Murchison

[tigercat]

Photos from a trip to Mt Murchison in November.

Quartz veins

Murchison summit

Eldon Peak, Lake Plimsoll

[Davo1]

Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.

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

[tibboh]

Nice shots tigercat, thanks for sharing.

Haven't done this one, one day.

+1
Love the quartz filled tension fractures.

[pazzar]

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!

[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

[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

[stepbystep]

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!!!

[Davo1]

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

Won me!

[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

[north-north-west]

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

[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.

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[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

[Peak Bagpiper]

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

[corvus]

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.

[Phil]

One of my fave day walks Mount Murchison!

[Peak Bagpiper]

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!

[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

[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

[corvus]

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) .
corvus

[Peak Bagpiper]

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.