of Mt Kosciuszko , the thought of visiting , or for that matter climbing it had never even crossed my mind even though I spent a large portion of my life living in New South Wales and not really a huge distance from Mt Kosciuszko in the scheme of things .
It was set . I would take my bike to the Central Coast with us for Christmas with the family and head off on my journey a few days later to end the year on a high both physically and metaphorically .
The first day was a mixed bag of every emotion and feeling . My Mt Kosciuszko round trip commenced with an early morning awakening to cold , wet , and somewhat miserable conditions . I set out at approximately 0600 after trying to pick the gaps in rain . For around the first 2-3 hours I was cold , wet , and miserable . The saving grace was the fact that I was out on an adventure , so I happily took the conditions thrown at me . I wanted to end the year on a high , literally , and that ’ s exactly what I was on my way to do .
The mornings somewhat questionable conditions gave way to clear skies , hot suns and the cooling crisp mountain air breeze that blows through the snowy mountains . After roughly 6 or so hours on the bike
I arrived at the Adventist Alpine Village where I based myself for a couple of days .
A nice hardy camp dinner and three quarters of a bottle of wine set the day off perfectly .
I was up early as it was going to be quite a long day of hiking to the top of Australia ’ s highest peak . The weather provided great conditions to be out amongst nature . After about a 20km ride into the Kosciuszko National park I arrived at Charlotte Pass to begin the journey . It was met with some excitement , fear and yes of course some anxieties as well as quite a lot of people . There are
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