Sunrise at Mt Hotham (photo: my daughter)
I had an opportunity to spend 5 days at Mt Hotham in the middle of June thanks to my daughter doing her school work experience with Mt Hotham ski patrol. Originally, I was expecting to be hiking as there’s rarely much snow that early in the year. However, this year there was a substantial early fall the day before we headed up. Continue reading
For the fifth year running I returned to two regular winter summits – Mt Loch (VK3/VE-005) and Mt Hotham (VK3/VE-006) as part of our school holiday ski trip to Mt Hotham. Rather than write the usual narrative which would read very similarly to the previous four activations (see 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016), I thought I would spend this post documenting what I’ve learned about activating snowy Australian mountain tops (however I have included photos from this activation to provide some visual relief!) Continue reading