by Mark F » Mon 29 Oct, 2018 3:42 pm
You can collect your pass after 3pm on the day before. If you then jump on a shuttle to Dove Lake you can be at SK hut well before dark. Next day continue up to the Cradle - Barn Bluff divide to rejoin the olt. You can then head back along the track without packs to climb Cradle, climb Barn Bluff or continue to Windermere and have an extra day when you get the the Pelion area etc.
When I took my partner though a few years ago we had atrocious weather on Day 1 so headed across to SK hut from Dove Lake. Then day 2, as things were a bit clagged for climbing peaks headed to WIndemere, but were able to have a spare day at Pelion when the weather was great.
"Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove".