ILUVSWTAS wrote:Recently spent a bit of time over the back of PB and found the scrub there quite nasty
Scrub is always such a subjective thing but I guess it depends on where you exactly mean by "the back of PB". If you are talking about the razorback ridge heading north from the summit or headwaters of the Salisbury heading north from low camp, then certainly there is nothing anywhere near that calibre of scrub on the Franklands. If however you are talking about the standard descent to New River Lagoon then you might want to reconsider the Franklands. As Fin says, the scrub isn't that bad but it for the most part but it can get a bit nasty getting down to Islet lake to camp if you go the wrong way. The other thing to consider is the isolation of the range. The new improved Fake Pedder makes escape very difficult if things go pear-shaped unles you have a boat.
Incidently, the scrub to the north of the PB track - specifically Brewsher Saddle is the benchmark to which I compare all other scrub - even bobs knobs was a walk in the park by comparison. It took us 8 hours of crawling through Scorparia and lots of other scunge to cover just over 1500m !!!!