http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums.html Henk van Beijeren and I went up to Seaman's Hut in brutal conditions. I checked the met bureau website afterwards. The average windspeed was 70km/hr but many gusts were above 100 km/hr. Temperature was 0-2C. Mostly we were in thick fog with some light sago (halfway between snow and hail.) These photos don't do justice to the day because they were taken near the Charlottes Pass car park late in the afternoon when conditions were beginning to clear. Earlier in the day photgraphs in the open were simply impossible - but then again there was nothing to see anyway. I tell no lie when I say that Seaman’s Hut (made of stone and concrete; erected in memory of, now of 5 people ,who have died in this area.) shuddered in the wind blasts. http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums.html#0 0697bd76-2c07-4fdb-891b-6a7cb8cc0072 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9930.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9930.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_172_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_1">When the trees are wet they show their colours in full.</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums.html#1 a5983577-a929-4cfa-a2ed-6e5abb1c94b5 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9931.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9931.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_172_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_1">Mt Twynam is somewhere up there?</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums.html#2 6d2adbd3-f966-4389-8490-86b82a77fb2b http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9932.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9932.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_172_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_1">The first sunshine all day.</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums.html#3 969283bb-4c70-44b3-a919-6ec201b1d26e http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9933.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/Charlottes_Pass_Snow_Gums_files/Media/_DSC9933.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_172_32"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_1">The clearing conditions dried out the moisture.</p></div></div>