Day 218 Grey Mare Hut to Consett Stephens Pass 22.3 km

 NSW Day 76 (218) Wednesday 29th December, 2021 22.3km

4409.3 / 689.6 km

I get up with the tent fly frozen.

Tent Frozen

This is where I pack up as much as I can before handling the outside work. Definitely do my shirt cuff buttons up before my fingers freeze up.

Geehi River Valley

Long Shadow In the Morning

There are people camped at Grey Mare Hut.

Geehi River

I'm glad I stopped early. The trail then heads down to Valentine Hut. When I get there it is very brightly painted. Pink I think.

Valentines Hut

Then pass another large hut called Schlink which then goes over the Schlink Pass at 1804 metres.

The track drops a little down to Whites River Hut and this is where I turn off the formed track and head up across the watershed of the Great Divide and climb on unformed tracks to 1900m.

White River Hut

This is where there are still patches of ice melting mostly on the eastern slopes. After finding my way through the Granite Peaks I travelled across some country called the Rolling Ground which dodges around Alpine grasses and Granite rocks and crags.

Schlinks Hut

I stop before I drop down to Consett Stephen Pass as there is water and shelter among some Granite rocks. I see another couple of hikers come across the next Ridge line and drop down to the pass to set up in the only protected area to camp in the pass. I'm happy where I am.

The track heads up

Snow Patches

Wanna Build a Snowman

Going Across the rolling Ground

Above Consett Stephens Pass the trail goes across the ridge line

My camp behind the boulders