Idea:Bwt designs the gr8 north-south route.

[vagrom]

I found a plan in Bathurst St 2nds books. A North South route has been on the cards for ages. Penguin to D.Bridge is taken care of. Any ideas as to how to avoid road bashes south of Frodshams Pass?

[ILUVSWTAS]

Hi Vagrom. Hows things??

Yes from Frodsham they could reopen the old Port Davey track. Follow this to Mt Anne, Follow the Anne circuit to Scotts peak or the Arthurs......

[vagrom]

Hey Joe,
thanks for that. I was hoping someone able to supply a map like that could help a discussion along towards a north south route. I liked Hughes' piece in Wild on his choice, using a kayak to get over to the Frankland Range. I guess someone's already done the whole thing on foot. Does anyone know? Don't know if the Belgian guy did it.
Tim's Track has disappeared off the latest 1/250k SW Tas map. It would seem to be the ideal connector with the Old Port Davey. North from Tim's would either take you up and along the King Williams, as Andrew did I think. But they're renowned for snow year round and exposed. The next best is along their east, where the old bulldozer track was (?)
I wondered if the NE Ridge track could be got to from the OPD, without having to join the road. Lake Picone, Schnells and somehow, down to McKays. Up Moraine K, then Chapman shows a suggested route going from the range to Mt Norold.
Down to the airstrip shed to grab the Champers, then down to Team Pancake on the beach.
The serious can take the South Coast Track east and out to SE Cape, the very southern tip of Tas, south of the Maasuykers, except for Maatsuyker Island itself.
What do you think? Dreaming? ((Bordering on the verbose?)Just a thought ...

[vagrom]

Sorry ILUV. Got names mixed up. You, not Joe.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Haha no me not Joe.......

Yeh that sounds good!! I'd sure be keen to give it a crack!! I have a friend who walked from St Clair to Cockle. He went over the KW, to the POW to the Franks, to the PD track.
Took him 28 days.

[vagrom]

Thanks ILUV, and it seems it that east of the lakes, without a roadbash, is just barmy. And there's nowhere, closer to Haven Lake than Cygnus (Chapmans route), that could access Norold. The 1/100k map makes it look crazy. Stories of getting to Braddon and Greystone should make that clear to me.
So your mate may indeed have walked the definitive "North-South route", one that will never need gardening.

[ILUVSWTAS]

I think he had at least one night on the POW where he couldnt get a tent up. Just strung a cover over the scrub and nestled down for the night.....