Chris, your leader for this walk, has “unfinished business” with some walkers he
promised to get to the West Wall in the Walls of Jerusalem. He led a party in
there in June, but the weather was against them, so they took a much shorter
route to Tiger Lake, and still had a great day. By November, the days are long,
and hopefully sunny, and the Walls will hopefully be at their spectacular best!
Walk route:
The trip begins with a fairly demanding ascent from the car park (alt. 700
metres) to the plateau (about 500 metres altitude over about 3 km distance), and
includes further shorter but steep hauls at Herod’s Gate and Damascus Gate (alt.
1380 metres), and up the final ascent to King Solomon’s Throne (known in earlier
times as Hall’s Buttress), the eastern prominence of the West Wall. There are a
couple of long, fairly level, stretches in between, but the total walk distance
(one way) to the top of Solomon’s Throne is just over 9 km, so a good level of
stamina is needed with a pack containing suitable adverse weather clothing and
food. Your walk leader will need to be confident in your experience before
allowing you to join this walk. You need to check equipment requirements with
Chris.
This walk is rated “medium” and is suitable for walkers who have had some
experience with steep and rocky tracks as well as off-track alpine walking, and
able to keep going for sustained distances. Because of the exposed alpine
conditions, walkers must be fully prepared for poor weather. Please see the
warnings below.
Make sure you are prepared for wet and cold weather, no matter what the forecast
is.
Meeting Times and
Places:
If interested in going on this walk, please phone your walk leader, Chris
Langerak on 0409
808 152. With a need to maintain social distancing, car pooling is a
little more difficult. Please contact the leader if you need to arrange to pair
up with someone for transport. The meeting place is at the Mole Creek toilet
block at 8:50 am. If travelling from Launceston, you would need to be on the
road by 8 am..
If you would like to
arrange to meet the group at these places or elsewhere, please arrange with the
leader, and please be at any meeting place 5 minutes ahead of the listed time.
The leader should always be notified of any other people you intend to bring
along, and you should always contact the walk leader if intending to participate
in a particular Boots N’ All walk.
To access this area
from northern Tasmania: proceed along the Bass Highway to Deloraine
(about 51 km), but do not turn off at the eastern exit into Deloraine. Instead,
continue across Meander R. and up hill to the western exit, and to the
roundabout at start of Mole Creek Rd. A further 24km will bring you to Mole
Creek (sometimes used as a meeting place for our walks – check with leader).
Continue west past Mole Creek, on what is now Liena Rd, making sure you turn
south at the caravan park 4 km from the town. The road continues west until
about 14 km from Mole Creek, it branches south, now called Mersey Forest Road. A
little over 6 km south, you will pass turnoffs to Cradle Mountain and Devil’s
Gullet (Lake Mackenzie) but keep going south, crossing the Mersey at Lake
Parangana and passing the turnoffs for Bare Hill and Arm River. Another 17 km
should see you cross below the Rowallan Dam. Continue south along the east side
of Lake Rowallan, for a little over 5 km, and about 100 metres past the Fish
River bridge, you will see the Walls of Jerusalem on the left. Follow this
road for 1 km to reach the car park and the beginning of the Walls of Jerusalem
walking track.
Warnings:
The following codes [from
our 2020 walks calendar] apply:
D Drive distance requires early departure
S Steep incline for at least part of the
way
L A long days walk in excess of 3 hours
each way
M Marshy or muddy sections be prepared to
walk with wet feet.
E Exposed alpine conditions ; can be
dangerous in poor weather if not adequately
equipped.
Click this link for a more detailed discussion of Preparation,
Food and Safety guidelines
for Boots N’ All walks, and especially preparation for exposed alpine
conditions.
Map details &
References:
Walls of Jerusalem
area: 1:100000 map is Mersey (Tasmap 8114) and 1:25000 maps are
Rowallan (Tasmap 4237) and Ada (Tasmap 4436)
Solomon’s Throne: (Short ref. 415693)
Zone Easting Northing
Latitude Longitude
55G 4 41 610 53 69 480
-41.82441 146.29689
Several peakbagger points are in the area of this walk, but the main goal of.
See list on this
page (a previous BNA walk).
Solomon’s Throne – 1 point
For full listing of peakbagger points, see the Hobart Walking Club Peakbagger’s
Guide (2000 revision) which can be downloaded (Excel) from http://tastracks.webs.com/peakbaggers.htm
The same web page contains several other listings of Tasmanian peaks.
For GPX (.gpx) and Google Earth (.kml) versions of the track: Click
here to download.
Right-click on the file and save target as to a location of your choice.
(Suggest you click the Last modified at top to sort by date to get the most
recent at top to find the file for the next walk).