Carruthers Peak

Infobox Mountain
Name = Carruthers Peak
Photo = Carruthers Peak.jpg
Photo size = 260px
Caption = Carruthers Peak from the south
Elevation = convert|2145|m|ft|0|lk=on
Location = New South Wales, Australia
Range = Main Range / Great Dividing Range
Prominence = convert|80|m|ft|0|abbr=on (approx)
Coordinates = coord|36|24|31|S|148|17|28|E|type:mountain_region:AUS|display=inline
Topographic
NSW Department of Lands Perisher Valley
Easiest route=walk (track)

Carruthers Peak is a mountain in the Snowy Mountains between Mount Lee and Mount Twynam. It was named after NSW Premier Joseph Carruthers, who facilitated the building of the Summit Road to Mount Kosciuszko. It can be easily accessed, with the Main Range walk going straight up it.

The area around it contains patches of the rare windswept feldmark ecotope. Due to a century of grazing on the Main Range, the area around it was heavily eroded. From the 1950s Soil Conservation Service undertook an extensive program of rehabilitation of the vegetation of the Carruthers Peak–Mount Twynam area using bitumen, wire netting and bales of straw [None of these methods were very effective. However, by chance the bales of hay carried Sheep Sorrel which held the soil together for the recolonisation of native plants.] . It lies on a vein of shale running south-southeast through the predominant granite.

See also

*Australian Alps

References

*wikicite | id=idGeehi2001 | reference = Geehi Bushwalking Club, (2001) 8th ed. "Snowy Mountains Walks", Canberra: National Capital Printing. ISBN 0-9599651-4-9