Cradle Mountain Summit Via The Overland Track

in #travel7 years ago (edited)

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Heading out to the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park today and thought I'd share a few of my favorite photos when I did the summit in 2015. It was no easy feat. Lots of rock scrambles and lots of snow as well. Pass the Kitchen Hut there were only two other trekkers who continued on while the others had turned around. I pretty much hiked alongside them until they decided it was too tough and dangerous to keep going. I was determined to summit that day as my time in Tassie was limited and only had one chance (at least at that time). To my surprise, I somehow managed to convince one of them to go with me while the other wait for us. The snow got thicker and deeper. It was a bit scary as we had no idea how deep it went. But we carefully and slowly made it to the top. We snapped a few "we made it" photos and quickly made our way back down as it was nearly sunset and we still had a long way to go. Passed the rock scrambles, all three of us raced to the bottom with the lil day light we had left. It was an unforgettable hike and I can't wait to go back again. Hopefully with less snow this time. I won't go into too much details and just let the photos below do the talking.

P.S. my computer is dead and editing this on my phone, my wifi is also running out but I promise to include some photo descriptions as soon as I can. Until then, please enjoy the photos below :)

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A family checking out a wombat at the start of the Overland Track near Ronny Creek Car Park

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Overlandland Track

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A boatshed at the edge of Crater Lake

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A boatshed at the edge of Crater Lake

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Views from Marions Lookout - 1223m

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Admiring Crater Lake from Marions Lookout

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Signature jump shot at Marions Lookout

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Views all around

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Admiring the jagged face of Cradle Mountain

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Cradle Mountain Summit - clouds rolling in from the right side

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So much snow at the plateau on the way to Kitchen Hut

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Some parts of the boardwalk was totally covered in snow

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Just another photo of the jagged face of Cradle Mountain

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Walking on snow without proper shoes/gears is no fun

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Made it to the infamous Kitchen Hut

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The infamous Kitchen Hut

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Clouds were rolling in and out so quickly you could have such poor visibility one second...

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...and then this the next

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Checking out the views

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Still a long way up

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Rock scrambling our way up following the snow poles

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More snow on the track

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Very steep ascent through rock scrambles

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The track we were just on issomewhere beneath the clouds

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Rock climbing and photo ops shenanigans, glad these guys were up for it.

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Rock climbing and photo ops shenanigans, glad these guys were up for it.

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Such an incredible sight to see the clouds roll in out

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More climbing up steep rocky scrambles

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Photos doesn't really do these rock formations justice

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Photos doesn't really do these rock formations justice

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Photos doesn't really do these rock formations justice

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Obligatory summit photo, see my shadow?

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Obligatory summit photo

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Summit views

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The trickiest section with very thick snow, don't know how I managed to snap a photo but i did

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The trickiest section with very thick snow, don't know how I managed to snap a photo but i did

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Spot the person next to the tall rock? Aidan's friend waiting for us while we hiked to the summit

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Here's a close up

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*A foggy descent

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Amazing as always. I can't wait to tag along with you and your travels. Looks very good up there. Glad that you pushed through the summit.

Another marvelous post @jh3n you never fail to amuse me with those breathtaking and wonderful post of yours.

So beautiful yet so dangerous ate. Glad you make it. I picture out if I am exactly on that place. I will be on that last two photos. Waiting hehe. Good article as always ate. Thanks for taking us to your adventures. 🙂👍🏻 Can’t wait for your next post.

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Beautiful photos, makes me want to got back to Tassie even more!

Thank you @jpphotography :) I loved Tassie and can't wait to return again. Hopefully sometime in Feb or Mar 2018 :)