Franklin News and Views

---- October 2011 Album of photos Click image to go to album Walled Gould

Click the image below to view photos from a walk in the Budawangs, Morton national Park NSW.   The walk was  the Foster, Styles Creek, Hidden Valley, Quiltys Circuit   from 20-23 September 2011   Budawangs2011

13-16 April 2010 Our latest bushwalk was to Artillery Knob and  a report and photos is at the link attached to image below.  

It is very easy to create videos from Picasa and the software then uploads to the web, so it just a matter of selecting, in this case, the slides and some music and clicking a button Video of South Cape Rivulet Western Arthur Range

I recently went on a bushwalk through the Western Arthur Range where we met a commercial party from Tasmanian Expeditions at Lake Oberon. They were camped at lake Oberon and staying there for 3 nights and group of 4 (2 clients and 2 guides) were spread out on 3 of the 4 available platforms.  The leader did offer to consolidate to two platforms to allow our party of 4 room, but as no one else arrived that day we did not need the space and manage to fit on the hardened area need the lake shore.  However in differing circumstances it could easily get overcrowded there with the limited camping available. I probably would not have thought much more about this, but have just received an newsletter (don’t know how I got on the mailing list) from Tas Expeditions, in which they promote future Western Arthur walks.  These are described as 13 days with 12 nights which includes side trips for “6 trekkers” plus I assume 2 guides and departures  in 2010 for 10 January, 7 Feb and...

Wednesday 23 April 08 to Friday 25 April 08 The Tyndall Range is of conglomerate and is around 1000m. It is steeply sloped on the west and large cliffs on the east. Along the southern portion are many lakes and tarns and low alpine meadows. At the northern end is Mt Tyndall at 1179 metres and on the southern end Mt Geike at 1193 metres Details can be viewed at http://bushwalks.blogspot.com/ and photos at http://picasaweb.google.com.au/PeterJFranklin/TyndallRange

Friday 29 February 08 to Monday 3 March 08 4 A four day walk in lovely weather and for much of the time away from the other walkers. Details can be viewed at http://bushwalks.blogspot.com

A walk in January to Mt Rogoona is on my Bushwalk pages

Wednesday 14 November 2007 We located an old bulldozer track uphill from the lookout and eventually came onto a cut track with plastic markers and occasional wooden posts. The track contoured the slope crossing small gullies, but at 828309 it ceased and we could not locate an extension anywhere. We both wondered why the cut track should be heading in the direction it did as we thought it more logical to ascend more directly to Proprietary Peak. Although conditional were quite cloudy when we started by the time we reached the end of the cut track it was quite drizzly and visibility poor with the peaks now completely blanketed, so we decided it best to retreat and return when conditions were better