The Lakes Walk in May:
From Charlottes Pass in Kosciuzsko National Park, a 21km loop. Conditions were mixed: ice, snow, rock and earth. Changing footware was time consuming.
May 27 , 2006.
Approaching Carruthers Peak along the east ridge.
Looking down into Carruthers Couloir.
There is nothing like the sound of crampons crunching into hard ice.
Feldmark near Mt Lee.
This area is so windy it never has much snow cover.
Lake Albina hasn't frozen yet. Mt Alice Rawson is above left.
Above Albina (0.5kms north of where this photo was taken) there are steep icy slopes which are best avoided if you're not wearing crampons. If you slip and don't have an ice axe... it's a long, steep way down and there are rocks waiting for you. In fact the area is prone to small avalanches. An alternate route takes you from Mt Lee, over the summit of Mt Northcote and down to Muller Pass. However wearing a pair of touring crampons and carrying an ice axe allows for much better views!
View from the south of Mt Clarke. Sunset is approaching.
Muller Peak. Mt Townsend looms behind and left. The low ridge in the left foreground is the extreme end of the Kosciuzsko North Ridge.
If you know where to look you can just make out the Lakes Walk "track" we have just traversed.
May 26, 2006, Sony DSC R1.
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