Drove SW out of Thredbo along the Alpine Way until reaching the Thredbo River crossing and the car park for the walk. The car park is known as Dead Horse Gap. At 9:00 am it was crowded, got one of the few spots left to park. Followed the Cascade walking trail
The trail follows the Thredbo river, initially high above but after a few km drops down to the river
Reached a metal bridge over the river.
Looking upstream.
Looking downstream where I had come from and to the main range
Climbed up the track on the other side, steep in places. After a few more Km headed into the bush towards the summit. A little swampy in places but with the drought not that deep.
Reached the summit, a large rocky outcrop with an old wooden trig.
It was very windy. Set up on an old stump, the rocks protected me from the wind but the squid pole was bouncing around everywhere.
Looking the other way.
Squid pole attached to the stump
Radio perched on my pack.
Got on 40 m on 7.090. After a call got VK3AFW Ron quite strong. Worked VK3GTV Col next, then a summit to summit from VK3PF/p Peter on VK3/VE-159. Quite surprising as the summit was in NE Victoria, only about 100 km W of me.
Went on to work
VK5WG Wal
VK3SQ Geoff
After contacting Geoff the squid pole collapsed, twice... Really very windy.
VK3XPT/7 called me, on a beach in VK7 using an old military type portable radio. Audio sounded like a telephone handset... He had some company, worked VK7FOLK Helen and VK7JON Jonathon as well on the same radio.
The VK3ZPF Peter, VK2IO/m Gerard and a faint copy on VK4TJ John.
Went to 20m. Worked ZL1BYZ John, then another summit to summit, with ZL/VK2GPL and ZL1SKL on ZL1/WK-158 Puketutu. Both weak but workable
Worked ZL1TM Andrei, and VK5AYL Sue. Packed up and headed back down. Track log of walk, map from Google Maps. Its around 4.7 Km each way.
Nice write up Ian, have to get there one of these days!
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