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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Tim the Yowie Man

The highs and lows of The Snowies

Rawson Pass after a bumper ski season in October 1974 and bushwalkers Robert Carling and Heather McCracken (inset) at the same spot just three months later. Pictures: Bill Crawshaw

Several readers, including Bill Crawshaw of Fadden, responded to my recent request for photos of high-country landmarks before and after dumps of snow.

Bill's drool-worthy photos of mountain huts captured on almost half-a-century of cross-country ski tours and summer hikes across the roof of Australia could easily fill a coffee table book. However, the stand-outs are his two 1970s slides (remember in the 1970s many of us took slides instead of film) taken at Rawson Pass, just a few months apart.

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