原帖由 TWLYWW 于 5/3/2011 21:06 发表
哈哈哈！笑死我了！Peter如果亲自来？感觉这话就象在问Peter如果亲自吃饭一样。Peter召集活动的贴子，他怎么能不亲自去？MK大哥看贴可真仔细啊。
不过我想队长对您介绍的私房路线一定会激动万分，感激涕零的。
我2年前走过一次， 所以才知道有那么一条原始路线。 因为走的人太少， 基本上没有什么路，横倒在小溪上的树干就是桥。 具体的地图身边没有， 连以前的照片都没有了。 O'REILLY家族现在每年也会亲自做向导带上几个游客去走一次。 刚刚查了一下， 全程３６公里。 具体路线就不贴了。 最后一片处女地啊，不能被糟蹋了
贴点鬼佬的总结：
What a day and what a climb. It started at 4am for me with a 2 hr drive to the campsite, and all was going well until we got to the vertical climb. I knew it was going to be hard hard day, but hard was an understatement!! I don't know how i got out of it with out any broken bones since i landed on my butt so many times It was a great day and in good company. We all worked together to reach the goal. Even though it was mostly overcast, I don't think i every sweated so much in my life. We could have bottled it. We made to the site in one piece, had some lunch, then headed off the Point Lookout cache. Then we had to face the challenge of getting back to the car. I think this was just as hard as getting up to the site.
I have to mention a special thanks to Chris, Tony and Paul. About half way down Paul asked me to check the track on my GPSr. I went to grab it and suddenly realised I didn't have it on my side anymore!! I couldn't believe it!! I was absolutely exhausted and thought s&%t, i'm going to have to climb the mountain again!! [xx(] before i knew it Tony and Paul were off back up the climb, to where i'd had slipped over to see if it was there. Chris followed soon after. I felt ill and stayed with the backpacks and tried to regain some energy. Soon after they all returned with the GPSr in hand. I had left it sitting on a log up higher where we had stopped for a rest. Even though it was only about 500m away, they would have climbed about 250m in elevation to get there. Thanks again Guys.
There was great relief once we had made it to the bottom and had a rest in the creek to cool off. My muscles are still aching 2 days later. Thanks for organising the walk Griffo and thanks guys for a fun challenging day, it was an awesome sense of achievement.
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The day was clear after previous rain and we arrived much earlier this time parking downstream of the still flowing causeway. We walked 15 minutes to the Lamington Park entrance just beyond the head of the road where there is space for 3-4 cars to park. It was 8.15am. Here, 200m into the walk it was necessary to cross Christmas Creek by walking over a large fallen tree several metres above the rapids below. The trail is quite indistinct but with the Lamington 1:25000 topographic map we made the 2 ½ km walk to Westray’s grave in about 2 hours, crossing Christmas Creek near where the South Branch joins. Along the way we marked several waypoints “Hansel and Gretel” style, such as the waterfall and where the track gives access to the picturesque pools and rapids. About 300m after the creek crossing, following the South Branch was Westray’s grave in a peaceful location. Backtracking 100 metres was an orange metal arrow pointing up the spur. The average gradient from Westray’s grave to the Stinson campground (cache) is 1:2.5 over the 1500m of trail shown on the map. This is where our troubles started. The first 300m has a gradient of 1:1 straight up, after which the trail becomes indistinct. Thankfully previous trekkers have placed coloured ribbon and/or orange metal arrows to guide a course up to the escarpment. Here we lost the path and a good half hour trying to find a route around the escarpment. In the end we had to climb straight up the slippery vertical 7m rocky impasse. We continued about 100m toward the ridgeline and thankfully intersected the trail. From Westray’s grave to the top of the escarpment had taken nearly 2 hours for a 200m horizontal gain toward the campsite/cache. At this point we used the GPS co-ordinates for the campsite/cache to guide us the remaining 1300m/1 hour walk along a more easily discernable trail.However about 100m in we could not make out the trail, it became very steep and my doubts rose as to whether this was the trail. We could see an open canopy section of forest with a dead tree standing tall in the middle of dense undergrowth. We only had 10 minutes left to look for the cache and were unsuccessful. With clouds rolling in, thunder sounding and a storm approaching we thought “discretion was the better part of valour” and started our return at 2.30pm, concerned about the escarpment and fading daylight. The trail led us straight back to the escarpment edge-not around. There was no time to waste so I sacrificed the 30 feet of rope I had been carrying to make a lean-to shelter in case of emergency, and we went straight over the side. I was thankful for the GPS waypoints I had marked as this made the return trip downhill much more straightforward. It took 3 ½ hours to return and in fading light we reached the entry of the park at 6.15pm, 10 hours after we had started. My son and I gave each other a high-5, happy that we had navigated our way there and had made it back in one piece
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