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Tasmania

After a week in Western Australia, we flew to Tasmania to reunite with the last member of our Pacific Crest Trail family. Two weeks in the highlands took us from wind and snow around Cradle Mountain to a white Christmas in the Walls of Jerusalem, cowboy camping on Frenchmans Cap and quieter country beyond the usual tracks.

A boardwalk winding through Tasmanian alpine moorland toward a rocky ridge

A red tent pitched among snow-covered pencil pines

A lone hiker crossing a snowstorm beneath mountains lost in cloud

A hiker scrambling through a steep rocky passage

A snow-covered mountain rising above a dense alpine forest

A narrow snowy cleft descending between lichen-covered rock walls

A snow-dusted escarpment disappearing into low cloud

A massive Tasmanian peak wrapped in fog and fresh snow

A hiker silhouetted against an orange sunset

Two bivouacs on a summit ledge at first light

Hikers waking in bivy bags above layered mountain valleys

Two hikers crossing a sunlit summit above valleys filled with mist

Two hikers climbing through sunlit Tasmanian alpine heath

A tiny hiker crossing rock slabs beneath immense cliffs and a mountain lake

White alpine flowers growing among dark Tasmanian rock

A sunlit Tasmanian mountain ridge and lake seen from a rocky slope