Date/Time
Date(s) - 20 Feb 2023 until 21 Feb 2023
Category(ies)
- Grade 2 Easy-Medium
- Leader: Deb
- Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
- Participant numbers:Up to 10
- Final booking date: Friday 17th February 2023
This walk would be a great introduction into overnight hiking, for people who are keen to try it out.
At 1751m, Mt Wills is one of the 30 peaks on the AAWT. We will camp at the summit where there is a hut, toilet and water tank.
Mt Wills is past Mitta Mitta on the Omeo Highway, and is an extension of Long Spur that comes off the eastern side of Mount Bogong. The summit is a broad ridge that drops away into gullies, covered in open snow gum woodland, with big old trees, grasses, granite boulders and outcrops. We will take the shortest way in, via a 2WD track off the Omeo highway to the Tallangatta ski club for our walk to the summit. This area is ringed by a broken cliff-line and steep slopes on the east, with fantastic views in all directions, back up to the High Plains and as far as the Main Range of the Snowies.
This is easy/medium walk has a few steep pinches as we walk to Mt Wills but is all on some form of track.
Approximate distance: 10km return. Ascent/Descent about 500m
NOTE: If you don’t want to overnight hike, you could join as a day walk as long as there are a few people and someone willing to “lead” the return walk out.