Route: Mount Barney

Mount Barney National Park is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, one of Queensland's five Australia World Heritage properties, and part of the World Heritage Family. 

KOM Route (Submitted by Quinton Gill)

Distance: 13.4km. Vertical Gain: 1,263m

This is the most Iconic and Runnable Route in Mount Barney National park.

Starting from yellow pinch car park you head up the southeast ascent of mount barney, once at the summit you then head down the other side towrds the rum jungle campsite in the saddle then back down the south route (peasants ridge) and follow it back to yellow pinch car park to finish.

This is a very technical trail that requires proper navigation skills and mountain running experience to attempt.

If you think you have what it takes to take down this FKT get your ankles ready!

Triple Peak Route (Submitted by Todd Dawson)

Distance: 57km. Vertical Gain: 4,059m

Starting from Yellow pinch carpark run out to Lower & Upper portals and scramble up river to the base of Barney gorge. Head up Barney gorge till you reach the rum jungle and turn right to summit west peak. Head down to locate the start of Peasants ridge near rum jungle and continue down into the valley till your back at Yellow pinch carpark.

Continue past Yellow pinch carpark till you cross the concrete bridge and head through the gate that is straight ahead of you, turn right and head up the open fire trail till you reach the start of Logan's ridge. Follow the ridge line, which has multiple difficult vertical sections and one major couloir. Once past this, continue following the main ridge and more difficult vertical rock face leading to the summit. 

Head down from summit and into rum jungle to location Peasants ridge for the second time, following route down till you arrive at the start of Southeast ridge in the valley. 

Head up main trail of Southeast route following main ridge line, there are multiple false peaks, continue following main ridge till you reach several vertical sections and locate the first of several SER markers. Continue towards summit and back down into run jungle, down Peasants ridge for the third and final time. Continue down into the valley and finishing at Yellow pinch carpark. 

10 Peaks Route (Submitted by Keith Jebb)

Complete all 10 named peaks of Mount Barney Massif in any order (plus Mt Savage as the 11th - it's en-route anyway) and return to car park.

This is an exercise in planning, route finding, bush-bashing, handling exposure, scrambling and endurance. There are many different ways of tackling these peaks - some require an abseil, all entail extended periods of exposed scrambling.

Six or seven peaks were completed in a day long ago.

The crux is Leaning Peak - it has 2 or 3 routes up - all are steep, exposed and require a good head for heights as well as scrambling skills - best not to attempt if wet or windy. The commonly used route to get off it to the South requires a 50m abseil.

Some of the other peaks have slabs that include scrambling and exposure. There are tracks/footpads that connect the Peaks in the East, but West of Mt Savage there are none.

The peaks (labeled on OpenTopo) are Toms Tum, North East Rock, Leaning Peak, North Pinnacle (Isolated Peak), East Peak, West Peak, Bippoh Peak, Barrabool, Mt Savage (not labeled UTM Z56 468948E 6871152N), Burrajum Peak and Gwyala Peak.

Start points are either Yellow Pinch car park or Lower Portals car park. There is usually water at Rum Jungle. Note that the given handdrawn GPX shows one possible route that hits all 11 peaks includes a 50m abseil - there are other possible routes.

This is a FKT that needs some planning, probably a couple of recces to work out viable routes and some good weather - take a headtorch & breakfast just in case....