PHOTOGRAPHY: JEREMY SIMONSWISH YOU WERE HERE
PERISHER BACK COUNTRY NEW SOUTH WALESTO CAPTURE THIS particularly wintry
view of Australia, photographer Jeremy Simons
had to don some unusual footwear to set out
across the deep snow of the Porcupine Trail.
Trudging out of Perisher with a pair of
snowshoes means leaving the noise of the ski
resort at peak season behind and heading off
into the quiet beauty of the surrounding hills.
“Just 15 minutes out of Perisher you can
look back onto the carpark, and there’s lots
of commotion, but eventually all you can hear
is the crunching of snow and the cracking
of ice,” says Jeremy. “As you’re about to leave
all signs of civilisation behind, you descend
into the snow meadows and there’s a moment
of real beauty.”
The 5.6-kilometre return trail heads up a
well-marked path to Porcupine Rocks from
where you can look down onto Perisher Valley,
the Thredbo River Valley and across to Mt
Duncan. “You’ll need snowshoes in winter to
get up there; the snow can be knee high in
places, so you’d struggle in a pair of trainers,”
says Jeremy. Snowshoeing requires no training;
just strap them on, take a backpack and tell
someone where you’re going.