The Sir Frederick Range (on the Sandy Blight Junction Track) - Video

Submitted: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 23:48
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The Saturday matinee is a look at one of the side trips along the Sandy Blight Junction Track. I've just cobbled some of Scott and Gaby's video together to give you a look at the rather stiff climb up the rocky goat track that Len Beadell graded into the the Sir Frederick Range almost 53 years ago to the day (19th May, 1960).

From a distance, the range appears as a small rocky group of hills that seem smooth, rounded and benign, the reality however is far different and there is a certain degree of difficulty associated with the ascent. On reaching the foothills, the entire range is covered in round rocks seemingly like smooth river pebbles. These range in size from few centimetres up to boulders the size of a microwave oven. It makes for interesting driving as Scott and Gaby's narration indicate ;-) At the time of our visit, the entire area had been scoured by fire making it appear like the surface of Mars.

Just what provoked Len to grade a road up these hills escapes me but I reckon it might have been for the view which is simply magnificent.

Cheers Mick








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trip would doubtless be attended with much hardship.''
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