by north-north-west » Sat 13 Jun, 2020 8:06 pm
Owen is straightforward - road up to the end (don't take the sideroad to the left when it forks), up the short access track and then cross country around the first set of rocks to the summit. Be careful on the descent as there's a lot of loose gravel on the steeper bits of road and it can be like walking on marbles.
It's been a few years since I did Darwin, but that's just a matter of following vehicle tracks and then picking up one end or another of the loop track to the top. When I was up there the eastern side from the carpark at the end of the vehicle track had been recently cut and taped so it was easy to follow. The western side was more overgrown, but still followable.
Tyndall has a clear track through the scrub from the access road, then cairns to either the lakes or the summit. It's possibly the shortest and easiest of them. Can be boggy on the flats and the first bit of the climb can get a little overgrown but it's usually easy to follow.
Jukes . . . been too long. Good long daywalk to cover the whole system, but that's better in summer when the days are longer; you'd be pushing to do all that in winter. I've been up there three times and always had trouble finding the lower line of the route, and always lost it at least twice on the way to Proprietary. Once you're up, it's open across to the helipad.
Times depend on your walking speed. All can be done as daywalks, but this time of year you'd want to start early. Abels book gives ascent times as roughly two hours for Tyndall and Owen, three hours for Jukes.
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."