Sentinals, Wedge & Coronets

[mjdalessa]

Anyone Climbed these three mountains?
The information you get is always varyed.
On this site it shows a climbers track going to the summit of the sentinal range. http://www.thesarvo.com/confluence/disp ... inel+Range
In Hardy and Elsons 50 family walk book it shows a walk going to the top of wedge. This isn't shown on listmap. I'm not sure about tasmap publications.
On listmap it still shows the old pedder track for coronets acsess but many say it's overgrown and not overly pleasent.

Whats the best way to make an assault on these peaks?
Which routes exist and which don't?

[ollster]

Dunno about the Sentinels and Coronets, but Wedge is a piece of cake. There's a well worn and marked track leading from a car park. Have a look on listmap and you can see the track clearly marked. I can't recall exactly, but it's probably a 5hr return or so (edit: actually I think it was more like 4 - 4.5).

Last edited by ollster on Sun 01 Mar, 2009 12:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[wello]

Stu Bowling (a regular contributor to this site) wrote a detailed note on how he got to the Coronets via the Sentinals. This is the link.

http://www.wildtiger.biz/?tracknotes&id=65

This trip sounded like fairly hard work!

Wello

[MJD]

There's a track up the Sentinel Range starting from the Wedge River Picnic Ground. From the far right corner as you drive in. It's a very nice walk and not too long. You can even come back along the ridge to the the western end of the range and drop down the obvious spur to the road, which comes out a couple of hundred metres away from the picnic ground, if you wanted a bit of off track fun.

[mjdalessa]

How long do the sentinals take?
In rockclimbers descriptions the times to walk places always seem to be to short.

[MJD]

Half a day or so.

[iandsmith]

I climbed the Sentinel and it takes about 2 1/2 hours return if that's all you do, obviously longer if you want to scramble around the slopes while you're up there. After crossing Wedge River there's a bog you have to get around (about 50 metres long) and then you come to the register book and start to head upwards.
It's about 20 minutes before you seriously get to climb and, at times, you need all fours but, I'm 62 and didn't find it all that hard, just steep.
There's toilet and picnic facilities at the base.
If you go to virtualtourist.com and look up Lake Pedder pages you can see the pictures and read the story of my climb.
Hope you enjoy.