Ossa offering Traditional Cache
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The cache is a medical grade screw top vial located beneath a small pile of small rocks on a flat rock beneath a rock ledge. It is about the size of two 35 mm film containers and there is no room for swaps. You will need a pen. Only climb in good clear weather and be prepared for a change. Allow three hours return from the main Overland Track.
The origin of Tasmania's highest mountain is confused. Mount Ossa first appeared on an 1860s map by geologist Charles Gould, following Frankland's theme of applying classical Greek names to mountains. However Gould showed Mt Ossa where the much lower Mount Nereus is located today. Jorgensen had variously called Mount Ossa by the names of Parsons Hood and Mount Dundas. Both of those names have since been ascribed to other mountains. Beattie added to the confusion by calling it Mount Backhouse. As late as a 1901 geological sketch, four of the major peaks of the Pelion Range were numbered rather than named.
Mt Ossa may have been first climbed by either the trackcutter Robert Ewart or the trapper and prospector Paddy Hartnett from his base at Du Cane Hut. It was officially recognised as the highest peak in Tasmania after an aerial survey in the late 1940s. Modified from John Cannon (2006): The Companion to Tasmanian History.
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