Flashback: Walls of Jerusalem and Overland Track

In late 2009 a few friends and I went down to Tasmania to do a walk through the Walls of Jerusalem and Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Parks. The walk linked up the ever popular overnight walk into the Walls of Jerusalem and the Overland Track by passing across the less popular tracks in between.

I was joined on the walk by friends from my scouting days, uni and travelling, so the six of us were an eclectic assortment of generally lovely people.

The walking crosses a vast range of landscapes and geological features including alpine mountains, glacial moraine, perched lakes, and grass fields.

The plan before leaving was something along the lines of:

Day	Start	End	Distance	Est Time	Up	Down
1	Walls of Jerusalem Car Park	Wild Dog Creek	6	3	600	60
2	Wild Dog Creek	Lake Adelaide	9	4	120	290
3	Lake Adelaide	Lake Meston	9	4
4	Lake Meston	Pine Hut Plain	12	5
5	Pine Hut Plain	New Pellion Hut	15	8
6	New Pellion Hut	Kia Ora (& Mt Ossa)	14	7	780	780
7	Kia Ora (& Mt Ossa)	Pine Valley	19	7	240	200
8	Pine Valley	Cynthia Bay	25	5	150	150
			109	43

As with any walk the plans didn’t pan out exactly as intended. We shifted around campsites based on the very very wet weather, and changing levels of fitness as the walk progressed.

Some of my favourite photos from the trip are: