Aboriginal Name - Not found
To the summit from Harrietville & Mt Hotham:
Arguably Australia's most mountainous mountain is Feathertop. At 1922m It's Victoria's second tallest after the higher but flatter Mount Bogong (1986m). It's a 4.5 hour drive from Melbourne so you want to spend a night somewhere either near-by or on the mountain. I recommend on the mountain. The drive will also take you through Bright and Milawa so you can stock up on local cheese and wine to enjoy on the summit, if you're in to that kind of thing.
Accessible from 3 or 4 directions, Feathertop can be as easy or challenging as you wish or depending on your knees. The shortest return trip is to follow the ridge known as The Razorback that stretches between Mount Hotham and Mount Feathertop. This return trip takes the best part of a day and starts quite high so is relatively flat. My dad took me along the razorback when i was 11 years old, so everyone can do it. For a bit more of a work-out you can approach the summit from Harrietville, the town that nestles in the valley below. Walking up from Harrietville is a steeper affair, your legs will carry you up about 1400m in elevation. The vegetation changes every hundred meters up so it has a lot to offer. You start in the forest under trees of up to 50m high and end on the summit above the tree line with vast views over the Bogong High Plains.
by Andrej Vodstrčil
2013
LFRF acknowledges all the Traditional Owners of the land [or country] and pay our respects to the Elders, past and present of all of Victoria and urges you to please do the same.
