After quite a strenuous walk the day before, I decided to drive further up the Great Alpine Road to Mount Hotham to do a relatively easy walk to the top of Mount Loch @1,865m or 6,119ft. The route followed quite a wide and easy track for maybe 3k or 2 miles before turning off to the summit.
As well as an excellent base for walking, Mount Hotham is also, perhaps better, known as a ski resort. Though I found it strange that the village was situated towards the top of the mountains and the ski pistes ran down into the valleys. Well, I was ‘Down Under’! 🙂
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Wow. You weren’t kidding when you said you’d need some time to catch up on your trip. Some beautiful shots here too.
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Thanks Dorothea. Only two more to go now… 🙂
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Village at the top? Maybe it’s about instant gratification, you get to ski first then you have to find your way back home! Not very Anglo Saxon😊
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And you have to hope the lifts don’t break down! (Though my wife broke her ski the other day and had to walk back down to the car park. But at least that was downhill).
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Yes, it does seem a little weird. Though the valleys are full of trees and bushes, so I suppose they didn’t want to clear them all to make a road. And I guess it’s much better to have the village at the top to get the views.
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