Mt Barney NP - Inner Logans

A visit to a less-walked area below Logans Ridge.
Winter 2024 #5 : Yellow pinch - Park gate - Forested ridge - First rocks - Inner Logans ridge scrambles - Lower forested slopes - The Notch gully - Higher forested slopes - Razorback above the Notch - Descent via Logans Ridge.
Distance : 7 km return. 700m height gain. Hard grade walking off the trails.
Walking conditions : Everything Mt Barney has got.
Notes : Just as the SE ridge has a subsidiary inner ridge, so does Logans ridge. I have referred to the ridge as 'Inner Logans' for lack of knowing any other sensible title.
The ridge itself is quite short, but contains a variety of interesting scrambles. The higher ridge actually continues directly up onto the Logans route, but the slopes are too steep for further walking passage. The bulk of the route is taken up by the forested slopes above the ridge. In the past I have walked enjoyably through here unimpeded, but I wouldn't recommend this circuit at the moment because of all the hassles with bushfire regrowth.
I have thought for some time now that this may be the way that Captain Logan and Charles Frazer approached the mountain in 1828. When viewed from from vantage points such as Yellowpinch, the ridge appears as a direct eastern approach, and naturally follows the basic ridge line up. The nowadays Logans route (lower section) is not as obvious, and is more to the north.
The idea that this may be the 1828 route makes sense if reading accounts of the first European climb. There are many corresponding features, such as a place where the support team would have waited at the first rocks, and a viewpoint that would have allowed Cunningham to make his sketch (which was lost). The general terrain is quite hard to get through, which also consistent with the account, and fits with the fact that Charles Frazer, a professional Botanist and no stranger to the bush, got into trouble on his descent from exhaustion.
My knowledge of the 1828 ascent comes from the biography of Patrick Logan, written by Charles Batesman (Beaudesert public library).