NSW National Parks

Kosciuszko National Park home

KNP alerts (check regularly, before and during your trip)

For the long off-track walks, especially A9: fill out a trip intention form and hire a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) at the Snowy Region Visitor Centre (no charge)

  Weather

BOM (free but poorly designed) Charlotte Pass or Jindabyne

Weatherzone (free with ads) Charlotte Pass or Jindabyne

  Local information

Snowy Mountains Magazine, good local guide, printed copies at retailers in Jindabyne; read the summer digital edition

Thredbo activities, and summer family guide

Tourism Snowy Mountains things to do

  Bushwalking

The National Parks association (NPA) have a great online intro to bushwalking, with many articles including on-track navigation, different track types (or "ways") and gear for day walks.

Australian Hiker has advice pages, especially on alpine walking.

  Shuttle services

Jindabyne to Charlotte Pass, also Snowies Alpine Walk transfers: Snow Link hikers' shuttle

Guthega ↔ Charlotte Pass, also Jindabyne: Snow Connect hikers' transport

Transfers for hiking or mountain biking: Snowy Mountains Shuttles summer transport

  Water filtration

Water filters remove microorganisms as well as turbidity, and ease the burden of carrying many litres on walks like A8 and A9. A popular product (and the one I use) is Katadyn's BeFree, just fill from a running stream, screw on the filter, and squeeze slowly into your bottles; see this review or in use at 16:00 in my Twynam video. Available from a few outlets for around $90 for the single-filter 0.6L version. Remember to soak the filter overnight after prolonged non-use.

  iNaturalist

Join iNaturalist, a world-wide community of citizen-scientists who report sightings of plants and animals, and share identifications. Use the app or just upload from your phone's photo gallery to the web page, since images are usually geo-referenced. Verified reports are available for scientific research.

The alpine area has relatively few reports except near the resorts, despite its many unique species (and I'm way behind in uploading images from recent walks). My username is geoffw171.

  Paper maps

Mount Kosciuszko covering the most popular portion of the park. Available from Wilderness Sports in Jindabyne as shown or Map Centre in Parramatta or ABC Maps in Melbourne.

  Books