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Adventure Time: Mount Kosciuszko Summit walk with kids

Distance: 13km Duration: 5 frustratingly slow hours Over the Easter long weekend, we stayed in Jindabyne for a few nights with two other families; our good friends from Tyler's soccer team. With kids and adults of varying abilities and interest in long walks, we decided we'd all give Mount Kosciuszko a crack and see how it went. Everyone loves a chairlift ride anyway, right? We had attempted this walk ourselves a year and a half ago, in high summer but with completely opposite weather to what we had recently. Last time we had played on big chunks of ice on the ground, surrounded by grey swirling clouds that would only part for seconds at a time to give us a glimpse of the view, and braved winds that were gusting up to 80kmph. In January! So this time, we were blessed with bright sunshine the whole way and it was a completely different experience. On our previous trip, Holly who had then barely turned seven, was getting blown off the path, to the exten...