Having climbed back up to Mt Twynam after a couple of runs  off ‘The Sentinel Ridge’ (Photo No. 5),  they then face the 6 km return trip back to the Chalet, Charlotte’s Pass. Three years later, they got together with many other keen skiers to form a club to make the Australian Alps more accessible to skiers. Initially known as the Ski Tourers Association, it became the Australian Alpine Club in 1962.

Building a lodge above Lake Albina, to facilitate skiing in this area, became the first project of the newly formed Ski Tourers Association. Its inaugural meeting, chaired by Charles Anton, was held in Sydney on 10 November 1950.

Lake Albina Lodge was the first AAC Project
Construction of the lodge commenced in the 1950/1951 summer

It was decided that a pre-fabricated hut, such as those then being used by the Snowy Mountains Authority, would best suit the remote, isolated location at Lake Albina  (altitude 2 km above sea level).

The Kosciusko Park Trust promised, and gave, very substantial support, particularly with the stone-work of the basement and in transporting materials to the site from the roadhead at Seaman’s Hut.

Photo No. 7 shows the timber for the basement and the main floor being unloaded at the lodge site.

Photo No. 8 shows the Park Trust’s stonemason at work on the basement walls.