SATURDAY - KOSCIUSZKO CONQUEST

We made it! Along with hundreds of others, we celebrated Hannah’s 7^th birthday by doing the 6 km walk from the top of the Kosciuszko Express Chairlift to the summit of Kosciuszko from where we rang Hannah to wish her HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH.  Fortunately the people were spread out along the trail so there weren’t too many in any one spot.

Obviously we had to take the obligatory photos.

Most of the trail is an elevated steel walkway which snakes off into the distance. The photos below tell the story. As you would expect, it is uphill most of the way but the walk back was really nice. At the top of the chairlift, the altitude is 1937 metres. At the top of Kosciuszko, the altitude is 2228 metres so the climb over 6 kms is approximately 300 metres.

We were right at the head waters of the Snowy River but didn’t see the Man. His horses were grazing on the high country though.

This building is not an air raid shelter. It’s the toilet block located at Rawson’s Pass, just below the final climb to the summit.

We were very fortunate with the weather in that we had a mainly clear sky for most of the day but, as I sit under the awning typing this, the thunder is rumbling and the rain is falling gently. We made it home and had a nice warm shower before the rain started but the temperature is now plummeting as it does in this part of the world. It’s time to open a bottle of wine.

Tomorrow we head through the mountains into Victoria and start heading for the Great Ocean Road.