Mon 21st November – Victoria High Country

 

Day 24

Talbotville to Omeo

Last day in the High Country because of road closures further into the Alpine Park towards Kosciuszko,  we had planned to travel cross country to get to Thredbo.  So the new plan is to visit the Blue Rag Range today then back to Dargo Pub for a meal before travelling to Thredbo via bitumen (walk to top of Mt Kosciuszko).

So we left our camp and up through another steep climb along Collingwood Spur… stopped to take in more views…

   

                             

And then to our next obstacle for our plans…

                                       

Ok, so the main road to get up to Blue Rag range is closed, but there is another way, it is just likely to be much more difficult and time consuming.  As the Blue Rag range is talked about in any High Country journey we thought it important to get there.  So back into the Talbotville area to start up South and then North Bassalt Knob tracks.

First down a 2 wheel drive tight road.

   

Then onto some tighter tracks…

   

   

 

then along the Blue Range track to the survey marker.

   

     

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

 

 

Now, the plan was to get back to Dargo but as these tracks took a few hours to traverse and we would need to reverse this to get back.  The South Bassalt Knob track was especially hard uphil with slippery rocks on a 60 degree slope with 90 degree turns returning the same way wasn’t appealing.

So again we consider our options…. Dargo Pub is a miss.  Lets get back on to some main roads and visit Mt Hotham, it does have some snow as we see through the photos.

   

 

Then on to a camping spot at Omeo.