We planned to spend two nights and three days on the wall of Ozymandias, bivying on the Portaledge at the usual spots, Big Grassy and Gledhill Bivy. On day one our systems worked efficiently, and we climbed well...Pitch 3 led to some uncomfortable lead falls for Peter, as our microcams kept popping un-expectedly out of the pin-scars.
In a market dominated by ultra-light at-all-cost tents, Mont Moondance tents are more popular than ever thanks to their superior reliability, function and versatility. So much so that our best-selling Moondance 2 Tents have been difficult to keep in stock.
So if our tents are so popular, why don't we just make more? Unfortunately, it isn't quite that simple.
In recent testing conducted by an independent laboratory, the PU laminated Nylon used on most current Mont tents did not leak at 25,000mm. Nor did it leak beyond 25,000mm at which point the lab halted testing; their machine couldn't test any higher!
Being a sucker for punishment, this week, I chose another walk that involved a significant climb of 600 metres to get up into the mountains. At least this time, the temperature was a much more humane 12 degrees than last week’s rather tough climb into the Western Arthurs in 30+ degree heat.
“The first two trips started out warm and sunny and we witnessed the area recovering from the previous summer's fires, we saw and heard many lyrebirds, and found an awesome swimming hole. However, each time we approached the part with the best views, the weather turned and we had the fun waterfalls and enormous vague shapes in the mist. Determined to get the views, on our 3rd time we got lucky.”
Mammut is at Mont, joining over 20 of the best climbing brands available online and in-store.
In 1862, after completing a three-year rope-making apprenticeship and working as a journeyman, Kaspar Tanner started work as a rope-maker in the Swiss town of Dintikon. This heralded the birth of Mammut.
The traverse of the Western Arthur Range in SW Tasmania is a stunning mountain walk covering some of the most spectacular alpine scenery in Tasmania, and indeed in Australia. I first walked the length of the range in 1990, and it provided memories that will last a lifetime. This was my 6th visit to the range.
I am fortunate in having a beautiful national park, only an hour’s drive from my home. Mt Field National Park is one of Tasmania’s oldest parks and covers landscape that includes rainforest, spectacular and charming waterfalls, and heavily glaciated alpine regions.
Did you know that bats are the only mammal capable of sustained flight? When you think about that, it is fascinating. That means a bats wing isn’t like a birds wing, but a mammals digits strung with a membrane in between. A wing, but just a little bit different.
In the midst of a pandemic and resultant border closures, all interstate adventures teter on the verge of cancellation. Hence, it was with a sense of bewilderment that 3 of us locked the car and set foot on the Western Arthur traverse last week.
“Snow-gum dieback—the phenomenon quietly eating away at our high-elevation woodlands—is very poorly understood. For example, it is completely unclear why some stands of trees are being virtually wiped out, while others, only 500 metres away, are virtually untouched. Are there underlying differences between sites with differing dieback severity, or is dieback severity a product of patterns in the spread of the insect responsible?”
