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Late last year Victor Scouts intrepid guide Jungle Jim, put a Dick and Pip Smith “Leadership through Adventure Fund” (LTAF) notice under the nose of Victor Venturer Samuel, and a plan was hatched.

“What if we hired a bus and sent three patrols down to the Snowy Mountains to do some really cool adventurous journeys?”

and thus an idea was born. Dial forward about 4 months and plans are well underway, supported by the LTAF through Scouts Australia. 

Snowy mountains updates

It’s only taken a specially formed Snowys unit council, 8 or so meetings, hundreds of emails and numerous planning documents …and what young group of scouts doesn’t love writing activity plans, F32, C4, C5… documents for their Christmas holidays? With just a few months to go now the physical and skill based training is underway in earnest.

Planned for an Easter departure, the Snowy mountains expedition now has its own expedition shirt. Patrols  Sentinel, Brumby and Tarn have been formed , each will have  guide shadows, satellite devices, alpine gear and a base camp to support them as they head out. 

For Queensland Scouts,  the opportunity to head into  one of Australia’s (and the worlds) great Alpine wilderness areas is an opportunity not to be missed. It has seen a big focus on developing skills sets appropriate to the Alpine environment, including the outside possibility of a blizzard…how exciting. 

To kick start their walk they’ll take the Thredbo chairlift ( for the scenic views …and a rapid gain of 800m in elevation) – before heading out to Mt. Kosioscko with all the day walkers and then head off into the wilderness from there for perched lakes, mountain huts in the land of the legendary Brumbies.  

Its a large and complex trip, with many layers of planning and permissions, we have been fortunate to draw in expertise across Queenslands guiding network for support and participants from several scout groups including Albany Creek, Sunnybank and a Gold Coast group are coming as well. The expedition is even hoping to share a campfire with the scouts in Dubbo on their way down and back as well.

Here is their original video to participants to tell you more…

and thanks to the wonders of Alltrails here is a fly through of all the intended walks as well.