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7 DAY WEATHER FORECAST

Wednesday: Morning frost, sunny

Temperature: -4-13

Thursday: Morning frost, sunny

Temperature: -3-14

Friday: Sunny

Temperature: 0-15

Saturday: Partly cloudy

Temperature: 3-15

Sunday: Sunny

Temperature: 2-17

Monday: Possible shower

Temperature: 4-11

Tuesday: Partly cloudy

Temperature: 3-11

MANSFIELD RAINFALL

Week to 9am Monday – 12.8mm

Month Total (July 2022) – 14.6mm

Month Total (June 2021) – 18.4mm

YTD Total – 438.2mm

Total (2021) – 789.9mm Total (2020) – 746.6mm Total (2019) – 451.3mm

LAKE EILDON LEVELS

Readings as at 9am Monday This week: 4.23m below full or at 83.8% of capacity Last taken: 4.35m below full supply level Inflow: 4,000 megalitres per day Release: 1,000 megalitres per day

Details courtesy of Goulburn Murray Water

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Journey through the Alps for ‘Children’s Our Yarning’ project

By PAM ZIERK-MAHONEY

IN a journey expected to take some 50-plus days, Huw Kingston will ski the 600km length of the Australian Alps this winter starting from Lake Mountain.

Along the way, he will ski at each of the 12 snow resorts in Victoria and NSW.

His Alpine Odyssey aims to raise $50,000 for Save the Children’s ‘Our Yarning project’.

Expecting to set off on July 29, leaving from Lake Mountain, Huw’s fi rst stop will be Mt Baw Baw.

From Mt Baw Baw, Huw will traverse some of the most rugged country in Australia, with his next stop being our Mt Stirling and Mt Buller (expected around August 11), then Mt Hotham, Dinner Plain, Falls Creek, Mt Buff alo, Thredbo, Charlotte Pass, Perisher and fi nally Selwyn Snow Resort.

“When Huw fi rst shared his vision we wanted to support this great journey and great cause,” Rhylla Morgan, spokesperson for Mt Buller said.

“Most visitors to Mt Buller have travelled just three hours from Melbourne; Huw will have been navigating remote country for two weeks so he’ll be overdue for some warm alpine hospitality.

“We’ll feed him up, have a ski and send him on his way.”

As a long time ambassador for Save the Children Australia, Huw will use this 2022 winter journey for his latest fundraiser.

It was a relationship that began when they were the benefi ciary of Huw’s year-long 13,000km human powered circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea from Gallipoli back to Gallipoli in 2014-15.

“Through my Alpine Odyssey, I’m hoping to raise $50,000 for Our Yarning,” Huw said.

“This wonderful project produces books for Indigenous Australian children, written and illustrated by Indigenous authors and illustrators, telling their stories, stories that are so important to retain in Australian culture.”

Huw expects to complete the journey in around 52 days, but in a short interview stated that he sees the most diffi cult part of the journey is across the Crosscut Saw - this will be his biggest challenge.

“In 1997, 25 years ago this season, I completed a similar ski traverse, not skiing the resorts though.

“It was tough with blizzards, rain, thick bush, navigational challenges, river crossings and distance all stymying progress.

“But of course, blue-sky days, moonlit nights, snow covered ranges and old mountain huts easily balanced the ledger.

“It will be a challenge pushing my ageing body through it again a quarter of a century on,” Huw, now 59, said “but I want to celebrate the Australian snow country that has been so good to me for so long.

“To celebrate not only the backcountry, but the resorts and communities that live for the white stuff , communities that have suff ered much these past two years.

“Also, to consider such things as climate change and other threats to our unique Alpine environment.”

Huw started his trekking adventures on the Yorkshire dales, England with his uncle Dan as a teenager.

Supported by The North Face and partnering with many of the resorts he will visit, the success of the Our Yarning fundraising is as important to Huw as the success of his journey.

“We are very excited to share in the excitement and generosity of Huw’s Alpine Odyssey,” said Dr Julie Owen, cultural advisor for the Our Yarning project and Nurrunga/Ngarrendjeri woman.

“With stories from the sea, the desert, mountains and along the river, the books capture the imagination and hearts of children to learn to read, and to love stories that portray their own lives and heritage.”

THE JOURNEY: The long 600km trek route which will be taken by Huw Kingston during his 52 day Alpine Odyssey journey. LATEST TREK: Huw Kingston (left ) is prepared for his latest fundraising trek - a 600km journey through Australia’s Alpine country starting at Mt Baw Baw, through Mt Buller and finishing at Canberra.