3 Peaks Challenge

You will be staying at the Schuss Alpine Club Lodge, which is located high in Thredbo Village and has grand views of the resort. Rooms are twin shared with en-suite. You will be provided with linen, pillow slips and a towel, so there is no need to pack these. The lodge has laundry facilities with a washer and dryer and a separate drying room.  There is a large modern communal kitchen and lounge area overlooking the ski slopes.

We are close to restaurants, the golf course and chairlift. Thredbo Village has a wonderful charm and is a great place to relax after a hard day’s walk. Your booking includes all meals (breakfast and dinners at the lodge and a pack lunch with snacks to nibble on during the day). There is a small supermarket, bakery and limited bottle shop in Thredbo, so it is advised that you bring your own alcoholic drinks that you require.

The package is designed to minimise the purchase of the more expensive items of personal and group equipment and organisation required for participants. Your trek cost includes the following:

• Accommodation (twin-share)
• All meals. Dinner is a 2 course meal cooked by our Chef.
• National Park fees (but does not include Visitor/car entry pass)
• Chair-lift pass
• Full Guiding services
• Satellite phone coverage and rescue
• Full public liability insurance
• Mt Kosciuszko summit certificate

• Travel to and from Thredbo
• National Parks Visitor/Car Entry fees
• Alcoholic drinks, eating out
• Personal clothing and equipment

Thredbo Village is located 35 km to the south west of Jindabyne on the Alpine Way. Thredbo is best reached by car or bus. Canberra has the nearest airport and railway station and is 2.5 hour’s drive to Thredbo via Cooma and Jindabyne. Rental cars from all major companies are available at the airport. Taxis to Thredbo can be hired in Jindabyne.

Bus and train companies that provide a bus service from Canberra, Cooma or Jindabyne are as follows:

• Summit Coaches – John Graham 0414-400378
• Murrays Buses  - www.murrays.com.au
• NSW Train Services – www.nswtrainlink.info There is a Canberra-Jindabyne train link
• Snow liner Coaches www.snowliner.com.au Cooma to Thredbo and return.
• Transconnect - Canberra to Cooma to Jindabyne return 02-6458 4620

Park Entry fee per vehicle is $17 per day or a five-day short break pass for $68; motorcycles $7 per day; bus passengers $6.60 per adult and $2.60 per child.

You do not need to be a triathlete to succeed in trekking. What you do need is a deep reserve of strength and stamina rather than speed. Eventually you want to be training uphill with 5 kg depending on your size, strength and fitness goal. If you are super-strong at home, you will find your trek much easier. 

In your training you want to be able to comfortably walk uphill with your pack doing 300m vertically per hour for 1 hour minimum. As your fitness and strength improves you should be able to do this for 6 hours. We do not suggest you need to do this every day, in fact you would be better training for 30 min – 1 hour a day, 3 times a week.

At least a month before your trip, it can be very helpful to go out on one or two weekends and do a long training walk for say 6-8 hours. Or consider training on consecutive days to get the feel (and endurance boost) of working a tired body.

We do not recommend intensifying your training immediately before the trip; it would be a huge disappointment to injure yourself at that late stage!

Never fundraised before? Not sure where to start? No worries, we don’t expect you to do it alone.The batyr fundraising team will be here to support you every step of the way. Providing you with tips and tricks as well as resources to help your fundraising journey.

The travel cost is $900 per person.

In addition you are pledging to raise $3,000 through fundraising.

If you wish to have your own room you can also pay the single supplement on top of the adventure costs which is $70.