(wind blows)
(icy footsteps)
- Bit of ice just here campers.
It's the kind of thing you wanna look out for in the snow.
The ice is extremely slippery.
It's all over the place.
All the little pools of water are frozen into ice.
(gun shots echoing)
So here we are campers just approaching Horse Camp Hut.
One thing I do when I'm getting close to a hut
is I just announce my presence
just in case there are people in the hut.
So I just stop and I make the following sound.
Cooee
It's the Australian bush call, just to let
other campers know that we're coming.
I'm guessing there won't be anyone in there
but just in case.
Cooee
There she is.
Horse Camp Hut.
It's just been completely renovated,
oh my God this is so cozy.
It's like a little hotel room.
As I guessed no one here.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
easily enough room there for six snow campers
although the snow season is not completely here yet.
There is a bit of snow up on the higher peaks
as we will show you tomorrow.
Fantastic little pot belly stove
with a control mechanism on the top.
There she is.
Oh yeah!
Thank you to the Kosciuszko Huts Association
for renovating this hut.
And they've even left a wood splitting axe
and a broom to sweep up.
Oh my God they've even put in a
couple of concrete slabs, new floor.
- [Christina] New floor, it's like a house now.
- Christina's favorite thing in these huts
is making entries in the log book.
Great source of information these log books.
And we look forward to coming back to you out on the trail.
(icy footsteps)
(wind blows)
Good afternoon campers.
Just like last year we're back in the
Schlink Hilton Hut. There's the old campfire.
Got a little surprise for you this afternoon,
this is a shock to me.
One of my subscribers is here and
this is not a set up guys.
We just randomly met Josh hiking out here on the trail.
Josh is using our saw to cut up a bit of wood
to replenish the wood.
- [Josh] Hello campers.
- [Grayson] Campers, yeah, hello campers. (chuckling)
The old shovel coming through, hello Lisa.
- [Lisa] Hello.
(shovel scrapes)
- [Grayson] How's it goin' mate?
Thundering through?
So look at the rings on that log,
must be what 50 years old that log?
- [Josh] It's nice and dry.
- [Grayson] Just roughly counting the rings there.
Nice chunk of snow gum timber getting cut up.
Snow season is on it's way campers.
(wind blows)
(campers talk quietly amongst themselves)
(wind howls)
Something commonly found at the top
of the mountains are these trig points.
Trig point marking the position
for geo surveys of the land.
Check out that huge icicle man, stuck on the side there.
(ice clatters)
It's a trig point.
Good afternoon campers.
At the top of another snowy mountain peak.
Just wanted to show you some of the ice that's built up here.
Ice all over the south side of the peak.
Just go for a climb up here.
You see it's very, very icy
all over the place here.
Just look for sections of bare rock
cause I can easily grip onto the bare rock
but any of the ice is just insanely slippery.
Look at that big chunk.
You don't wanna stand on the ice
unless you have crampons on.
It's just way too slippery.
Go up to the peak and have a look from up there.
Fantastic view.
People often ask why do I wear a helmet
when I'm climbing mountains, well, this is the answer.
The mountains are very rocky and
we only come up here once, why not?
No one ever got killed from wearing a helmet
but you could easily get killed from not having one.
Just slowly climbing back down,
looking for those bare sections of rock with no ice.
Let's have a quick look at some of this rock with ice on it.
See you don't wanna stand on that part there.
It's just insanely slippery.
Good morning campers.
This is where we were collecting our water last night.
Let's just go for a quick walk towards the hut.
There she is, Whites River Hut,
you may remember from last year.
Just coming inside campers.
Here we are inside Whites River Hut once again.
Another cold camping tip I wanted to share this morning
in regards to your sleeping bag
is when I go to sleep at night,
I keep my water inside the sleeping bag.
Before I go to sleep, I'll boil it.
And last night I had about six liters of water
inside the dromedary, also inside this dry sack
so if the dromedary leaks, I won't get wet.
So firstly, this helps to keep the sleeping bag warm.
But then later on, the next morning, when I wake up,
I'm guaranteed to have warm drinking water.
Cause one tip in cold camping is to drink only warm water.
It can be quite annoying when you wake up
the next morning and all you have is frozen water.
It does happen.
You can wake up in the snow unable
to actually drink if all your water is frozen.
Here's the gloves we use.
Another thing I wanted to mention
is when you're cross country skiing or
cross country backpacking in the snow,
ski gloves are not really suitable
so we just use these thin, base layer gloves.
They're actually angora wool, we got these
on a discount, but you don't have to use wool.
I recommend carrying one pair of base layer gloves
for each day that you're hiking in the snow
rather than ski gloves.
I don't recommend ski gloves for hiking in snow
unless of course you're doing downhill skiing
or you are in an area where it's extremely cold,
say if it was below minus ten at night,
then you may need ski gloves.
So even with the water inside the sleeping bag,
you can still run the hose out and right there
Christina's just filling her cup
and the water is still warm inside the sleeping bag
and the sleeping bag is completely dry
despite the fact that there's actually
six liters of water inside that sleeping bag.
Another look at the bot belly stove.
There she is flaming away.
With the control mechanism on top.
If I keep that open, there's maximum airflow
and by closing it to halfway,
the wood will burn slowly and more efficiently.
And if I close that flap completely,
it puts the fire out.
Here we are campers on another snow camping trip.
So I hope it's gonna be a long
snow season here in Australia.
We're gonna bring lots of videos to you.
We hope we can share some more tips.
Once this whole area.
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