Mt Barney: Queensland's Premiere Hiking Mountain // Logans Ridge - East & West Peaks 

Far out! That's a fast time to do one peak, let alone 2! I have many Mt Barney stories! My 1st Mt Barney trip, dad took me when I was 9yo. We went up and down S. Ridge but didn't climb E or W peak. As you would know there is a rock slab at an awkward angle part way up. It freaked me out, and with a lot of encouragement from dad, I got 3/4 of the way up before wedging myself into the crack. I called out "DAD, CALL A HELICOPTER". eventually we made it to the Hut Site, which was already taken, so we set up camp across the creek amongst the tree ferns. There was a massive storm that night and our little camp in the sky was inside the storm. Dad spent the night freaking out about the possibility that his truck could be sliding down the slippery slope from where we parked it on Yellow Pinch. When my daughter was 2 or 3, while driving to a camp site, I told her this storey. When I got to the "Dad, call a Helicopter" bit, she burst out in uncontrollable laughing, and it was a running joke for the rest of the vtrip. She has just turned 10 and I keep telling her that will take her to the "Dad, Call a helicopter" spot, but I haven't done it yet. I've done Logan's twice in my late teens/ eairly 20s but I don't think I'd do it again. Too scary and unfit. Great video!

Just attempted this today with my friend, we left left the car park too late for first timers around 10am and we went the same route as you guys, there was only 3 cars in the car park at the time. Didn't have proper gear i was just wearing skater shoes and they pretty much fell apart, rubbers soles fell off i was just walking on the remaining cloth fabric at the point. We reached at about 600 - 700m altitude we came across more experienced locals that cautioned us that we should need to reach the peak by 2pm bare minimum if we want to do the loop. We thanked them for their advice and went a little further before made a judgment call we reached about 800m no altitude devices just guessing cause we were above the clouds at the point. We were pretty committed and had we not came across those people coming down from our direction which from i gather is rare as people usually come back down via pheasants is the recommended way. On our way down we nearly got lost just before the 2 red triable marker and were going a wrong way, we realised it didnt look familiar and made our way back up and thought we were on a wrong side and were about to go a totally wrong direction again but lucky one of us turned around and saw the red triable marker. Got back to the carpark around 6pm our car was the last one there. I'm glad we decided to head back to 'try tomorrow' not literally tommorow but the meaning of the messashe is whats the hurry this mountain aint going anywhere try another day.

Great storytelling and shot composition! Can't believe how fast you guys reached both peaks - impressive 👏

Love love this vid! Your father son relationship and skillI is inspiring! I tried Barney earlier on in my hiking career with a group … way before I should have … also had a near death 💀 experience The poor guy behind me saved my life. I’m forever indebted to his right hand, fear of me falling on him and his strength! Went up south east ridge and down peasants 😁😁 took us sooooo long…. Won’t even tell you as it’s embarrassing 😂

Other countries think that Australia hasn’t got real mountains but they are wrong . They are not as big as other parts of the world but the Aussie mountains can be hard to climb such as Federation Peak in Tasmania . Fantastic video and great hike thank you .

The Gait thing Was Hilarious, Crazy Winds Up There. Crazy beautiful Views mate.

Hey mate, im sure you have already, but if you havent, Beerwah mountain is a good climb!

Great hike/scramble/climb with some great shots of the beast from below and the views on the way up. I got to say the wind really made me uneasy just watching it.

I walked up Logan’s when I was in grade 6 and many times since then, it’s not that difficult. I’d say it’s one of the best routes in South East QLD, views all the way up. Getting down Logan’s is definitely more difficult though. Of all the routes to take, Peasant’s ridge is the easiest but man it just sucks.

Awesome video. Thanks for all the tips, time markers and commentary. I thought my 7 hours up SER and down Peasants was good. You guys smashed it! Can’t wait now to do Logan’s and the West Peak next time

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought that JELBuilder is retiring. "Time to hand the frillneck hat to the next generation." I thought. Glad that I'm wrong again. 13:29 Jacob has a much higher reach than us, which gives him the advantage over us for climbing. I'm very sure that he found a good hand hold that neither of us can reach. My "T-rex" arms are good for caving, not climbing from what I found out in the past hikes.

Hey John, Go Team Jel, Great Vid Mate, you really smashed that, I walked that 30 years ago and it took me the entire day and we didn't do the long trail (not sure if they had names back then), Logan was a very different guy, a poster child for Cognitive dissidence, Psychotic illnesses and probably schizophrenia, but he did some great stuff as well,. I like the ye olde film effect. T-Rocks

Wow what an awesome effort...my legs were sore just watching 😂 I think I'll stick to taking my Patrol up Waterfall Creek Road and leave the climbing to you professionals 😊

The drone you heard was probably “bush sights” channel he just put out one at the same time. Man Logan’s ridge eh? I’m definitely gonna do that one day it looks so epic dude. Rum jungle! Man when we camped there the night, other campers didn’t bury their shits or go far to shit so the campsite stunk soooo bad the whole time we were there 😂 more like bum jungle. Damn you guys made good time to cover that route well done.

Can’t wait to finally give this ago when I come back to QLD ( remembering lots of old memories) hope your guys are well

Definitely won't be doing Logan's ridge but looking at doing up and down peasants in a couple of months for my first time up that beast.

Bloody Machines! hahaha..

Great footage mate! What camera are you using?

Woohoo!! Go the JEL machine! And props to Jacob for his choice in footwear, those TX4'S are the bomb for scrambling! Welcome to the Logans club! How awesome is it hey, it's definitely my favourite route, can't wait to do it again. What waterfall was Jacob talking about around the 23 minute mark?

Man dont know how i missed this one 😂 I did west peak from midgets ridge in 2021 and it was completely bare just like east peak… crazy to see it overgrown like that. Nice to see a good video on logans ridge. Awesome job mate!

Just checking what type of watch you were using and would you recommend it for hiking etc?

Mt. Barney vs Mt. Bartle Frere?

Can u see mt warning from it

Life stages: - 1, Ordinary Father and Son - 2, Hiking videos on RU-vid under the title Jelbuilder - 3, Marvel comic Superhero franchise: Captain Epic and the Legend known as Jacob You are currently at 2!

Aussie mountains aint even what id call a hill.