by | Aug 31, 2014
We all met up at Thornleigh Station, with slight initial confusion caused by the presence of another smaller group doing exactly the same walk (although a little behind us). We were fortunate to have the first completely sunny day after two weeks of rainy days. We set off through suburban streets for about 1 km before reaching a clearing between two houses which oddly was not marked as being part of the Great North Walk (GNW) but rather Eloura Bushland Reserve. It could…
by | Aug 30, 2014
With the sun attempting to shine, we set off from Woodford station and cruised down the oaks, enjoying the sense of freedom that being on a bike offers. The trail was fairly well graded and crowd free and apart from the odd breather stop to rest our quads, we threaded our way along the fire trail, the single trail and then the new fun park trail at the end. Cat likened…
by | Aug 23, 2014
I have been to the Snowy Mountains many times but, being so large I still have many places that I have wanted to explore. With the great cover of snow currently, and spring fast approaching it seemed like a good chance to get back down there for some climbing and snow camping. Sadly, a…
by | Aug 17, 2014
The heavy rain overnight had eased to intermittent drizzle by the time we all assembled at Sublime Point Lookout. Since we had some new club members along on the trip I decided to start with a detour to the Sweet Dreams exit track to get a little bit of scrambling practice in. After everyone…
by | Aug 3, 2014
We all met up at Wondabyne Station, cramming all 14 (and a couple of other walkers of a separate group). On arrival Tony asked where the water was, and I showed him Mullet Creek (beside which the railway runs). Tony said, no, where’s the drinking water. But sadly, Wondabyne consists of a station and an old quarry and that’s about it! I advised Tony that he could take on water at Myron Brook about 45 minutes further on. So we…
by | Jul 27, 2014
Today, a small group set out along Rocky Knob Ridge today (Kings Tableland), The intention was to take the old logging road out to the end of the ridge, drop down to Rocky Knob Point, follow Erskine Creek downstream for a few KM then ascend to Mt Hall (aka Euroka Trig) then back along Erskine Range to the car. We did…
by | Jul 13, 2014
With a full moon looming, I couldn’t resist another night abseil, despite the season. Not surprisingly there was interest from the other keen abseilers that I sounded out to help run the trip, Mon and T2. The call went out and we quickly had a solid turnout of hardy, experienced abseilers keen for some adventure. With a…
by | Jul 13, 2014
We all met up at Woy Woy Station and everyone bundled into the three cars for the 15 minute drive to MacMasters Beach. While the drivers did a car shuffle to take my car to Kilcare Beach at the other end of the walk, the rest of the group set off for the most southerly of the three “Cape Three Points”” (so named by Captain Cook in 1770) to see if they could spot any whales. (They didn’t,…
by | Jun 21, 2014
It promised to be an interesting trip communication-wise when, after having sent several emails to participants over the prior week about trains, I had a call on friday night from A Certain Person who asked me what time train we had to catch. When I asked him had he read my emails, he said “ummm, no”. (He ended…
by | Jun 21, 2014
Timing is everything. In this case I had good and bad timing. Bad timing as I posted a trip during exam times, meaning hardly anyone had signed up. But good timing as I planned the trip to coincide with possible snowfall. And it did, as it turned out. On Friday night 20 June , Michael and Tom met me for the drive to Canberra. I am…
