Denis Evans' Hiking Page

This page includes information which is additional to my official Research School of Chemistry Home Page entry and

my professional page http://rsc.anu.edu.au/~evans

Summit of Mt Jagungal (Easter Saturday, 1997).

The shortest route to Jagungal involves a 38km hike.

But it is worth it!

View looking north from Mt Jagungal at dawn.

Hiking, Bushwalking and Mountains

Satellite WGS 84 coordinates of some south east Australian mountains and trailheads.

Updated WGS 84 coordinates. (2/2/2003).

WGS 84 coordinates (6/3/2005).

Satellite coordinates for Australian Alps huts.

Note: These coordinates are offered with NO guarantees of accuracy. If you do discover errors in the data, I would appreciate your passing on that information to me so that the accuracy of the data can be improved.

The data were obtained using Garmin II+ and eTrex Vista GPS's, and is maintained using GPSy software. For those with GPSy software the GPSy formatted data is here. Also check out Ben Johnson's web site www.firstwaypoint.com.

Some height data for south east Australian mountains.

Watsons Crags at sunset. Photo taken in Summer from Townsend Saddle (7,247ft).

Winter photo of Watsons Crags taken from Mt Twynam, lo res 30KB.

Ramsheads.

A wild summer afternoon on South Ramshead. Photo by Yasunori Tabira. From left: Denis Evans, Ray Withers and Nicholas Withers.

A wild winter afternoon on South Ramshead. (June 24, 2000).

By contrast, it can be extremely pleasant in the Ramsheads - Ramshead Pass (June 18, 2000).

Images from a hike near Blue Lake with the 1997 Research School of Chemistry, David Craig Lecturer.

More Australian hiking/skiiing images. Murray Dow's bushwalking pages.

Colorado Rockies.

View from Mt Belford (14,197ft) down to Missouri Gulch. Aspens are showing their Fall colors, 4,000ft below.

Mt Belford is one of Colorado's 53 mountains over 14,000ft. (September 26, 1998).

Hoch Golling, south of Schladming, Austria.

A strange view on the summit at 2862m. And again. (July 6, 2000)

Longs Peak and Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

A collection of winter views along the Chasm Lake trail just below the east face of Longs. Photos taken before 2003 were taken with a Canon S100 digital Elph. After this date, a Canon S45 was used: Longs, Chasm Lake trail (centre foreground), Chasm Lake, Longs East face, my pack and poles, wow!

ThanksGiving views from Halletts Peak: Flattop trail, down Tyndall Glacier (you can see the trail head just to the left of the right hand ridge), Flattop Mtn, the Great Divide, Halletts Peak from across Tyndall, Halletts from head of Tyndall (this shows the route up Halletts Peak), into Tyndall, Longs from Hallett

Views from near Granite Pass Longs, storm on Halletts, the pine. (November, 2000).

Some summer views of the Snowies.

It is a seven hour round trip to Mount Alice Rawson from the Crackenback chairlift. (This time includes lunch etc.) Total distance is 24km. Mt Townsend is a two and one half hour rapid hike from the chairlift. Alice Rawson from Mt Townsend. The Sentinel and Watsons Crags, view down to the Geehi and a panorama of the Main Range.

Galleries

Winter scenes near Mountain Tate (6,784ft) in the Main Range of the Australian Alps, August 29, 1998.

The most beautiful trees on earth snow gums, December 2000.

Views from Mt Townsend, Easter 2001, and ANZAC Day 2003.

Mt Princeton, Colorado, July 2002.

Views of Telluride, Colorado, July 2002.

Some summer images from the Stubai (Austria), August 2002.

Moods of Mount Tate, September 2002.

The worst local bushfires in a century were started by lightning on January 8, 2003.

Here we see the end of the fires with rain on Mount Morgan, February 22.

Two hikes above Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, May, 2003.

A day among the Ice Trees on the Sawyers Hill Tantangara Mtn ridge, Kosciuszcko National Park, June 14 2003.