Sunrise, A Cave and A Mountain. Mt Maroon.

I've done sunrise on the summit of Mt Maroon a few times and regularly go to the cave to sit and look at the view and enjoy the peace and quiet, it's been a favourite place of mine for a long time and holds some very special memories for me.

This time, I joined a group of good friends to do sunrise on the cave, something that has been on my list since my first visit and then up to the summit asking the western ridges route.

I'm glad I waited to do the cave this time with a group of people because it's so much different in the dark as it's off track and obviously being the pitch black of early morning, you can't see any of the usual reference points when I'm doing it during the day without a map.

With sunrise done, we began the long hike and scramble to the summit along the western ridges trail, where one again, we did a different route in sections to the last time I did this route. The Western Ridges Route is line than the tourist route and requires good navigation, fitness and scrambling skills as there is a lot of scrambling to do which also makes this route the most fun route to the summit.

If you've read all this, thanks. Leave a like and a comment, and thanks for watching.

Big thanks once again to Kim for the Don footage, Dan for leading a fun day once again and everyone that came along and made it a great morning singing happy birthday to random people on the mountain.