2020 11 19 Mt Ainslie Circumnavigation with MelbaShed
This was a 10.6 Km walk from a parking spot at Hackett, Canberra right around, in a clockwise direction, one of Canberra most prominent peaks, Mt Ainslie. This was Melba Shed walk No 242 of 19th Nov 2020.
Featured image – Guys on Hancocks Trail, near junction with Telecom Trail, Mt Ainslie
I led this walk with 5 walking. 4 of us met at the Shed and drove to Kellaway St, Hackett where we met one more. We started walking around 8.28AM & then we walked up Hancocks Rd to the top of the range, although we deviated on a parallel walking pad to the south to get some nice tree cover. From the top we walked down Hancocks Rd until we reached the Telecom Rd & headed south along it for around 2.1Km until we could turn to the south west, walking past the Canberra National Pistol Range, across Mt Ainslie Rd, then along a short track that took us into Rosenthal St, Campbell before we then turned into Cobby St, which we followed all the way to Treloar Cres, across it & into the AWM & straight to Poppys Cafe. Cobby St was partially lined with fairly new or refurbished modern houses & looked impressive.
Harry was an angel & bought some of us coffees or milk shakes. After a break we headed back up to the nature park & walked along various tracks on its south east & east side, such as Honor Thwaites Tk, Socks Tk, Ainslie Link Trail & the 132KVW Powerline West Trail, before we ended up on a shortcut from the Old Tip Trail back to the cars.
Note this was near repeat of walk 70 of Jun 2013.
It was a Medium Walk of 10.6Km.
Walkers: Bob Salmond, Drew McDonald, Harry Angel, Neville Viney, Greg Hutchison
Drivers: Greg, Drew McDonald
Map of walk | Pictures in Google Photos | files including gps located in Google Drive
Notes re Map: GPS Map View provided using Garmin Basecamp on an Open Streets Map (OSM) NSW base | The area of the walk is covered by the NSW 1:25,000 topo maps CANBERRA.
