This was a 14.5Km walk in Namadgi National Park to Nursery Swamp area to look at an aboriginal rock art site and work out a suitable walk for Melba Shed for May. It started at a Car Park along the Orroral Valley which is accessed from the Boboyan Rd driving south from Tharwa
This was a reconnaissance walk around part of Black Mountain linking up with the Australian National Botanic Gardens’ (ANBG) new Bushland Nature Walk to create a circular walk. My journey was some 8.7km which entailed checking several track options to ensure a viable and sensible future walk that offered great views, sensible climbing and a little excitement tinged with a walk back through the ANBG and sampling the fare at their cafe
I led this walk to Mt Ainslie with a total of 10 of us walking. 8 of us met at the Shed & drove in 2 cars to the parking spot on Kellaway St, Hackett where we met 2 more. From 8.30AM we headed around the base of Mt Ainslie to visit the AWM’s coffee shop for coffee & milk shakes, etc. It was a good practice walk for Mt Tennent which we intend to walk up in 2 weeks. The weather today was superb & sunny. Views over central Canberra, the War Memorial & Parliament house great.
31Mar-2nd Apr 2017 – Jagungal Circuit, Kosciuszko National Park
On Fri 31st March 2017 5 of us set off from Canberra in 2 Foresters to drive to Round Mountain in Kosciuszko National Park to walk the famous Mt Jagungal circuit.
A 4 day 57Km trip Four Mile & Nine Mile areas, searching for an old CSIRO research site, looking at several sites near Long Plain Hut and finally walking up Yarrangobilly Mountain
This was a walk I led with 8 of us from Melba Shed to Majura Stone Wall, Little Mt Majura & Mt Majura part of Canberra Nature Park
This was a walk I led with 7 of us from Melba Shed in The Pinnacle Nature Reserve across to the Weetangera Old Methodist cemetery and back. It was an 8.1Km nice walk mostly on tracks with some great views of the surrounding country and mountains
This was a 4 day walk over Easter 1982 with an old friend Paul McCann who I had first met on my Alpine Walking Trail walk in 1975. The essence of this walk came from the book “Bushwalking Near Canberra”…
This was my second trip to this area, the first being in May 1978 but this time I did it anti-clockwise. Day 1 I parked my car at the Pinch River camp area on the south side of the river…
This was a 4 day backpacking trip from Gungarlin River to Kidmans, the Mailbox, Bulls Peak Ridge, Bulls peak Hut, Flanagans Hut, High Hut, Katingal Hut, Snowy Plains. This was my second trip to this area in Kosciuszko National Park…
During late May 2000 some of the heaviest snowfalls in recent history around the region, took out power lines to Bulls Head, a major radio repeater sites on the Brindabella range. Owing to the significance of the site and the…
