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Monday 5 August 2024: Towards Bogong Creek Falls * – M/R,ptX. Bogong Creek rises in the Scabby Range and descends between Mt Gudgenby and Yankee Hat South. It merges with Middle Creek to form the Gudgenby River. There’s a waterfall that’s worth a visit, but I can’t guarantee we’ll get there. Around 7km on fire trail and around 10km handrailing up and down the creek. So 17km and 300vm climb. Will involve scrub bashing. For robust off-track walkers.

Summary

From Garmin Connect (recorded on Epix Gen 2) – Distance: 17.85km | Climb: 405vm | Time: 4:45 moving +3:55 of stops =8:40 | Grading: L/R,ptX; H(12).

Photographs

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Track Maps

Here’s where we went, including my little whoopsies.

Trip Report

I was last at Bogong Creek Falls on 29 Jan 13 having previously visited on 2 Dec 08.

A Rosella was a casualty on the way out, I’m sorry. Two feathers up front when we pulled into Yankee Hat car park.

Walking at 8am, dispatching the 3.8km of fire trail to the turn off in 50 minutes.

Advice from Garry B, who earlier in the year did a 4-day trip over the hills and entered this way, was to handrail up the true right of the creek.

I’ll let the photos do the talking. They are labelled with times that match the waypoints on the map. Relatively easy going to smoko, with multitudes of animal tracks to join together on a ‘drunken sailor’s best route finding’.

Great views up to the right to ice-dripping cliffs on the side of Yankee Hat South and to the left to cliffs on the NE flank of Mt Gudgenby.

We stopped for smoko just before 10am.

Setting off, I made my first whoopsie, crossing a painful gully. Looking back with 20/20 vision there appeared to be a nice ‘track’.

We made the 2.6km from morning tea to our objective in 1:37.

An inelegant entry by crossing to the true left side of the creek and trudging through some slippery snow.

A magical spot for lunch. Garry and Joe had an explore across the top of the falls; others threw snowballs.

Garry sussed out a great icicle display.

We left at 12.30pm. Our return route was a little higher than the inward leg, which in turn was higher than the red planned route.

At around 2pm we scaled a monstrous granite block for a water break. Huge views.

We exited the way Sandra had come up.

We were within 100m of our smoko location, but looking down into a significant gully. Thus began my second whoopsie. It took some time to down, up and along to get out of my mess.

Nothing else went too wrong. We were pretty close to our inward leg, but the bush seemed thicker. Tiredness I guess, We popped out on the fire trail at 3.45pm and made it back to the vehicles at 4.40pm.

Excellent destination, strong walkers. Glad I had a couple of heavies with me. Thanks all, trust you enjoyed it.

Party

8 walkers – Garry B, Joe C, Rose F, Damian S, Zoe S, Wahyu S, Sandra T, me.

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