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Feathertop 15-Aug-2011 At 10:34:05 AM StuckNut

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Well couldn't have asked for a better weekend weather wise, not a breath of wind, a little cloud cover to cut the sun intensity back. We arrived to a packed Bungalow Spur car park at about 11am sat morn, after driving up from Melbourne. Set off up the track, passed a few peeps on their way down, they commented on how busy it was up there, which I was sort of expecting from the forum chatter before the weekend, and the scene at the car park when we arrived.

When we arrived at Fed Hut, it did slightly resemble a caravan park, but not as bad as we were made to believe. Maybe 10 or so tents pitched near the hut? We wandered a little further away from the hut and pitched our tent, I dug out a bit of a kitchen, it was Elise's first snow camping experience so we had a bit of fun with it. Had a nice view of Mt Hotham from our site, they set off some fireworks on the mountain just after dark and then we enjoyed watching the lights of the groomers busily scurrying around the mountain slopes.

Wandered over to the hut after dinner, which had a bit of a pub atmosphere about it, with all the people hanging around in the dark drying gear, cooking and socialising.

Morning broke to another perfect day, coffee and porridge for brekky and then we set off up to the summit. We fitted crampons but they weren't really needed, snow conditions were good, but crampons made for confident footsteps on the steep stuff anyhow. We hung around on the summit chatting to a few peeps for a bit, soaking up the view. Before heading back to camp for lunch(Mee Goreng noodles with a bit of Deb instant mash thrown in - oh yeah!). Packed up and then headed down, actually we nearly sprinted down - soo much easier decending than going up!

In my initial enthusiasm to start hiking up the mountain, I had parked in the first spot that appeared vacant - then immediately realised I could be in trouble trying to reverse out of it sunday arvo! Thanks to the kind folks who happened to be there when we got down and gave me a push to get my car out of the slightly awkward position!

Campsite

Elise on the summit

Me crossing from false summit to the actual summit.