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Bimberi Wilderness, May 2006
Last time we were through here we had missed the Blue Waterholes and Bimberi Peak, so we took advantage of being nearby to visit them. The weather stayed largely dry, but the winds topped 100 kph and the temperature overnight dropped to about -5 C. We were travelling with very lightweight summer gear, but we were warm enough. The day after we left the area the really bad weather arrived and the place was covered in snow.

Day 2, Oldfields Hut - morning tea inside out of the cold winds	Day 3, Entering Clarke Gorge at Blue Waterholes, wading	Day 3, Travelling down Clarke Gorge	Day 3, Limestone cliffs above us in the Gorge

Day 3, Seventeen Creek plain - we had winds over 100 kph here	Day 4, Morning at Murrays Gap, -3 C overnight	Day 4, View from top of Bimberi Peak, 1911 m, with dead snow gum from 2003 fires	Day 5, Striking camp at Orroral Valley, -5 C overnight

Kosciosko NP, April 2006
This was meant to be a pleasant easy stroll from Cesjacks across to Grey Mare Range, down that to the Geehi Flats, up Hannels Ridge and back along the Main Range etc to Cesjacks. It was about 130 km, but included the descent off Grey Mare Range and the subsequent 1,600 m climb up Hannels Ridge. We were carrying ultralightweight gear for benign conditions, but the weather was a little uncooperative. Fortunately, we had enough gear to cope and stay warm and dry.

Day 2, Morning under Mailbox Hill: snow wasn't meant to happen!	Day 3, Morning on Grey Mare Range: more snow, oh dear.	Day 4, Wilkinson Valley, under Kosci	Day 4, Lake Albina from Northcote

Day 5, Twynam - wind ~100 kph, ice on steel, I'm hanging on	Day 5, Aquaduct Track - that's not fine weather ahead	Day 6, Early camp near Bluff Tarn	Day 6, The expected storm brewing up slowly

Day 7, 300 mm snow in morning - hum, interesting	Day 7, Walking near Four Ways in high wind and a little snow	Day 7, North of Smiths Perisher	Day 7, "Morning tea" at Cesjacks (Joke! We ate inside.)

Wollemi Wilderness, March 2006
River walking for 4 days, with a forced retreat when we looked like running out of food. We had 6 days food, but it looked like being 8 days walking, IF it went. Getting out was tricky, involving a narrow side canyon, climbing the cliffs, negotiating a knife edge spur (with a crawl), and a dry camp on top.

Creek bed and jungle	Sand bars under the cliffs	Cliff above a pool	Cliffs above a bend in the canyon


Cleaning sand out of my shoes	Clambering through a block-up	Canyon walls and tree tops	Crawl space, on the exit spur

Ski Touring, Winter 2005
High in the Jagungal Wilderness

Upper Geehi valley & Jagungal	Camp site, evening	Morning sun	Morning Tea

Snow Scenes, Winter 2005
In the Jagungal Wilderness

Late Evening	Jagungal	Doubtful Creek	Afternoon Shadows

Ski Touring, Winter 2003
Some of the better weather in an otherwise stormy season

Shrinking snow bridges (Doubtful Ck)	Camp in fine weather - Upper Snowy River	Camp site, same, in the evening	Camp site, next morning - rather high winds and snow

Doyles Creek Arch, Northern Wollemi
Before it collapsed

From below	From above (steep)	From the West end	Not why it collapsed!

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