Western Arthurs Traverse - 8 - 13 February 1976
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Party - Gordon Thompson (The General), Tom Williams, Peter Woof, Dave
Noble
We walked from our camp near Lake Judd to the road - then down the road
to Scotts Peak Dam where we picked up previously cached food.
Above - With big packs we set off for Junction Ck - Tom, Peter and the
General
Above - old logbook entries from 1975
Above - climbing Moraine A
Above - Peter on the old Hesperus DZ
Above - looking down to Lake Cygnus
Above - Tom has a swim
Above - Peter and Tom
Above - The General near the Pegasus
Above - The General near the Pegasus
Above - descending the "incredibly steep but fern covered slopes" off
Mt Capricorn
Above - descending the "incredibly steep but fern covered slopes" off
Mt Capricorn
Above - lunch on Beggary
Above - Mt Shaula
Above - Peter above Lake Mars
Above - Promontory Lake from Mt Scorpio
Above - Lake Juno (or Vesta?)
Above - dusk at Promontory Lake
Above - Tom has a last look back at Prom Lake
Above - Looking ahead - Centaurus Ridge - West Portal and the Eastern
Arthurs
Above - Looking back from West Portal
Above - Looking back up from Craycroft Crossing
The next day - Tom and myself - walked to Junction Ck and back via the
Arthurs Plains to pick up the rest of our food that we had cached in
the shelter hut
Then we headed up the Eastern Arthurs
for Stage 3 of our walk
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