Good morning everyone coming to you from Mountain Creek Campground.
Over this weekend we are going to be summiting Victoria's highest mountain
which is mount Bogong. So we'll be carrying our packs,
staying somewhere up on the mountain, and returning back here tomorrow. So let's go!
Enjoy the flat while it lasts.
So snake tally, already at two. We saw one last night at the Mountain Creek Campground
quite close to all the people just hanging around,
and now we've just seen our second one on the road
heading up to Eskdale Spur. Let's hope there's no more.
So the butterfly has decided that he wants to come hiking with us
so he's just chilling out on Matt's arm while we walk.
So the plan is we are going to head up Eskdale spur and stay tonight at Mitchell hut and then
in the morning we will go up to mount Bogong and come back down the staircase.
The main reason that we are doing that is to minimize the time that we are exposed
walking in direct sunlight because today is pretty hot.
Eskdale Spur not gonna lie, it's pretty tough, we're pretty much just walking
real short stints and then catching our breath and then going again.
What's for lunch today Matt?
Olive's cheese and salami. In a sandwich that you''ve just demolished.
I've got some rice paper rolls with cucumber, spinach, carrot, chicken, sweet and sour sauce.
Puffy! So we arrived at Michell hut we're both pretty exhausted. but it is dinner time
so i'm pretty excited for that. So we are having a kind of like a mustard
potato salad and mixing that with some honey stir fry that i have dehydrated.
We have come all the way, all the way, all the way, bam.
360 degrees from Mount Bogong.
Excuse me sir, how do you feel about being on the highest mountain of Victoria?
Pretty good, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
You heard it here first pretty good.
So we are descending now down Staircase Spur, concentration levels have to
be pretty high, so you don't break your ankle on a rock.
So we've just finished the descent down the staircase it was pretty brutal,
we had a pit stop at Bivouac Hut for some snacks. but from the top of the mount Bogong to here we
walked six kilometers but we covered an elevation of 1200 meters, so i'm pretty excited to walk the
last two kilometers back to the car, but thank you for watching and i will see you in the next one.