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On the Kosciuszko Road

Spencer's Creek Bridge, 1730 metres altitude.

 

"Kosciuszko's pioneer weather men

...The Kosciuszko project involved a summit station on Kosciuszko and a comparative station at Merimbula. With private sponsorship, Clement Wragge launched the expedition. In December 1897, with tent and instruments Wragge and his companions ascended Kosciuszko. Charles Kerry, a Sydney photographer and Snowy Mountains publicist, was with him. Mountain stockman James Spencer was their guide.

 

They arrived in freezing conditions and one of the Queenslanders went to bed one night wearing 29 items of clothing!"

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6437424/kosciuszkos-pionee...

 

Spencers Creek

James Spencer was one of the first people to run cattle on the high country, in the 1840s. One version says that Spencer fell off his horse into the creek. One of his stockmen is claimed to have said "If he wants a swim he can have the creek to himself", and the name stuck.

www.wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Australian_Geographical_Na...

 

This year's peak snow depth climbed to 232 centimetres on September 20th, the highest in five years and 35cm above average (2022).

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Uploaded on March 13, 2021
Taken on November 15, 2020