Day 6 Mount Nelse and couple of huts

Pictures Day 6 Mount Nelse
Slept poorly again, unable to go off to sleep, and when i did woke frequently, the iPhone clock glaring at me malevolently when I opened my eyes.
At 6.40AM, I gave up and had a shower and got ready for the day.

Heading up the Heathy Spur Track

Most walkers up and bustling about, as usual. The day looked pretty good, certainly no rain clouds to be seen, though the outside temperature was at a daunting 3.1C and outside the wind was COLD.
We got away at the regulation 8.00AM and our start point was quite close, just near the dam wall of the Rocky Valley Storage.
Out of the cars and it was brisk, to say the least, of bloody cold to say a bit more.
It was up the Heathy Spur Track which is a steady pull until reaching the flatter Bogong Plains. After about an hour we hit the Australian Alpine Walking Trail, the AAWT.

Edmondson's Hut

Our objective, Mount Nelse is to the north, the AAWT looping around its side. A short way along the AAWT the turn off to Edmondson's Hut takes us west and after a short walk we enter a very pretty copse of trees, that houses the hut. Like most of the Alpine Huts, it is small, spartan and looking just a little unloved. Above the fireplace is a sign "Save Edmondsons".  Like many of the huts it also sports someones wacky sense of humour, sporting an electric light with a pull cord.
Morning tea is in the hut and out of the wind.
Refueling over, it's back a long the track a short way, then bash our way up the hill to rejoin the AAWT for the final assault on Mount Nelse. The turn-off is soon reached and it's an easy stroll to the trig and cairn.
It's at this point Cliff realises he has misplaced his mobile phone. A quick call to Chris, who was just reaching the hut with the B walkers, as we left, to look for the phone, to no avail. No where to be seen.
Consequently, Cliff headed off alone, back along the way he came to see if he could locate it.
We headed off Mount Nelse, to get to Johnston's Hut some short walk away.
Johnston's Hut looked pretty neat and had a great outlook, to the dunny. The dunny mind you, had stable doors, so you could sit and gaze out.

Lunch Tree

It was then a short hard hill back to the AAWT where we came across a grinning Cliff. He had returned to the hut, was unable to find his phone so had a cup of tea, a couple of smokes and retraced the steps he had taken from the hut. Two paces into the aforementioned bush bash, right beside his foot was the phone. What luck?
The walk then continued south along the AAWT, where we had lunch under a huge old snowgum. Great place, however the wind made a long stay unlikely and after a relatively brief lunch we moved off.
This bought us down the hill through a very attractive area of old snowgum forest, eventually spitting us out at a covered bridge crossing the Langford East Aqueduct, which then contoured us back to our cars at Langford Gap.
An early finish meant a bit of sitting around. More Harry Potter and some preparation for tea.
Spag boll again, very good and some nice Annies Lane Shiraz complimented a good meal.
Click on the link below for the route of todays walk.
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1412227&code=019f272149564aa4960d532743ea3b6a