Hume and Hovell Trail - Day 3

Fiztpatrick Trackhead to Log Brdge Creek Campsite

Today was all about getting over Mt Wee Jasper. Mt Wee Jasper has its summit at 1,120 metres and our track was going right over the top.

Normally buhwalkers are a lazy bunch and tracks only go over the top of a mountain if there is a worthwhile view. In the case of Mount Wee Jasper the view is blocked by the trees and really there is little point in going to the top, other than that is where the path led us.

We started at 390 m so we needed to ascend 731 m to the mountain top, not a huge climb, but we did have full packs and it was a hot day. The track up was well designed and ran up a creek for a lot of its length. The path was quite pretty and not too steep so we summitted by 11:30am. From the summit it was a mostly a downhill walk to our next campsite 5 kms away.

Day 3 - Track

Day 2 - Hill Profile

Today’s hill profile was dominated by the climb of Mt Wee Jasper. Having descended from Mt Wee Japser the next two days were spent in the high country and Mt Wee Jasper was not the highest point of our trip, that honour went to Mt Nemo, which we sidled at 1,190 metres.

There is a wild cave just west of the campground.

The warning sign for teh cave,. It seems it is a largely vertical systm and we had no ropes so we didn't explore further than the entrance.

We are now on the more remote parts of teh trail and there are log books fro you to fill in case of emergency they know who is supposed to be on track. There was little phone reception for the next couple of days.

Our track sign indicating that our day wiuld be 12.6kms. It was actually 14 but these signs were created long before wrist GPS devices and also the tracks had changed in some parts.

The walk started by skirting some farm land. This farmer had some palletised bee hives, ready to deploy for pollination services. Possibly for almond crops in teh Riverina a couple of hours drive away.

We are staring to climb. There is a lot of non native planation pine in the area in which we were walking. The track pretty much avoids the pine plantations .

Another track marker. One of our more inane dicussions was what these figures actually looked like. I think teh concensus was two witches heading to their coven.

The track up top Mt Wee Jaspewr followed a creek most of the way. As we ascended there were a couple of bridges over the creek, like this one.

A 4-5 m waterfall. We coulnt quite see over the edge without danger.

A well earned rest. We are close to the top here. You can see teh track was natually gressy and quite pretty.

Fianlly the top of Mt Wee Jasper.

We are on the way down from Mt Wee Jasper here.