Hiking in Kosciuszko

Some highlights of our trip

• The Kosciuszko YHA - friendly staff and great facilities.
• Meeting up with Gavin and Peter who turned out to be awesome hiking companions.
• Hiking to the top of Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia at 2,228 metres.
• Exhilarating leaps into the sky.
• The patience and skill of the photographer who captured our group leap at the top of Kosciuszko - what a star she was!
• Going down the ski lift, and a moment of butterflies when we went over a cliff.
• An amazing 22 km walk on the Main Range trail past gorgeous alpine lakes, rugged outcrops and breathtaking vistas.  One of the best hikes I've done in Australia.
• A great meal at a local Italian restaurant - including delicious salmon pasta and the best veggie pizza ever (after the world's worst veggie burger the night before.)
• Hiking through a surreal landscape of dead trees and seeing wild horses on The Dead Horses Gap walk.
• Seeing a huge gathering of crows on a rocky outcrop - I've never seen so many crows in one place, almost like something out of The Birds.
• Awesome dessert on the final night.
• Lots of talk about food - and often feeling very hungry as a result.
• Delicious cups of tea and hot chocolate after the hikes.
• Zante courageously leaping off a rock near the top of Mount Kosciuszko.
• Elizabeth falling out of a tree, then getting right back up and up the tree again - not letting anything beat her. Also, powering on ahead up the steep hills.
• Michelle, the Queen of Scrabble, who not only won but got a seven letter word; "frenetic." What a champ she is!
• Gavin's hilarious and entertaining stories including a new spin on dumplings - we'll never think of them the same way again!
• Learning a great and easy recipe for "Poor Man's Tiramisu" - great if you need to make dessert in a hurry.

The intrepid six

From left:  Zante, Elizabeth, Michelle, Peter, Gavin, Me

Hike to the summit of Mount Kosciuszko  (15 km)

Main Range Walk  (22 km)

    

Dead Horses End Hike  (10 km)

Flowers of Kosciuszko

The call of Thredbo

The crows are definitely the Kings of Kosciuszko and they remind you of the fact with their constant "craaking."

Ski-lifting

Leaping

Meet Up reference