RE: Nature Photo Contest Week #9 - MOUNTAINS MONDAY WINNERS!
Ok if you want something outside of tassie (there are too many cool peaks to mention down there). Mt Barney obviously ( it is perhaps my favorite mountain in the world but I am a little biased from my childhood). Close to your home you also have the glasshouse mountains which make good shots even though they are small. Warrumbungles are amazing. Bluff Knoll in the Sterling ranges. Signal Peak in the Grampians. The Olgers in NT. Anything in the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountans . Monolith valley in the Budawangs .
If you want something bigger and a bit more alpine you have peaks like The Sentinel and Watsons Crags in the Snowy Mountains in NSW or Mt Feathertop in Victoria. People forget that Australia has more winter covered snow area than Switzerland. There is a lot out there; its just hard to get to and inaccessible .
Here is a shot looking towards Mt Feathertop
And one looking down over Watson crags
Neither are my shots - could not find who took that first one but the second is up on the Australian Back-country Skiing page
Oh true... my husbands parents are out at Kelbar : )
Yes the Glass House mountains to have some good photo ops... we've only travelled QLD, NSW, ACT and VIC, never made it to the Grampians sadly... but we'd like to get back there. There's lots of mountains but not wow mountains, not that I have seen. Lots of ranges but they all start to look the same.
We went down to the snow a few years back... there was hardly any snow, they were having to use the machines to get snow on the slopes. They had a great fall the year after and I last year was okay...ish. It's getting hotter and hotter, the weather is all over the place now... we've lost our summer storms and now if we get a storm they're destructive super cells. We'd like to move further south to escape the heat, they say hitting 50 degrees is going to become our norm through summer now.
I think your definition of wow mountains changes over time once you have seen a lot of them and then it becomes what is more interesting in terms of form. But yes I know what you mean. No classic alpine fault line with glaciated alpine peaks in Australia. Have to fly to NZ to get the alpine fault caused by the Australian continental plate. There are crazy mountains on the edge of the plate just north of us in the Papua highlands . Most people don't realize that New Guinea has mountians taller than anything in the European alps. Puncak Jaya sits at 4,884 m (16,024 ft) and has several glaciers on its side ( Mont Blanc is 4,808.7 m (15,777 ft) in comparison) . There is also Puncak Trikora at 4,730m and Mount Wilhelm on the PNG side at t 4,509m
Picture of Puncak Jaya below.
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NZ is another on my to get to list... everyone keeps telling us to go and check it out that they think we would like to live on the South Island : ) We're going to do Tassie first though. I don't think I could cope with their winter... I need a nice medium.
Impressive!! Wow, that's some elevation!!