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Charlotte Pass – Summit Walk – Snowy River – Muellers Pass – Mount Townsend – Muellers Peak

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Tuesday 20/09/2022   Charlotte Pass – Summit Walk – Snowy River – Muellers Pass – Mount Townsend – Muellers Peak

                                         Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

                                         Ngarigo Country

                                     

Participants: Margaret Baz, Jean Cane, Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, John Oakley

Today was our big chance to complete a longer trip further away from Charlotte Pass Village as the weather was looking perfect, with a clear blue sky and zero to a very light breeze. Our small party of New South Wales Nordic Ski Club members departed the lodge shortly after 9:00am and started making our way up and across the downhill slopes towards Charlotte Pass. After an overnight freeze, this is always amongst the more difficult parts of any trip from the village. The churned-up, frozen snow off-piste sections between groomed runs can be particularly challenging. Most of us found ourselves slipping backwards at times as our patterned bases failed to take purchase, occasionally resulting in a fall for some.

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Charlotte Pass – Little Austria – Lake Albina – Abbott Ridge – Mount Townsend – Mount Northcote – Mount Clarke

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Thursday 19/09/2019      Charlotte Pass – Little Austria – Lake Albina – Abbott Ridge – Mount Townsend – Mount Northcote – Mount Clarke

                                              Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

                                              Ngarigo country

Participants: Helen Cromb, Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Trish Elmore, Kenn Clacher (Leader), Ian Houghton, Ken Moylan, Gordon Newell, Stephen Poole, Bill

Opting for company today I joined up with Kenn’s group who were aiming for Little Austria. With snow bridges still strongly present we were quickly across the Snowy River and climbing towards the pass between Mount Lee and Carruthers Peak. The short steep ascent up and over the lip of the ridge proved challenging to those with lighter boots and skis.

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Charlotte Pass – Mount Townsend – The Racecourse – Lake Albina

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Thursday 20/09/2018   Charlotte Pass – Mount Townsend – The Racecourse – Lake Albina

                                           Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

                                          Ngarigo country

Participants: Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies and 22 others!

Today a mixed ability group in excess of twenty people, led again by Colin Ridley, set out in an attempt to summit Mount Townsend. Along with our NSW Nordic Ski Club group we had visitors from Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. Sue and I left separately a couple of minutes earlier, heading further up Kosciuszko Road than the main group to take some panoramas of the Main Range.  Continue reading →

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View down into Little Austria

Thredbo – Mount Kosciuszko – Mount Townsend – Mount Alice Rawson – Wilkinsons Creek – Abbott Ridge – Northcote Creek – Lake Albina – Little Austria

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12/10/2017 – 18/10/2017     Thredbo – Mount Kosciuszko – Mount Townsend – Mount Alice Rawson – Wilkinsons Creek – Abbott Ridge – Northcote Creek – Lake Albina – Little Austria

                                                  Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

                                                  Ngarigo country

Distance: 92km   Total Ascent: 4,630m   Total Descent: 4,630m   Time: 40 hours

Participants: Stephen Davies (Photos, Report)

My previous week had been spent waiting patiently for a multi-day window of descent weather, so with the next six days after Thursday forecast to be cool, dry and very calm it was now time to act. The trip objective being to camp high on Abbott Range or Mount Townsend or thereabouts and make good use of the two heavy DSLR cameras, two lenses, tripod and multitude of other camera gear I had decided to take. There was also a brand new GoPro to christian and learn how to use. Hopefully some epic day to night time lapses, telemark runs and worthwhile photos will be recorded.   Continue reading →

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The Milky Way from South Rams Head saddle

Dead Horse Gap – Mount Townsend – Rams Head

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4/9/2016 – 7/9/2016     Dead Horse Gap – Mount Townsend – Rams Head

                                          Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

                                          Ngarigo country

Distance: 41km   Total Ascent: 2470m   Total Descent: 2470m

Time:  20 hours   Track Info

Participant: Stephen Davies (Report, Photos)

After watching the weather for a few days, a good part of this week appeared promising. So Sunday afternoon saw me departing Dead Horse Gap just after 2:00pm with the aim of camping at the top of the ridge just north of South Rams Head. Maybe I could get really lucky and catch some Aurora Australis as last night had produced a good display in the Northern Hemisphere and it was expected to linger.

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