Mt Field

We spent last weekend on Mt Field, at the Oldina Ski Hut with a bunch of friends. There was us, the Dadswells and the Hatfields. The Dadswells have 2 kids, Ben, who's Ray's age, and Isi, who's the twin's age. The Hatfields also have two kids, Tess, who's my age, and Lachlen, who's Ray and Ben's age.

This is us. Keziah's on the left, followed by Ben and Lachlan. Rachel's behind them. Then Beck is sitting on me and Tess is being Sat on by Isi. It would probably be worthwile to work out who's who, othermise the rest of this post prob won't mean much.


We got up there Friday night. We all slept down stairs (us kids, that is). It was probably after midnight and we were all asleep. Well, everyone but Rachel. She got up and was walking up the stairs in the dark, on her way to the loo. Ben woke up and cause he's scared of the dark (even though he won't admit it) he had to turn on his torch and follow the unknown person up the stairs, all the while shouting at whoever it was and trying to figure out if they were real or not. He sais he was whispering, but it was definately shouting - he managed to wake just about everyone up, parents included. Anyway, he found out it was Ray and then they talked all the way back down the stairs, Ray whispering, Ben shouting. But By that time we were all awake anyway, so it was only moderately anoying.

Oh yeah, that last picture was of us girls out at a lookout we alked to on Saturday morning. There was no track, just a lot of bouldering :-) And Rachel's not there cause she spent the whole weekend with the guys. Typical Ray.

Here's us again. This is a really cute little tarn we wlked past on the way to the lookout.

On Saturday afternoon, Dennis (the guy who organises these trips to Mt Field) took all us kids (boys and ray included) and my parents (cause they wanted to come), out to Lake Rodway to stay the night. Its not far and it was really easy, but it was still fun. I walked for a bit with Tess and Isi, and then I walked for a bit with Ben and Lachlen and Ray, cause their pace is a lot more like mine. And I like boasting to ben about how I've done so much walking and he's hardly done any. :-)


At Lake Rodway I really wanted to go swimming. Isi and Ben and Lachlen all said they'd come with me, but Lachlen and Isi chickened out when they discovered just how cold the water was. Ben and I found a really good rock to jump off, out in the deeper water, so we soent a while doing bombs off that. Then the sun decided to disserpear behind the surrounding hills and we got out to stop ourselves freezing conpletely.

Sleeping arrangements that night caused a few arguements. Tess and Isi and I wanted to share a tent. Duh. We're good friends. And the twins were happy to be just the two of them , and the boys were just the two of them. But then Rachel seemed to think that suddenly she had some right to be in a tent with one of me or Tess or Isi. Which she didn't. You can't spend every waking hour hanging out with the guys and expect a warm welcome into our tent just cause suddenly you can't hang with the guys anymore.

Early (like 7am, early) on Sunday morning we climbed up the nearest ridge on the Rodway Ranges. Tess and Isi and everyone else didn't want to come right to the top, so it ended up being just me and the boys. And rachel didn't even come!


The view! Amazing, isn't it!

Me waiting patiently for everyone else to finnish using our stoves so we could use them to make our breakfast :-)


On the way back to the Oldina ski hut we stopped for another swim at one of the Tarns. Rachel and Keziah got in too, this time. And Lachy was going to (again) and chickened out (again)

Keziah swimming in the tarn. This tarn was a bit dissapointing, because it was way to shallow to bomb into. You could dive, but I look like such a retard diving that I didn't even bother trying.


Here we are frozen after our swim.

We left Oldina at about 3 in the afternoon. And then I had the swimming carnaval, and I've been asleep most of the week after that.