Abbot Pass
Abbot Pass Story
29, 30 July 2005. Hut trip with Paul, Hank, Heather and Trevor.
This is a hike/scree party up a gully for 600m of elevation gain.
Listen to the warnings. Wear a helmet, stick to the trail/middle. We had a close call with a dinner plate (more like a serving tray) rock spinning on edge at about mach 3.
In 2004 there was fatality due to rockfall near the top of this gully.
We had spent the previous night at the Elizabeth Parker Huts. We hit the trail in the morning and hiked to Lake Oesa, from there you turn up the gully and proceed to pull the mountain of loose scree around you. There is nothing really challenging about it, but the treadmill scree does get old.
Once at the top you find Abbot Pass hut where we spent the night. It is as cool as it looks in the pictures. Since the objectives from here, Mt Victoria and Mt Lefroy, are both technical objectives it was the end of the line for us.
One of the trail-building marvels left behind by Lawrence Grassi.
Paul approaches Lake Oesa.
The typical view, and the typical slogging.
The hut at the pass, Mt Victoria behind.
29, 30 July 2005. Hut trip with Paul, Hank, Heather and Trevor.
This is a hike/scree party up a gully for 600m of elevation gain.
Listen to the warnings. Wear a helmet, stick to the trail/middle. We had a close call with a dinner plate (more like a serving tray) rock spinning on edge at about mach 3.
In 2004 there was fatality due to rockfall near the top of this gully.
We had spent the previous night at the Elizabeth Parker Huts. We hit the trail in the morning and hiked to Lake Oesa, from there you turn up the gully and proceed to pull the mountain of loose scree around you. There is nothing really challenging about it, but the treadmill scree does get old.
Once at the top you find Abbot Pass hut where we spent the night. It is as cool as it looks in the pictures. Since the objectives from here, Mt Victoria and Mt Lefroy, are both technical objectives it was the end of the line for us.
One of the trail-building marvels left behind by Lawrence Grassi.
Paul approaches Lake Oesa.
The typical view, and the typical slogging.
The hut at the pass, Mt Victoria behind.
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