyed reading the article again after all of these years, I did a net search for a Craig McVeigh, and came up with a Craig McVeigh who is doing a PhD at the Uni of Adelaide, but that was all.
Mark,
Many thanks for posting the records you have of AAWT/AWT winter crossings, it is very interesting and I am glad that I could add to your list. I will look up the links tonight.
My friend who recently spent 31 days in skiing in the back country has done the AAWT twice and has a lot of information here AAWT, she has down-loadable KMZ/GPX files of the entire route on the site.
I would love to do the AAWT in winter one day.
Tony
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