BY A. N. LEWIS, M.C.. LL.B. JJ 



In the south of the area a passable I'oad extends up the 

 north bank of the Huon as far as the divide between the 

 Denison and the Weld Rivers, from which point it is con- 

 tinued by a pack track to the Weld River at a point about 

 three miles above the junction of the latter with the Huon, 

 where a prospector named Fletcher has a lease and a hut. 

 About 80 years a>2:u a track was cut up the Weld Valley for 

 about 10 miles, but this is now obliterated by horizontal 

 scrub, and, although originally a well-made track, is useless 

 in its present state. On the Tyenna-Port Davey track just 

 east of the 14-mile hut is a notice "To Huonville 54M." 

 This is a dangerous signboard, as there is no vestige of a 

 track for the first ten miles, and the country is under heavy 

 timber and dense scrub. 



The old Craycroft track, a possible means of access to 

 the Huon Plains, is reported to be quite obscured. The 

 Valley of the Huon to the vicinity of its junction with the 

 Anne River, and thence across the open plateau lying to the 

 south of Mt. Anne, is a possible line of approach, but in the 

 absence of any other cut tracks the route from Tyenna along 

 the Port Davey track at present presents the fewest diffi- 

 culties. 



(c) Routes followed when the Investigations here recorded 

 were made. 



In December, 1920, Major L. F. Giblin and Mr. A. V. 

 Giblin, with Messrs. V. C. Smith, J. Walch, and F. Steele, 

 proceeded along the Tyenna-Port Davey track. Pack horses 

 were got up to where the track debouches on the Huon Plains. 

 The party made their main camp at the Huon crossing, but 

 were here hampered by wet and misty weather. However, 

 they accomplished the ascent of the Mt. Anne plateau, going 

 by the southern of the two western spurs. 



In December, 1921, the Messrs. Giblin, with a party con- 

 sisting of Messrs. H. Hutchison, W. F. D. Butler, V. C. 

 Smith, J. Walch, H. Kelly, H. Cooper, A. Hackett, V. E. 

 Chambers, and the writer, endeavoured to reach Mt. Anne 

 via the Weld Valley from the Huon. The party forced its 

 way up the Weld Valley through horizontal scrub for three 

 and a half days, reaching a point about 18 miles from its 

 junction with the Huon, and then for another day up a 

 large tributary flowing from the west, until a bare hill was 

 reached. It was then seen that it would still take some 

 days to reach the mountain, and the party was compelled to 

 turn back. Great difficulty was experienced throughout the 



