Monday, January 02, 2012

King Hut, Craigs Hut, Mt Stearling


We woke late and had a relaxed morning.  About 10am we decided to head out for a trip up to Craigs Hut.  Along King Saddle track we crossed the river 5 times. The river crossings can be very deceiving they look much shallower then they are, none were too deep but deeper then we thought.

We first stopped at King Hut for a quick photo and look around.  Then we pushed onto Craigs Hut.  As we climbed the tracks the views were amazing we stopped and took a photo of the group with the Mountains in the back drop.  We arrived at Craigs hut around 11.30am and it was such an amazing feeling to the area.  It was cool in the wind but the air was incredibly fresh.  We soaked up the atmosphere took photos and explored around the hut.

We then did our first Black Diamond track up Stirling Mt to the summit.  It was steep and rough in patched but the convoy had no problems traversing it.  We climbed to 1746 meters and the view from the top was incredible.  There we not many things around us that were higher than we were.  We could see Mt Buller and Mansfield and several mountain ranges.  We took photos and decided that we would push on down to Howqua Gap for lunch.  The track out was just as good only we were going downhill now and gravity helps.

We pulled into Howqua Gap and we all made lunch had a look through the well used huts and caught up with a guy from the LROC club we had met at the last Khanafari.  He was here with just his family cruising around. 

We then turned our noses back to camp and made it back by 3pm.  The fire was built and relaxing was done and we had a great night around the fire.

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