Thread: Elcho Pass

First, I must apologise as these are from a cheap home slide scanner on 35 yo 35mm slides.

In this country, it's all about "conditions". When you get there it might be totally different. This was February 1987, a week after the last snow.

Here's the campsite at Elcho Forks.
I guess we were only there in the evening/early morning.


Here's the campsite at Elcho Pass.
There was a rock wall as high as the tent, built up by people who had stayed there. The water supply is handy but needs melting.


This is the Western (Landsborough/Kea Ck) side of Elcho Pass.


Topo50 screenshot of the map.


For some reason, I didn't get many photos looking down onto Kea & McKerrow creeks but here is one looking across the Landsborough to Dechen and Strachan peaks.


Just a scenic shot showing a fine weather evening, with Mt Jackson on left on the skyline, Mt Hickson is the rounded peak and Baker Peak is the triangular peak in the centre. The bar of mist flowing across the divide is going over Elcho Pass.


Here is a similar view with more detail showing Mt Jackson and Mt Hickson. The low point is not Elcho Pass. You have to make sure you're climbing up the correct gully/face to get to the pass.


This is typical travel on the main divide here; frost shattered rock.