Overland Track 2026-Day 2

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Waterfall Hut to Windermere Hut

Fantastic light on this day, but thats probably ’cause it was raining on and off with the occasional bit of sleet and sidewards rain 🙂 The wet trees looked fantastic and reminded me very much of the snow gums in Kosi.

Gerry’s hot tips for the rain, take kitchen rubber gloves to go over your normal gloves, get the ones with long gauntlets and then use a rubber band to lock these over your raincoat sleeves, thus preventing water from running into your sleeve and wetting your inner layer, which when using hiking poles is a problem since your arms are up and down all the time.

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Overland Track 2026-Day 1

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What do you call dangerous precipitation? a rain of terror.

or in the case of Tasmania thats just every second day.

A week out the forecast was certainly not looking good for the first couple of days, it was predicted increasing rain on about day 2, as we got closer that rain was pretty much guaranteed on day 1, all 10 to 35mm of it. I can safely say that there was definitely 35mm and more, the good news is tho, I still got the camera out to take a few pictures, I actually think I did rather good given the conditions, the camera did survive even tho it and the bag got completely soaked – mental note for next time, get a decent rain cover for my camera bag, or re-waterproof the existing one since it seemed to really not work…

Here are the highlights from day one.

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Kia Ora Hut – Overland Track.

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Kia Ora Hut – Overland Track.

Probably the nicest hut of them all, one very fat possum included who seemed to think i was gonna give him some food – i did remind him hat in NZ he would be a prime target for a fine pair of gloves or beanie 😉

Just by chance caught some Aurora on this shot – the sky did have glow to the naked eye as well.

Definitely felt vindicated for carrying that tripod all the way.

A little Overland.

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A little Overland.

A view from the highest point in Tassie. What i really love about this shot (and position) is that you can look back and see exactly where you have walked from. The funky little stub on the horizon (in the middle-ish) is Barn Bluff, to the right of that is Cradle mountain, thats where you start the walk from, on the other side of that.

On the high res version you can pretty much spot the track and the hut locations, from Waterfall Hut, to Windermere Hut and then Pelion Hut which can be seen on the right of the image just to the left of the lake (which is Arm river).

Pretty nice day to climb to the top of this Mountain (mount Ossa) previous days had been rainy and cloudy so it was nice to get a clear view.

1617m.

Not a bad track, bit busy but some very speccy scenery.

Would be a pretty epic view in winter.

Wet Mount Solitary.

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Wet Mount Solitary.

I was hoping for some stunning views from the eastern side of this hill, sadly it was covered in cloud the whole time and raining on and off.

The good news for the gear junkies out there, the Durston X-Dome2 worked very well in being able to be pitched in the rain and on a puddle (the choice had to made based on the size of the puddle since there was nothing but puddles).

It is a bit fiddly, but you can get the fly up first, starting at the cross poles so that the inside of the fly does not have to touch the ground and the puddle, then attach attach the clips working down to the pole ends. Then a matter of getting inside and putting on the ground sheet over the puddle 🙂 then the inner ontop of the dry ground sheet and hang it to the fly tabs.

Amazingly, everything inside the tent was nice and dry. I do wonder whether having a ground sheet that fully extends the entire footprint of the tent would be better means you can put your nags on the ground sheet as well rather than onto the dirt and mud 🙂 it may however encourage water to get onto the top of the ground sheet and run under the tent inner…

Some photos from our walk.. in the rain, doing a fine battle with the leech population of the Blue mountains. Leeches are not fun.

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