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Pelion West 2000 Feb

Pelion East and West   Feb 2000

Food stop on the way in to Pelion Hut. We climbed Pelion East that night in the gloaming. (No pics. I ran it from the hut).

Next day we set out for Pelion West (packs parked at Pelion Hut).

Below are summit shots
Happy on top
lunch … then out. 
For the sake of being thorough, I am trying to put in a photo of as many of the peaks I’ve summited.
On 12-13 Feb, 2000, we climbed Pelion East on the Saturday, having come in via the Arm River Track, and then Pelion West on the Sunday, before going back out. I ran up Pelion East from Pelion Hut, so didn’t take a camera, which I have always regretted, as the mountain was swathed in wonderful, atmospheric mist.
The photos above are taken from prints, as I didn’t go digital until 2004.
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Walls of Jerusalem 1998 Solomons Throne

Walls of Jerusalem 1998 – Solomon’s Throne, sunrise.

As said elsewhere, the Walls area has been our playground ever since we moved here. Several times we’ve climbed Solomon’s throne in the dark and then sat at the top and waited for sunrise. This is a shot from one such adventure.
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Western Arthurs 1998 Mt Pegasus

Western Arthurs 1998    11-15 Jan 1998.

 

Reading while waiting for my family. They never mind my doing that. It’s one of the reasons I love climbing with them.

On the summit of Pegasus
view on the way down.
These photos are just from poor quality prints – sorry, but they’re all I have. We climbed Mt Hayes on the way in, and went as far as the top of Pegasus before returning home. The weather was not good, but the views were still stupendous. Can’t wait to go back.

 

 

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Wellington 1997 Aus Championships

Mt Wellington   17 May 1997

It’s impossible to count the number of times I have run up Mt Wellington, as I used to do it regularly for training – sometimes running all the way and sometimes turning around at Junction Cabin and coming back down again (to the brewery).

I have had many happy victories on this mount: in 1993, I won both the Tasmanian women’s and the men’s title on the mountain (causing great distress to the male who was six minutes being me but thought he deserved the medal). I also won a couple of Australian titles here, as well as a few Point to Pinnacle races. It is a mountain of happy memories, but my happiest are of training sessions, alone, in the snow, running up near the summit through a fairyland of white shapes. The rather unflattering photo here is of me winning the national titles in 1997. Well, I look fit and determined, and there are no prizes in athletics for looking pretty (fortunately).

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Ossa 1990, Oakleigh

Mt Ossa, Mt Oakley   3-4 Nov 1990

The 1990 summitting was the second time we’d been up Ossa. We had fabulous fun climbing in the snow on a glorious day. I am looking back on this day from a big distance (it is now 2017). I am so proud of my children for doing this climb in the snow.
 

 

 

 

summit

descending

The children took 60 mins from Pelion Gap to the summit, 50 down. The next day, on our way out, we climbed Oakley.
The third time I climbed Ossa was in 1998, when I was a runner, and for training ran up from Pelion gap in 36 mins to the top plateau; 30 mins down. Those were the days.