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The Norwegian consul , Hans Fay , and a friend , made the first ski trip across the Razorback from St Bernard to Mount Feathertop in 1912 . Given the loneliness and isolation of the area it is remarkable that it was first settled in 1876 by some crazy entrepreneur who bred horses which were mustered , taken to the coast , and shipped across to India to be used by the British Army . The Tawonga Track ( 50 km ) , a dry-weather road only , heads south-west from Mitta Mitta across to Tawonga on the Kiewa Valley Highway . Newcastle-on-Tyne ) placed 51 cast stainless steel figures - many of them representing the people who lived at Menzies - across the Lake Ballard saltpan which lies to the north of Menzies . As such it is a base for those wishing to explore the scenic summertime delights of the Bogong high plains and the wintertime skiing resort of Falls Creek which is another 30 km south along Bogong High Plains Rd . In summer , when the grassy plains above the tree line of mountain ash and snow gum are adorned with wildflowers , the mountain 's walking tracks are popular with bushwalkers , particularly the trek across the Razorback to Mount Feathertop . If you imagined a reckless mining town in a barren wasteland with dirt streets and exhausted people standing outside a rather forlorn corrugated iron pub , then Marble Bar is nothing like that . On the western side of this carpark there is a children 's playground and the start of the Stonyford Creek self-guided nature trail - a half-hour loop walk that passes through some remnant bushland and across Stoneyford Creek , incorporating moist eucalypt forest , wattles , banksias , native grasses and gullies of tall tree ferns along the creek banks .