Mount Kosciuszko Summit Walk

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Mon 25 Mar 2013 08:14

Caught Kosciuszko Express Chairlift from Thredbo to the Eagles Nest Restaurant (which Paul assures me was the name, minus the restaurant bit, of Hitler’s retreat in Austria – not sure the significance of this).  Other than a stuffed eagle inside the restaurant, there were no eagles in sight.  Anyway we then walked the 6.5km to Australia’s highest mountain.  Most of the footpath is covered with mesh so as to protect the wildlife.  One of the information boards said that the mesh had been in place for twenty years now and that they had almost total recovery of eroded plants and shrubs.  Another 6.5km we feasted on apple strudel in the Eagles Nest Restaurant, except it was chopped apple mixed with coconut and wrapped in pastry and not like apple strudel we know.

 

Paul at the start of the walk.  Great attention to detail the mesh goes around the rocks.

 

 

Rhu at start of walk – you can see the footpath winding away in the distance.

 

 

Lake Cootapatamba Lookout - one of the few glaciated lakes on mainland Australia containing some of the freshest water in Australia.  However, all the signs we saw said don’t drink the water due to viral infection from humans and foxes.

 

 

Headwaters of the Snowy River.

 

 

View from Mount Kosciuszko Lookout.  Mt Kosciuszko is the little bump in the middle.

 

 

Workers toilet – it was locked - and bad weather shelter. 

 

 

The highest toilets in Australia at Rawson’s Pass!

 

 

I did not take this photo.

 

 

No bikes beyond this point!

 

 

Rawson’s Pass where the mesh footpath ends as it meets the Summit Path.

 

 

 

View back over the footpath from the Summit footpath, you can just make out the footpath in the middle of the picture going off to the right.  The toilets at Rawson’s Pass are in the middle LHS.