"First chance to get back to this beautiful area in the Cradle Mountain National park. Rain ☔️ Rain ☔️ Leeches - more rain - great climb for Aus 🇦🇺 day weekend. Second go after an ambitious attempt in 2 days in Sept 2018 Heavy snow back then meant only one of us summited. This time we were better organised and planned for summer. 4 of us set out on the Saturday after lunch in pouring rain, reaching the new Pelion Hut late evening after multiple stops to get rid of leeches. (Tip: Hand sanitizer works a treat over a cigarette lighter!) Set up tents out on the landing area for campers. Had dinner and slept. Up early on Aus day, left tents and took day packs to summit. Up and back, the small summit marker took a while to find but as soon as we took our pics we were off back to the tent. Dinner in the hut again, sleep. A warmer day for the return back to our cars." — Chefinthecity • Jan 26, 2020

"This was the 2nd of our State8 challenge. We hiked in via the Arm river track, so we did not complete the full Overland Track, as our goal was to just climb Mt Ossa. The lovely Jason and Michelle (from 3 hills @ the good place on Air BnB) dropped up off (and picked us up at the end of our trek) at the car park. It was about 5 hours from the Car Park to New Pelion Hut on a mostly undulating track. You cannot reserve a place in New Pelion Hut, so it’s first in, best dressed (it does sleep about 30 people, but you need to bring your own mat). There are 2 toilets and a water tank at the camp site. There is now a non slip metal stair case, making this first part relatively easy. From there is does get steeper. We took hiking poles, but ditched them when the ascent became too steep. One challenging section was on the edge of a cliff face, which was extremely windy and steep. At the summit we had difficulty turning our mobiles one to take pictures, because it was so cold! " — tarawood • Apr 7, 2019

"Awesome ascent. Just enough risk to make it exciting. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service advise against climbing Mount Ossa if it's snowing. Only problem was that it started snowing while we were half way up." — alexmotyka • Sep 25, 2016