Mount Jagungal Area

Walk in from Round Mountain on the Kiandra - Khancoban road and you enter a high frost hollow plain bisected by rivers and snow plains.  To the south you can see Mt Kosciuszko and the Main Range.  It took a week to walk down to Australia's highest mountain in late December 1999.

Here the Tumut river flows east towards Far Bald Mountain but first ... you must cross the Tumut river on the way ... you might see the evil smelling red fungus "Aseroe rubra"
Brumbies graze near O'Keefes hut in the shadow of Jagungal mountain This old snow gum protected many visitors Prostanthera cuneata, the Alpine mint bush wafts a wonderful scent as you brush around it
Left behind, the steam engine rusts amongst the snow gums too cold for swimming this time, the Valentine falls cascade in flood above the tree line, the Brachycome daisies flowered in a carpet mat