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Lake Vera Hut
Lake Vera :: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park :: Tasmania :: Australia
Access to the hut is from the Lyell Highway, about 16km. You cross the Franklin River and Lodden Plains.
Beyond the hut is Frenchmans Cap and another hut.
The Hut is beautifully maintained and clean. Such a difference when you are used to Kosciuszko Huts.
There is a coal fired heater (it saved my life) and since the hut is well insulated it can be kept quite snug.
Up the hill is a composting toilet.
The track in, across the Lodden Plains is famous for it's bogginess though track work is underway to reduce the damage.
This is a great hut.
There is a GC cache hidden on the premisses.
GC23TCE
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We made the trip into Lake Vera in April 2010, aiming to go on to Frenchman's.
At the time we didn't realise that it had rained 40 mm in 12 hours which caused flooding.
The mud kept getting deeper and the water on top was starting to flow. We were finding duck boards just awash and had to step up to walk on them (on the return journey they turned out to be bridges over river crossings). In places the water was up to the bottom of my pack. We found places where it would have gone to chest deep.
We convinced ourselves that soon we would be past the water stage.
We convinced ourselves that we were past the turn-back-point, where it is better to go on than turn back.
It went on for hours.
I ventured a long way into hypothermia.
There was no option to stop because every thing was under water.
I was very glad to get out of the rain.
The next day, when we saw the track plunge into the lake, we decided to take a rest day in the hut and the following day turned back.
Better images coming as I sort out the download problems.
Lake Vera :: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park :: Tasmania :: Australia
Access to the hut is from the Lyell Highway, about 16km. You cross the Franklin River and Lodden Plains.
Beyond the hut is Frenchmans Cap and another hut.
The Hut is beautifully maintained and clean. Such a difference when you are used to Kosciuszko Huts.
There is a coal fired heater (it saved my life) and since the hut is well insulated it can be kept quite snug.
Up the hill is a composting toilet.
The track in, across the Lodden Plains is famous for it's bogginess though track work is underway to reduce the damage.
This is a great hut.
There is a GC cache hidden on the premisses.
GC23TCE
____________________
We made the trip into Lake Vera in April 2010, aiming to go on to Frenchman's.
At the time we didn't realise that it had rained 40 mm in 12 hours which caused flooding.
The mud kept getting deeper and the water on top was starting to flow. We were finding duck boards just awash and had to step up to walk on them (on the return journey they turned out to be bridges over river crossings). In places the water was up to the bottom of my pack. We found places where it would have gone to chest deep.
We convinced ourselves that soon we would be past the water stage.
We convinced ourselves that we were past the turn-back-point, where it is better to go on than turn back.
It went on for hours.
I ventured a long way into hypothermia.
There was no option to stop because every thing was under water.
I was very glad to get out of the rain.
The next day, when we saw the track plunge into the lake, we decided to take a rest day in the hut and the following day turned back.
Better images coming as I sort out the download problems.
Rated: for Overall Experience.
