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Date: |
Monday, 12 December 1983
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Start: |
Mt Speculation
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Finish: |
Near Mt Selwyn South Saddle
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Daily
Kilometres: |
27.5
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Total
Kilometres: |
177.8
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Journal: |
Got up early for big day and set off at 6:30am. Tedious
descent through scrub from Mt Speculation then up Mt Despair after
getting water from a trickle running down the road. After
Despair, on to the Razor which took 90 minutes of scrub-bashing to
cover 1.5km. Then down to Viking Saddle where I met a guy and
his son (Polish origin) who were walking the AAWT from Mt Skene to
Harrietville. We had a pleasant chat then I carried on up The
Viking (1500ft in 50 minutes). From there it was a tedious,
difficult-to-follow, scrub-bash descent to the other side where I
had lunch and went looking for water in extremely thick scrub
without luck. Carried on and found a water tank at Barry
Saddle. Then tried to push on to Mt Selwyn South Saddle for
the night but at 9:00pm too dark and too tired so stopped.
Just in time because it started to rain. Over-tired, I had a
bad night.
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