Western Arthurs

The most Dramatic Australian Mountain Range

By World Wild Places

January 21^st, 2017

The first thing I did when arrived to Tasmania was going to the library and book stores to do a research on photogenic locations over here. John Chapman's guide on bushwalking in South West Tasmania was a great find and with that book in hand I rushed to the Arthurs Ranges. Been the most rugged by glaciers mountain ranges in Australia, I can't wait to see it all for myself. Also, it was the end of summer and rainy autumn with cold southern fronts was coming up.

Mt Scorpio

Photo taken on a side trip to Dorado Peak. It was crazy weather all day. While the Southern side of the mountains was covered in very thick fog all day, it was sunny on the Western.

The track is very rough with many steep ascends and descends. At some areas you are doing more of a rock climbing than hiking. The are many peaks that you can do the side trips to, all provide amazing vistas if the weather is fine. There is no obvious trails to most of them, but notes in the Chapman's book will be a great help.

I did two trips to the range. The first time I walked both Western and Eastern Arthurs starting and ending at Scotts Peak Dam. It took me 12 days, including tent bound day, when I waited decent weather to climb the Federation peak. The second trip was shorter (3 days), I went up to Pegasus South and get the views I missed before due to the bad weather.