High Country Hills and Huts - The Replacement Substitute Man From Snowy River

In the final part of our adventure, we explore some of the High Country's huts in the Mansfield area. Visiting Tomahawk hut, we bend the side steps looking for a level spot, camp at Pineapple Flat around some unauthorised cows, visit one particular very famous hut - although it's not actually the one, visit the summit of Mt. Stirling (if you can see it), see the Howqua Gap hut(s), Bindaree Falls, Flat Spur, Pike's Flat Hut, the Bluff Hut, Craig's Hut, then take the Bluff track down into the Jamieson valley for a look at a couple more huts, a recap of our adventure, and a little preview of what's to come.

[@markwilton4412]

Cool journey. Has given me ideas for a trip for my wife and I. Can you stay in any of the huts?

[@DropTableAdventures]

Around most of them you are free to set up your tent and camp there, and using them for day use / shelter is fully intended - but sleeping in them is only to be done in an emergency. See here for more details: www.trailhiking.com.au/preparation/victorian-high-country-huts-code-of-conduct/

[@robzyb]

Re Tomahawk Hut built in 1927, I can't imagine what it would've been like living in a hut in the mountains almost 100 years ago. There wouldn't have been a Landcruiser parked out front for you to get back into town... What did you mean by "how many degrees is one fiftieth of 30 frames per second"?

[@DropTableAdventures]

Yeah, would certainly have been a different experience to be out there back then. Although you do have to remember early cars like the Ford Model T were better offroad than anyone would have thought. There may have been no such thing as "off-road driving" back then, but that's only really because it was called "driving" - aside from the odd city street, not many were paved. As for the degrees, it's a concept called "shutter angle". Having a shutter speed exactly twice your frames per second, is a 180 degree shutter angle - the shutter is open half the time, and you get about the right motion blur for something "cinematic". Some people get a bit obsessive with that, and declare anything else to be "wrong". The GoPro footage has a much smaller shutter angle (faster speed) to avoid motion blur, as it's stabilised digitally, so the motion blur wouldn't match the stabilised movement. On the Z Fc, I shoot 1/50th of a second, but in 30fps - so that it matches with the 50hz power grid and you don't get light flickering, but that's not quite 180 degrees. This would be a 216 degree shutter angle.

[@aschlack8889]

I enjoy your videos. Q: are those uhf antennas on the left hand side? why 2 of them? 73s

[@DropTableAdventures]

The left hand one on the bullbar is usually a Diamond NR770HSP for VHF/UHF - however at the start of the trip it broke, so we've just put the spare RFI UHF antenna on to have something connected. That one's wired to the Icom 7100 for 2/70 amateur band. The one on the Z-bracket / L-bracket half way down the bonnet on the left is for UHF CB - going to a Uniden UH5060 with the radio body hidden inside the dashboard, as the body's tiny and that radio has controls on the speaker mic.

[@aschlack8889]

@@DropTableAdventures awesome. Thank you for replying so quickly. As I mentioned Eralier. Watching your videos is like going away without leaving my radioshack. I also enjoy camping and going in an adventure like your videos sound terrific. Cheers from vk2 And 73