Frenchmans Cap Hike - An amazing 3 days in the Tasmanian wilderness
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2024
- My son and I did a road trip from Brisbane to Tasmania, February 2024 to hike Frenchmans Cap in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. This was an adventure one year in the making and it didn't disappoint. What an amazing hike. Spectacular scenery and a tough hike. Vera hut and Tahune hut were both amazing. Tahune hut has hydro electric power. 25hrs of walking over 54kms (according to the Garmin) with over 2700m elevation gain. We did the hike over a 3 day period. Video footage taken on GoPro 12 and Nikon Z6II. The GoPro footage in the middle (day 2) was a bit shaky due to some settings I changed that didn't work correctly. I fixed this for day 3.
Well done Dallas & Reid 👏🏻👏🏻
You captured some great scenery.
Great vid, thanks for posting.
Great effort, fellas!
The views are bloody amazing!!! great video Dallas!
Nice video. It’s a hard climb up to Barron Pass. I did the walk twice in the early 80s in pretty full on conditions basically going up under a waterfall and was rewarded both times with fine conditions. Nice hut these days.
Nice one and well done Dallas. A lot better weather than what I encountered 😄 Hoping to be back there this year or early next 🤞🤞
Wow! Looking forward to seeing you tackle a Tasmanian trail.
You might like my Lake Rhona video from a year ago if you haven't seen that.
Viewed this excellent record last night. Better than Netflix!
Three...days...!! I need to sit down... 😵
Now, there is a particular scene climbing away from Tahune Hut: there trackside on the left, tucked into a mossy, rainforested dell at 10:50, is a small waterfall framed by a 'triangle' of two fallen/leaning tree branches. Item? Well, I have a beautiful framed colour print of this bewitching scene - but absolutely no idea where it came from! It certainly is not a photograph by me, as Frenchman's Cap is way beyond my bushwalking abilities. This richly coloured framed print, with the waterfall tinted from tannins, is unsigned and undated, creating quite an enduring mystery, probably from many years ago (?). Does this minor waterfall have a name e.g. Tahune or Vera Falls, or ...? Does anybody know?
There was a tragedy atop Frenchman's Cap very recently.
Thanks for the comments. I did hear about the tragedy at frenchmans recently but not sure of all the details. I'm not sure about any names of waterfalls from the maps I was using.