Steve, Mel, Michael and I went for a walk to Old Joe trig yesterday. I hadn’t been to Goorooyarroo at all before, and was quite impressed. The terrain is nice, with some steep bits as you get close to the border (its clear that the border follows the water catchment from a walk around here)….
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First trail run
So, now I trail run apparently. This was a test run for a hydration vest (thanks Steven Hanley for the loaner!). It was fun, but running up hills is evil.
Camp Cottermouth
I spent the weekend at a Scout camp at Camp Cottermouth. The light on the hills here in the mornings is magic.
Exploring for a navex
I feel like I need more detailed maps of Mount Stranger than I currently have in order to layout a possible navex. I there spent a little time this afternoon wandering down the fire trail to mark all the gates in the fence. I need to do a little more of this before its ready…
CBC Navigation Course
So today was the day long map and compass class with the Canberra Bushwalking Club. I liked this walk a lot. It was a good length at about 15km, and included a few things I’d wanted to do for a while like wander around McQuoids Hill and the northern crest of Urambi hills. Some nice…
Lost and alone in the dark
I’ve been doing the Canberra Bush Walking Club navigation course for the last couple of weeks, and last night’s exercise was a night time dead reckoning navigation session. The course is really good by the way and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. It should be pointed out that I also wasn’t lost, or alone,…
Walk to the Southern Most Point
I’ve just realized that I didn’t post any pics of my walk to the most southern point of the ACT. The CBC had a planned walk to the southern most point on the ACT border and I was immediately intrigued. So, I took a day off work and gave it a go. It was well…
Casuarina Sands to Kambah Pool
I did a walk with the Canberra Bushwalking Club from Casuarina Sands (in the Cotter) to Kambah Pool (just near my house) yesterday. It was very enjoyable. I’m not going to pretend to be excellent at write ups for walks, but will note that the walk leader John Evans has a very detailed blog post…
Wanderings
I am on vacation this week, so I took this afternoon to do some walking and geocaching… That included a return visit to Narrabundah trig to clean up some geocaches I missed last visit: And exploring the Lindsay Pryor arboretum because I am trying to collect the complete set of arboretums in Canberra: And then…
Quartz trig
A morning of vacation geocaching, wandering, and walking to quartz trig. Quartz was a disappointment as its just a bolt in the ground, but this was a really nice area I am glad I wandered around in. This terrain would be very good for cubs and inexperienced scouts.