Camped at Clover Flat, along the Tooma Road in NSW’s Kosciuszko NP, in late March this year, our aim was to find the western end of an ancient route, now almost forgotten, which once linked the Monaro to the Murray. Charles Huon had been taken along it by Aboriginal guides in 1837, four years before other guides took Strzelecki up Mt Kosciuszko. On old maps it is shown as a Travelling Stock Reserve (TSR).
It was later used by graziers, gold miners and the Snowy Mountains Authority. It appears on Lands Department maps in the 1930s, and what is significant about this is that—one hundred years after European colonisation of the Upper Murray—there was still no better connection between the Monaro and the Murray than the route followed by the old TSR; a testimony to its usefulness. What ended its run was the building of the Alpine Way, after which it simply faded away.
In recent years, I had been walking bit by bit the old TSR, and had now explored nearly its entirety. Just one piece of the puzzle was left for us: the section from Tooma Rd to Greg Greg. What we wanted to do
