mt.stirling

Your correspondent in the field waited for 2 days of clear weather in March 2022 to visit Mt. Stirling and especially Mt. No. 3 refuge hut . The chance to get away always has appeal but also to do a supply drop in readiness for a back country ski trip to Mt. No. 3...

Your correspondent in the field left a supply drop in the bushes near Mt. No. 3 Refuge hut in the Mansfield state forest and I recorded its position with a waypoint on a GPS device in 2020. The Melbourne lockdowns in winter and Spring 2020 disallowed this trip and...

Mt. Stirling at present has Fair XC skiing above 1500 M. on the upper trails. The trail report is hard to find for a dummy like me when I visit their website. https://www.mtstirling.com.au/snow-report/ I am waiting for deeper cover above 1450M. to form so I can...

Hi. I thought I would start the ball rolling for Mt. Stirling for 2021. I went up there for a walk to the summit via the Bluff Spur track and I took Ms. W. who had never been there before. She enjoyed it and the weather was clear. Visibility from the Mt. Stirling...

R**n decimated the half decent snow that fell on 3/7/20 at Mt. Stirling. The snow cover was poor at best . @beefa skiing and I had committed to this trip and so it came to fruition. We met in Mansfield at around 8.40 am . Fellow XC skier Reza and his new Latino...

I just thought I would jump in early and start the ball rolling for the 2020 XC ski season at Mt. Stirling . I hope the moderators do not object.

That snow is still there, yet to be skied and taunting us all who are staying at home due to the lockdown. It is not always that you can ski from TBJ to the top and back.Most usually it is an August occurrence .

I went to Mt. Stirling to ski in summer and it was marginal rock hopper stuff. I arrived at about 0845 am at King Saddle hut. I got my stuff together and walked up to The Cricket Pitch where the snow cover was the 'best' of the day. All in all it was Not really skiable . I...

Hi. Your correspondent in the field went up to Mt. Stirling on Friday 23/8/19 . Also present for the mission as a day trip from Melbourne was the redoubtable T.P. . The snow cover was complete from TBJ to the top .We set off at around 10am up towards the Bluff spur hut. T.P...

On July 24th I woke up at 5 am and prepared to drive to Mt. Stirling. There was much talk about the cold front overnight bringing a blizzard to Mt. Buller. . BOM got it wrong. Ms. Bunn got it wrong. I got it wrong. :-0 I drove all the way up there expecting fresh...

A full trip report with photos is coming soon. We had an amazing day of XC skiing in Very Good fresh conditions and skied over 15kms in a day. :-).

Hi. A friend and I went for two nights of camping at the Bluff Spur hut camp site. The rainwater tank at that hut was empty. The Tanks at : The GGS hut; King Spur Hut; Cricket Pitch shelter; The Razorback Huts and at Hut No. 3 all had some water in them. Fork Creek was...

I just returned from a weekend of great snow at Mt. Stirling. I truly doubt the conditions for XC skiing could be improved upon this 2018 white season. It just nuked down with fresh dry fluffy powdery snow on and off all day and night on Sat. and Sunday ...

Hi, I just came back from Mt. Stirling: Two nights of snow camping at King Spur hut. I had a one hour private skiing lesson at the Hut . Yes the instructor skied up the hill from TBJ to King Spur hut in 58 min.s on boiler plate ice!!.He gave a me a one on one ski...

Hi. Has anyone trekked/skied into Hut No.3 from the seasonal closure gate at the top of Carter's road near TOMAHAWK HUT? . You 'd need a half decent vehicle , chains and a chainsaw but it looks possible. Conversely with a big low dump of fresh snow, skiing from the...

On Tuesday August 22nd I got out of bed at 0525. Only a good day of sunshine and fresh snow is going to make me do anything like that .That was the forecast for Mt. Stirling. I went and picked up my friend and we drove to Mansfield. An idiot and wanker called...

I lead a group of VNPA snow shoe trekkers up Mt. Stirling and up the Bluff spur track on Sat. July 29th. There was no snow at TBJ but at least it didn't rain at Carters Rd. the night before , where we were camped and which enabled us to get an early start. The...