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Thredbo
Thredbo lies within the Kosciuszko National Park and a well known ski resort in winter.
However, due to it's beautiful scenic parks it is also a popular place in the warmer months
for hiking and sight seeing.
Alpine Slide
This is a fast bobsled run, that goes for 700metres and is located at the base of Thredbo.
Crackenback Express
This chairlift rises from Thredbo to a height of almost 2,000 metres and is the most
accessible and easiest way to get to the High Country.
Dead Horse Gap
This is a popular 10km hike along the alpine ridge and then returns to Thredbo via the
river.
Kosciuszco Alpine Way
This scenic drive runs from Cooma to Albury, and provides a good insight to the Snow
Mountain region.
Mt. Kosciuszko ,
The highest mountain in Australia, Mt. Kosciuszko, 2,228 metres high, is near Thredbo
and in summer a hiking trail can be followed to its summit. The mountain was first
climbed in 1840 by the Polish explorer, Paul de Strzelecki and was named after a famous
Polish patriotic hero, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko. You can take the Crackenback
chairlift from Thredbo and travel over alpine moorland past the headwaters of the Snowy
River and the granite boulders of the Ramshead Range. A walk of about 6½ kilometres
each way.
Ski Tube
Ski Tube is a rack railway constructed in 1987, it runs in two sections, from Bullocks Flat
via Perisher to Mt. Blue Cow, a journey which takes 19 minutes, with the latter section in
a tunnel bored through the mountain, in one place as deep as 550 metres below the
surface.
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, is the largest inland city in New South Wales, and is on the
Murrumbidgee river. Translates from Aboriginal dialect to the “Place of many crows”.
Wagga Wagga is 478km from Sydney. Wagga Wagga is a centre for industry, commerce,
education and agriculture.
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