Mt Geryon Trip report

Climbers,

First post here but I'm a chronic Chockstoner (evanbb). Am I doing this right? No categories for forum posts?

Recently did a trip out to Mt Geryon and wrote a trip report. If you are interested you can have a read on my blog here:

http://evcricket.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/tassie-mt-geryon-part-1/

We used the thesarvo guide exclusively for the area and found it mostly useful. The track out to the campsite is hard work no matter what, but the walk to the start of the N-S traverse wasn't clear to me. There are some more detailed walk-in access notes in the report, but they're hardly different enough to bother suggesting an update.

We did a new route on Geryon too, but since we didn't top out I'm not going to bother writing it up.

The traverse is a total sandbag from South to North if you're considering it. North to South seems much nicer, apart from the access to the North peak, which I'm not sure on.

 One last thing. How do you pronounce Geryon? Gh-eryon or Jeryon?

Overall, a wild place. Well worth a visit. I suspect The Acropolis near by has some similarly epic routes on the northern face. Should be friendlier access from the hut on the Overland too.

EB