Alpine Walking Track- Taylors Crossing Multi-Cache
Alpine Walking Track- Taylors Crossing
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The Australian Alps Walking Track winds through the high country of Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT. The 650 Km track traverses mainland Australia's rugged alpine country.
The Australian Alps Walking Track winds through the high country of Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT. It traverses rugged remote alpine country and bushwalkers must always be experienced, self reliant and have good navigation skills. On the Australian Alps Walking Track you will visit some of Australia's finest alpine national parks. The track climbs our highest mountains and crosses exposed high plains. It passes through magnificent tall forests and stunted snow gum woodlands, and discovers sites rich in history. The Australian Alps Walking Track is an extension of the Victorian Alpine Walking Track, through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. For many years bushwalking enthusiasts from the Federation of Victorian Walking Clubs and various government agencies promoted the concept of a long distance walking track from Walhalla to Canberra. The Victorian Alpine Walking Track, developed in the 1970s, was the first stage in the dream of linking the Australian Alps with a three-state trail. Continuing the Australian Alps Walking Track through Kosciuszko National Park (NSW) and Namadgi National Park (ACT) turned that dream into reality. On the right track The 650 kilometre track generally follows ridges and high plains through some of the highest country in Australia. It is mostly far from any towns or other settlement. You can join the track at many places between Walhalla and Canberra, as it joins popular walking tracks in the Baw Baw, Alpine, Kosciuszko and Namadgi national parks. You can walk the track in ten weeks, but many people choose to walk shorter sections such as those on the Baw Baw Plateau, the Bogong High Plains, and in the Jagungal Wilderness Area. At the above co-ordinates you will arrive at Taylors Crossing on the Mitta Mitta River. The Mitta is the largest river to be crossed on the AAWT. In the early days of the track walkers had to ford the river, no mean feat when the water was high. A suspension bridge was built for crossing but was washed away in large floods. A new bridge was built to replace the original, the bridge that stands today. To find the cache you need to read the information board and collect the year the current bridge was completed. The cache is located at S 36 49. ABC, E 147 39. 402 The year the new bridge was completed minus 1533= ABC The final cache location is on the opposite side of the river, it is a short walk over the suspension bridge. There is a ford through the Mitta here, beware this crossing is dangerous at times of high water flow, and after floods the location of the ford changes. It is strictly 4X4, preferably with a snorkel.
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