South East Ridge Ascent Peasants Ridge Descent
(Mt Barney National Park)An ascent of Mt Barney via South East Ridge and Descent Via Peasants Ridge
Getting there
Access from Yellow Pinch picnic area on Upper Logan Rd.
Maps
Sun Map Mt Lindsey
Route/Trail notes
Head to the locked gate at yellowpinch and follow the gravel road uphill to Yellowpinch and downhill for about 2.5 km to a crossing of the Logan River. Follow along this road up through Cronan Creek for about another kilometre until you p ass campsite 10 and look for a track on your right that goes steeply uphill. At the top turn left and head uphill along a footpath when you come to a rock outcrop go to the right and keep heading up hill. at the next outcrop go left then right, where you should end up on a narrow ridge. Keep going up! until you come to a steep deep gully go down and heading to the left climb an obvious route up. Keep going up past a razor back ridge. Where after a while you will come to a shallow gully where you head uphill to the right to rcoky slab that is a bit slippery so be careful. Keep going up hill follow the trail until another steep section and rock slab. Keep going and the summit soon comes into view. Keep going uphill with a few scrambles to the top of a rocky knoll. I found I reached here in about 3 and half hours from Yelllowpinch and followed the faint trail through scrub uphill to the summit.
Once you finish enjoying the summit head west and downhill for about an hour aiming for the faint circle of the old Barney Hut There are obviously many different descent routes some over rock slabs some down gullies. Generally follow a south by south west bearing. Once at the Campsite cross the creek and move uphill to Rum Jungle Campsite. The route out goes uphill with some arrows showing the way. After 10 mins or so the route descends. Keep the rocks to your left as the track steeply descends a narrow rocky ridge. When you descend to a small clearing the trail turns right then left and keep going down till you come to a steep rocky slab that can be slippery. Descend this carefully! keep following the path downhill till you reach the sign at the beginning of Peasants Ridge. Follow the road to the beginning of SE Ridge and retrace your steps back to the carpark at Yellowpinch. This walk was done when the weather was good and rock dry.
Permits/Costs
If you camp anywahere in Mt Barney Park cost is $5.
Other References
Take A Walk In Soth East queensland. Rob Rankin Secrets of the Scenic Rim.
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Comments
jen on 6 Aug, 2011
Very hard track as it is such a consistant angle. The rock slabs weren't too bad at all to climb up slowly. Didn't get to each peak as we had lost a bit of time earlier in the day. Beautiful weather and only a couple of other people on the trackAllan Allport on 25 Apr, 2011
ANZAC Day hike saw it quite busy. And wet.We got lost at the first main scramble, spent about an hour trying to find a path before we remembered/realized that you had to go up the crack in the ridge. The weather was cloudy and lots of little spurts of rain, made the second/smooth rock scramble quite difficult. Luckily with 5 of us in the group we could boost and pull everyone up. Next time though, I'm definitely taking at least 10 metres of rope to help.
I saw a lot of people descending via South East Ridge, which I've never tried of before. But they seemed to think it was easier.
When we did make it to the top, clouds were rapidly rolling in, making the descent to Rum Jungle a blind one in the white out. Bumped into a few other hikers in the same situation and we all ended up quite north of rum jungle and had to climb back up.
With all of our setbacks we finished the last 5 kms of the hike in pitch black. It was quite the ANZAC Day adventure. For anyone who has never done this before, make sure you are plenty prepared and have lots of extra supplies. If we hadn't the previous experience on this hike (3 newbies, but 2 people who had done it multiple times before) it could have ended quite badly.
Walkinghawk on 22 Apr, 2011
Great way to spend easter friday, but went up peasents an down, it was a gruelling 10hr non stop walk/scramble to the summit where we spent 15minutes and took some photos, got down to the road out just on dark, glad we were prepared and had head lamps, 4 more kms to go in our wet socks and shoes, but loved every minute of this long daymika28au on 14 Apr, 2011
My first time up mt Barney was an overnighter ,carrying the extra gear was a real pain but the sunrise was worth it. The second time was up the South East Ridge and although hard it's an interesting climb.Allan Allport on 27 Nov, 2010
Third time doing it for me, maybe one of the hardest. The slabs were slippery due to recent rain but the day was perfect.One of my co-hikers got a stick in the eye about half way up South-East and could barely see. It took us the full 8 hours with him limping between us. But still amazing
Laurence Hallam on 1 Oct, 2010
Barney in cloud climbing should not be allowed. It was wet,cloudy and damp! But... Oh what fun!Sarah White on 29 Apr, 2010
Challenging but rewarding. Great preparation if you are thinking about trekking the Kokoda Trail in PNGLaurence Hallam on 13 Feb, 2010
The walk started at 3.30am to beat the heat. A long tiring but enjoyable walk!Lynney on Sometime...
Have done both of these around 6 times each..... love it, especially camping in rum jungle overnight.