Above Lake Christabel Hut looking back to Lake Christabel and the Blue Grey River. Photo: Paul McCredie

Four passes and a bundle of huts

April 2024

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A north-to-south traverse of Victoria and Lake Sumner forest parks requires a crossing of the Main Divide and three other passes, and offers a multitude of huts to visit.

I’m caught in a dense band of leatherwood, turpentine, spikey Spaniards and hebes. Their branches, wiry and interlacing, reach above my head, and it takes a supreme effort to move forward. Sometimes I crawl among the roots then climb a leatherwood to survey the route before crashing back to the ground. My legs are scratched […]
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