Lake Alta Track - a climb to a glacial lake
ourselves with our gear and made sure we had lunch. What an amazing place and we were only at the carpark. It was so incredibly unreal to see all the surrounds, the mountain peaks, the ski road, the chair lifts and the blue sky.
We headed up to the ski building and followed the signs which were especially for trampers and walkers to follow to Lake Alta. This was not a huge tramp as it was only one and a half hours but we knew we would
take our time and just soak in the spectacular views, stopping many times.
We headed to the ski conveyors and snow making machines and saw all the ski buildings with the chair lifts. The skifield was certainly a huge place.
After walking up the 4WD road we came to the start of the smaller track up to Lake Alta where we had ice under foot in places with the schist rocks which were slippery in places, so you definitely had to watch every step. There were huge boulders around. You never got tired of looking at the surrounding scenery.
We kept a close eye on the weather as the cloud was coming in behind us but it was very slow moving so we knew we had plenty of time. The weather can change at any stage and we had all the gear.
We reached Lake Alta and at first you could not see the water as it was so grey. As we came closer you realised it was water.
How absolutely incredible to be able to see Lake Alta with all the surrounding boulders and mountain peaks. There was so much scenery to soak in. As you got closer the shallow parts of the lake were as clear as anything all the way to the bottom.
We met some other hardy trampers, some even going higher to the top peaks but we were definitely happy to sit on some rocks to have our lunch and then take many photos.
After lunch we headed back to the car park and we soon reached the low cloud so stopped to put some more layers on but we knew we had the best part of the day.
What an unbelievable place to visit with spectacular views. How lucky we are to have been able to walk on the skifield to see Lake Alta. A great day had by all.
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