2022 09 29 Cooleman-Ridge-Mt-Taylor-Oakey-Hill Walk with MelbaShed
This was a 16.5Km Medium-Hard circular walk through suburbs of Weston Creek area in Canberra as well as some nature reserves. This was Melba Shed walk No 279 of 29th Sep 2022.
Featured image – View west over Murrumbidgee Valley to the Brindabella Range in the far distance
I led this walk with 4 of us walking. We all met at Melba Shed by 8.30AM & drove in 2 cars to to Kathner St, Chapman.
Initially we walked south along tracks on Cooleman Ridge, passing some muddy & wet ground. We got good views from Cooleman Trig itself. Then we had nice views over to the west & Mt Arawang from a panoramic spot.
We continued to the bass of Mt Arawang but dropped down a side track & took the trail just above the houses until we could cross Namatjira Dr then taking tracks through Fisher to the shops.
Here Bob stopped & took buses back to Melba not feeling like finishing the walk. He did actually walk north through playing fields to Cooleman Court where he caught the first of two buses back to his house.
The rest walked up through Fisher & the edge of Waramanga. We then took an underpass under the Tuggeranong Parkway crossing Waldock St in Curtin to turn north & take cycle & foot tracks down to take another underpass under Hindmarsh Dr before then climbing up to the top of Oakey Hill. Great views all around from this top or trig site.
We then walked down a bitumen road to join Heyson St taking another underpass under Tuggeranong Parkway. We were now in Weston & continued on to find Fetherston Gdns, setup up to commemorate Tony Fetherston (MBE) (1915-1980) who inspired them when head of the Canberra Institute of Technology School of Horticulture.
We then walked through some of Weston before taking another underpass under Streeton Dr. We were then in Holder & took some nice lanes through it to reach Hindmarsh Dr, then walking along it through Rivett & finally back into Chapman to reach our cars.
We had walked through suburbs of Chapman, Fisher, Curtin, Lyons, Weston, Holder, Rivett.
Medium-Hard walk of 16.5km. We started walking at 9.10AM & returned to the cars at 3.06PM thus taking 5hr58ms.
Walkers: Bob Salmond, Drew McDonald, Harry Angel, Greg Hutchison
Drivers: Harry, Greg
Map of walk | Pictures in Google Photos | files including gps located in Google Drive
Notes re Map: GPS Map View provided using Garmin Mapsource on an Open Street Maps (OSM) base. There was a second map provided using OzRaster NSW 1:25000 Base map of Canberra using Oziexplorer with OzRaster Map base with permission of © BKK Enterprises Pty Ltd, http://www.gpsoz.com.au | The area of the walk is covered by the NSW 1:25,000 topo map CANBERRA.
