7 Day Wilderness Trek – Climbing Australia’s 10 highest peaks

7 Day Wilderness Trek – Climbing Australia’s 10 highest peaks

Good day it’s Mike and I’m climbing the 10 highest peaks in Australia I’m with my two kids on a 7-Day unsupported track along the spine of the snowy mountains the highest and largest Alpine Wilderness Area in the country good run bunny rabbit I got it yes full of snakes right

Here okay so we’ve just set off from the car my mom has dropped us off and we’re hiking over the next 7 days to threadb Via the 10 highest p in Australia I’ve actually started this well back from the main range just so my kids Tom and Zara

Can get a longer hike um I also want to teach particularly Tom cuz he’s showing interest in how to learn how to navigate so Tom’s 15 Zara’s 13 and I reckon once Zara sees Tom navigating she’ll want to have a crack as well the first few days aren’t as dramatic from a scenery

Perspective we’re below the tree line we’re not up on the really high mountainous areas with the big broad views but there is still plenty of beauty if you look closely so there’s no phone coverage here but to save on battery because I’m going to be pulling it out and using the

Camera in it and stuff when I get into remote areas I put it in Airplane Mode which is a bit of an no-brainer but I also turn off background app refresh so if I do get in range it’s not continuously burning battery and data so I also put the screen on dark

Permanently so the display is shining less and therefore using less battery the kids packs weigh about 11 and2 kilos which is 25% of their body weight they’re also carrying 2 days each of our group food and all of their own personal belongings I’m carrying 26 kilos of

Which 6 kilos is camera gear a solar panel and power Banks and I’m carrying three days of our group food plus the tent and all the cooking gear and all my own personal stuff got it these burs stick to everything socks clothing whatever just hit me

Where is it it’s on your hat yeah oh on the side on the hat oh nice work stop you’re not funny so holds The High Ground bro there’s prickly all over me look so it’s good practice while hiking to flick them around and get stuck everywhere that way you can enjoy them

Underneath your pack straps as you hike the Itchy bomb are continuing it’s also pretty remote out here not a lot of people walk these tracks and one of the nice things about this section below the tree line is that there’s Huts left over from the cattle

Days up here from hundreds of years ago and also the mining days most of these Huts are empty but because this one’s only a day’s walk from the road we find people in it a mother and a daughter doing a overnight hike and then another

Guy has joined us as well so maybe one night in 10 10 I find the Huts up here have other people in them but mostly you just have them to yourself everyone you meet up in places like this is a nice and interesting to talk to check out

This massive Lykan never seen one quite like That that wasn’t a bad night it rained last night lovely weather [Applause] children unfortunately my main camera died camera is stuffed it started playing up on the very first day making a horrible noise I think from the optic stabilizer in here and and now it’s completely Cactus so I’m limited in that

Regard and I also can’t use drones because it’s a national park I think drone restrictions are completely unnecessary in New South Wales national parks they don’t have them in Queensland and they don’t have any problems national parks don’t own airspace and park users are generally respectful people and they’re not going to intrude

On other people’s privacy or hover around their heads to annoy them it’s just an unfortunate photography restriction on people who have a right to use the airspace AB above parks for their own pleasure and share the beautiful things that they are able to film on their drains just approaching a

Hut for lunch and we’re doing 17 km today which isn’t a huge amount but I want the kids to enjoy it and just have a bit of time out we’ll probably have an hour and a half for lunch I’m reading a book about a guy he stayed at the hut

I’m just about to be at in December 2019 as the black summer bushfires we’re beginning he didn’t know that though but he describes Ash and burnt leaves falling to the ground as he walked along this Trail and it just he had an ominous feeling and he sheltered in this Hut for

A while and I’m still reading the book so I don’t know what ended up happening but I think it ended up in some kind of rescue what the have bu beds in here Che the layer awesome I’m yeah I love this it’s one of my FES look at the

View yeah and the campfire you sit there yeah this is I wish we could just stay here tomor last time I was here it was snow everywhere I had a stereo and I sat up and I was listening to music on that shelf we can’t use that

Wood for a five we now we collect the rainwood yeah you can set it if you want I’ll give you a l and you can do it can you help me get firewood no you can Dr got modern looking dny I’d say the bush fires must have burnt down the last one

Standard kind of drop D so Kos National Park never used to have a zed in it it was named after Kos some guy from Europe or Poland or something and then they added like only 10 years ago a zed it was it was hard enough to spell as it is but you can

Tell something’s new when it’s got a zed in the name I always prefer the old spelling so the kids are came to Camp here for the night and I must admit I am tempted because the weather is pretty rubbish it’s supposed to be rubbish for the next

Couple of days and this would mean that tomorrow night we’re definitely in a hot as well as we were packing for this trip it absolutely poured down at my mom’s place and those kinds of storms are on the forecast at the moment so I am tempted and plus it’s kind of the kids

Idea so it is nice to stay in a place when it’s kind of their idea and also I mean this is just a beautiful remote heart with a beautiful view and this is why you come out to these placees places and in some ways it’s kind of not

Surprising that there was people in the Hut last night cuz it’s a day walk in but now we’re 2 Days in and this is one of the most remote Huts in the High Country up here so that’s nice too just feeling remote and having a beautiful

View and hanging out with your kids it’s going to be awesome and there’s an awesome open fire pit as well it’s a real luxury to have a good book to read on a hike like this you have a lot of to think so it’s nice to M

Over your own thoughts but also get perspectives from other people and their Journeys through life I’m particularly enjoying this book it’s about a guy walking the Australian Alps walking Track which is a 660 km hike through the Victorian Alps and then the New South

Wales Alps all the way to CRA now he was here when the Black someone bushes hit and he was evacuated from a nearby Hut what I find interesting about this guy’s perspective is that he has been coming to these mountains like me since he was a little kid and it’s devastating for

People who’ve seen the Snows for decades and decades to see the amount of damage that’s happened from these severe bush fires which unfortunately just happen under the Western Land Management regime where we don’t reduce the undergrowth and there is so much fuel that the fires

Burn so hot and they burn all the way across the country all the way to the coast in the case of the last one so I really hope that we can adopt Aboriginal Land Management techniques where they not only reduceed the amount of undergrad but optimize it for plants and

Animals that are native to Australia there’s no doubt climate change played a role in the last fires but more than ever we need Aboriginal Land Management techniques to reduce the kind of damage that’s going to happen with climate change so yeah I was just sitting here quietly and

I saw movement you can tell it’s a hair cuz it’s got much bigger ears than a rabbit and they’re larger I find them more weary than rabbits he’s at wind of me so he can’t smell me and unless I move quickly or the wind shifts he’s not going to know I’m

Here oh there he goes and the wind the wind was just swirling as I said that and he CAU a whiff and then he had it off nothing fancy tonight to be ravioli mind you this is a fresh meal so the first two nights I’m going Freshies and then after

That it’s just cheap dry stuff with these gas cylinders this is an expensive one and it says Four Season performance the summer time you don’t need that because it’s warm enough that the gas just evaporates enough to be used anyway so I’m just using this one

Up it’s j reason I’m using it now but otherwise just use these cheap ones from Kmart they’re like 4 bcks 50 it’s like a third of the price squirty sauce so I’ve been trying to figure out how this Machinery works for this I think gold mine right so I reckon this machine

Spun this wheel and rotated those Rock crushing bits and I reckon this spinning bits that crush the Rocks was housed in those big metal things there maybe fed down a chute like that and this is a large flywheel that probably added inertia to the Rock crushing and these things look like

Pistons and I don’t know quite where they fit in which maybe that’s maybe that’s the engine block I don’t know but the whole thing would have been mounted down here I reckon on these supports using the water from the river and you can see all up and down this little creek there’s tailings

Left over from this mining process and the Rocks would have been carried in that thing before it went into the crusher it’s interesting that the whole lot is spread out really widely over a about a 50 60 M area that would have taken a lot of work to do so I wonder

Whether the person that left the mine destroyed it so nobody behind him could use it no idea but this is obviously the Hut where they worked not bad having a water source right there Tom’s taking quite an interest in photography at the moment I like that bug one

Too well that’s a nice one go back to that one yeah now so I’m also showing him how I shoot star lapses on my GoPro each frame you know I said there 25 frames per second because there’s so little light outside I’m going to have the shutter open for

30 seconds to allow enough light to get in to get a picture of the Stars so it’s going to take 30 seconds is one frame one frame so I’m going to need 25 * 30 seconds to get 1 second of footage so 750 seconds yeah wow

M gungle over there has just got some fog just Whispering over the top blue sky day I’m not a fan of always following tracks so I’m actually thinking about the track goes off around there in a big kind of S turn and I’m thinking about going across there and then a shortcut

Up a very sharply contoured heavily wooded area which is generally a recipe for disaster but there are some waterfalls marked on the map there and it’ll be good for the kids to have a crack at what a disaster looks like and also just I’ll show them before

We do it what the Contours look like deer tracks lots of them and that’s a new addition to our Alpine areas well since the 1800s these introduced deer but recently the deer numbers have been going absolutely nuts so if you can catch a BL a um Mar fly Tom anded to that

Skink so once he sees it moving he’ll grab it already oh he can oh I got it yes yes look he’s eating it how awesome he’s like thanks human it’s hard for me to catch these things can you squat that one on my bum please just having a hard time getting

It down oh yep get it down there mate good work getting down the river was okay and even getting across the river was easy enough without even taking our packs off but on the other side we came across a whole bunch of snakes basically they’re just underneath the bushes

Everywhere and this one was right in the middle of my path and as I tried to move around just another 3 m to my left to avoid that snake I came across another one so I had to take measures this place is full of snakes right here so these are normally to keep

The birs out of your socks my boots go to there but I’m just going to put these on as an added a layer of protection in case I get struck up here we’re going right through this stuff which is knee high and I just saw two snakes just in

The last three or 4 M and oh it’s just the sound reflecting off that rock there these are this is a song that the kids made up in Nepal and um they decided to sing it because I said to make noise so they’re making noise to help scare the snakes

Off now on the other side of the ridge I reckon the snake wrist just went down a bit because it’s jewy here see how wet my boots are and it’s cold and I reckon all the snakes in the area have gone on the other side of that null to warm up

In the sun check that waterfall that spectacular I just hope we can get around it so the plan is to go to that middle of that Clear Ridge there and then assess whether to go up that side around the far side of the waterfall or’ll go up this side we’re going to try

Going straight up this Ridge line here really thick undergrowth like this not only provides extra fuel for severe bushfires but it prevents grass growth underneath it thereby starving out the animals that would be eating grass and it is so thick that it prevents animals from being able to move through it a

Kangaroo simply can bounce through this stuff they can try and crawl underneath it and stuff but basically this is just a no-o area there’s no it’s too hard to move through and there’s no point being there cuz there’s no food this is going to be a long climb all right

Bushes are over my head now so I literally have to part them in my hands probably not there ain’t no clearance it’s just going to be a absolute suckfest the whole time the bushes are all angled like like a Barb so you’re going up green like Ping logs like this kind of

Helpful cuz I push it down way yeah hang on thought it would get easier it’s actually getting worse I don’t know if you can see how many ow sand fls there are but they are just everywhere these little fans you can eat them when they’re in this stage here it’s called the

Fiddlehead stage you get better off boiling the first this looks like an Alpine version of dianella that just aren’t ripe yet I’ve never seen that size I’ll have to look it up when I get access to the internet again that’s also called the flax lily it’s good for making string

But um normally those berries go blue and you can eat them they taste really good that there’s a witch grub hole you can see that’s the sawdust that the Grub’s left behind so if you had an axe this is National Parking to do this even

If I have one but uh you cut in here and the grub would be up there in fact you can make a little hook on a stick shove it up the hole and drag it out but um we’ve puffing them Pat and G on this hill so I think we’re better off just

Keep him going this is a bloody struggle epic struggle up here but I can just see the base of a big Granite Cliff face which we spoted from the bottom and I think that is the top oh that was a absolute prick of a coin here right

If it if it’s too dodgy just don’t come up okay so that’s where we Bush bashed up from it was a shocker that was not the the fun wasn’t over there yet either cuz we had to Bush bash down to another River and then back up the other side on

The plus side we managed to have a swim cuz we were covered in leaves sweat and twigs that was a pretty epic morning actually that’s tough going up that hill get in can you CL it on me please though Valentine’s hot right two minute noodles can’t really go wrong with two

Minute noodles can you yeah and you’ve also already had some I’ve only had like four stream out four GP of strands the last time I’d been here was a solo ski track in wintertime and it was before the bush fires and it was surrounded by trees it

Was actually hard to find because the track was covered in snow and the trees had a dense foliage now the entire place has a different feel yesterday kind of seemed arous walking on a track but after walking up that horrible Ridge through all the bush the track seems like an absolute luxury

That’s how the kids are saying it and I feel the same way which is a good reason to go and do random stuff like that well it’s been quite a day but it’s nice to have one last Hut before we head up into the real High Country above the tree

Line and it’ll be all tent from then on the schlink Hilton as it’s affectionally known due to the size of this Hut was built in the 60s as part of the snowy Hydra scheme it’s now un used and available to use for hikers yeah that’s right it’s been a while since the Bring comfy wfy oo butter chicken what do you think of your real chicken pieces only got like three I think now it’s about four in a whole packet that’s after being exploited you can complain to the Human Rights Commission weather can change very quickly here and I’d been expecting it

To get bad and it looked like it was about to finally catch up with us just as we left the protection of the huts and headed up onto the higher ground of the main range over the following days of the Trip all righty setting off it’s a bit of a dreary old day I tell you it was wided out down to the Hut when the first wake up so we’re actually heading up now into that wi [Applause] out yeah it’s not looking real nice at least it stopped raining for a

Second these are the last trees we’re going to see for the next 4 days before we head off into the W out worst thing about huging to this stuff is you just basically get wet feet very quickly cuz it’s very boggy and it’s raining so you

Have to kind of wear an outer layer but then you get hot underneath it I’m now walking on a compass bearing so this is where I’m just putting and the center of the needle that bubble’s really annoying see I actually lost orientation already there feels to me like I was

Starting to go too far left so we actually want to go that way for the first 10 minutes while I was navigating with a compass it just didn’t seem to be behaving properly and then I realized the GoPro magnetic mounts that I have on my chest were actually

Affecting the compass and making it swing 180° out so I must have got a little bit off track during that first 10 minutes so much better that hold on my tastes so good what do you got Tom Mars Bar it is uh windy and we need somewhere

To have lunch and we just found this little call cave but it’s a gap between two rocks great spot eh likely to find a place like this up here all right this white out is just too difficult to navigate in and uh we’re now soaked through most of our

Clothes and if we just keep bundling on we’ll miss this pass and end up having a backtrack tomorrow when we can see what we’re going so we’re going to find somewhere to set up the tent and Camp despite wearing a waterproof outer layer I’m still mostly wet on the inside

Now CU it’s been raining so much so that’s a important reason not to have cotton clothing because cotton is a vegetable fiber and it hangs on to moisture and is really hard to dry out so I make sure I either have synthetic thermals or Marina thermals which are

Even better because they dry more quickly and they can still provide warmth when they’re wet in this case I didn’t have enough Marino thermals to go around so I gave Tom and Zara my Marino bottoms and I just use synthetic pants which weren’t quite as good but at least

They dry so when you’re wet in these situations just wear your wet stuff to bed and after a few hours are feeling clammy it eventually dries out luckily in the evening the rain stopped for a brief period And I jumped out and cooked some carbonara I normally put the

Daily food rations in Ziploc bags and then once the first one of these is empty I use it for a rubbish bag and I find that’s the easiest way to just keep a track of all the rubbish cuz you do end up with a lot of small bits of

Plastic rubbish on trips like this [Applause] I like having fresh hair not not to freezy hair thank You better than yesterday oh sun’s out again yeah okay we’re ready to go and it’s just wed out again and we can now scope out our route to the top of Mount tapate which is up there so we’re just going to basically follow along the top of the ridge to the

Top there that’s where I was hoping to Camp last night but uh we just couldn’t see anything with the CL Bay starting to lift I’m close to being able to see the first of the 10 highest peaks of Australia I’m just hoping that the weather continues to improve cruset and cheese for

Lunch and then the summit of Australia’s thirdd highest mountain mount twinam comes into view for the first time let’s be honest here due to the rounded nature of Australia’s Peaks due to the age of the Australian continent we don’t have such spectacular steep Peaks as other countries maybe our claim to fame should

Be that it gets so windy that the trig markers blow over on the plus side at least we don’t have to carry ice axes and crampons to our mountains we can just stop and smell the flowers looking back behind us I can see Mount jungal that we walked past and all

The way back to round Mountain where we started this hike As a kid I used to come up here with my friends and Camp next to these Lakes late in the ski season and we’d ski the really extreme shoots surrounding these glacial lakes but they’ve now banned that you’ve got a camp outside of the catchment areas of the Lakes so that’s

Why I’m camped back outside of the catchment next to a path Not So Glamorous but uh just doing the right thing but I also read on the sign next to this Lake that it was 26 M deep and me and my mate lugged up scuba gear and

Tried to scuba dive to the bottom of this Lake but we had gear failure on our dry seats and it didn’t quite work out but anyway I do love these mountains and there’s plenty of Adventure to be found if you know where to look as we were packing up camp these

Full drivve turned up and I thought oh jeez I’m not getting busted for some am I turns out it’s Rangers doing a Haw weed program where they’re trying to eradicate this species of invasive weed and we’ve been seeing these signs right across the top of the Snows as we walked

And these guys have got sniffer dogs that are specially trained to sniff out this weed and they’re hoping that they can completely eradicate it and therefore no longer have to manage it either that or it’s an elaborate cover story for a drug bus that’s about to go

Down so it’s time to get out of here this is my favorite part of the main range we’re walking along the highest section of Ridge all the way towards Mount Kiosco our highest peak on the way we’re bagging K’s peak one of the top 10 and I’m hoping the wind’s

Going to drop down so if you look at a synoptic chart here’s our position we have these I bars and around a high press system the winds travel in an anticlockwise Direction around a low they travel in a clockwise Direction and The Closer these ice bars are the

Stronger the wind is so you can see they’re close together here and that’s where we are that’s why it was windy yesterday that’s yesterday’s chart then the Ice Bar is getting further apart the wind’s dropping dropping again and by tonight I’m hoping the wind’s going to be completely still

And we’re going to have one of those perfect Snowy Mountains clear nights Australia had glaciers 12,000 years ago during the last ice age and they dug out these depressions which have now formed Lakes lake Alina is another glacia Lake and we’re now on on the metal walkway that extends a lot of the way to thread bow and it’s designed to minimize impact on the environment but also help people find their way back in the middle of a white out people do die up here from

Exposure from getting lost in white outs and they also die from Avalanches believe it or not there was a Hut at the base of this mountain and it was destroyed with someone in it and they died in an avalanche many years ago that’s Coy over there

Highest we just come from tum the others which are like the third and then I don’t know the six or something we’re going to dump our packs and bag these Peaks next all Abott Peak East number nine this is the eighth highest aot Peak what lake is that that’s the

Highest I’ve ever seen deer prints I can’t think of too many peaks in the snow that I haven’t climbed this is the first time I’ve climbed this one Alice rosson Peak and I reckon it has the best view anywhere in the snowy mountains as you can see way back to

Coy you can see obviously Way Out West into Victoria New South Wales that’s kind of like Murray River coming in towards can covin and then you can see Watson’s Craigs The Sentinel and all of the best steep skiing and garly Terrain in Australia Mount twinam and you can see all the way over

To charlott’s and the track all the way back to KY all from one spot so this is the best view in Australia I reckon for mountains it’s day six and we’re all getting sick of packet meals and we can’t wait to eat something fresh this place is covered in evidence

Of human induced change and obviously one of the ways that we impact the environment is through our food choices every year in Australia a great deal of kangaroos are cull for environmental reasons they can quickly eat the grass down very low they can starve themselves out other animals and they also

Destroyed the grass habitat for other animals that don’t necessarily eat the grass so the government authorizes the culling of kangaroos now a lot of people don’t like that idea I don’t like the idea of an animal dying but if it does it should be put to use and at the

Moment a lot of it gets wasted so barbell Foods turns a small amount of that meat into edible snacks like bong they also do a range of other things with jerky and I like that because it tastes good kangaroo is low fat has a bunch of other health benefits to eat

But at least you know that meat is not being wasted so in some ways you’re saving the life of a sheep if you eat kangaroo because those kangaroos will be C anyway so if we can eat more kangaroo you can save the life of a sheep it’s

Pretty much as simple as that it’s nice and light to carry but I also eat them at home so they’re a great thing to Chuck in your lunch box they’re not that expensive because the kangam meat is so cheap to come buy because it’s being cold so grab yourself a packet have a

Taste and see if you like it because I think environmentally it’s a good thing to be eating kangaroo meat after pushing through some pretty rubbish conditions it was nice to have absolutely perfect weather like this for the last night of the trip and little surprises kept

Coming out of nowhere like the fact you could fill water bottles from pools on the rocks at the top of the mountain due to the recent rains the next surprise was something I just completely wasn’t expecting so some good news can you see the moths flying around there’s a whole

Bunch of moths flying around like thousands and thousands and I’m guessing they’re bong moths and they’ve had a real struggle they’re these Moss that go and they breed out on the Western Plains and they hatch and they come up here and they land in the High Country and

Aboriginal people used to come up here specifically to harvest them they taste pretty good raw and cooked they taste like sort of nut they have a Nutty flavor and I hadn’t seen any on this trip so far but now I’m seeing thousands of them flying around now normally like

You you can barely breathe when they’re really thick but at least I’m seeing some I’ll see if I can get a closeup of one so the floor of this cave is carpeted in dead ones it has a bit of a smell like Bano cuz they’re full of protein these things that’s why they

Taste good and why original people ate them and they would let smoke them out and they’ just like gather up masses of them there’s been a real failure of the Bongs in the last few years I think it’s because the conditions out in the Western Plains where they breed uh all

Also man-made light sources is making life hard for him I just want to find out where all these live ones are going bingo I can see where they’re Landing I can see their eyes oh yes the bong moth population has crashed so badly recently that they were added

To the threatened species list in 2021 that’s why I’m not eating them so it’s really good to see these guys cracking on with life the way that they always Have pointers and the sing cross so here’s an all night star lapse looking South at Mount Kiosco and it’s a good chance to show the most common way to find South in the southern hemisphere from the Stars so you extend a line through the middle of the Southern Cross and another

Line through the middle of the pointers and where they intersect is roughly where the South Celestial pole is unlike the Northern Hemisphere we don’t have a star there unfortunately so we have to estimate where it is from the south Celestial pole drop a line to the Horizon and that’s where South is you

Can see as the universe continues to turn that the Southern Cross and pointers keep pointing to the South Celestial pole often clouds or the Horizon obscure the Southern Cross and the pointers so it’s good to have a few other techniques another one I use is archa and canopus

Making an equilateral triangle and the other point is the South Celestial pole once again because there’s no actual star at the South Celestial pole they’re all approximations but they’ll still get you within a few degrees of South seriously it took me five attempts to spell that Correctly I wasn’t expecting this on the top of m co go I could see a tractor from the bottom so they’re obviously doing track works up here some num Dev vandalized the can on top a while ago they’re probably replacing that as well and then like a

Complete numpty I left my camera in hyperlapse mode so it’s all in fast forward and you can’t hear anything I’m saying but basically I point out the three remaining Peaks to the South that we’ve got to complete before we walk out to threadb yeah like that good run bunny rabbit all right

This one’s North Ram head I was one me um my hands are full it’s filming at the moment I wasn’t sure if we take the chair lift or not but uh it’s been a long walk 7 days so we’re taking it and we’re going to meet the doggy and my mom

In the car down the bottom how good Some serious hiking going on there did you say over night yeah seven nights yeah seven nights yeah all righty there’s my mom and the Dogg is going to be in the car he’s going to go nuts but he can’t get out of the car cuz it’s National Park there he

Is Ollie hello puffy hello puffy oh it’s so good to see you I’ll just get this he’s smiling he’s smiling good boy oh we missed you bbby hear your voice on the phone so look at him oh good boy good boy W welcome that’s enough thanks all righty

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I climb the 10 highest peaks in Australia with my two kids on a 7 day unsupported trek along the spine of the Snowy Mountains, the highest and largest Alpine wilderness area in the country.

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Australia’s 10 Highest Peaks (https://www.k7adventures.com/climb-australias-10-highest-peaks)
1. Mt Kosciuszko, 2228m
2. Mt Townsend, 2209m
3. Mt Twynam, 2195 m
4. Rams Head, 2190m
5. Etheridge Ridge Peak, 2180m
6. Rams Head North, 2177m
7. Alice Rawson, 2160m
8. Abbot Peak, 2159m
9. Abbot Peak East, 2145m
10. Carruthers Peak, 2145m

Food list (this is a no frills list!)
Breakfast
30 x instant porridge packets (2 for me an 1.5 each for the kids each morning)
Lunch
Day 1 – Sandwich in the car
Day 2 – Tuna, cheese (slices in plastic wrapping) and wraps
Day 3 – Two minute noodles (5 packets: that’s 2 for me & 1.5 for the kids)
Day 4 – Two minute noodles (5 packets)
Day 5 – Cruskets (large plain biscuit crackers) and cheese
Day 6 – Two minute noodles (5 packets)
Day 7 – A pie in Jindy (Jindabyne)
Dinner
Day 1 – Frankfurts, wraps and Sauce in a tube, plus 3 jelly cups for dessert
Day 2 – Refrigerated ravioli pasta with sauce. Biscuits for dessert every night after that
Day 3 – Chicken curry (wet soft pack and 1.5 cups of rice)
Day 4 – Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 5 – Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 6 – Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 7 – Back home dinner
Snacks
-2 x chocolate bars each per person per day
-1 bag of dried apple (shared on day 2)
-3 x bags dried kangaroo meat (100g pack)
-1 pack of dried seaweed per day (shared)
Drinks
-We drank unfiltered, unboiled water from creeks and puddles. I’ve never been sick doing this and I’ve done it on every continent on earth. Just use common sense about what’s upstream
-Hot Drinks: Hot chocolate, milk powder, sugar, tea bags
-Cold drinks: the kids took a sachet of powdered Lipton iced tea for each day.

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