Pipeline Track - 9 May 2023

Today's walk was to be Myrtle Forest to Collins Cap but due to inclement weather we are doing The Pipeline Track on the lower mountain.

This is a walk that we have done a number of times but aside from rain it is quite a protected walk from the weather.

The walkers getting prepared at the car park at Neika.

 After a short discussion is was determined that when the group arrived at the Pipeline Track we would head downhill towards Ferntree.

 However when entering the track from the car park the sign advising of the Pipeline Track being closed towards Ferntree we turned left instead and headed up the track. As a group we are if nothing else fairly flexible so long as we get a walk in.

Off up the hill from the car park we go.

Then we head along the track.

 Trying to find a place for morning tea where the majority can find a seat is always a high priority even it means sitting on a pile of rocky rubble from a minor rock slide.

Note the various shades of green showing through the forest canopy.

A lonely toadstool sitting on a ridge just above the track.

A view of Cathedral Rock through the low cloud on the mountain.

A tower of rocks appearing through the forest.

And then there was light rain but enough to don the wet weather gear.

We always marvel at the construction of the Pipeline Track as we walk along it.

 This creek flows through the forest over a very large boulder area then under the old Huon Road just below Neika.

14 hardy walkers covered 12.6 kms in 3 hours and 45 mins and enjoyed the walk as it was not windy or clouded over and you could not see where you going.