Balloon Hut. Organiser: Gretchen Williams

Party: Alison Nicoll, Gretchen Williams, Roger Bruce, Tony Haddon.

Flora Car park was full of people and vehicles when we arrived – Friends of Flora were having a working bee.

We had a break at Growler Shelter and again at Salisbury Hut (this one specially to pin up the FMC Hypothermia poster). The snow on the Tablelands was firm and about ankle deep – we had to take care and walk in previous frozen foot steps so it was slower going. We explored Bishops Cave and then on to Balloon Hut which was a welcome site, especially the big gas heater! We settled in for a good nights sleep and awoke to snow falling gently and a beautiful picture. It snowed while we walked back, all the way to bushline and then it drizzled til we arrived back at the car park (still full up but we hadn’t seen anyone else all weekend).