2014 - Falls Creek to Eskdale Spur via Mt Bogong - Day 1 - Falls Creek to Edmonson's Hut

We completed the car shuffle on the Saturday before retiring into a couple of beers and a fine meal at a restaurant called Rios. The food was lovely with a good wine and beer selection. One car was left at Camp Creek Gap and the other was to be left at the Mt Beauty bus station. We caught the bus service up the mountain to Windy Point which was a great idea of Pierre's and did save us quite a bit of time at the end of the trip. It also saved us a bit of money.

We were ready for our trip. Sunday morning we were up early and off to the bus stop. We wanted to get a 9am bus up the mountain, the first one for the day. It was funny seeing a poor teenage girls texting with her nose as her hands were obviously too cold as she had them in the bus. Talk about being desperate to txt. We met a fellow x country skier - Karl who was off by himself for a few days. His plan was to go to Johnston's hut then he would make it up as he went.

We arrived at the Falls Creek car park at about 10am, a bit of mucking around doing final gear checks, rugging up as it was raining, and then finding a friendly driver to take us to Wind Corner. At about 11am we were off crossing Rocky Valley dam wall making our way to Heathy Spur track. We had to stop along the way as Cam's feet were giving him serious grief threatening his ability to continue the trip. He patched himself up and we continued on to Edmondson's Hut, much earlier than we had planned, but as it turned out provided an excellent setup for the rest of the trip.

Near the corner of Heathy Spur rack and the Mt Nelse Track we met up with Karl again as well as a bunch of Rovers who were on their way back to the Bogong Rover chalet from Johnston's hut. These rovers were from NSW.

At Edmondson's Hut we had lunch and re-worked Cam's insoles in his ski boots, the improvisation provided relief to his already damaged feet but crucially allowed Cam to continue the trip. We had a great night at Edmondson's hut. The hut provided great shelter from the weather as rain, sleet and sago blew in wave after wave.

The weather for the next day held more promise so with this thought we settled down for the night.