Mt Hotham Tracks & Trails
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Alpine National COBUNGRA GAP Park Alpine National r MT HOTHAM u Red Robin Mine & Battery Sp Park Discovered by Bill Spargo in 1940, the first sample le idd crushing averaged a staggering 112 ounces of gold M per ton. The discovery of the reef saw one of Victoria’s TRACKS & TRAILS last gold rushes. The mine continued to be operated Red Robin until 2014 when the lease expired and the site reverted Gold Mine Mt Loch back to National Park. The mine and battery is & Blair’s Hut 1865m Hotham Heights included on the Victorian Heritage Register. Goldfield To Mt Feathertop, Blairs Hut Dibbins Hut Diamantina Spur, The original hut was built by Frank & Tom Blair in Derrick Hut Third generation of huts built on Bungalow Spur & 1923-4, when a tourism grant was provided to re-open Built as a day shelter for ski tourers the site from about the 1890s. C Emergency Dungeys Track. The neat little drop-log hut on the o NW Spur walking Marker by the Wangaratta Ski Club in Used for cattle grazing by Dibbin, k b tracks West Kiewa River is a popular camping spot for c MTH020 1967. This neat little timber hut is a Howard & Gow. Located at the u bushwalkers. r A T u a memorial to Charles Derrick a Dibbin’s g base of Swindlers Spur at the head n k s n T r t g r i a cross country skier who died in a Hut of the Cobungra River, this neat u e l s Big i r g p a blizzard in 1965 whilst crossing s little drop-log hut is a popular a d n d r i S o Dipper a A from Mt Bogong to Mt Hotham. R R h r camping destination for B l y c p o r r C i k r s bushwalkers. n A c c o O u v rd c p e W e e Tr a Quintet S a n i n a s p r c b Joyce Brockhoff Hut i mine & r / A l r l e k r h k l k o s d c e c ’ i hut ruins Alpine Located amongst snowgums on a n n Swindlers z h i a v a g o g w r a i e S small spur between Mary’s Slide and M K - T T R Gap R Charles Derrick ins National - k b g - the Orchard ski runs. The hut was built ib n To Harrietville a Memorial D i e r Emergency Pole 84 k p n in 1949 as a memorial to Joyce i l i g Marker a via Bon Accord a Track Marker Park o t W d MTH019 h t Brockhoff, one of the first champion s Dungey’s Track n i at intersection p Walking Track r l C a A R e skiers. Built of stone with large glass n Wilderness Track. a Sparo’s Hut m a h i windows and a deck. h h Emergency l Not Marked. t a c c a Built by prospector Bill Spargo and his brother i Marker a t r o o MTH004 Approximate e D t s s Cecil in 1927-28 for Bill’s prospecting and L F G e l u position One Tree o A t ) mining activities in the area. Bill was P a M Joyce Hill y e r r Derrick superintendent of the Alpine Road for the a a l Brockhoff d Hut o Country Roads Board in the early 1920s and Cobungra Ditch 0 n Alpine Crossing Trailhead 0 r t 3 Walking Track u 1 a 0 Hut o was influential in the establishment of Mt 0 The Cobungra Ditch, also originally p 0 B500 & sculpture B pathway not formed, though is 0 3 5 Emergency r 1 1 e 1 e 4 Hotham as a recreational skiing location. He known as the Cobungra Gold Mining 0 t 0 0 Marker marked, as per ParksNotes. g n Gate 0 H n Diamantina 4 e MTH003 i 1 a Great views through a later discovered the rich gold-bearing Red Company water race or the Brandy The r v w 1 Fire tower e ( 4 Springs Loch n O Cross ly regenerating snow gums Robin reef on Machinery Spur in 1940. 0 V Emergency 0 Creek water race, was constructed in Carpark a 1 lle Marker 5 0 0 1 0 y 4 THE HUTS 1883-4. The race provided water for the Eric Johnson 0 0 4 0 MTH018 1 M Ch e 1 a WALK 3 Silver Brumby Hut 0 Gravbot Memorial k o ir l 0 hydraulic sluicing operations of the 0 T the S l a l d 0 r J o Se 3 m c 1 k 0Mount o G d tio The first Silver Brumby Hut was built in 1992 Cobungra GMCo. The Ditch was used 30 S h u l l n n 1 U Baldy n y a a i M lo as a temporary film prop1 for the Australian Diamantina S L Hotham Mine so Road S n 3 continuously into the 1890s, though with r 0 t M n R unn g e 0 i I r u m m T S Hull e o film “The Silver Brumby” based on the falling gold yield the use of the race Hut u t l 1861m W m u d A m Bridge r m famous novel by Elyne Mitchell1 and staring L i n 4 became intermittent.CD09 The race was last Link Track along K t i 0 C n 0 0 h P in Russell0 Crowe. The present hut was built as a Australian Alps a la S g 4 used in the 1920s and 30s. 00 ir yg t 1 5 ro w ra more permanent structure in 2006-7 by the 1 Walking Track to un c d i Golden Point k Diamantina Hut Trainer Chair n Rotary Club of Sale, East Gippsland Institute P Golden Point d CD08 l a ir l & Mt Feathertop - ha Deep Lead CD06 of Tafe, Tanderra Ski Club and the Mt y C Village e g Razorback Ridge r workings CD10 0 1 Emergency Hotham Resort Management Board. 0 r ’ 4 Ice Flower P o 3 Spargo’s 1 s 0 Marker Walking Track u Emergency 1 0 n 1 4 Little Falls MTH010 Marker Hut Emergency 5 0 RMB Office d C 0 d 0 0 MTH001 COBUNGRA BC03 Baldy T r Marker a Mount & Tourist Shelter r e 1 DITCH WALK a 5 MTH013 o D e 0 i 0 Hollow Corral Carpark l k R a 1 4 Baldy W G v 0 k & Village Square 0 e 0 s o e e 0 e t BC02 S 5 l A 1 n t d e n y Silver c Lindsay Salmon e r i l e c l p 1 H To Emergency e e 0 n 4 C s u 0 p Emergency Memorial i Marker Brumby s BC01 p 6 0 o l g 1 G 0 r A 1 T MTH002 P Emergency e S Marker a t Harrietville5 G g ’ s k 0 r r 0 Hut e i o e Marker d l MTH025 e t c & Bright i D n MTH024 WF05 t n E 1 h Mt Higginbotham as 1 i i t 5 7 t c r o k WF04 A 0 B 0 BS07 a Walk c BT19 0 A S i BT15 0 n i n n n k w h g Tr a c l a v Ribbo c c 1814m e e p t l Blu c i e d S WF03 1 e e s 6 y a 0 u D s 0 c r BT18 0 0 T v r Big Spur BT17 3 a k Alpine e C 1 MOUNT A 1 B r C 6 r Emergency s 0 g Picnic Point ig u Blowhard r 0 n Marker Emergency Emergency p BT14 BS09 Brandy Ck BS06 e u CD07 D T BT16 BS08 HOTHAM Marker Marker BS10 S MTH014 National b WF02 Hut e MTH023 k MTH012 o g Mine Lookout MTH011 n Footbridge i 1 k CFA r C 6 o u B MTH022 0 t p WF01 0 1 ALPINE 4 S Park BS04 0 ( 0 e il DF05 Falls e e ra l 0 D e p h ill T k BS05 BS03 0 e Edelweiss Tk T s H BT12 o e BS11 r a BT13 6 a e k e m 1 RESORT k h t t MTH026 DF04 CLOSED S Chri s e r C BS02 S MTH028 g Great A Christmas Emergency Marker e o r l BS12 Gate pi MTH021 CD05 n e DF01 C 1 5 0 0 R Hill DF03 R The General Store BT11 1 1 4 o 0 s 0 Little a 5 y ’ d BS15 BS13 MTH027 rail 0 h i DF02 T DF06 0 p v r BS14 d Mt Higginbotham n u e la 1 1 6 0 r 0 Emergency r 6 M Mount 1762m e 0 BT10 ) d Marker 0 DF07 n MTH015 y ’ s C Blowhard 1 o Howard’s r h p r e 50 1 M u e B 0 W Footbridge5 1 er Pla Slatey 0 k 4 n in BS16 0 R in ) T Hut Falls 0 D R BS01 0 0 Davenport Grimsley’s A - AI Cutting 0 L 1 l 7 B BT09 4 m i 1 Southern Cross Village R a0 a 0 mine 0 th r Map Legend A 0 o 4 1 1 L (H1 Wire Plain 1 3 T 5 Public Shelter 4 0 UN G Emergency Marker 00 0 0 r 1 0 5 B C B500 0 MTH029 u e 0 i p PossumBT08 a S r o M t k i P r The Huts Walk Parking h a b o Flat l F 1 o P o P 5 1 u r Loch 0 3 0 0 n s 0 0 n 0 BT07 6 1 i 1 0 3 n 0 k n MOUNT 0 2 Cobungra Ditch Walking Track B s 600 0 1 g PublicGlen Toilets u 1 a HOTHAM T g e S m r BT06 r e l 0 0 a Cobungra 0 t 0 4 a d ALPINE 5 MTH0301 il r Brabralunga Trail (Hotham - Dinner Plain) Howard’s0 Wire Plain Hut F 1 0 0 y D 0 r 7 l 1 RESORT 6 at Diggings HW03 Accommodation 1 i C S C HW04 L MTH034 Biathlon t 1 p Billy Howard, a mountain cattleman from o c 6 u r op MTH031 h 0 p Range y HW05 Short Walks & Link Routes 0 0 r e 1 Harrietville erected this hut in 1962.