Mt Oxford—Oxford Hill—Ashley Saddle

29 November 2020

A light southerly kept us cool as we headed up towards Mt Oxford. Anticipating a cold wind on top we had an early lunch short of the peak as cloud swirled to our left and right. On nearby Oxford Hill, we stopped a while in the lea of a solar cell array then looked for a track down to Ashley Saddle. We found bits of track through the dracopyllum and tussock scrub with the best-defined one just above the saddle. The spur down to Mountain House car park was in open grassland with patches of trees in places, so we had a good view of the plains as we headed down in a cool easterly breeze.

Our clockwise circuit took us seven hours and was enjoyed by, Kevin Hughes, Diane Mellish, Shiping Wang, Peter Umbers and Kerry Moore. (KM)