https://www.australianmountains.com/alps-avenue daily 0.75 2014-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377893600667-JIFT0FDBH3GMEC15KX7Y/akosmajor4.jpg Mountains https://www.australianmountains.com/home-page daily 1.0 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1489608186984-QY5TSRWMZUE7UJIUVWLT/Frenchman+with+logo+1378346_10151714805649142_206031001_n.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1520613245571-W7JSWZY2IU4MLBXYXXPW/Ben+Lomond+Tasmania+c.1938.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1534818519224-9XDKX8UNC7X2IW29I00B/MVSC%2BWestern%2Bview%2B2004%2BFolio.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1722431618124-1UUYCF444XREEQLGVDN7/image_2024-07-31_231334214.png Main articles - image_2024-07-31_231334214.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431024883793-UB6IJPAZWGSYOKG5GOBG/Donna+USC+side.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431025122109-754PGWWOB5BS421YMHPP/Donna+USC+side.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431962868261-SEPTBJ0SGQ25G8F8A81J/Lifts+CP_meathook_ski_tow.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1535689160611-QIP3V9DHMNGCV2XE0UTX/Feathertop+from+Hotham.png Main articles The classic winter view of Mt Feathertop from Mt Hotham ski resort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458191804564-E70JHZKOK29SWMD7NX7W/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The classic view of Mt Feathertop in winter. 1930 Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428197710667-1QFDGHDVLC5J7NG6C6BW/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The summit ridge in summer viewed from the Razorback. Photo: © Blair Hamilton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421261453752-E8W8FFRIE7ICPBC6GHE2/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Feathertop Bungalow in 1935. Photo: Mick Hull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424834962646-44VOXQUL8SWDQSZF7FRV/image-asset.png Main articles Mt Feathertop from the Bogong High Plains in the 1920s. Photo Robert 'Wilkle' Wilkinson. Source National Library of Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1578461632709-T55PQYF0SIT7PURHOI8L/mp001329.png Main articles Mt Feathertop from the Ovens Valley goldfields in 1863. Lithograph from an original by Nicholas Chevalier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421262224709-MDR7FM81TZ8RQNITAOKS/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Ore bin at the Razorback mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422842913153-QQO0LMI7BT44WSRWP57I/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Battery used to crush ore at the Razorback Mine. Photo from Alpine Shire history https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457342179605-4DVFSQSWO0BO4XEXSMSE/image-asset.png Main articles Lawler family cattlemen on Feathertop, probably early 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1522952172295-WNBT5HOIAM9JH9ZGN9FB/Feathertop+grazing+run.png Main articles Boundary of Feathertop grazing run from an unpublished paper by Peter Cabena for the Lands Department. Mount Hotham: its history from the 1850s to 1950s, 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1578630037164-60OOF10MQSRVWQQ0CAHZ/Feathertop+ad+12011889.png Main articles Advertisement in The Herald. Saturday 12 January 1889, p. 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457340902798-ET4BL9B2U3H97HZNU6QC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Climbers and dog. Mt Feathertop 25/8/1911. Photo prob by either R. M. Bowie or Jim Tobias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424705570138-YSKDDCVTQOFKJ63K8BV4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Early skiers on Mt Feathertop, possibly at the 1923 carnival. Photo: Robert Macedon O'Brien. Source State Library of Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1591226806576-X7YXGU5V7E9M2J1EJKN5/Feathertop+ad+PRO+VPRS+12903+slash+P1++item+566+slash+05.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1423880188967-0S3IIHCPYNB70Q7DQQ0S/bungalow+Howieson+slv.jpg Main articles Members of a 'Skyline' package riding tour at the Feathertop Bungalow, circa 1929. Photo: W. Howieson. Source: State Library of Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1477997836694-AAO5QOHYUQ75O6W5TRL4/image-asset.png Main articles Ad for the Buffalo Chalet which appears to be from the time it was run by Hilda Samsing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421262432540-9U77D55KSZLDKG4V492G/image-asset.png Main articles Bungalow co-founder Hilda Samsing as a nurse in the First World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422793348261-DNCM7X769W8B7GL3E3KA/image-asset.png Main articles Feathertop Bungalow without the northern annexe. Photo from Matt Guggisberg's site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422793420290-D68D56YLSFD4BSWPYRVB/image-asset.png Main articles The Feathertop Bungalow in summer. Photo: Harrietville Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424704647859-A67044KFMFIPKXAWSF1F/image-asset.png Main articles The Ladies Slalom Course off Little Feathertop in 1937. Federation Hut is now at the base of the hill in the centre of the picture. Photo by Gerard Wardell. Source: State Library of Victoria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457154461990-X49IO3K00KKFJ7JQ7D6X/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Marjorie Good (later Leviny) and friend at the Bungalow before embarking with Kit Moore on the first women's winter crossing of the Razorback from Feathertop to Hotham Heights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422781562357-0BSU42ECBANX8R2ZMIZM/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Photo Harrietville Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457155408993-1X7J53BJYZRFF6CA41XN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Feathertop Bungalow in 1931. Photo Alan Brockhoff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1594002929837-2JOBG2Z7RODI0CPZXJ5T/Feathertop+ticket+for+transport+and+accom+Gobel.jpg Main articles Strip ticket for a package of transport and accommodation at Harrietville Museum. Photo Ronice Goebel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421264016187-2E0T5P2VQRORXYK32LSP/image-asset.png Main articles Sign at Wangaratta station listing three branch lines in the area and showing the railways three ski lodges in the pre war years. The railways did not control the St Bernard Hospice and it is absent from the list. Photo: © Peter Dwyer. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1633920813741-2A25UCBOJZU4NFMNKPA5/Bright+line.jpg Main articles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449639809714-RJJN2O5VMV74XOD1T7P6/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Bright railway station in the 1920s. It was here where guests bound for the Feathertop Bungalow transfered to cars for the trip to Harrietville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457361314558-5HHEB1HTSH6DI52PZ6BE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A pack horse being unloaded by Frank Wraith near the Bungalow. Jim Bradshaw, manager of the Bungalow is at the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457702381362-8KBICCU159ZQFL4P3W8C/image-asset.png Main articles Kath Magill and friend at the Bungalow. August 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422793489714-J52SAUNF9OZWY3CJWOWU/image-asset.png Main articles Cletrac oversnow tractor at the Bungalow. Similar machines worked at the Buffalo Chalet. Photo: Harrietville Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457363868800-LZG2A0FBYOI4TD3108AY/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Undated photo of Cletrac tractor hauling firewood to the Bungalow without the north wing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458399156868-38N7EANOUR5ERS7KXXXP/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Ski runs below the treeline on Bungalow Spur 1934. Photo K. Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458401376447-016UN455A3P34XS1RALT/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Feathertop from The Playground. 1934 Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421264267558-9XH7KFXDKS465KFLIHNC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Feathertop Bungalow site in 2005. Photo: © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1440400203576-V5P53XARIM01BDIU7TQL/image-asset.png Main articles Between 1925 and 1932 the Victorian Railways took over three ski lodges in the Bright area from previous operators and often promoted them together. Mt Buffalo Chalet. the largest and most comfortable, was marketed as suitable for novices, the Feathertop Bungalow for intermediate skiers and Hotham Heights was sold as a destination for experts. Staff such as Skardarasy were sometimes shifted between locations over the winter. Advertisement from Table Talk. 4 June 1936. p. 31. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1487053376268-V8PJ782PL5CBPKSAIDGY/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Signpost to Hotham – approach to Feathertop summit. located where the Razorback meets Bungalow Spur. Photo W. H. Jemison, October 1950. © High Country Online. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453908238895-8DY4UROQN3XEDX9Q7AY1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Hikers on Feathertop, spring 1962. © Margaret King. Used with permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1578466709678-LIAF9UPTNBPXNMASGBR1/1928+BHP+snowpoles.png Main articles 1928 map showing snow pole lines. Many maps used by skiers were this basic. Source SLV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1442550074890-FBR1AQ07JXTLPRIA7ISV/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Cross in 1997. It was located near the junction of the Razorback track and the track to Federation Hut. Photo © Terry Linsell from his website. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1589952636707-8R0RTJFR4NA69S2K8XLW/Bogong+Ck+Aqueduct.jpg Main articles Bogomg Creek Aqueduct and tram line with Mt Bogong in the background, A similar aqueduct was planned for the east face of Feathertop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457196881082-K36SLH39NOME8EQWWYZB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The proposed railway from Harrietville to Hotham with a station on the Razorback. From Wal Larsen. The Ovens Valley Railway. 2nd ed, 1997. p. 160. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457358024636-53UVU6KUJ3HI79EXDB7N/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Feathertop Hut. This photo by Jim Tobias appeared in the Weekly Times 22 August 1914 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457364626498-A26PAOACPYF19VLLS9US/Feathertop+Hut+diagram.jpg Main articles Roy Weston and Cleve Cole's circa 1934 plan of Feathertop Hut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1492183631214-J4936NZGXEVAAMK1G17Z/image-asset.png Main articles Feathertop Hut, early 1930s. Photo Eric Douglas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1427685304055-28E3S1KUZQXCT41DJT98/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Feathertop Hut (1912 - 1980) with an obvious lean in 1979, not long before it collapsed. Photo © David Neale from Gary Duncan's huts website. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538806107632-22P8ZDCM0ZKZ4HSH0L59/Feathertop+hut+site+100_0019.jpg Main articles The site of Feathertop Hut in 2005. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457234730224-DAVQ7CHC7JXVK9ELGCZW/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Jeane Gardner, Marjorie Carr and Margaret Pearson at Razorback Hut in December 1932. Photo: Rhoda Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433299434636-UT1ZA1V0KIF038YTHH58/image-asset.png Main articles Razorback Hut. Photo Roy Weston, circa 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457364921023-ZB5MCO37UWIDAIUI9C9F/image-asset.png Main articles The very simple layout of Razorback Hut. Drawn by Roy Weston and Cleve Cole c.1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422943175330-1X0YCURIDBRFC09S7O1Y/image-asset.jpeg Main articles M.U.M.C. Hut in 2006. Photo © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453031191883-YECLCAN4IWF5WOCFG1Z9/PK_MUMC_Hut_012.jpg Main articles Undertaking a survey. At The Cross looking towards the proposed building site. Queens Birthday weekend 1965. Photo © Peter Kneen. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453035219708-5Y2GLE539V48DW2ZYQ7E/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A model of one of Peter Kneen's proposals for MUMC Hut. It was later was adapted by Paul Kennedy as the basis for the first Federation Hut elsewhere on Feathertop © P. Kneen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453036987899-3HDMF8ODJI8W8U7KNQ7Q/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A second proposed design for MUMC Hut, © Peter Kneen. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457196626052-8IN05LIAL1ACR1Q7NOOL/image-asset.png Main articles MUMC Hut floorplan. From Graeme Butler & Associates. Victorian alpine huts heritage survey, 1996. p 204. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453042286348-C4K4A2EO8IY4JO8WCLBM/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Peter Kneen's sketched cross section gives more of a feel for the design of MUMC Hut than the Butler floor plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453927840673-EAONF6A2Z3XP3FN5AHCS/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The upstairs sleeping area suspended above the main living area. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449776473110-S2GACK6DTLQ65AWBCGV8/aikmans_mumc34.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449776472062-T59QO0N83MLVASE7H0D3/aikmans_mumc04.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449776472110-BLABHKXBFMLPBF8JK6YS/aikmans_mumc05.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449776472818-1G8RJ8A9RI9RCMEYN377/aikmans_mumc06.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449778980399-153PECKTLSTPQ9FTX920/aikmans_mumc07.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449778980624-7Z0UQW1879FQ7PAOHLCA/aikmans_mumc08.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449778981691-SX9VF466P9CA1S1I38JX/aikmans_mumc16.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449778981785-WOEIIWDXDB8SAX6D5G1O/aikmans_mumc17.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449778983065-1TBMG2CEUJWYJIWQ4ID4/aikmans_mumc18.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449776472733-6AH67F8AYGLC1TUHH2W3/aikmans_mumc19.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1450228288837-9U00FW3FLZN9VN09FHMV/mumchut-04.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779103657-04UXJ9655R0TASB9Y7QR/aikmans_mumc30.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779242774-E6EJZIPX5LC32CHTMZ01/aikmans_mumc32.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779104187-PV7E86TZU58X3UYR69MF/aikmans_mumc34+%281%29.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779168051-148GYE0JEL26UO6GUAHH/aikmans_mumc36.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779106694-BHYGAOLYLIDEEG8AHLTZ/aikmans_mumc39.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779106818-B9KOR17MURT7EQCVJGXO/aikmans_mumc46.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779320231-6UWHW4M1E0WTF17B8GAE/FTOP01.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779319776-U6UM9GASL9TC4XX4MPWZ/FTOP02.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779429696-FOLR8SZJ3RP5W9KFMTJ4/pkbw6611.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779429998-TPAVLWMLMVK0H929L1JW/pkjob030.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779430852-QTLVX2RDO9ED5RYPBCYD/pkjob031.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1449779469497-WU2264JOG4REMNX9JHF0/pwk65310.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1450228288906-GDT8YDPA6715IOYYC6QH/mumchut-09.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454112060489-DTW0KXOL2W06N10VEZJQ/1.png Main articles The hut is a geodesic dome - or a portion of an icosahedron. The centre of the sphere is located where the theodolite is set up. It is halfway in height between the bottom joints (shown here) and the next level. The bottom row of joints are not all at the same height. The axis of the hut (looking out the front door) was directly in line with a trig station located on Mt Fainter. The Theodolite measured the angles horizontally and vertically to the centres of all the joints and a tape measure was used to measure the radius from the theodolite to the inside face of the joints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454093360153-L4S3VALD457QTRBKMAEW/2.png Main articles The top pentagon being assembled. The faces were filled in with fiberglass sheets and the small hole allowed for a chimney from the original slow combustion stove set up on the central stone hearth. The central joint was where the upper bunk floor was suspended from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098666487-3Y762XQUQGNPJ2RUSG1A/3.png Main articles The concepts shown here are that the entrance door should be clean of snow, there was an entrance “air lock” to stop most drafts in winter. The front entrance framing was braced so that leaning over was prevented. There was quite a lot of space for wet gear etc. The more traditional cladding of the entrance was used to collect water for the two 100 gallon tanks under the floor (to resist freezing). A lightning conductor can be seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098666672-EX3SI01C30K11X4ZQXBG/4.png Main articles Inside – the slow combustion stove is still installed in this picture. It was removed because the nearby trees were being cut down. It was a fire escape requirement for several of the triangular windows be able to open outwards. Tom Kneen did the majority of work building the windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098696048-K5TPAT51EK9CZFHRZLE8/5.png Main articles Easter 1966 – a bit of snow but the frame was ready to take the top section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098697921-WNUZ6OVPR1RGCBEE9E4G/6.png Main articles The bottom joints bolted onto 5x5 (inches) red gum posts set well into the ground. All joints “stars” were pre-drilled and cut out at the University Engineering workshops where several students put in some night hours. The surfaces of the frame members and the joints had to be thoroughly cleaned and araldite was mixed and applied. Numerous pop rivets. We had a generator carried up to run electric drills (battery operated drills did not exist) to drill the rivet holes through the tubes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098700683-RI15LJ4ITBRBJ4EN8XSS/7.png Main articles This is a sketch of the original proposal for a hut. It was based on the approximate size of the hut on the Bungalow Spur. [Feathertop Hut built in 1912.] However the internal framing was very different which would have resisted the tendency of the hut to lean over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098701585-B3KTRSUPTPZ9BB2XNDI9/8.png Main articles This is a model where the internal “A” frames can be seen. This and another design was presented to a special meeting of the club where it was decided to do something more unique. This lead to the geodesic dome. This design was essentially used for the Federation hut (burnt down and replaced after the 2003 fires). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098702332-97IKUZYXVY48UG5FAT4Z/9.png Main articles The view from the rear of the clad hut. The actual final size of the hut was determined by how many of the different triangles could be cut from the sheets of aluminium. One of the member’s father worked for Comalco. I cannot remember whether this helped with a discounted price. There was two additional triangular windows because we didn't want to use another sheet of aluminium. These extra windows were put facing the summit so that people in the hut could see progress of parties leaving or returning to the hut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098704724-4TXM01Q28PF8VKK90LEB/10.png Main articles View from the front. The shiny surface didn’t dull and reflections from the hut were observed from the valley so that later the club had to paint the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098704856-6DADTSMFHZZ98G3TR6PJ/11.png Main articles View from in front – roughly from the original proposed location for the toilet. Many weekends were spent drilling, blasting a hole but this was abandoned. The work did provide most of the rocks for the rock wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098706011-8TQ4LIB68J4D5C54XJRP/12.png Main articles View from inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098705833-IC5XDB8DWNARMX5IHYEO/13.png Main articles Near the entrance the regular geometry of the geodesic dome was adjusted to meet up with the floor level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098706791-X03OAS9DHJQ5VS64K0VW/14.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454114464435-TEF0GTELRKQI4772HFZE/15.png Main articles Work during Easter 1966 – you can see the theodolite set up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098707417-5ORA4TMTQTEGMCB3F7BV/16.png Main articles The third level of joints being assembled. The joint “stars” were clamped on with G Clamps and moved around until the horizontal and vertical angles (as well as the radius) were correct. This was done quite accurately. I remember this day was so foggy that we could not line up the theodolite with the trig station on Mt Fainter so the theodolite was moved around until the angles to the existing joints all were correct. This took an hour or so and when the sun burnt off the fog and I turned the telescope to where the trig station should have been it was not visible. Then I realized that it was behind the vertical target line of the telescope. Max Cory who had just returned from an 800 mile traverse in Antartica as a surveyor simply didn’t believe it either. From then on we put several reference targets near the hut so that we could easily line up with those points even in the fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098707902-MAW97DJPN0LM3ZIE57NI/17.png Main articles The centre of the joint can be seen marked in pencil. Each joint was in position to about +or– 3mm. Person unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098707982-MRZUH1HH2HRKYY7P83O3/18.png Main articles Probably Tony Kerr. Several pop rivets ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098708868-MM93WUTA8UX3H9IZJ8GJ/19.png Main articles Ian Thomas on the right explaining how to prepare the ends of the members. Ian was mainly responsible for using spherical trig to calculate the coordinates of the joints. He went down to Antartica later on https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098708972-SE7QIFWGN10OY4MS6TPS/20.png Main articles General Progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098709908-WFQUZ7JVC2BFHEIPNPKY/21.png Main articles The fourth level of joints. The geometry is based on an icosahedron which has 20 triangular faces (equilateral triangles) with 5 faces meeting at a vertice. These faces are then subdivided into three which then creates what appears to be a mix of pentagons and hexagons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098710180-4O27LIQULOPIS9TN8ND1/22.png Main articles Getting pretty high up now – ladders extended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098711026-2G673YIH0T2QUV8POWAL/23.png Main articles Early in the project the volunteers camped at the saddle at the south end of the ridge leading to the hut. This was because of access to the creek where aggregate for the concrete was gathered. Later when the main frame was progressing the camp was moved to be close to the hut. Nina Rulervich (Cole) did a fantastic job of catering for the masses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098711188-CUB7T84NMQBHP15Q11R2/24.png Main articles The long pole in the foreground was used to span across the top of the dome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098711632-2D8FBGJCBMDX0421IIL7/25.png Main articles Tony Kerr – Tony did a lot of work on getting the sheets cut into the triangular shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098712144-G5YBU9E6RTBMKZQBTAG1/26.png Main articles The top pentagon being assembled on the entrance area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098712522-XRP83IS46X6RH1II68PY/27.png Main articles One can see the apex of a pentagon (vertex of the overall icosahedron). The very top of the hut is another vertex of the icosahedron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098713223-ER9WBSZTTPY6N4GZDP54/28.png Main articles The framing for the entrance and top pentagon taking place. Location of the trapdoor to the basement framed up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098713401-T37AQUCT9BLLU1RP8JZX/29.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098713889-5NEK8OPAGKCYMPJMF5D9/30.png Main articles Joint details at the base. In the background are the piles of floorboards. Slightly thicker floorboards were used so that the spacing of the joists could be increased. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098715639-2WOX6337QVBGGNZB96YG/31.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098716872-FZRTEDAO5TCBBSHY0X8F/32.png Main articles Cladding going on – the triangular sheets overlapped each other and araldite used in between. It would have been great to have available the modern silicon guns to make the joints water proof, but the odd drip builds character. Start of the entrance framing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098718408-W03MICGPMPYH2RFO3ZUV/33.png Main articles Great site for a hut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098719708-7EP4J36L2IV70J6BM81H/34.png Main articles Cladding progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098720961-BPDEPMSVKFGRN2MK2OF3/35.png Main articles Completed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098723239-ZI4ZVIA91HLUD71RM74O/36.png Main articles There are several plaques around the walls but it was the death of Doug Hatt and Russell Judge on Mt Cook that galvanized the club into doing something. Initial ideas were for a large cairn and plaque but the idea for a memorial hut soon became the choice. It was truly amazing how quickly the project was completed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098723661-05PFKHQ6AUZE2QFUTK4P/37.png Main articles This is the “little Featherop hut” designed and built by Robert Vincent. Unfortunately it was burnt in the 2003 fires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098725174-1WHGHDFW5PSG2WGTE83E/38.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098727474-79KDBKJR7CNH6NFT1ZL0/39.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098727948-M5GB3XRYWXX56SI0WQ19/40.png Main articles One of the reasons for the site of the hut was that if a new track was constructed from the valley up the NW Spur then the current position would be where you would strike potentially exposed weather and it would then be logical to shelter there. Prior to the NW Spur track, the normal route was up the Bungalow Spur and camping was at the “playgrounds” where the old Bungalow Spur hut was located. To make an ascent to the summit involved about 3/4 hour walk to where the Federation hut is located (it was built after the MUMC hut). Even at this point the weather could be much better than near the summit. This is probably Don Thomas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098730439-X7ALUSJ4WQBEEK941NBT/41.png Main articles Dave Allen refining the track. Dave Allen, John Retchford and myself did a recce trip on a Queen’s Birthday weekend to survey the location of the hut. On this trip we approached along the northern razorback. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098730569-2X41DI59PKIW6YNBL7F4/42.png Main articles Putting in a bridge. Robyn Freer crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098732797-MSXFOE591RK6T3KD6FQT/43.png Main articles Early on with some basic excavation under the entrance spreading out to take two 100 gallon tanks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098732789-2YG1VKYPD17O1AU664DL/44.png Main articles Digging a hole for the red gum posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098736040-56DRMDA3Q1E5CZRWQPYK/45.png Main articles Tony Kerr cleaning out the bottom of the hole. Two steel bars were passed through the bottom of the red gum posts which would key in the posts with the concrete which in turn would engage with the weight of the dry rock walls. This provided sufficient weight to resist the hut from being lifted up and blown away by strong winds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098736026-XT5GCEP3T3N7M9S9291Z/46.png Main articles Footings happening. Most of the timber posts, the kitchen sink, the water tanks, the aluminium framing and sheets were carried in by hand from the end of the 4WD track along the North razorback. The route contoured around the NW side of Feathertop coming out near the spring. The floor bearers and joists were built by 2 or 3 people whilst some 20 others made at least two trips each for another load. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098739329-FG7G2LRDET8M8I9TH4F4/47.png Main articles Some of the floor bearers and joists going in. The end of the 4WD track is on the hill on the left of this picture on the near ridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098743450-DU0VD8CW61RP1WCJ5NFU/48.png Main articles More progress – bearers, joists all strapped together. The track around the face of Feathertop can be seen above the right hand post – midway between the top of the post and the summit. The track was a natural cattle pad when cattle were permitted to graze up in the high country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098743486-OC0U5ZYY8PYQU1O1AE56/49.png Main articles Gathering aggregate for concreting the posts. This proved to be very time consuming so after a few weekends we resorted to carrying bags of sand up. We still used the larger pebbles for aggregate in the concrete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098745487-XAS0H6PQ7ONI8CJMVNU4/50.png Main articles A poor photo – under the plastic sheet on the left are the floorboards and the aluminium frame members are stacked behind the theodolite tripod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098751451-8MDE8DP787E3O0STPHX8/51.png Main articles Front entrance – the straps were used to attach to the frame members so that the weight of the rock walls could be used to resist wind loads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098748213-YSQ6M6UJZV8DOSL2W7Z2/52.png Main articles View of Feathertop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098751540-C12E98SQXREN7DAQ0AMM/53.png Main articles Drilling the tops of the red gum posts to take the first level of joints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098755383-DD0FDO50O1EAOZVMMKG5/54.png Main articles Pop riveting first level of framing members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098754408-4SHBLXOV5YI7H6ZBC84J/55.png Main articles Ian Thomas inside his sphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098757144-AEJ6QGPMGKHNH9ZKEODT/56.png Main articles Lots of interest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098758018-F2A8CW2ECM80S410LS03/57.png Main articles Nicholas White assumed the sticky role of preparing the two part araldite epoxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098761046-CMMYVUCHR9FENBG28E1I/58.png Main articles Mike Feller using emery paper to clean up the surface of the aluminium tubes prior to gluing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098761393-TNDCZE2XG5Q88XZUH24A/59.png Main articles Dave Allen about to make the first swing to start the foundations and excavation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098762875-DV7522NR4K0NVVWLEX7V/60.png Main articles The top pentagon being put in place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454190029094-TNQHHKPFP3UWHSKDHEAH/62+A+aikmans_mumc07.jpg Main articles Carrying one of the redgum posts. Because of their length and weight some said this was the most awkward loads to carry – especially downhill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454192707393-WWZSI4VLLGELQQS1ZJ4W/61+A+aikmans_mumc17.jpg Main articles The 100 gallon water tanks at the end of the Stony Creek forestry road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098764335-TXNDOJOBO968N6XQC1ZV/63.png Main articles Nina Cole serving out lunch. Tom Kneen on left, Ross Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098764755-XDMZ32CD2RRW3KZW31QW/64.png Main articles Water tanks installed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098765684-K4CE8X0LCZRR1WGJJKKH/66.png Main articles Tom Kneen working on his windows. Cath Milvain (Kerr) helps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454196722163-3R5XQ8JCAUJTWSDU9E1P/65+A+aikmans_mumc18.jpg Main articles Transporting one of the tanks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454200247669-Q6PANACD17UN7RU02WW2/67+A+aikmans_mumc46.jpg Main articles Bob Vincent working on the “Little Feathertop Hut”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454098767232-ZWIAONVUZFNB4N1M07Z3/71.png Main articles Peter Kneen with the theodolite. This was borrowed from the Civil Engineering school (Uni of Melbourne). It was sealed up and hidden in the bushes after a weekend’s work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454199940216-5T5HF83M75UGJ89YPSE3/68+A+aikmans_mumc39.jpg Main articles Tom Kneen carrying in a section of the suspended bunk floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454199714920-82ZH3PE839XWVEZP595V/69+A+aikmans_mumc36.jpg Main articles Tom at his windows, progress on the entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454197187799-B7FZI9VWYEXQPMQWQ9HU/70+A+aikmans_mumc19.jpg Main articles A tank coming around the side of the mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454190767633-FL1Y3LU98ADRPYWI3DQ8/72+A+aikmans_mumc08.jpg Main articles Some floor bearers arriving. For the people at the hut site it was always of great interest to see what load would arrive next and who was the carriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453930599302-XRU09KUDDX1MNDH4UIN1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles MUMC Hut interior showing the ladder leading to the upper floor. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1454090341090-NJWVWZXPWM3L261IFLT8/image-asset.png Main articles Little MUMC Hut (the toilet). An equally radical statement as the main hut. Designed and built by Robert Vincent, burnt in the 2003 fires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431472787827-HN4ARWAJH25J6X7KWN9Z/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The old Federation Hut with its original cladding. © Tony Marsh. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457233129979-9SHF4W6J8X58VSQ5BZPV/image-asset.png Main articles Plan of the original Federation Hut. From: Victorian alpine huts heritage survey, 1996. p 102 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457197622607-BHZDUA3GYSG1O4DX91MN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Building old Federation Hut. Photo Tom Buykx https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457197802601-T8AC4WX9X6HU9CXOTILU/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1427684862472-VLDQ23ZI0I9MYQH92AYH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Old Federation Hut after it was re-clad in wood by Ian Stapleton in 1988. Photo © Gary Duncan from his huts website. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453929167285-NH8T4W3ZUXG4FHPQJ8KH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The large toilet block at Federation Hut that survived the 2003 wildfire. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1453929949654-2ZS9KMSE261FPM81HN5Z/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The new Federation Hut not long after it was built. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1452575855771-G1E70BEO2P8EWXHCGEQ5/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The new Michell Hut on Eskdale Spur, Mt Bogong was built to a similar design, but without the rangers room. © David Sisson 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1452575322977-YHTFW1VH5HKMZG8Z6LK2/image-asset.png Main articles Transporting construction material to new Federation Hut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1452571581061-TRT23T5WVIC8DIAHIXMK/image-asset.png Main articles DSE (now DELWP) summary of building new Fed Hut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1535555944294-6B7T8C2BV51G9YY7VDYK/Feathertop+High+knob+TAARIQ+HASSAN+41539_29d365bb633f149a84621c4ff714b89e.jpg Main articles The campsite near the top of Diamantina Spur where it is proposed to build the new huts. Photo © Taariq Hassan, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528947616173-UUZQ4PWUDELBMW44SLMR/Feathertop+Molly+Hill+cairn+proposal.png Main articles The Herald. Tuesday 16 May 1933, page 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1456623057673-5GWQV4GYVCURR5UYL6DG/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The plaque spells her name Mollie Hill but the gravestone in the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery has it as Molly Hill. © Chris McLaughlin of nevictoria.com. Used with permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457585040501-WQO8WYX3EZ3VJUTGBMYC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Molly Hill cairn with the summit behind. © Wayne Cherry 2007. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1427935356350-MNJAYE18G847DN31BLSA/image-asset.png Main articles Walking routes on Mt Feathertop. The Great Alpine Road is shown in red. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1427935509098-HGL6U707TJ70QO9QDPUL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles New Federation Hut and its huge toilet on the at the top of Bungalow Spur. © David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422853237324-T7NMPWV5110M5VUO8NLX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The summit ridge of Mt Feathertop showing the cornice, Avalanche Gully and Hellfire Gully. Photo from an excellent review of backcountry steep skiing in Victoria by 'Huck and Dyno' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1535557040888-COK7JA8SS4HWRA32XGES/Feathertop+Razorback+Taariq%C2%A0Hassan.jpg Main articles The Razorback and Mt Feathertop under heavy snow. © Taariq Hassan, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1522989939503-J2VT1N959QSL77X3VSQC/Feathertop+Begg+1929.png Main articles What not to do. A 1929 photo of the summit ridge by Warrand Begg showing skiers standing on a cornice that could easily collapse. This is one reason why Feathertop has the highest body count of any mainland Australian mountain. (Although Federation Peak in Tasmania has had slightly more deaths.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458192485804-JZ536EJA0BBPF20U01Y0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Feathertop 1930 from Lake Spur just above where Westons Hut was built Photo Kath Magill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458187612793-35GMNO0E4DS4F2GLCOL5/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Members of the Wangaratta Ski Club at the Bungalow in 1930. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458400280213-L4K1T3CBYNRPF2BQLATZ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Feathertop summit August 1934. Photo K Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458193756302-NT6NOTR0M2TY39MY6KI0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles SCV 1929 club championships group shot. While it doesn't reveal much, this may be the only surviving interior photo of the Bungalow. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462624449811-B79M48HGJ3S5KEL5BRE4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles After taking over Hotham Heights in 1933 the railways began marketing it with the Feathertop Bungalow to more advanced skiers. SCV Yearbook 1933, p. 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430937228199-18OYUPM5MW0DF3RCD99Q/image-asset.png Main articles A packhorse train leaving Wraith's Store, Harrietville in the early 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424838457855-1OY5PFROYCLNHKTRNC83/image-asset.png Main articles Photo Robert Wilkinson, probably 1920s Source. National Library of Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1578498526604-6PKXCK347HX3AY8IJ5FN/Feathertop+summit+Richard+Courtney+1928-31.png Main articles Approaching the summit between 1928 and 1931, note the former cairn. Photo Richard Courtney from SLV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458189646923-A3IC5662K1JVHUJS5ZQI/image-asset.png Main articles View of the summit from the start of the Razorback in 1930. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1432433742879-HJ0YQWVGX0KJVKI5VA3G/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Australia's first chairlift. Bob Hyman's 1957 single chairlift at Falls Creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1432431638271-61I1C2LCZNA8RUFPR53C/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The 1938 - 1952 'Ski Hoist' (or 'Meat Hook') J-bar at Charlotte Pass, the first ski lift in NSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434923006189-JLEYI59U0Z6RTNIEEO4G/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Australia’s steepest operating lift, Rodway Tow at Mt Mawson, Tasmania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/52ce39a3-4d04-4248-92f4-9b5140fe81a9/ski+falls+2023+carpet+Charon.jpeg Main articles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/afb39f4e-5362-47df-a2e7-e94a97dc2a3d/image_2023-01-04_161611287.png Main articles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/a1c74a70-c8a4-4da1-945d-25ec482c36ef/Thredbo+Easy+Rider+construction.jpg Main articles - Make it stand out The new Easy Rider under construction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1627024954673-L4O9SHIDJ6NZY2SWWJMT/Ben+Lomond+2021.png Main articles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1615300891256-J9D2W246WGNFQJ1970LZ/Selwyn+rebuild.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1608349751985-F9F3WOLFUO27B6LC3QS1/Werribee+gondola+proposal.png Main articles Proposed gondola for Werribee Zoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1569727039005-K1KPXNUWXPHX7MAXQ0XE/Northcote+tow.png Main articles Australia’s steepest and highest altitude ski lift. The Northcote Tow and Kunama Lodge. Click to enlarge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1588931905536-JQ916Q9LOLFIXEB7COV0/ski%2Bbuller%2Btirol.jpg Main articles Australia’s longest surface lift, the 1610 metre long Tirol T-bar at Mt Buller. Photo from Australian Ski Yearbook 1977 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1593249138694-EDNYZ4VP35ZMVFMMCUQ2/ski+Buffalo+short+chair.jpg Main articles Australia’s shortest chairlift the 160 m former Valley chairlift at the Cresta area of Mt Buffalo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1584248992400-V51DT7DSPYDPSHW9DBYU/Hotham+Orchard+2019+onlybackscratchers.jpg Main articles The central loading point of Keogh’s and Orchard quad chairs. 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Self loading T-bars were not a success and today all skiers and boarders are assisted by a liftie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1570169293713-05MJGEIKELC1OL9IMBR7/Buller+poma+frenzy.png Main articles When too many Pomas are not enough! Orange Lifts at Mt Buller had an especial love of Pomas. Summit Access / Howqua Poma (fastest ski lift in Aust) on the left, cornered duplex Baldy Pomas at right. 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The author at the University Tow, Mt Mawson, Tasmania in August 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1573774474045-121FUFFL9PNZEWYWOVIO/Franklin+tow+MrMook+158758_aa437eb4ed6f9cc40d2fc3c1741a8689.jpg Main articles Home made tows used available materials such as this wire wheel repurposed as a sheave to support the rope on a nutcracker tow at Mt Franklin, ACT. Photo Mark Brooks 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1553653236039-TAA5F7CW8HUYW6EXIJ18/lifts+Hayek+plate+photo+by+Hess.jpg Main articles Makers plate on the Cataract Gorge chairlift at Launceston. Photo Pascal Hess, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1557794516129-RPTPENSFUAD8CSUP0FAU/Big+Dipper+Nick+Manson+IMG_0411.jpg Main articles A surviving Leitner bull wheel at the abandoned Big Dipper duplex T-bar, Falls Creek. 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1991). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1614867055515-CPN0L8IV658AR17EZPH9/IMG_20210305_0002.jpg Main articles The proposed lifts are shown in the grey area,. 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From Geelong Ski Club photo gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1536964424651-6KI42LPD4QK6T0O39HWF/ski+lift+Buller+pomas+Victorian+places+M0395.jpg Main articles Triple Pomas operated by Orange Lifts at Buller in the 1970s, Summit Access is on the right. Source: Victorian Places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1442467204919-RU2SQ9QHRN6NL4XICJQC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Ad for the Buller ski-lift in the 1939 Australian and New Zealand Ski Yearbook. Note the sling style seat. 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The proposed lifts are shown by dashed lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1539167371413-ZKL5JQRE1FPP6JV2BG69/Hotham+Playground+by+Snowbound+73435_ba240743f51c2f44914ba7f0c60e979b.jpg Main articles Upper Playground in 2012. Photo © Aidan D'Arcy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1560318758834-3AGA3NE1IP6U7NYAPF1I/playground+2014+117626_a62ed64b42162b8848ac0f976474198a.jpg Main articles 2014 photo of the rebuilt mid station. On the left are a disused kiosk and a platform for seating (built <2003, removed c.2015). From Google street view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1539001136973-4HZQJLTCKRQVNJKB5KMJ/Hotham+Playground+1990+Timmossy+73212_634ce3b2fc2eb9cd4a20c8a447ec3fcd.jpg Main articles Base of Playground chairlift in 1990. 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It was replaced with a double chair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/fd880fb3-4add-46f5-8fd5-bc482ed94e98/ski+map+St+Bernard.png Main articles - Make it stand out The two nutcracker tows at Mt St Bernard on the southernmost point of the Great Alpine Road between Hariretville and Hotham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1568488859717-FOJEPQYCS2RR6J7JCFK5/chairlift+victor+harbour.jpg Main articles 1978 postcard of Granite Island chairlift near Victor Harbour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1543629613650-MS2OULVU42O56ZFUSF3X/Expo+88+chairlift+Simon+Walliss.jpg Main articles The chairlift and handle tow that operated for 6 months at Brisbane’s Expo ‘88. Additional information, especially details of who made it appreciated. Click to open in a lightbox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1548309000160-7X1KIJ8NBP76LSXFGE49/ski+lift+Expo+88.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1548310043865-VWNQEGY2Z4OV5AJBR9CN/ski+lifts+expo+88+90457_4d0bd2bb6bb6ca1ce90c45150ec8583a.jpg Main articles Second prize in the Sunday ski races at Expo ‘88 in Brisbane. 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Picture from Mt Buller media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1563853884382-OWKI7KJ2FMZR8EMFIYOX/lift+thredbo+gunbarrel.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1570708311516-IM5FN1BPD6YOFEKA7BA2/IMG_4842.jpg Main articles Mt Buller’s new Canyon hybrid platter. / handle tow. Photo: Mt Buller marketing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1545347283269-VN7J335PB36BUYIOSGXU/Vail+logo.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1545347207337-2RZDKG4IY3PAONPHJG23/logo+merlin.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1543630081746-GVB52JD0PV7Q8743ZRFO/Expo+88+chairlift+Simon+Walliss.jpg Main articles The chairlift that operated in the Swiss pavilion at Brisbane’s Expo ‘88. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1539175522347-F592KVZX39VZ8HJCNZ1I/Hotham+Playground+by+Snowbound+cropped+version+73435_ba240743f51c2f44914ba7f0c60e979b.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1534376574209-MODN87JI346HU5IVT76Y/MWCC_renders_v341_f5.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1534380054226-LUVLIG49N5VMQY3W1LDS/blue_bullet_banner.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1534379821655-GF0LGL4D95QODL82Q3M7/mawson+tow+poles.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1426529349121-2T0X6Q1MXEBGBAN6324I/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Main Run circa 1930 before it was widened and lengthened. Photo: S. E. Douglas. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1445774759342-PT10YKGS3ZULXDSGG5S4/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457487855527-XEK239OSHS0IGZ7PXB3W/image-asset.png Main articles 'Nancy' on the summit observation tower, 27 July 1929. Photo by Richard Courtney. Trove record. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/5240b2a9-ebe8-4860-a4b7-ce86853ddf75/1920s+Vic+ski+lodges.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1441506149423-J6CWBWCIKXQODGYVQ2QY/image-asset.png Main articles Extract from the map Broadbent's Central Victoria, 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457185333257-OAYFJVDFTGPYK4K9OFA0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A 1930s Plymouth car on the road to Donna. Photo USC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457187316182-M0XD7RDYZ4V3DNGONWT0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Betty and Peg Nankivell of the University Ski Club at Donna Buang in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433490351326-GQBZZ3W1JUAQ4L64EN3C/image-asset.png Main articles Composite map showing early roads and tracks in bright purple superimposed on a modern map with roads in dull orange and modern walking tracks in grey. The probable locations of six ski runs in 1938 are shown in green. For scale, the grid lines are one kilometre apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457328599008-O42GYG7QZY9659H9QVOE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Looking down the Ski Slide (later widened, extended and renamed the Main Run) in 1929. Photo probably by Monty Kent Hughes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458024323425-MI3C3SN5ETCZ8AZ14SG1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles By 1940 the Main Run was unrecognisable after 15 years of widening and lengthening. Photo Mick Hull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1492345297571-QM78IO35ZDX4COATC0FL/image-asset.png Main articles Eric Douglas and family taking a break July 1935. The photo gives an idea of ski fashions of the time. The structure in the background is yet to be identified, it may have been a kiosk, a shelter hut, toilets, ski hire or a first aid post. Please send a message if you have any idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457166399295-VGGIT8ONAPMUYSCSJRL7/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A sign in 1929 urging pedestrians to keep the ski slopes clear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429025184862-QWBTPK4PKYSUKUPFNJI1/image-asset.png Main articles Skiers at the base of the Main Run at Donna Buang. The Argus, 20 June 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428893109574-3WNP6Z02EE0ZW3NVPX9T/image-asset.png Main articles Non skiing 'visitors' walking on a ski run. Source: NLA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1439663967457-3TC2ZV0C2SRAE2ARF29N/image-asset.png Main articles A volunteer 'working bee' on Donna Buang. Schuss, June 1945. p. 115. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428904310216-0R3DGKDHUSBE1VKW6P7H/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Post logging debris and regrowing woollybutt below the lookout tower. This photo gives an idea of the work involved in clearing the ski runs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429025841541-NNE145VDT2LESM64MRGY/image-asset.png Main articles A modern staircase has been insensitively built down the middle of The Main Run, thwarting any potential skiers who may wish to recreate the experience of 90 years ago. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1546977802940-VGVIZ2NUE0RN9G85J5AK/ski+troops+Lebanon+awm3939743.JPG Main articles Australian ski troops on patrol in Lebanon, 1941. Australian War Memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1552713377471-KWJUI9G45QDVOWO1LUWZ/Donna+Brighton+rifles+hat+badge+5346005.jpg Main articles Hat badge of the Brighton Rifles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431317640678-Q3LFSY3M857QB54C9Z5W/image-asset.png Main articles THE SCV's campaign against the new ski run printed in The Argus. 4 April 1936. Note the SCV's provocative claims that they were "the" Ski Club and that the Main Run was their run, despite funds for it being contributed by government agencies and local businesses while labour to improve it also came from several other ski clubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430635490978-UAT7T61ZGNYKPXA93F89/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The original wooden platform at the top of jump slope in summer. The summit tower can be seen behind it to the left. Photo Mick Hull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428821759467-0V73PPPC8YECCBCARGZ4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The wooden take off platform on the jump at Donna Buang. Photo USC website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430673217793-V1XL1D18HJ9KSFA2W389/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1571835088479-NM2VXFN70WBXG0YP52JP/Donna+Warburton+1925+map.png Main articles 1925 map of Warburton and district. From Tourist guide to Warburton and district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430655514813-EKDRM38P1J15YY0MWS5U/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Knob engine house and the haulage leading up to The Pimple. Three seperate inclines lowered timber from Mt Victoria down to Warburton and hauled the bogies back up. Rose postcard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434647087206-F440NRRVSDSLQEUK6N9M/image-asset.png Main articles Jacob's Ladder incline on Currie's tramway from Millgrove, terminated at the Ben Cairn Road, 2 km west of the turnoff to Donna Buang Summit. It continued to be used for pedestrian access to the mountain long after the tramway closed in 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1613447283573-QZMMD810UAXUFFD4RT0M/Donna+tram+lines.png Main articles Map of early 20th century timber tram lines and haulages on the southern slopes of Donna Buang. Timber mills are indicated by a red triangle, the tram lines are shown as grey lines. The northern slopes were not logged as they were in the closed catchment of the Watts River which was used to supply water to Melbourne. Extract from a much larger map based on Mike McCarthy,s work on the Victoria’s Forestry Heritage website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1571824120865-CTINEUYYVAUCR0UOHTQR/Donna+8+mile+1925.png Main articles The Donna Buang Road at 8 mile in 1925. From Tourist guide to Warburton and district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428900673472-OVXZDPB0WSVR99179HRH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The unsealed, single lane, Donna Buang road. State Library of Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428993216976-HPU3N4LLQKSJTWMBO38U/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428905127668-G24N7TUGAD6QCEN6BUNU/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Beyond the 10 Mile 'Turntable' the road was even narrower. In winter it was closed and used as a ski touring route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430648221400-VIDWPT14S1GZASBKRZC7/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Rock crusher at 8 Mile on the Donna Buang Road circa 1933. The over-used road was rebuilt as an unemployment relief programme during the Great Depression. Later the worn out crusher jaws were salvaged by the University Ski Club and used as a backing for the fireplace of their new cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1486960268149-BB8WZAC4VCBBKB6UZJ40/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Donna Buang Road near 10 Mile in December 2012, a vast improvement on the 1930s. The tall ash trees over a mid story of myrtle beech is typical of forests on the mountain. Photo © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1475593038204-MT8SK0WSW27J1BSP1RQL/image-asset.png Main articles The railway line from Melbourne to Warburton. This 1939 map has been squeezed between the terminus of the electrified suburban system at Lilydale and Warburton in order to fit it on the suburban rail map. At 38 km from the city, Lilydale was exactly halfway to Warburton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1476447648596-E7XB7KNJEEGNCR4T1T7F/image-asset.jpeg Main articles An E-Train at Flinders Street Station. The 'Swing Door' (also known as 'Dog Box' ) electric cars at the front towed the country carriages to the suburban terminus at Lilydale, where a steam engine took over for the second half of the journey. Photographer unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433582879437-VU5D1N9PHP3EWY8WNMXB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A 2002 recreation of an E-Train of the type that ran to Warburton in the 1930s. The 'Swing Door' (also known as 'Dog Box' ) electric cars at the front towed the country carriages at the back to the suburban terminus at Lilydale, where a steam engine took over for the second half of the journey. Photo © James Brook. Used with permission. Video of the recreated trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429373580061-WFBGMIC1E6V8B4N11Q7T/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A J class steam engine at Warburton station in 1964, a year before the railway line closed. The scene was largely unchanged from 30 years earlier. Photo © Weston Langford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1541844335571-31A7IPYK343NP20B10Q9/Donna+bus+and+tower.jpg Main articles In summer buses transported tourists all the way to the summit observation tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1536942358003-HX74MAOXH3BJDQK47KXC/Donna+charabanc+Museums+Vic+160489-medium.jpg Main articles A 1920s style charabanc. Source Museums Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429462735838-6H9Z9FN0E5TVCFKMKJXU/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A Pioneer Tours trip to Mt. Donna Buang. Photo supplied by Vivienne Worthington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429427219830-MMBJOU147HDA70Y4XD80/image-asset.jpeg Main articles An early Pioneer snow tour. Photo supplied by Vivienne Worthington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1612158467390-GIHFVPVJHSZT2BZ2GNI6/IMG_20210201_0009.jpg Main articles Ski Club of Victoria. Yearbook 1934. p. 158. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1442100195458-B34B2CSJUACZT9VP75ZH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433404502852-W8QV0IT4872ENETBKS74/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1949 map of Mt. Donna Buang. © Stuart Brookes, used with his permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433788417577-D1MZSSXMEDCIUTT2Z29W/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433656291421-HLQGFSNEVLUITIMUSQI8/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457417129194-FEWI51Y32RK36RSWVAMT/image-asset.png Main articles Green Gables was popular with SCV members before the club built a cabin on Donna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1468625123210-2ASPF9VHLXB30SOCJWWR/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Loggers huts on Donna Buang, winter 1924. Photo Weekly Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430283885982-P75TMDS4ULL566MUTGLO/image-asset.png Main articles Events at Donna Buang received fairly good coverage in Melbourne daily newspapers. Extract from an article in The Argus.Saturday 14 July 1934. p. 10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457327420556-IDW3GNICDHLF25ID4B3K/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The SCV Cabin on Mt Donna Buang from the walking track which still passes the ruin today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434625236651-O1UD9JE48G74UT8EBOZ3/image-asset.png Main articles A 1934 work party at the first Melbourne Walking Club hut. Used with permission of MWC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434625413288-6NDOHFULHGKLEM4V9MZJ/image-asset.png Main articles The rebuilt Melbourne Walking Club hut on the same site in 1950. Used with permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1612157288871-CFVYEQA8WKEMFTYGY044/IMG_20210201_0007.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1514693236767-V9S5H1LUR7Q206JRA4FF/Donna+MWC+sepia.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1622398431967-646MJ5ZCBC5IDW679N5R/donna+cropped+mwc+hut.jpeg Main articles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430636956711-E0VOEAVH00OYEC6PXEUE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Above: The University Ski Club's cabin at Donna Buang with the 1935 porch. Below: A view of the rear showing the chimney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430636742930-QH9KVKIVBHJ4JWYA7U92/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457185687622-FDJJ3230FJSHAWCM2FIE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The University Ski Club cabin fireplace in action. Photo Warrand Begg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457186215866-4DGMDH48DSTJ3D95DNDC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Scene after the cabin was moved to Buller. The tank has since rolled to below the chimney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429026722613-VD36N63427ZAOQOCL0WP/image-asset.png Main articles The author at University Ski Club chimney in March 2013 after a four hour search for it. The chimney is all that remains today after the cabin was shifted to Mt Buller in 1950. Photo © Blair Hamilton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430676832461-MKX7QFO5JL7ERXBIC2NR/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457168383224-QQIN6DGTIT0FKAIS01KL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Interior of the Ski Club of Victoria Cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433264343906-H811KR5NYA0DBWXJUOM3/image-asset.png Main articles The SCV cabin depicted in the Australian and New Zealand Ski Year Book 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429053924894-XC7QW1VNAEN5RI2BS53I/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The ruin of the SCV cabin amongst myrtle beech trees on the main walking track between 10 Mile and the summit. Photo circa 2006. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1430652572602-WCIXN9KYFXIG08JFBAU6/image-asset.png Main articles A plan of their new cabin on Mt. Donna Buang in the S.C.V.'s 1934 Year Book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1448164535208-BCPTMEIZDHOOMMTL3983/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Apparently the badge of the Donna Buang Rover 'crew'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428990350485-KEOWXCNGTXS3D9V4N2S8/image-asset.png Main articles Skiers on Donna in 1929 with the summit hut on the right. The Woollybutts in the background were killed in the 1926 bush fires. Photo Richard Courtney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1433402641975-PCGWASGVID3N3V8LW9A5/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Old hut on summit of Donna Buang. Undated photo by Ella McFadyen. NSW State Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428894976829-MD3OF0AHUNQXMULFFYZ7/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The abandoned Kiosk in the summit area of Donna Buang in 1963. Photo © William Prince collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1612157877673-AN92HWAGDN8AHXHC2ONV/IMG_20210201_0008+%282%29.jpg Main articles Ski Club of Victoria. Yearbook 1934. p. 10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1552380445354-S5T80RMGY63ULBL0M0RT/Donna+10+Mile+dunny.jpg Main articles Toilet block below the road at 10 Mile. Date uncertain, possibly associated with the 1970s improvements or a cafe that operated in the 1960s. © D.S. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429054886889-91XNZMWREW3QVZTMK178/image-asset.png Main articles The modern doorless shelter near the summit. Photo © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1486959281694-Z3AUYVI71WOTNKYAMED2/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The former shelter at the 10 Mile Turntable on 2 December 2012. Photo © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464582394785-KTKYL8XQ81QWB7O0KTUU/image-asset.png Main articles The run down shelter hut at the 10 Mile Turntable in June 2015, 11 months before it was demolished. Photo Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431920852185-HRG7ZH0X7TDZRBMID92A/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Aerial photo of Donna Buang in 1944. Five years of regrowth after the 1939 wildfires and a lack of maintenance during the war have obscured boundaries of the ski runs, but the summit area, the old summit road with it's sharp bends, the neighbouring USC and SCV cabins and the 10 Mile Turntable at the bottom right are all easily identified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462599921891-3BCRSRUUSP5OFHOQAE0J/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Melbourne Walking Club hut after the 1939 fires. It was rebuilt in 1940 - 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1520169628971-SVIZHGT267YDJKQ6YR09/Donna+Black_Friday_1939.jpg Main articles Over 20,000 square km of forest were burnt in the Black Friday fires of January 1939 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457169979766-K50OA0LGXLDR98YRB91S/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Building the take off platform for the new jump circa 1951. Lookout tower in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457187882248-PMZ48MCB93UUXA1EBKJM/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The USC's Donna Buang Cabin was moved to a scenic location on Mt Buller. Photo in 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1514354238570-6AYM4DXPDZ79V9RQEOEA/Donna+possibly+ski+jump+2013-07-27+12.51.44_preview.jpeg Main articles Large stone rubble south of the summit shelter hut. This is probably the remnants of the ski jump take off ramp that was rebuilt in 1951, but it's difficult to be sure. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538803186307-LAGRS5Z2LMHHTQ6THLQ8/Donna+Ben+Cairn.png Main articles A mountain ash contemplating another kamikaze attack on a road sign at Ben Cairn. © D.S https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434626479535-3TTOK7EIEVR4NFKNBRBV/image-asset.png Main articles The Donna Buang summit - Ben Cairn road junction in the 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434626789404-LS0CRYHCG41LOUFJ2Y0E/image-asset.png Main articles The same location in winter. Photo Melbourne Walking Club, used with their permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1440139851381-FSO3X06FR5N3XHHDCR2B/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Main Run circa 1931 or earlier. From the authors collection, photographer unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1552378935785-C0KFPQ5FJNVPZM18RORV/Donna+vic+tower.jpg Main articles Broadcasting towers on Mt Victoria. © D.S. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1593250437002-UTJX1RDHE1JKBXYNJXMY/donna+cement+ck.jpg Main articles Rainforest Gallery walkway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457691638750-NRV5785YB0BOW9JDYH12/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The SCV Cabin on Donna Buang. Photo by Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428994635470-W1V92PUH5G5VN3OEM107/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528991822204-Z8G1R55OTH52DHAOKC3S/Donna+map+tracks.png Main articles Past and present walking tracks on Donna Buang. Click image to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538807267718-ODCBMGF25387IHSC7WGD/Donna+Rd+2+to+summit+100_1072.jpg Main articles The junction of Road Two and the northern route to the summit. (Light blue and purple tracks on the map.) © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1460340368150-MBS428PU5JDV8NNADZY1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Bridge on the now overgrown lower Cement Creek track (dark blue on the map) near the present Rainforest Gallery walk. © Bradley James 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1613455994910-IZC36KHMWSF2W29FQBJ2/image_2021-02-16_171310.png Main articles The 2018 proposal to build new mountain bike tracks on Mt Donna Buang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429055930930-V2S5DJYA7BZPJMLBJ3D5/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1428902043469-OAC7UI7XUY7SQDJES504/image-asset.png Main articles The second lookout tower was a head frame for three gold mines in an earlier life. The photo was taken in 1942 and this was the tower that overlooked the mountain the whole time it was a ski resort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429595873798-9B2MDVFSPRXHHVN001TF/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The third lookout tower dating from 1963. © David Sisson c. 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429057959503-DRASJVLX55QU8L2L0Z26/image-asset.png Main articles The warning sign north east of the summit. © David Sisson 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429637326886-VS1M7VY44TKU0YR0JSV0/image-asset.png Main articles The routes of the three walks described above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464317210066-CMSHJRXLVG1WMS8VI8CQ/image-asset.png Main articles The middle section of the track is still easy to follow and in fairly good condition. © David Sisson 25 May 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1429636369217-VXYD9HWASCE6Q5I7B045/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The Cement Creek track under snow. © David Sisson 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1552373621188-5DZIXLZXNJ8KWOZMNQTZ/donna+victoria.jpg Main articles The unimpressive ‘summit’ of Mt Victoria. © 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1552374509352-Y9QKXKQGX8BSEP1C4JB0/donna+vic+track.jpg Main articles Ridge between Mt Victoria and Mt Donna Buang. © 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458444366753-AY74UI6Z07KOILJ2LS1Y/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 'Good snow, Donna Buang July 1929'. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458023651051-JML810OA0UNGVGAP5P81/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Mick Hull's photo of the 1934 slope clearing work party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1489607900822-CDH1EM1NSEQG8UETS5OR/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Frenchmans Cap from a ridge north of the Irenabyss. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462891434078-VO1TV1WSPXQY49HTGLQL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462897006077-Q9X5CDK1I2ZYG1W7Y0EV/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462892081145-947FQD12N0TU0E1TWRGT/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462948099764-KWO3DSCUVI77FZZZGO0E/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463328843453-Z5KK8Y9KM3XNHNKPTV0Q/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872154502-YWD6TG9W00K0FTXFD4ZB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1983. From Australian skiing: a complete handbook. Edited by Wendy Cross & Peter Beilby. 4 Seasons, 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463029158554-6T9KWC0DIH7QYSECJ2BB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Circa 1938. Map by Reg Hall and G. Tyson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464456394205-NB8UT78D88HQ3GFZZ3X7/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464456991663-J8BBR8M3LLOTCSGQVHSC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472708947198-KQ3O0GL8UJB6IE9DLCQ6/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464464112879-EDOW25L2KS8GRVK71DEX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2000-ish. Shows old logo and old rope tow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464458535802-EVPQS80BL653QS0YHF56/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464457439524-BZ686CAOPJWJJYJQ91ZL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1964 showing the short lived Thredbo Valley to Charlotte Pass chairlift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463865688836-Z27QSLW9B6JP3T0V8BAY/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2008 map by James Niehues [link to his website] showing new subdivision at left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463865282467-0277R73KDK4OP6LDQGPM/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Circa 2000 ? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463377881958-ZVR4LMBM9NC0JHHGI65R/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Circa 2015. (Although no new lifts since 2006.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463379945274-6PMUEJ1NXTYJBCAXIH6H/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Circa 2015. Village map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463382627344-EULGA2DX38TDE1E2YJYI/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 Cross country https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463802283985-FXBM3MU9JF22TF9Y2W97/image-asset.gif Main articles 2011 village map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463802035020-F558SDYQNVFX6ILQXU33/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463801898985-C2J2LBLAC1R0UGCDR0YA/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463801678177-ULYO3WKCDKKDKR1LRGGG/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872616390-TAKYH7FEDF0VKYGCA4CN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872809303-NDF5P7M5E4SPKCM6TWQ6/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463787658865-FQTR2N1HUQTSPX1FFUFZ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1979 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463787149299-4WJXVQ4TMJAJ2GWY0PDI/image-asset.gif Main articles 1976 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463786975093-S4TDC4UZRI43HW1IXZB1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1971 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463784978198-8VSRM92H3Y81BGBQHHS0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1966 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1510119298181-UZQC35OPAT5211FRWZLP/Falls+Vicmap+imperial+circa+late+60s.jpg Main articles Circa 1965. Extract from a government VicMap of the Bogong High Plains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1470530978814-8562Q2J9PP22XGM610IJ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1963. From brochure promoting the original AAC lodge at Falls. Building is now Red Onion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1509802258854-OR9NDDSKV8PYD1QGB9C2/falls-1960s-map.jpg Main articles 1962?. The last year the Dogpatch nutcracker tow ran beside the new Summit T-bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462883078253-18MGMWXW9GA9725P5VO6/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1961 showing existing and former lifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472706905781-268U2KBG79MKVE37MMFJ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Circa 1960. Reproduced from Julian Newton Brown. Falls Creek: how it came to be. p.8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463784620215-OSXN7RCWPUL3NKXGUUMX/image-asset.png Main articles 1951 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463784491671-SO6U9CNAHMGRMG95XL75/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1946 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463069429784-C64XUEDVXEFD6LFGOCTV/image-asset.png Main articles 2015 cross country ski trail map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463069839281-64JRWV5NMCLJACUNE11H/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2015 map of the car parks, facilities ski trail heads and toboggan slopes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463069971080-AEXRLLQ2A17EDPYOTJHB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2014 topographic map of the Lake Mountain area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463071748476-GR74GAB0MKEU6A2VG9MQ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2012. Trail map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463071827679-P1BPBGZD3UTMVMNACPWG/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2012 central facilities map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462952274757-S5CNVLAXNMAC0K3RH0WH/PTDC0236.JPG Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462895950419-0T6A3DTZYTGKXBB5KKEE/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462896253909-0T9621CK06DK0S3U0G69/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462896491889-F7UEAHL0AVCM32BIOY72/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463037720376-JI00U9PYHBZONUN5743H/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011. Walks map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463027535208-9NIO3OX2R9MCBIYUUQY0/image-asset.png Main articles 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463027820856-WLSQQD95X0G40L8GK8ZL/image-asset.png Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462945771822-Q6NMOYAA5758YPO8JGQV/image-asset.png Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462958572087-BBBFYB8XL2I8MVZK01QC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463024546785-1BXNBFJ0LCU2G69K0WR0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463024435674-3Q5TUM0SGA2CO5GPU7H0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462941143014-RDXVNECX1LP3C1WT2DAV/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1486991245733-NE0KY5NI0OG4S154VXBL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1983 map when the lift network was at it's greatest extent. Preserved at Kellys Cafe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1514353573061-2GHQPAT3KINFAWRH87Y0/maps+baw+baw+83+prices+2013-06-10+11.49.47_preview+%281%29.jpg Main articles 1983 Baw Baw ticket prices. Preserved at Kellys Cafe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463291149290-NT5DNA5D0AOESG9893HX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. The last map for Buffalo before it closed permanently at the end of the 2006 season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463291103830-4JQTVVTIDGJARX5W5RVG/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1990. Cresta area, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463291051403-ZTEV3JPVTTQP7JDQLMQQ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1990. Dingo Dell area https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462873156206-PNMSEUANP3AHQBRFM9IS/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462873233079-RJPP3V4NU5VZQX1WTI1V/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462944009717-XF2BWBI03O4CLBYLE0C4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463105464864-PC5WITKCXYFCCXBKB4SF/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463289430845-IZJJ4HPR3Y3KW326C0JJ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463289354460-DQOOTK5O91YGZFXQDAYU/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2009. Southern slopes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463289314867-WBAU3M7Q6J5LI6EOK2W1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2009. Northern slopes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463289253618-8G4QBZXYNP5K4E1DBTU9/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463289182742-2QF3OFPLFUZ2QRJWED68/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243108222-IC0KO6FB019C06E30XI4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2000. Lift development proposals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243229084-25JGUCIM3RR6DEM2ZTSY/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243282332-TMMTCO5M0Q034IMHH2OF/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243380788-GZY2DOZVYG3IXELFK54A/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243435012-V0LJR1F4LHSSXTOFGTWO/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463243476966-H64US0J3X95LF7MZ2WUL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1980 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1570232487489-FDPU4RAHTI8XV99YTBC1/Buller+sat+map+from+book.jpg Main articles 1980s From book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872325453-4EXFVENUSJG8W610MEZ4/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872392758-X1GSR5FH09RZYTOGPJ2V/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463290200633-I7RTEPZ35C2W33EPYE2L/image-asset.png Main articles 1949 Village subdivision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1520582833528-ES7O5FSEYFRT8416F6WW/Donna+1938.png Main articles !938. The green lines represent the six main ski runs, most buildings such as lodges and cafes are not shown. The car park was at 10 mile and the summit road was closed in winter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463860958296-7GON140M4NE9EOAYDIXB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463860473835-DTJG03LQTUWJI5P2BOA3/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 Cross country ski map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463859795073-280UEXU6OE2L891RU567/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 town map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463844070827-GMZCF9009458C0HX2QB3/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463843930856-GMT0AZYT5TVXCFE545RI/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463869552877-24GIG1ETI8QJ9NXL02UC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2000 (or possibly earlier) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463843584146-U7TQKGZGA9YWCSZL1KLS/image-asset.gif Main articles 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463839144848-2I9HQE2SKO8D17IG6FLH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463838309717-O6S1VX0HRHN5IFT5LO74/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462872536555-OT5S4JREUAM6YQSVTKDH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1510986670388-JOTC2Y1E00DFG3H4311Y/hotham+village+map+1974.png Main articles 1974 village map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462884164577-W6DFZBNAZA7BZWBI3VCZ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1967 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462884062934-31FQ0WIO1BPJMCCR3TZL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1520568930883-UG0HMVWU6LTBM44KHIWG/Hotham+c+1965.jpg Main articles Circa 1965. Jacks Tow may not have been as long as shown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463833094147-3GZEPI7X5M912K62ZOP0/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1953. The lines indicate named ski runs. Blue Ribbon was the only ski tow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1520572389108-3O94PX6CHT5FZETSJFNN/Hotham+Varsity+Drag+c.+1930+from+Sheridan+book.jpg Main articles c. 1930. The Varsity Drag ski run near Blue Ribbon, a popular sheltered run below the treeline in the early days of Hotham. While the run was popular with members of the University Ski Club, it was almost certainly named after a popular song from the 1927 musical Good news. Varsity Drag was frequently played on the wireless (radio) and apparently there was a gramophone record of it at Hotham Heights. The name of the hit song was soon transfered to this ski run. There are many later versions available, but this is the only 1920s recording on line and is what the skiers who named Varsity Drag would have listened to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463328403330-8F40IKIQWVI4AMCW64AP/image-asset.png Main articles 2015. Interactive map. When opened headings on the left zoom to the area and provide a description. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462888492080-PF9DFRLAE4TGHJJ0QAHB/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1463021207803-4YMF8RRB4P4103ICVMZ6/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462858045803-9PDNSK4A83C7B9G3RLWO/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1983. From Australian skiing: a complete handbook. Edited by Wendy Cross & Peter Beilby. 4 Seasons, 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464570817069-EZQ3YO51SNCNG5KG3KIW/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464570683908-ZRWIMRJ8MF4XMWDJB934/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011. circa. Notes on reverse of trail map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464570536968-UC8SBCZPS6F5XUF95WSD/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1462873396852-46XACR2QPN9WC0RM04AA/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The 1983 proposal for a lift network on Mt Stirling. no lifts were ever built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464742878855-KTG8BTO97BCFTT7SSEBS/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464742659976-6OFSYQM71OP849JEPI05/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2013. Guthega area showing existing lifts and route of quad that was installed the next year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464742499983-3A1P2DAO87QFZ3FFUTN9/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2013. Devils Playgrounds area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464741511195-F8QN6T91V7TJAI9VFSL1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2013. Double Trouble area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464741269425-1WUB82FGBM0TICIBJ4WK/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464740970897-JWHDG26J8TFWU9N36V0R/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 showing the Guthega area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464740873045-I3WPFFB73BIZOI3QEPAQ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472888865619-F3NRAMZTDHVBOCENBCH5/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472885978349-DS91G3W0MEKDMHZORN4F/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Guthega area. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464674943647-GIDVEVL7X696MN2LERA1/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464674828838-T9V3CIWYZZIJOV6R1N57/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1994. Blue Cow and Guthega. Medium resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464674693987-6OGVRTTD2KYD3VIOYTU9/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1992. Blue Cow and Guthega. Medium resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464674541885-CALC08SQ8ZGBLS0W99QX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1990. Low resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464673321945-0TUH2BFZ1F9QY1484D2H/image-asset.png Main articles 1988. Blue Cow area when it operated as a separate resort. Low resolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472971995558-4BO4S8FGS906GADKETT2/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1983. From Australian skiing: a complete handbook. Edited by Wendy Cross & Peter Beilby. 4 Seasons, 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472970612800-JETE1PO76E39W98E1MBF/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1983. Guthega https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464673132255-ILMYXHCNE8VXT6AIDGNO/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1980. Low resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1470532925943-YRK2LLJP7UXS03HVS4MC/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1963. From a brochure promoting the new Australian Alpine Club lodge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464488483121-UV3NOL6EMVF4NVM7Z0CP/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2016. No changes to the map, lifts or buildings, however the old logo has been removed from the map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464502124355-5XCV3OBCAIRYVUVJU6UL/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2010 ish? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464497750424-8N4GJRZ4P1G7NHDZCO8J/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2010 claimed but check on triple chairlift dates. Trim line on right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472708225235-4HGZN6W4PO2IQVIEVIPM/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464646263422-YZX1NBAK7NU00WUL17E8/image-asset.jpeg Main articles Date unsure. Low resolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464494742936-HGJAN8OQST2ODNITKHWE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464494901588-VN6BTF1NDPY46KGNVGCJ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464647877887-KZEGBFEPK3OSKA41FNSE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2015 walks map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464647816280-FQ6W3I6Q82R72HO2G6DR/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464647677659-WYN2J1W6Y4HCMAIMDUND/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464646899334-ED72RJ1TE84UWDVCKXPN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2011 circa. Town map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464646753393-DHDI3DVQCWXN6PZ15N7C/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2007. Reverse side of trail map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464645973231-KOO7ZNHUFZUD1T4RGVAZ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1472890961118-3JOPM8FGO1H272N7RBYX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 2005. Map from Robert Upe & Jim Darby. The snow guide to Australia and New Zealand. Explore Australia Publishing, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1464645806710-8NP5XUJGVEID21POCAI9/image-asset.jpeg Main articles 1992 Low resolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841482799-VPDF6UQ1ZT6FJLH62WJI/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499838861120-MPHYL9XHR79IYT4XUDD5/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841567761-4X8M0WTWNNV66MO4LEJN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499838925501-4ACFTMMEUC6JBBLJQTQD/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841680107-XBAHFGJ77381L7IO7UFO/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841791551-FJJ9MDGQQBAUHE16R9IE/image-asset.jpeg Main articles AND FRUIT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499570845810-NYARJ5N8Y9ZUSLFCJOEW/tree+Dicksonia_antarctica_MHNT_BOT_2012_10_39.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499751367586-Z04MC4L67KAQO8WJAIPN/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A monster ?rough? tree fern near the Watts River. © David Sisson 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841912859-1S9RCE9LA5EU65OAF59P/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499839047154-MM2BWIJHNLYD8TKQUE39/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499841295644-TOH9N1PQJX28VH0FGS98/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499838769509-LX6WG5Q1S75MZ2U4GU6U/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499753113374-YQY5AY452GQYWP0YU3VX/image-asset.jpeg Main articles The author in typical snow gum woodland on the approach to the summit of Mt Torbreck. © Blair Hamilton 201? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499745106175-GPORINN8FLYMK8GZ6JGJ/image-asset.jpeg Main articles By Melburnian - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2065278 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1499752567270-WO29F98VL6C7ORB5C6RH/image-asset.jpeg Main articles A stand of 90 metre high Mountain ash in the headwaters of the Watts River. © David Sisson, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1500017278692-07PKTBRVUO5FZIJPEF88/image-asset.jpeg Main articles and fruit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1500016845978-0WNR4Q81FN80JNS599BK/image-asset.jpeg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525792052065-820DXMY6EKACS9PHBMQT/IMG_0012-800x450.jpg Main articles Photo used with permission from Daniel Sherwin (taken sometime after 2004)1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525791678238-I58HY0FEHDB9TALJ6UDO/Ski+Club%2C+Inaugural+Meeting%2C+Cobram+Courier%2C+13+October+1950.jpg Main articles Notice of Inaugural Meeting (Cobram Courier, Friday 13th October 1950) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525792359417-LS1T5RT9JCQH8ZMHA0T2/Ski+Club+Builds+Lodge%2C+Cobram+Courier+5+July+1951+%281%29.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525792521040-361G4R93UQKRCGE3REEG/Ski+Club+Revived%2C+Cobram+Courier+28+January+1954.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525791375891-Y7XMKNNIWLK5X885I6AG/Building+MVSC+Ctsy+Fiona+Magnussen+c+1950.jpg Main articles Photo supposedly from 1950 showing construction of MVSC (thank you to Fiona Magnussen and Sharyn Chambers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525791821555-QNA11PQ1BJ7O2FCLEXWL/MVSC+Western+view+2004+Folio.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525791550876-TUMNLGC293OY8S5B4Q5U/MVSC+Fireplace+2004+from+Folio.jpg Main articles Interiors of MVSC. Note what appears to be a horse's snow shoe hanging above fireplace (photos from 2004). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525797345635-GXOLJXWSE9DKTXH13PFE/15595_46be10df77c0d3bb593109cbb275cb86.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525798070636-XFK9PXGVUPQANOO43F07/15594_4e333a7253441f080c84ea3515f681e2.jpg Main articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1525798188599-8MRZNELQPG6LWOAZC32C/Ground+Plan+Butler+2005+p.+826.jpg Main articles Floor plan from the Butler report 2005. https://www.australianmountains.com/huts-and-buildings daily 0.75 2025-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528332878981-FQSYBKQRYPVD7KYTA646/Tahune+Hut+Mark+2+1957+B+Ford.jpg Huts and buildings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434749214336-Y32GR8ZCYIYB9ON489HO/mt_buffalo_poster.jpg Huts and buildings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528098341081-EJ6AHMSXY1IZU6G3NMEI/Tahune+Hut+Mk3+perspective+Green+Design.png Huts and buildings Third Lake Tahune Hut from the base of Frenchmans Cap cliffs. From Green Design site https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538228260921-KNF8JM0EFL6595KU7EN7/Melaleuca+huts+PWS.png Huts and buildings Locations of the 11 buildings at Melaleuca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1487864195817-GVSWRMSRXH1IUGRO8GY8/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings A proposal for the third Tahune hut. Floorplan on the architects website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1487746446642-7SMR1TLB5F08B5XVLL88/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Another proposed design for Tahune Hut in PWS May 2016 Facebook post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1527573297451-MGRFFFZ9WMCBSN1FUPYG/Tahune+Hut+Mk+3+floorplan+PWS.png Huts and buildings Floorplan of the third Lake Tahune Hut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528097256011-KX8STQ7T5DC8ITBTKHJE/Tahune+Hut+Mk+3+Valley+Workshop+2018-04-09-09.21.36.jpg Huts and buildings Exterior of the third hut at Lake Tahune. Built 2018. Photo from Valley Workshop website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528097055605-GTJPKXME6H22ROPHUC66/Tahune+hut+3+Valley+Workshop+2018-03-20-14.12.11.jpg Huts and buildings Interior of the third Lake Tahune hut built in 2018. Photo from Valley Workshop website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422324405482-1FQZMZJT2YQO6XWNGEZN/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The second Lake Tahune Hut. © David Sisson 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1544425149109-GBWU7945BYS6F9Z99BLW/huts+lake-tahune+outdoor+diaries.jpg Huts and buildings Interior of second Lake Tahune Hut, © The Outdoor Diaries 2004. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422324113335-WCPYTNLMJPA20C86IP1R/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The first hut at Lake Tahune. Photo: Barry Ford, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1481256517498-57J2LC000GD7R8549DGK/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Frank Hurley's photo of Lake Tahune in 1947. Lions Head towers above the lake while the face of Frenchmans Cap is to the left of this scene. Source: National Library of Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1481256608696-PYONGS0Q0954EYQ9MVP2/image-asset.png Huts and buildings Detail of the original Tahune Hut among King Billy pines from Hurley's 1947 photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422324931737-Q9CD7F541GUZIHJ2BJTW/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Lake Vera Hut. ©. David Sisson, 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1544424775812-F78LUHC2LWEIJ17X6O5D/huts+lake-vera+outdoor+diaries.jpg Huts and buildings Interior of Lake Vera Hut looking from shelf bunks towards the cooking and seating area. © The Outdoor Diaries 2004. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528007218636-LQIBNEHCRB9538NDMTB1/Junction+Creek+Shelter+David+Noble.jpg Huts and buildings Junction Creek shelter in 1975. © David Noble from his 23 day walk in S.W. Tas album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538112089752-74XP9XWQ42FNYGINQ2W7/SW+Tas+coloured+shading+with+shelters++Harrisons+should+be+a+little+further+west.png Huts and buildings Locations of all seven known three sided shelters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528334031583-ZAC0UWD3ALPKBBW46VTK/Blakes_Opening_-_panoramio+by+Raki_man.jpg Huts and buildings The larger Blakes Opening shelter. Wikimedia commons photo by Raki_Man. (I've been unable to trace the person who took this public domain pic, but would like to give an attribution if possible.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528348209486-M81ZG8XR3SJFSP5Y4DSX/blakes+opening+12+2008+retiredaussiescom.JPG Huts and buildings The small Blakes Opening Shelter Dec 2008. Photo © Luca Zucchi from Eastern Arthurs album at RetiredAussies.com (Used with permission.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1612590291814-10WZMI7O6589Y03H0MGD/Bond+Bay.JPG Huts and buildings Bond Bay shelter. Photo by Matt at on his West Coast kayak blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1611730874124-H9FO0FAL2OUUTEIP6M1Q/Hut+cracroft+crossing+from+Chapman+SW+Tas+1st+ed+1978.jpg Huts and buildings Cracroft Crossing shelter from John Chapman, South West Tasmania. 1st ed., 1978. Used with authors permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1528007476854-SIM53X03UXKTKA5XJPKJ/Junction+Creek+Shelter+winter+David+Noble.jpg Huts and buildings Interior of Junction Creek Shelter 1976. © David Noble from his Winter traverse, Western Arthur Range album. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422325405624-9FLXI57XF7ECGMDYBMTW/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The hut at High Moor, Western Arthur Range. © 2003. Simon Walliss and David Sisson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1538808293070-6PQAAQ9P6PPTL2J0YIA9/Twilight+Tarn+100_0348.jpg Huts and buildings Twilight Tarn Hut built 1927, the first building by a ski club in Australia. © David Sisson 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458277236477-GXGKWLVMBYVQFK378504/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Horn Hut, Buffalo Plateau circa 1924. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458281116620-CEPZZ1LTUFSG1DU92GK9/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings 'A jolly trip to the Horn Hut with the Geelong boys.' 1930. Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458278836488-JPS88C9R44FSY2PXD021/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Skiers at Rundells Alpine Lodge at Flour Bag Plain in 1927. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458278954624-02XS92SLYIW4NUOW7SK9/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Rundells Alpine Lodge Easter 1928, shortly before it burnt down. Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1492495299787-TI6M33BTPPMW47MCJ8Z1/image-asset.png Huts and buildings Ward Ambler cabin 1938 - 1939 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1578494641574-KTFI8PM7NJOKIH1WFRQM/Hotham+Lands+Dept+1948+grazing+runs+map+with+later+ski+lodge+additions.png Huts and buildings Detail of a 1948 Lands Dept map of grazing runs with additions showing early ski lodges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458279638332-K3V53M09A3PSU7JUG2WK/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Lunch at Blowhard Hut. Kings Birthday Weekend (1946?). Photo Kath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458285112846-80IU0UW94SMEMELUPSDK/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Cope Hut 1930. Cath Magill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1458285465695-PF27YS4LFYWTPE420KYY/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457156188400-6MG57MO5DVABSTL5SCSJ/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Lovick's cattlemens hut on Burnt Hut Spur. c.1919 - c.1925. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457156495869-24BUDXN8CZSHZ1ME78DO/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Mansfield Progress Association Hut on Burnt Hut Spur. 1925 - 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457156896008-J57YDZ14IYAW3FCHLJVG/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Cow Camp Hut stood on the site of the Kooroora Hotel from 1930 to 1951. J.S. Wilkinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457878719536-X329RBIOY6ITFI6RL0WY/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Hut built around the ruined Chalet chimney, by either Alan McCubbin or the Junior Ski Club whose members provided much of the capital for the original Chalet. Mid 1940s. Photo N. Cleugh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457157267066-C5DI3ZJM98EE4JSVWTYB/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The SCV Boggy Creek cabin built in 1934. This was the equal second ski club lodge in Victoria after the University Ski Club cabin on Mt Donna Buang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457157624166-M8ZKFBJEKBA9CNBSJY6B/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The c.1929 bark hut used as a base for building the Buller Chalet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457159561180-2INQ6HAG5M8LVHVRLN4U/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The Buller Chalet in 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457146777897-Z1ZNMCLNIDEOFFDW57A2/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The Buller Chalet in 1933, a year after extensions. From: Lynette Sheridan. Shes and skis: golden years of the Australian Women's Ski Club 1932 - 1982. AWSC, 1983. p. 32. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434962058668-RMZ0J6B4WB047AM0QWDT/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The Buller Chalet showing the 1939 additions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1546861992041-U8P9TNJT21TSESC6RW9V/BMW+Lodge+by+John+Crook.jpg Huts and buildings Brighton Mountain Wanderers (BMW) Lodge in the 1950s. Photo John Crook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1546863306306-ERA88L1B46ODWEKZ10YX/Icicles+1983+John+T+Collins.jpg Huts and buildings The new and the old. Icicles Ski Club in 1983. Photo John T. Collins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457175068288-WRECPQJTZAIP1XUDW90Y/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings Mushroom Rocks hut Mt Erica. Inside it was surprisingly big using space between boulders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1457175395065-Q4DVBKHQ8K0DCN5BPY56/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The 1945 hut built at what became Baw Baw village. Photo M Thomson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1471493606490-IGK634Z4620GIHJVCZGQ/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings One of the ski club cabins built at Mt Donna Buang in 1934. Photo Kath Magill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1469847671235-6QKPGFH6WXXOQ4C9SGAM/image-asset.png Huts and buildings The original Moose Ski Club lodge at Buller was built in a post war austerity box style although ‘The Meese’ (which they claimed was the plural of Moose) brightened it up with a flash paint job. Built 1949, burnt 11 Nov 1955, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1577874279528-FABNEH0B1CEZ8CHOHIKG/Old+Lodge+June+1968-1.jpg Huts and buildings The original Monsanto lodge, built in 1950 was one of the more attractive and ambitious first generation of club lodges at Buller. Photo Bruce McDowall, June 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1471491831504-RI76ODG9XUJ22T883K5E/image-asset.jpeg Huts and buildings The distinctive 1HP Ski Club at Mt Hotham. Photo D.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/08151d5d-bc0c-4982-8cf7-342bb7b03995/Bennett+ACV+Hotham+PO.jpg Huts and buildings - Make it stand out The Alpine Club of Victoria’s Permissive Occupancy lease. From Donald Bennett Hotham Horizon, 1987. p.32. Click to enlarge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/60b7f981-faca-405f-bedc-6a16fb2a2ad3/Buller+Monsanto+PO.png Huts and buildings - Make it stand out Monsanto Ski Clubs 1949 ‘Occupation Licence’ for their site in the first subdivision at Mt Buller. (Click to enlarge.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/6f8d77af-8ff3-4705-975e-73d0d05fc7cd/Mt+Bullfight+S+C+cap.jpg Huts and buildings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1591158856559-5TB8HEXCMLTJA0DNAZEP/FOVSC+letterhead.png Huts and buildings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1469846994835-WDYHPXYHQ6FN0IVTHJ6G/image-asset.png Huts and buildings The stated membership of some very high profile clubs is surprisingly low, so these figures may not be that accurate. This list is from shortly after the VSA was newly formed and about 30 mostly smaller clubs or country clubs that were affiliated with NEDSA were not members at this stage. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/c6293b80-0de7-4d2f-b91b-88426fc45b35/20220823_113016.jpg Huts and buildings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.australianmountains.com/walking daily 0.75 2019-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431025562265-M66WA8NVPVDQBZ4CEXRJ/Rocky_Peak.jpg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431025733995-1DU31Q3X9L98C07L7FJC/1280px-Buller_West_Ridge_near_summit.jpg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431158935719-I65C30K73ZXARC603OYO/1280px-MaKenzie_Falls_2014-11-04_12.28.20-2.jpg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434748894121-7VAR1OCYWWSJDLIAYAFR/Hiking+Field+West.jpg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1434749050909-GSVT4P24ONSOLMLZFZFW/Beech_Creek_trestle.jpg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421303049817-29N2NXDM2I88AOMZW3AE/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes MacKenzie Falls. Photo: © David Sisson, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421303234106-EFI7GH8WROAS2VA71ULT/image-asset.png Walking notes Map of the walk, the route is shown in blue. Scale: 1:25,000 (4 cm = 1 km.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421677629521-13VN0GCN76XINPPSBX15/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421677856370-GO6AKJQ90ZHKY3GCTWO1/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Aerial view of the Buller Chutes. Main Street is on the far left of the summit ridge. Photo John Eacott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421678467575-ZEUTYJVQN9XX555LP9WQ/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Late spring view of the two main hills and the summit ridge from Big Hill at the start of the walk. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421678785837-75C59R38JU3FMSQ4I4UX/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes The first main hill in Spring after the snow on the northern side has melted. © David Sisson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421679867977-KPFN8LNHFQ2XA7I1XW5T/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Descending the second, rockier hill, just before tackling the West Face of Buller. © D.S. 2013, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421679078975-7T7EQILOWMFVC099Z2A7/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes The author on the summit ridge above the Main Street chute. In winter this area is under deep snow and can be very icy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421339943548-6JVI1FRCGFIIGC5ZWYBM/image-asset.png Walking notes Walking routes on Mt Feathertop. The Great Alpine Road is coloured red. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421344966846-K7U3W3SWLFEJ7ODI7ZER/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes MUMC Hut on North West Spur. © David Sisson 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1421345450672-U0T4D02NFCU5B9PTZHLD/100_0028.jpg Walking notes Federation Hut on the treeline at the top of Bungalow Spur. © D.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431691455581-DODSK21HTE1PFFNCEKOA/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Approaching Mt Field West on the Mt Mawson and Mt Field trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431691574640-GHNGIBMGABGG1LKBDMAD/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Bogong High Plains with Mt Feathertop in the background. Falls Ck and B.H.P. trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422318756417-D5GWZYQUIVUWF4ZVWS5U/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes The Rain Forest Gallery walk at the Donna Buang turn off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422317915306-OE0EKOJOB0ZVGK2JZOEM/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Donna Buang summit. This is the third tower on the site.© David Sisson 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422318988726-Y020DPXLSL13CQNM7M0K/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Ruined ski lodge on Donna Buang. © David Sisson 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422319636975-K5627FW5ZEKXQX9H9DS4/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes 1950's sign north of the summit. © David Sisson 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422318238786-UZD2BAY6ESSDCSHVSZ5R/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Cement Creek track under snow. © David Sisson 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422250415229-091F5F0OUSZRNCIKFWD9/image-asset.png Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422157687790-MSTTNR3FJP6515VD310I/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Beech Creek trestle bridge. © David Sisson 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1490966967357-C8F3HS76ERYTABCTRWK6/image-asset.png Walking notes Royston Power Station of the Rubicon Aqueduct. © David Sisson 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422158571677-4MYOMD3ZAG20GGVRRSAZ/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Old mini sawmill, Rubicon Aqueduct tramway. © David Sisson 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422159261968-VXM1WXHOE0GPRIBXKY5C/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Rubicon power station and penstock. © David Sisson 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422241539431-WKPV417P3TWY2RAC6OXN/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422242408631-EX16UH1AYT2V8NVL1LCT/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes The earth road near Barnewall Plains. © 2012 Blair Hamilton, used with permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422242547659-X0GKZOVVCYQ7PWQLZ5VH/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes The author approaching the top of Mt Torbreck in winter. © https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422242852437-WQQZV3XEQOF2AQOVEQCU/image-asset.png Walking notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422244294881-H8D8NGWON1S4R4OBO2BJ/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Rocky Peak from The Pinnacle. © 2012. B.r Hamilton, Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422244411519-LE6O1D6BXGSGDRA15CHN/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes Open forest south east of Rocky Peak. © 2012 B. Hamilton 2012. Used with permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1422244762174-1RY154P01QPXR7X25FR7/image-asset.jpeg Walking notes https://www.australianmountains.com/cover-page daily 0.75 2015-01-18 https://www.australianmountains.com/about-avenue daily 0.75 2019-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1450587406202-SM3ZORPUF48SB00ODM6K/27ef868543abf9c4e16439c1aeb8f0bd.jpg About The site administrator on a spring stroll on the West Ridge of Mt Buller. https://www.australianmountains.com/mainrangedev daily 0.75 2016-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431025398905-IOSJ0YZ8RJR7RZTEO1X3/Northcote_Tow_pic.jpg Snowy Mountains Main Range development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424231394389-IHHYTAAN0BA7S0PQYQT1/image-asset.png Snowy Mountains Main Range development Two of the Ski Tourers Association's Main Range developments: Kunama Lodge and the Northcote Tow House. Photo: Baglin, published in Rick Walkom. Skiing off the roof: the kosciusko Chalet and it's place in the history of the Australian snowfields. [1st ed.], Arlberg Press, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424230381347-3C6Y2W6W9G598DI0LOMC/Northcote_Tow_pic.jpg Snowy Mountains Main Range development The Northcote Tow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424230453959-AJKSM88LH8CNVE8BZWK4/image-asset.jpeg Snowy Mountains Main Range development Map of Main Range developments in the 1950's. Scan a sharper image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424148533105-YE8VS7BOT3X69N9FF94X/Kunama_56_DB.jpg Snowy Mountains Main Range development Kunama Hutte 1953 - 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424148864899-0X71WT0VQ5EV6ZD72VOV/image-asset.jpeg Snowy Mountains Main Range development The ruin of Kunama Lodge circa 2007. 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Photo: Baglin, from National Library of Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424149094727-GH6RQ36IGFICZGSF92J4/image-asset.jpeg Snowy Mountains Main Range development Roslyn Wesche, who died when an avalanche hit Kunama Lodge. https://www.australianmountains.com/morokagorge daily 0.75 2022-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1431025275491-H4Y1MPPR0EBCR9DEM0WC/von+G+Moroka+falls.jpg The rediscovery of Moroka Gorge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1424090272301-XSRLD6IYAK3U97X9LDVC/image-asset.jpeg The rediscovery of Moroka Gorge https://www.australianmountains.com/timbertrams daily 0.75 2015-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1440567727838-K0WWMLHFKKY3ZQHXSCE3/image-asset.jpeg Timber tramlines The Powelltown passenger train. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1440565928853-BDEI7C59FFN2NX8ETZN1/image-asset.jpeg Timber tramlines A Shay locomotive on a trestle bridge near The Bump tunnel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b4bb3ee4b07950683ef3ba/1440566443045-6JH10XKIMFBF91884CWL/image-asset.jpeg Timber tramlines Hikers at the entrance to The Bump Tunnel