Mount Pelion West

Mount Pelion West from Pelion Hut to Pelion Plains from

The Mount Pelion West is a mountain in the center of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is located in the center of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park, on the eastern edge of the catchment area of the Murchison River. With 1,560 m it is the third highest mountain in Tasmania and one of only eight peaks over 1,500 m.

Location

The network coordinates in UTM coordinate system UTM Zone 55S 152682 loud and high-resolution topographic map (1: 25,000 ), there are of Tasmap (No. 4036 ). To the west is extensive, relatively flat grasslands in the north of Cradle Mountain and Barn Bluff, northeast of Mount Oakleigh, in the east of Mount Pelion East and immediately afterwards in the south of Mount Achilles. At the northern foot of the mountain of Pelion Creek, which flows into the upper reaches of the Forth River flows. The Forth River rises immediately to the east of Mount Pelion West in the Frog Flats ( 720 m), the lowest point of the entire Overland Track. This long distance footpath passes through the Mount Pelion West, a distance of 2 km.

History

The hikers and climbers Ernest Keith Lancaster (1910-2003) ascended the Mount Pelion West on 30 January 1946 after a slow and agonizing way ( on all fours ) by brambles ( Richea scoparia ), which is often in the alpine region around the mountains Tasmania's place. Lancaster called the Mount Pelion West as one of the Giants of the reserve. In his account of the rise, he said " the tangle of enormous boulders " in the summit region.

Rise

The approximate location of the trail is listed on the Tasmap card on which you climb the mountain on its northeast spur. The unmarked trail starts about 250 meters east of the bridge of the Overland Track over the Pelion Creek, cutting between two tree trunks up, hanging over the track. The mountain is much more difficult to climb than Mount Pelion East and Mount Ossa, the two other popular detour from the 65km Overland Track .. First of all, this is due to the difficult, 500 m long traverse through huge diabase boulders to reach the obelisk -like peak structure.