3/4/18
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| Top- Dad, Abby, Me Middle Right - Mt brown summit selfie Bottom right- view of Lake Kaniere |
We’re going to mount brown today. Dad says it’ll take six hours, so we pack lots of chocolate.
It’s a twenty-minute drive to Lake Kaniere and then to geologist creek. There is also another route along and through the Styx river, but geologist creek is closer, so that's the way we go. We leave at 2:15 PM
and start walking in really dense forest choc-full of supplejack, and punga.
We find a really cool stump that left a cool pattern in the bark after it was cut down ( bottom left photo).
then we started to walk through more gravel and silt. Which was a relief, because it was so muddy you’d think 50 people walked up that track every day. At 8:00, we finally reached the hut. At that point, I’d had a too-close run-in with being absolutely covered in mud, and Abby nearly got lost about a
kilometer ahead of dad and I. But the hut was warm, and the two mountain bikers/hikers/lawyers that
were already in the hut had great hut edicate. The next day, at about ten o'clock, we walked up a
quarter of the way up the ridge to the top to have morning tea. After we walked down, we spent the
rest of the day relaxing. That evening, we decided we would walk the whole way up mt brown, to the
summit. Abby ended up with three long cuts across her leg from walking through the sharp alpine plants
. I fallen into various spiky bushes multiple times and ended up with scratched up hands. The view was
amazing though. Here are some photos:
It’s a twenty-minute drive to Lake Kaniere and then to geologist creek. There is also another route along and through the Styx river, but geologist creek is closer, so that's the way we go. We leave at 2:15 PM
and start walking in really dense forest choc-full of supplejack, and punga.
We find a really cool stump that left a cool pattern in the bark after it was cut down ( bottom left photo).
then we started to walk through more gravel and silt. Which was a relief, because it was so muddy you’d think 50 people walked up that track every day. At 8:00, we finally reached the hut. At that point, I’d had a too-close run-in with being absolutely covered in mud, and Abby nearly got lost about a
kilometer ahead of dad and I. But the hut was warm, and the two mountain bikers/hikers/lawyers that
were already in the hut had great hut edicate. The next day, at about ten o'clock, we walked up a
quarter of the way up the ridge to the top to have morning tea. After we walked down, we spent the
rest of the day relaxing. That evening, we decided we would walk the whole way up mt brown, to the
summit. Abby ended up with three long cuts across her leg from walking through the sharp alpine plants
. I fallen into various spiky bushes multiple times and ended up with scratched up hands. The view was
amazing though. Here are some photos:
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| TOP OF MT BROWN! |
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| Abby's leg ( cut and splinters ) |
The next day at nine o’clock sharp, we started the five-hour walk back down the mountain.
In conclusion, Mt brown is an amazing walk, but not for beginners. You climb a kilometer vertically,
and the track itself is about 6 km long. The hut is clean and warm, and the view is amazing!
It’s a six-hour walk for normal people, but a four-hour walk for experienced and extremely advanced people.
and the track itself is about 6 km long. The hut is clean and warm, and the view is amazing!
It’s a six-hour walk for normal people, but a four-hour walk for experienced and extremely advanced people.
My favorite part about Mt Brown was getting to the top and when a fantail landed on Abby's Mountain stick!
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| Look closely at the end of the stick |
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