It’s a great first overnight hike. I don’t have a trail, but you should easily be able to find one on alltrails or wikiloc. Navigation here is certainly not difficult. Enjoy!
Your commentary and filming on this video was excellent and your closing remarks around the incident and learnings were profound and meaningful mate , nice work
My in-laws have significant land just over the border from Texas, ducked in to Sundown once did a short work with the Family, I always wanted to return and explore it! The Granite Belt/New England area is just stunning!
Cheers! We went up on the right side of the lake, aiming for the obvious saddle. Then up an obvious steep chimney and a traverse around the top to the summit. The hardest part for us was finding the route up through the scrub to the saddle.
@@AaronGrayOutdoors perfect, we aimed for the saddle but started to aim for the summit too early and kept getting stuck in shrub and large rocks so couldn’t go any further after trying for an hour
I did this pre bushfires in 1989. First day torrential rain so we couldn’t summit Mt Anne which was a shame, second day was absolutely perfect, hot and not a cloud in the sky. The traverse of lightning ridge and camp at the lakes with the sunset over lightning ridge one of my happiest memories ever on a walk. The last day thick fog and steady rain. The fire seems to have cleared the track somewhat and I don’t recall any stairs going up to mount elisa. Will definitely do it again.
About 50 years ago I hiked in to a hut from O'Reilley's named Rat-a-tat Hut. It was probably in the winter of 1974. It was near one of the sources of the Albert River. In fact we we found a spring in a nearby gully where the river came out of the ground. Good days! Unfortunately arthritis stops me from doing much walking any more.
Thanks Mikey. I love Rat-a-tat, its a gorgeous campground but unfortunately there are no longer any signs of a hut out there - it was removed many years ago. Sorry to hear about the arthritis. I bet you miss getting out there. Cheers.
Absolutely amazing stunning shot. Aaron i recommended you visit the himalayan mountains k2 and Nangaparbat view point from one place. Whenever you start a short solo trip of 4-5 days, Moses Peak is a must. It is a 5300m height۔ from the top of moses pea which you can see the views of the K2 world second highest peak in the world, Nangaparbat, K6 k11 and K 12 views in one frame. best time from May to October. This is a family tracked.its open Zone, one did not need a trekking permit or have to pay Royalty fee to climbed this Mountain tower
@@AaronGrayOutdoors really feel the amazing sound.Whenever you start a short solo trip of 4-5 days, Moses Peak is a must. It is a 5300m height۔ from the top of moses pea which you can see the views of the K2 world second highest peak in the world, Nangaparbat, K6 k11 and K 12 views in one frame. best time from May to October. This is a family tracked.its open Zone, one did not need a trekking permit or have to pay Royalty fee to climbed this Mountain tower
Aaron, thanks again for taking us back to beautiful Tassie. Looked like a tough walk but they're the ones you remember most particularly when you're back home having a few reds and the pain is mostly forgotten. Love your work mate and thanks again.
Thanks Mows! I'd highly recommend doing it anti-clockwise as we did, as you are generally always descending through scrub rather than ascending. It was a fantastic hike!
Lucas and yourself make a great hiking team and I've been following Lucas for years. Well done mate. Good edit. Did Lucas do some Camera work for you on this one?
I had a good chuckle at your deadpan delivery of "apparently Lucas is really excited" (for the scrub) hahaha, plus me and Josiah's terrible posing for the camera skills on Gell and Cheyne 😉 In all seriousness though, it's great to relive the walk and see it from a different perspective and camera. Really enjoyed watching it!
I have hiked up there 3 times in my 20's. Is a very medium walk, and once when I was 12 years old. Not difficult. A few places like walking up steep stairs. I first hiked there in the late 1970's as part of a boy scout group. For reasons unknown, we brought down a bunch of pieces of the plane wreck, including the main Pilot seat and instrument panels. Of the pilot seat, on the aluminium was the unmistakable stains of the burnt flesh of the pilot.
Thanks! I have been up there a few times now, it is a fantastic location. I am certainly amazed at how much of the plane wreckage still exists up there, given that some of it has been brought down. That pilot seat would have been disgusting.
Hey Peter. I generally do a fair bit of research and looking at topographic maps prior to the hike. I use my compass and phone mainly for navigation (Gaia maps) and carry a backup Garmin as well. I hope that helps.
