2019 Hume and Hovell Track

Day 5 Spectacular views
We start the morning the same way as yesterday going ever up. For some reason I thought we weren’t going to summit Mount Wee Jasper but we did for a morning gain of about 500 metres in altitude and a chance to catch up on social media. The view was fantastic.
During this walk we go through a couple of changes in landscape into a more open forest which is what we like. While the government is progressively killing off the blackberries dead or alive, they still manage to snag us. We head downhill and come off Mount Wee Jasper onto forest road.
We road walk for a few kilometres before heading back into bush again following a creek (the only chance for water on this section before the creek) before we reach Log Bridge Camp. Log Bridge is the typical set up with a shelter and toilet nestled in a valley on a creek. The roof and one wall are missing from the shelter but it’s still a pleasant little site all the same. We press on to Micalong Campsite and get there just in dark at around 6.00pm. We are greeted by another hiker, Sarah and her dog Bella. By the time we are set up for the night and have dinner we head to bed around 8.00pm.
This campsite is right on the river and our tent, in fact the edge of the camp is only 20 metres away from the water. This is an indication of when it was built as that wouldn’t happen these days. We have the flattest campsite possible so are looking forward to a great sleep.
The pit toilet has been used for someone’s garbage (mostly empty beer bottles and cans!) but at least they had the decency to put it in a rubbish bag. It always amazes me that people won’t take their rubbish out.

We start the morning the same way as yesterday going ever up. For some reason I thought we weren’t going to summit Mount Wee Jasper but we did for a morning gain of about 500 metres in altitude and a chance to catch up on social media. The view was fantastic. During this walk we […]