Walks

Here are Some Special Walks or Information on Various Walks in an Area

Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura in the ACT – area tracks and routes. This is a writeup that outlines various tracks and routes in these two adjoining locations in Canberra. I still have some updates to this data which will be done soon such as Circumnavigation route(s) of Mt Majura and a direct track from Mt Ainslie to Mt Majura without dropping down to the west side tracks. Yes you still have to climb most of Mt Majura.

Kowen Trail Runs & Greenways. The trail runs are shown on the Bywong-Wamboin website at Kowen Trail Runs. They are a series of community created paths in an area of Crown Forest just south of Bingley Drive, Wamboin and adjacent to Kowen Forest, ACT on its southern side. There are also the Bywong Wamboin Greenways which are nice paths behind many farms. These can be linked to create circular walks.

The Overland Track: Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. This is a world famous walk which is now heavily managed by Parks Tasmania. I did it by myself in 1978 and again with my daughter and her friends in Nov 2014. This is summary of the 2014 walk with lots of Google Photos pictures, observations, maps and gps data

Arsenic Ridge Trail: Tabletop to Brooks Hut – Kosciuszko National Park. 5 of us surveyed and taped the old track in Nov 2019. Its now in a state that can be walked. This post has details on its location and various other items needed to walk this trail which is a substitute for some of the AAWT. – Note: To be updated with a revised route over the same area that we resurveyed 17-18th Dec 2020 because the major bushfires of late 2019 and early 2020 burnt out the area involved and also burnt down 4Mile Hut, Happys Hut and Brooks Hut although the latter’s fireplace still stands. The only hut standing anywhere near these sites is Broken Dam Hut. However most of these huts are planned to be rebuilt around 2022-24.

17 – 18 Dec 2020 – Arsenic Ridge Resurvey 2 – From Brooks Hut site to Tabletop Trail via Temperance Ck. 5 of us were allowed to go back and resurvey the route we had mapped out in 2019. This time we could not stay at Happys or Brooks Hut as they were lost in the Jan 2020 fires. We stayed instead on the edge of the Happy Jacks road not far from where the grass trails to Brooks takes off. The taped route starts and finishes at the same spot as the previous route but varies slightly on Arsenic Ridge itself and was rerouted a little north to avoid the swamp at the head of the Temperance Creek source. This saved the possibility of having a formal track going through the swampy area and also took the route over a still standing 1-1.5m deep water race that was used to take water from another Temperance Ck swamp right around to the 9Mile Diggings header dam adjacent to the Tabletop Trail.

Dec 2024 – Arsenic Ridge Resurvey 3 – From Brooks Hut site to Tabletop Trail via Temperance Ck. It was planned for 4 of us plus one ranger to undertake another survey of the route which was most likely to be a clone of the 2nd survey. This time we were to stay at the newly rebuilt Brooks Hut. The project now has NSW NPWS approval as real project. Well we did get there but it wasn’t until 4-6 April 2025 wherein we revisted Brooks Hut and did 2 days worth of re GPSing and tapping of a proposed route for Arsenic Ridge. A report was provided to NPWS who have accepted the Arsenic Ridge Track as being of historic importance and part of the greater Ligars Route from Victorian Gold fields to the NSW Kiandra Gold Fields. If successful the route will be recut as an official trail probably in late 2025. You can read about this 3rd and hopefully last survey here.

 Upgrade to Kidmans Hut with new Door and Flooring and an upgraded track from Little Brassy Gap to the hut.  A couple of the people mentioned in the Arsenic Ridge Resurvey Proposal have visited Kidmans Hut in Oct and Nov 2024 and discovered that NPWS have been refurbishing Kidmans Hut so that it will have a new door that can be closed, as well as restumping the huts main corners and also adding a wooden floor. In addition they have upgraded the track from Little Brassy Gap down to the hut using metal caterpillar band chain, tracks pieces. It is now easy to follow to the hut. Currently I don’t have any gps data for this revised route to Kidmans. The track above Kidmans up to the Great Dividing Range near the northern end of the Brassy Range has also been improved a little.

Vehicle Transfers in the Snowy Mountains. These can be organised by SnowLink in Jindabyne on 0438 385 961 or info@snowlinkshuttle.com.au.  Also SnowLiner Coaches on (02) 6452 1684 or 0431 408 799 in Cooma.