GAME: Where am I?

[icefest]

Perhaps this is at high moor then?

[Rexyviney36]

Good thinking…not too far away. You can have it mate. Tough to remember exactly…near Mt Hesperus I think.

[icefest]

Sunset on the way to camp!

[Last]

Schnells Ridge. On the moraine looking at Moraine Tarn and Smiths Tarn. I hope you found an easier way through/around the scrub than I did.

[icefest]

Yes last, Schnells ridge.

Barely any scrub as I recall!

I cant find my gpx track on my computer, but if you want me to can download it off my GPS?

[Last]

I went north from the ridge to the east of Smiths Tarn, Hoping for an easy way back to the Lake Judd track. First there was large buttongrass followed by dense scrub. It looked so easy on the aerial photos. Next

[north-north-west]

The only scrub I hit was north of Moraine Tarn.

Now that looks familiar. Out west?

[Last]

The only scrub I hit was north of Moraine Tarn.

Now that looks familiar. Out west?

That's the scrub I was talking about. I hit it at the end of a long day, running out of light because I had been delayed by an idiot that I should have let Darwin sort out. Took far to long to negotiate, ended up walking back to the car by torchlight (reprise).
Yes, out west.

[north-north-west]

I was wise enough to camp at the tarn both times. That made the walk out the next day a little less unpleasant.

Looks like Mt Read at the back. If only I could be sure that's a vehicle track near the rock face.

[icefest]

I was wise enough to camp at the tarn both times. That made the walk out the next day a little less unpleasant.

You mean tarn 861m?

I came down that way, was great, no scrub.

I recall that I walked up the two moraines just west of the outflow from Moraine tarn (I recall looking at the scrub near moraine tarn and thinking nope)

[Last]

I recall that I walked up the two moraines just west of the outflow from Moraine tarn (I recall looking at the scrub near moraine tarn and thinking nope)

You're smarter than me.

NNW, yes that is Mt Read in the background

[north-north-west]

I was wise enough to camp at the tarn both times. That made the walk out the next day a little less unpleasant.

You mean tarn 861m?

No, I mean Moraine Tarn. From Schnells East down the moraine to Moraine Tarn is easy going, just a bit of dodge and weave at the bottom. Getting from Moraine Tarn to the Lake Mudd Track is the awkward bit because the most direct route is to get up onto the minor moraine west of the tarn and the side of that is a bit greener than ideal. Once you're up on it the going is easy again.

I came down that way, was great, no scrub.
I recall that I walked up the two moraines just west of the outflow from Moraine tarn (I recall looking at the scrub near moraine tarn and thinking nope)

Yes, it's fine if you stay just west of the crest of that moraine, but if you go down on the eastern side of Moraine Tarn, you have to get up to it.
But, if you've been out to Gallagher Plateau and don't want to climb all the way back up over the East Schnells tower, it's too tempting to go out via Moraine Tarn. That wasn't so bad the first time I visited the tarn, but by the Gallagher trip things had scrubbed up a good bit.

So, back to the photo. I think I recall a rock outcrop like that beside the Lake Spicer Track.

[Last]

Not near the Lake Spicer track. The outcrop's exposure is not natural.

[north-north-west]

Yeah, I think you're further west than that, but I'm lousy at working out angles on things.
Old mine workings, then, which ties in with the pipe (presumably a ventilation shaft). There's a lot of that in the open country between Zeehan and Lake Pieman. I'm going to leave this for someone whose brain is capable of concentration today.

[Last]

not a mine

[icefest]

Are you looking at the site of the proposed langdon dam?

Did you get any photos of the gorge and waterfalls below? - I'd love to see them!

[Last]

Are you looking at the site of the proposed langdon dam?

Did you get any photos of the gorge and waterfalls below? - I'd love to see them!

correct.

Didn't get to the gorge and waterfall. Was trying to go via the Hamilton Moraine to Mt Geikie

[icefest]

Images are hard to find!

Where am I (with a considerable amount of zoom!)

[icefest]

Perhaps that's a bit too much zoom?

[north-north-west]

It's still not saying anything specific to me. Hydro lake. Probaby not Fake Pedder.

[icefest]

Correct. Not Fake Pedder. But that is clear hill peeking through the clouds!

[eggs]

From the Gordon Dam wall?

[icefest]

Of course, eggs!

[eggs]

Took a little while to hunt up a similar view to match

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[Tyreless]

Cathedral Rock from… Monument Lookout?

[eggs]

It is Cathedral but higher than Monument Lookout

[Tyreless]

I'll try Mt Fortescue (although I don’t remember views from there), or the lookout between the peak and the Monument Lookout. Can you have two guesses in one post?

[north-north-west]

I'll try Mt Fortescue (although I don’t remember views from there), or the lookout between the peak and the Monument Lookout. Can you have two guesses in one post?

Why not? I do it all the time.

[eggs]

It is from Mt Fortescue. Whilst it is often in mist, there is a rock bench just past the summit which gives this view.

[Tyreless]

Where was the cloud threatening to break through the clouds…