australia:vic:hotham
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bushwalks in Victoria's Mt Hotham region
see also:
- How far can an older person hike with average ability and a 12-14kg backpack?
- the rough rule of thumb is to plan to walk only 8-12 km per day of full pack carrying and count every 100m climbed or descended as an extra kilometre walked.
- Camp amongst the snow gums rather than in the lower Mountain Ash areas - Mountain Ash are prone to falling unpredictably
Hotham Heights walks
- Mt Hotham (1868m)
Razorback to Mt Feathertop
Bon Accord Spur down to Harrietville
Mt Loch - Cobungra and West Kiewa Rivers circuit
- “Two Rivers Circuit”
- start and return to Mt Loch carpark in Hotham Heights
- 23km over 2 days
- camp at Dibbins Hut area (more attractive option) alternatively at Blairs Hut for a shorter 2nd day uphill walk
- carpark to Derrick Hut 4km 1hr
- Derrick Hut to Dibbins Hut at Cobungra Gap 4km, 1-1.5hrs and 400m descent
- camp at Dibbins Hut, exploring the plains of the upper Cobungra River downstream for up to 1.5km
- Dibbins Hut to Blairs Hut (leave AAWT at Cobungra Gap, and after stashing rucksack at Red Robin Battery for the detour to the hut) 4km, 1-1.5hrs, 250m descent
- Blairs Hut up to Red Robin Mine 5.5km, 1.5-2hrs and 500m ascent
- Red Robin Mine to Mt Loch's unusual flat basalt summit then down to carpark 5.5km, 1.5-2hrs and 300m ascent
Mt Loch carpark to AAWT to Cope Saddle, Cope Hut, Wallaces Hut and then Langford Gap/Falls Creek
- “Southern Plains traverse”
- 30.5km 2 day moderate car shuffle
- carpark to Derrick Hut 4km 1hr
- Derrick Hut to Dibbins Hut at Cobungra Gap 4km, 1-1.5hrs and 400m descent
- Cobungra Gap to Cope Saddle 10km, 3-3.5hrs with ~460m ascent to Mt Jim then gentle 200m descent
- Basalt Temple then optionally Young's Hut side trip
- skirt Mt Jim (1810m) then skirt Mt Bundara (1741m)
- Cope Saddle to Ryders Yards side trip to camp 1.5km, 30min
- camp at Ryders Yards
- Cope Saddle to Wallaces Hut 6km, 1.5-2hrs reasonably flat
- skirt north of Mt Cope (1837m) to cross Bogong High Plains Rd then pass Cope Hut then down to Wallaces Hut
- Wallaces Hut to Langford Gap 3km, 0.75hrs
- can then walk along the flat Bogong High Plains Rd to Falls Creek
australia/vic/hotham.txt · Last modified: 2016/01/04 22:19 by gary1