13 Jan : Mt. Kosciuszko

We've been mostly very warm and sometimes hot. Not today! Today +Jill and I scaled the highest point in Australia by walking up it on a steady path (9k up, 9k down from Charlotte Pass). Conditions at the start were 10 Celsius and got to 4 Celsius near the summit. This doesn't include the wind. And it was windy!

We *SO* have this. Rain will go away, right?

To make this even better, it was raining most of the walk. On the way down, I learned the first thing to go is manual dexterity in the fingers. I could barely pull out the camera, clean the lens, and push the shutter button.

Summit! Too bad we couldn't see a bloody thing!

Let's just say that most of this hike -- starting 1km from parking -- I wanted to return to the car. Nope. 18km of misery. Hoping for warmth in the coming days.

Unhappy (but good sport) Marc