Date/Time
Date(s) - 12 Nov 2024
Category(ies)
- Grade 3 Medium
- Leader: Deb
- Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
- Participant numbers:Up to 10
- Final booking date: Friday 8th November
The plan is to do 2 walks, both accessed via the BHP Road, out the back of Falls Creek Village.
The first walk will be The Heritage Huts Walk.
This walk of roughly 7km starts and finishes at Wallace’s Hut carpark. Wallace’s Hut is the oldest surviving cattlemen’s hut, built in 1889 by the three Wallace brothers – Arthur, William and Stewart. We continue past the hut to the aqueduct, turn right and then follow the grassy aqueduct track past the Rover Scout Chalet. The track here climbs gently to Cope Hut, which was built by the Ski Club of Victoria in 1929 after the state experienced a surge of skiing in the 1920s. From Cope Hut the walking track follows a heath-filled valley back to the Wallaces Hut track and carpark.
The second walk is to Faithfuls Hut, begins at the Buckety Plains campground. It’s a short 1.5km return walk that involves a 95m descent/ascent.