Mt Enys 15th February 2015

Uncle Roddus tramping Diary: Tramp No. 153

Mt Enys 15th February 2015

My third or possibly 4th trip up the highest peak in the Craigiburn range, this was a club trip run by Bryce to fill in the last stretch of the Craigiburn ridge that he had not yet walked upon. Also it was a different route up for me with my previous attempts being from the Ryton river side of the range.

 One dozen of us headed off across the paddock from the quarry before crossing the porter river and negotiating our way through Matigari before the up hill section rounding below point 968 and continuing up the ridge via points 1197, 1531 and 1842 to get to point 2029. The tops were mostly cloud laden as we departed the cars but majestically lifted as we climbed upwards so that we only had a very short time in any mist. Bryce commented it was exactly as ordered from the weather gods. We duly arrived at point 2029, had food, enjoyed the clearing views and spied Mt Enys looming above us about 2kms to the North of us.

 Next it was the ridge top section that we had climbed all this way for, which involved some down and then back up before down again somewhat and then followed by the final ascent onto Enys, all fairly straight forward with a little rock scrambling here and there. By the time we got to Enys the skies had cleared considerably for us to enjoy the magnificent views. 

The route down was more down hill before yet another short climb onto Carn Brea followed by an easy stroll down Dead Mans Spur before dropping down the scree shown on the GPS route above. The scree was a bit dodgy at the top but got quite soft further down and made for mostly good travel right down to Enys Stream. The group was quite widely dispersed now, as usually happens on scree and the scree hoppers like me, fly down the hill at high velocity leaving the more circumspect to take things more sedately. So it was a free for all route finding on the last section back across the plateau as myself and 3 others seemed to find the shortest route and ,although floundering around in the long grass and scrub in a stream bed for a while, beat the rest back to the cars by over 30 minutes. This trip I took my newish GPS, which I have had for some time but kept forgetting to bring. The above red route on the Google Earth snapshot is the route recorded on my GPS that day. We took about 9 hours, walked 15 or so Kms with a height gain of just under 1600M.

Mt Enys - 30th November 2003

Uncle Roddus Tramping Diary: Tramp No 32

Mt Enys - 30th November 2003

The black route marked on this map is NOT the route we took that day, that was a later and much harder trip.

Uncle Roddus's first long climb up this 2194M peak in the Cragiburn range with an accumulated height gain of around 1500M, this was on the harder end of the spectrum for me. Ten hardy CTC trampers left from the Memorial on the Olympic Skifield access road on a warm and blue sky day for the first slog up to the Knuckles, where we had out first scrog stop. Continuing up the ridge via points 1284 and 1461, we then had lunch at point 1714 before the last slog to the top, which we achieved about 3PM, with Uncle Roddus being the last one there. Of course being the last one up, entailed a very quick rest and feed before we were off again for the descent. Heading north along the ridge to about point 1964, we dropped down a good and long scree where we undid 5 hours climbing in about 20 minutes or less before hitting the road again for a 4 KM wombled back to the cars. Uncle Roddus appears to have forgotten his camera again for this trip but did get sent some photos from one of the other trampers.

Wait a minute... there is Uncle Roddus taking a photo in the background. I think this must have been one of the trips where I couldn't access the photos on the storage card and had to reformat the card to use it again, thus loosing all the pictures, happened a couple of times, my latest camera doesn't do this fortunately.

First scrog stop at the Knuckles, Mt Enys in the background.

Idiots in the mountains.