Thread: Negotiating the Browning range, south westland

Massive country. I walked from Ossify Creek, up Commotion Creek into the Browning Range, around headwaters of Franklin Creek to Howe Crags down Nosegay Spur around and back up around onto Browning Range, along to Turnbull Pass and to Mt Lycia, then back down to Blossom Spur and to the mouth of Accident Creek where our base camp was.

Did that in a day, but it was a massive day, and I was fit. Got home to camp well after dark - although I did sit up in the tops above the Cramp Creek basin waiting for a stag to show himself and headed back to camp in the dark. Some gnarly country around Mount Franklin. You have to drop altitude and climb back up several times to negotiate bluffs and canyons/huge gutters. I wasn't confident trying to go over Mt Franklin, didn't know if you could, and it was foggy at times.

I was lucky and managed to avoid getting bluffed, especially after seeing the country from above on the flight out. Generally the tops are very clean and good travelling. The worst thing I found was the short grass and mountain herb steep faces, they're slippery as!

Absolutely stunning hunting country, and well worth a trip even if you don't traverse all the country you would like to.

Looking across to Mt Franklin in background - note wallow...


Heading towards Turnbull Pass - Cache Creek out to the right


Ossify Valley on left, looking back towards the dark faces of Accident Creek


Some nice animals in there


Looking down from the true right side of Ossify, towards Turnbull. You can see the Pass in the distance (centre-left -ish)


Plenty of these up there. Did see a one horned Doe who's horn would have cracked 11 inches easy, if not 12