Snow at sunrise
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Overland Snow from Go to Whoa

Overland Track in Snow Last week I was working at Lake St Clair when Kylie came to visit. In typical Kylie fashion she arrived via an Overland Track trail run on what may turn out to be the best snow day of the winter. Sun rises over Cradle Plateau Good snow had fallen overnight Friday and intermittent flurries continued…
Aurora australis
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Overland Track with the Works – Single Push – FKT

Since our winter Overland Track side trips missions last year (Take One and TakeTwo), Kylie went on to complete the track with all 12 side trips, not once but twice!  Amazingly the track reopened after bushfires the very day of Kylie’s February ticket and she completed all side trips in three days of fast packing. Another ticket became available…
Overland with the Works – Take Two
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Overland with the Works – Take Two

Kylie with Overland Track sign at Ronny Creek I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again…  If at first you don’t succeed… Barely days after our first attempt at Overland Track with all Classic Side Trips, Kylie announced another thumping great high was heading our way following a good dumping of snow.  Reluctant to succumb to the ice…
Sunrise lake reflections
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Overland Track with the Works – Take One

The Overland Track with all the Classic Side Trips mission was born out of Kylie’s 50th birthday project – 50 Mountain Marathons in 50 Consecutive Weeks which ran until August 2024.  With work and life in general preventing marathons in some weeks, it was inevitable that attention turned to missions that could deliver multiple marathons in a week, sometimes…
Lake,Mountain,Lookout
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Cradle and Barn – January 2020

If there was an origin for my bushwalking, it's the Cradle Mountain area.  The first walk I can remember was the old Dove Lake circuit before the lake level track made it the tourist-friendly doddle it is today.  I was four years old.  Amazingly mum and dad were also hauling my two younger siblings on the epic journey through…
Cradle Summit at Night
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Cradle Summit at Night

I couldn't resist yesterday's snow forecast and despite it falling late in the weekend I was determined... At 3pm I left the Dove Lake Car Park.  There was no snow on the ground yet and rain was falling very heavily.  Visibility was reasonable with the mountain outline peering through through wind blown sheets of floaty precipitation indicating the freezing…
Cradle Valley snow
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Moina, Cradle and Belvoir

I started holidays today so I can look after the junior TasTrekkers while Mrs TasTrekker has university exams. There's been some snow down to low levels so I took our youngest children on a trip to Cradle to find some snow. Moina 'shipwreck' We stopped into Moina along the way where Lake Gairdner was at a very low level.…
Dove Lake Circuit
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Dove Lake Circuit

It’s the tail end of June school holidays in Tassie and I have had the past couple of weeks off work.  The break has been dominated by all manner of family activities with barely a day to spare. With so much to do in the two weeks, I knew opportunities to head bush would be limited.  Therefore, with not…