Mt Rufus Circuit
Sunday, 18 February 2018
The Sunday after the overland track race I got up early (which was easy as I had the camping mattress with the slow leak, so by morning I was just lying on the ground) and headed out to do one of my favourite day walks - the 20km Mt Rufus Circuit. I’ve walked it a few times in recent years but this time I wanted to loosely emulate my efforts from the late 80s when I ran the circuit with Clare. I say loosely as I was only planning on running the flat and downhill parts, the rest I was going to walk. The early morning weather was great - it was sunny but was low cloud around so as I got to the top of Mt Rufus (after 2 hours) only the tops of surrounding mountains were poking through the clouds.  
The rest of the circuit was fantastic. I just loved cruising down the ridge, through the weird sandstone outcrop then down a pandani filled valley before crossing over to Shadow Lake. From there it’s an easy 6k back to the campsite. 
By the time I got back, Jon had just about disassembled our campsite which was a pretty good effort for someone who had completed a run 4 times the length that I had, in just over twice the time. Impressive.
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