Completed · 2024·Cradle Mtn – Lake St Clair · Australia · Tasmania
Overland Track
Through the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness: Cradle Mountain south to Lake St Clair. Button-grass moorland, glacial tarns, rainforest and waterfalls, with side trips up Tasmania’s highest peaks.
- Cradle Mountain
- Mt Ossa summit (1617 m)
- Barn Bluff
- Waterfall side trips
▸ The journey
- Ronny Creek, 900 metres, Day 1. Cradle Valley start.
- Waterfall Valley, 1,100 metres, Day 1. Below Barn Bluff.
- Lake Windermere, 1,000 metres, Day 2
- Pelion Plains, 860 metres, Day 3. Mt Ossa side trip.
- Kia Ora, 1,000 metres, Day 4
- Bert Nichols Hut, 950 metres, Day 5. Waterfall circuit.
- Narcissus, 740 metres, Day 6
- Lake St Clair, 750 metres, Day 6. Australia’s deepest lake.
Ronny Creek
Waterfall Valley
Lake Windermere
Pelion Plains
Kia Ora
Bert Nichols Hut
Narcissus
Lake St Clair
- 65 km
- distance
- 6 days
- on trail
- +2,500 m
- ascent
- 1,617 m
- high point
elev 740–1,100 m · 8 waypoints