2/08/1985 – 4/08/1985 Guthega Power Station – Dicky Cooper Bogong return
Kosciuszko National Park, NSW
Ngarigo country
Distance: 37km Total Ascent: 2150m Total Descent: 2150m
Participants: Peter Davies, Stephen Davies (Report)
Friday 2/08/1985
Picked Peter up from Wilton around 8:30pm and then we were off. We camped in the car at Guthega Power Station car park.
Day 1: Saturday 3/8/1985 Guthega Power Station – campsite behind Whites River Hut
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Max elevation: 1909 m
Total climbing: 1207 m
Total descent: -712 m
Average speed: nan km/h
We were heading off up the hill about 10:00am with heaps of other people. I took both sets of ski gear, the alpine and XCD, using the alpine skis and skins climbing up the aqueduct, they made light work of that. I swapped to XCD when the big boots started getting the better of me near Disappointment Spur Hut. From here we skied on to our campsite up behind Whites River Hut, where we arrived about lunch-time.
The entire afternoon was spent going up and down the nearby slopes in superb snow. We were really killing it both telemarking on the XCD and doing parallels with the Alpine skis (this felt a bit strange initially). Peter’s skiing was really impressive with so little practice recently, he really had it all together today.
Day 2: Sunday 4/08/1985 near Whites River Hut – Guthega Power Station
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Max elevation: 1983 m
Total climbing: 975 m
Total descent: -1400 m
Average speed: nan km/h
This morning we skied up to Dicky Cooper Bogong where we found the snow was of very poor quality. It had been wind effected and was badly icing up with XCD ski. We had a good ski back though, managing some linked turns on poor snow. Peter continued to go great guns.
After lunch we ripped into the local slope again. One of the hut occupants commented to Peter that it looked like Steve Coleman had been skiing these hills.
We departed camp about 3:00pm taking around 90 minutes to get back to the car. I wore the Alpine skis all the way out without needed the skins once. Only hit the deck once, whilst trying to adjust a heel (the mechanism was icing up), I fell like a turtle whilst on my back, the second pair of skis attached to my pack greatly increasing the challenge of getting upright again. It was a good run back down on the road.
We both walked up the wide side of the pipes (Peter forgetting his stocks) and had two great skis down in deep, slowish, almost wet snow. Pete drove to Goulburn and me from there to Wilton before I arrived home to Dapto around midnight.
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