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Ice Conditions 2016: Buller, Blue Lake et al. 10-Oct-2016 At 12:30:11 AM dalai

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After the knee finally being on the mend, some light dustings of snow earlier in the week and still a reasonable amount of snow on the Mt Buller summit webcam, I headed up last night to camp at the free Carters rd campground and checked it out this morning. As the road is open and free to the village I was able to drive to the top of the village.

Optimistically I thought there would be more on the southern faces...

As I hadn't been around that side of the hill, I decide to drop down and traverse under the faces There were patches of snow in gullies number one and two but the rest of the mountain was bare. Made for some challenging sections traversing through thick uncovered bushes.

Walked up the Western ridge walking track once I got across to it and then up the track to the summit, across the top and then back down into the base of gully one. Was able to link some snow patches, but was mostly front pointing turf. One more lap around and I was able to find some less steep but more continuous sections of snow, including one a narrow rib of snow hemmed in between rock walls. Was blowing a gale across the top, thankfully somewhat sheltered on the southern faces.