From November 14, 2020 11:00 am until November 15, 2020 9:00 am
At Falls Creek
Posted by Dianne Ross
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Meet at Raspberry hill camping grounds 11am. Or you can camp the night before An open, alpine, ridge-top clearing with short alpine grass.
Many sites unshaded and/or slope. Surrounded by snowgums with good views to south.
Faithfuls hut - About 50 metres off the main road is a delightful campsite with toilet facilities and fireplaces set in a grassed area beneath large gum trees. This is perhaps the pick of potential campsites in the area as it’s less used – access is partially hidden on a bend and the site is not shown on some maps. A gated track off the campsite runs 750 metres down into the valley where Faithful’s Hut sits on the banks of an idyllic mountain stream. The return walk is relatively strenuous as it’s consistently uphill and quite steep in parts.
McNamara Hut Two kilometres further east, along the main road, is the turn off to McNamara’s Hut. This easy track is very narrow in places and, with some ruts and potholes, it’s only suited to a high clearance 4x4. The track stops at a small car park with a 500 metre walking track to the hut.
The hut was built in the 1940s by the McNamara family who had an association with cattle grazing in the area since the 1850s. Eventually abandoned, it fell into disrepair until the 1970s when it was resurrected by volunteers. It was used and maintained for another 30 years by a group of people from the Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre. Destroyed by a bushfire in 2003, the hut was rebuilt to its present form in 2004 by volunteers who used close to 40-tonne of logs
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