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Anne 2004 Apr

Mt Anne  16 April, 2004

This trip was a family expedition, in which we intended to do the whole Anne circuit, but, due to the weather closing in, our plans necessarily changed. At least we got to the summit! According to the log book in high camp hut, we were the only lucky ones who were able to capitalise on the single brief window of opportunity that Easter. The weather looks glorious in the photos, and yet by the time we’d summitted and were back on the Eliza plateau, it had closed in and was raining. We thus abandoned our original plans, and came out the way we went in, drowned rats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Frenchmans Cap 2003 (Mar) 2007 (Jan)

Frenchmans Cap   March 2003, Jan 2007.

The first two times I climbed this mountain were in 2003 with a cheap film camera (the photos here), and in 2007, when the weather was so bad there was little point in taking photos. Both times we began from the carpark after lunch, went as far as Vera the first night, climbed up and down from there the next day, and were out by lunchtime on the third.
Here is a tiny selection of shots, not because they are anything at all, but only to keep the photographic record complete. I obviously need to climb this a third time, with my decent camera!! (Post script. I have now climbed it several more times.
See www.natureloverswalks.com/clytemnestra/

 
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Pelion West 2000 Feb

Pelion East and West   Feb 2000

Food stop on the way in to Pelion Hut. We climbed Pelion East that night in the gloaming. (No pics. I ran it from the hut).

Next day we set out for Pelion West (packs parked at Pelion Hut).

Below are summit shots
Happy on top
lunch … then out. 
For the sake of being thorough, I am trying to put in a photo of as many of the peaks I’ve summited.
On 12-13 Feb, 2000, we climbed Pelion East on the Saturday, having come in via the Arm River Track, and then Pelion West on the Sunday, before going back out. I ran up Pelion East from Pelion Hut, so didn’t take a camera, which I have always regretted, as the mountain was swathed in wonderful, atmospheric mist.
The photos above are taken from prints, as I didn’t go digital until 2004.
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Western Arthurs 1998 Mt Pegasus

Western Arthurs 1998    11-15 Jan 1998.

 

Reading while waiting for my family. They never mind my doing that. It’s one of the reasons I love climbing with them.

On the summit of Pegasus
view on the way down.
These photos are just from poor quality prints – sorry, but they’re all I have. We climbed Mt Hayes on the way in, and went as far as the top of Pegasus before returning home. The weather was not good, but the views were still stupendous. Can’t wait to go back.

 

 

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Ossa 1990, Oakleigh

Mt Ossa, Mt Oakley   3-4 Nov 1990

The 1990 summitting was the second time we’d been up Ossa. We had fabulous fun climbing in the snow on a glorious day. I am looking back on this day from a big distance (it is now 2017). I am so proud of my children for doing this climb in the snow.
 

 

 

 

summit

descending

The children took 60 mins from Pelion Gap to the summit, 50 down. The next day, on our way out, we climbed Oakley.
The third time I climbed Ossa was in 1998, when I was a runner, and for training ran up from Pelion gap in 36 mins to the top plateau; 30 mins down. Those were the days.