There are granite domes, boulders and slabs, but they are buried deep in the regrowth from multiple bushfires. In places, the forest floor resembles the first spill of pick-up sticks in the once popular children’s game; only the floor is not a clean, smooth surface, rather a mix of tenacious scrub growing hard-scrabble where ever there is spare piece of earth.
In a straight line, it’s under two kilometres to the top of Tinderry Twin Peak, but, of course, bush-bashing does not follow a straight line! Like all the parties before us, we parked off the Burra Road near Mount Allen FT (fire trail) and chugged our way up this very steep FT. After about three kilometres, Mount Allen FT merges into West Tinderry FT, and keeps going up for another couple of kilometres. At a bend in the FT where the FT begins to descend again, a cairn marks the jumping off point for Tinderry Twin Peak.
The best route heads almost due east to a saddle to the north of Tinderry Twin Peak then pretty much straight south and uphill to the top. If you keep a careful eye, you should find plenty of cairns and even some flagging which marks a good route with, in places, a scant foot-pad. We followed the foot-pad down but just bush-bashed on the way up and the foot-pad route provided far easier travel. Problem is, no-one, at least from what I could discover, seems able to follow the foot-pad from the FT, but, if you take the most obvious route west from the cairn, you’ll likely run across it.
The summit is a bit back and a scramble across some granite boulders. You’ll know you are on the very top when you find a sturdy summit register courtesy of NPWS and there is no higher ground. The view from the top is fantastic, we could even see snow lying on the Main Range.
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