Ellen Peak Adventure
 

This trip can be done in one day with a 2.00am start and a 5.00pm finish but it is better to spend a night on the peak and descend the next day making this a 2 day, 1 night trip (not including travelling time to and from Perth or Albany).

Ellen Peak is a remote peak at the eastern end of the range and provides the highest ascent in the range (800m from the plain to the summit). It also requires a long lead in walk along fire trails followed by a rugged 'bush bash' and finally a challenging scramble to the top.
 

The group shelters from the wind behind a rock outcrop during a rest stop on the South-East Ridge.

The peak can be only be approached from the North-East or South-East directions. Most people who climb Ellen Peak as part of the half-ridge or full-ridge walks do so via the well marked (but far from easy) North-East route.

In the 'Ellen Peak Adventure' we do so via the rarely attempted South-East route and after spending a night on the peak descend via the North-East ridge.

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Trek leader Nenad and a group member on the South-East route: October 2003.

5 degrees and a fierce wind meant we didn't want to stop for long! (note the curvature of the earth!)

Signing the visitors' book atop Ellen Peak altitude 1012m and 800m above the surrounding plain.

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