We trotted down to Rawson Pass which has Australia’s highest toilet block! Utilised the facilities and added yet more clothes since we were really feeling the chill. Once again stowing the heavy packs, it was time to go up the Rams Head Range to climb Rams Head (2190 m) and Rams Head North (2177 m). Well, this is our dodgiest bit and I hope our supporters will give us a bit of leeway here. It was a little difficult telling which peaks were the highest as they are all pretty big in those parts, but we selected two likely candidates and were climbing once again. We ended up climbing huge boulders which started to get a bit death defying (especially with my dodgy shoulder), but 15 m from the summit, the storms were rolling in and it started to snow, so deciding discretion was the better part of valour, we beat a hasty retreat down to safer ground.
- Storm clouds rolling in
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On the walk back I offered Tracey my lighting rod, I mean hiking stick!!! For some reason she refused…. We still had one peak to go, so we convinced our weary legs to move along back toward Rawson Pass the Unnamed peak on Etheridge Ridge (2180 m), our 10th and final peak. Upon reaching the top Tracey did her cartwheel against my OH&S advice!
- Unnnamed Peak on Etheridge Ridge 2180m
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The day was ticking on so we quickly retrieved our packs and began the march back to Charlottes Pass, as the snow pelted down and the thunder rumbled. We passed some hikers heading in and we were glad to be heading out with that weather closing in. After a very long 7 km, we were back to the car, with our big drive ahead but smiles on our faces after a wonderful walk in some amazing country.
- the snow comes down
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- Mission complete!
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We are blessed to have such amazing friends and families who supported us in this walk and have helped us raise over $2800 for a wonderful charity, BGK, that help families of kids with bowel diseases. Finally I would like to thank Tracey who not only came along on my little mission, which I described to her as “not that tough” (ha ha), but also helped raise lots of money Thankyou.
Liz and Tracey