Thursday 28th February 2013
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| Wellington Falls |
I parked the car at the car park just near the start of Pinnacle Road at Fern Tree and set off at 0730. I first walked back along Huon Road past the tavern and onto the start point of various tracks in the park . The first track I walked up was the Middle track followed by the Radfords track to The Springs and then up past the site of the old hotel, cosmic ray observatory and on to the Milles track. It was all uphill to this point, but best to do this early in the day, I say.
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| Cathedral Rock from Milles Track |
The track climbed steadily passing the Ice House track on the right and kept on climbing, but not steeply before descending to Disappearing Tarn and The Potato Fields. There was no water in the tarn which is pretty normal and the Potato Fields which consists of many, many boulders which have to be negotiated, although this was not difficult. After this the track climbed steadily again to near the falls.
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| Potato Fields |
The track now descended to the falls where there is a lookout and it is also possible to descend to the base of the falls. I opted not to do that today. From here the track descended all the way back to the car via the Wellington Falls track and Pipeline track.
Overall a good walk and even though it is quite long, much of it is easy, so it does not take a great deal of time.
Distance: 21.3 kms.
Time: 5'55"
Ascent: 630 metres
Click here to download GPX track.
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| Potato Fields |
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| Top of Wellington Falls |
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| Top of Wellington Falls |
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| Saint Crispins Well |
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| Montagu Thumbs from Pipeline Track |
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| Cathedral Rock from Pipeline Track |
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