Falls Creek Ski Tour 2022 - Tawonga Huts to Weston's Hut

Tawonga Huts to Weston's Hut - 4th Sept

Another picture perfect day - no wind, sun shinning and warm. We were up again by about 7.45am. Once again making a billy of water for teas and coffees. Not too many crows this morning and we were treated by seeing a Flame Robin and some Robin red Breasts - really very spectacular birds to see.

We got going at around 10am - leaving enough time for the snow to soften a bot to make the climb out from Tawonga Huts up to the Fainter Fire Track a bit easier. It was still a bit icy in the shady parts of the track, but once we got into the sun the going was easier and we made good time back to the ridge line and turning west we followed the ridge for a bit. At the top of the ride near where the pole line plunges down to Tawonga Huts we stopped to do a field repair on one of John M Fischer boots were the rubber on the toe box was coming away from the upper of the shoe - a common problem with these boots according to the web based forums. Boot fixed and budgie bar had progressed to where we had a straight line to My Jim. Dropping our packs we headed off to Mt Jim for a quick blast, had a look around and then headed back for lunch by about 1pm. After lunch Greg B, John B and Chis headed down a gully for a nice long run to the bottom, cutting a lot of figure of 8 on the way down. John M had a nap. Of course the worst thing about skiing down a gully is that you need to climb back out of it, that said it was great to do some skiing on great snow without back packs.

Weston's Hut was a little hard to find as the track and pole line becomes a little indistinct especially once you have gone off track a little. The skiing towards the end also got a little harder and for the last 300 meters or so it was skis off and walk down to the hut. We arrived at Weston's Hut at about 3pm. It's a lovely hut, but the sort of hut that is mor eon the way rather than a destination hut. We f=cut fire wood, fixed the past on the verandah and also fixed the hammer.

The hut is little visited during winter with our group being only the second group to visit so far in the winter of 22. The number of visitors during summer on the other hand is huge - just counting through the log book there were about 20 different groups going through in just December 21.

Having settled into the hut for the evening we had some soup, dinner and dessert with port - we were fairly safe in thinking that no-one would be joining us over the next couple of nights in the hut.

Another great round of 500 was played before we headed off to bed.