Tag: trig_point

Mount Bimberi on a Scout Bushwalking Course

Julian Yates kindly ran a bushwalking course for Scouts Australia over the last five days, which covered walking in Uncontrolled Terrain (the definition in the Australian VET scheme for the most difficult bushwalking — significant off track navigation in areas where emergency response will be hard to get). I helped with some of the instruction, but was also there working on my own bushwalking qualifications.

The walk was to Mount Bimberi, which is the highest point in the ACT. We started with a short night walk into Oldfield’s Hut on Friday night after a day of classroom work. The advantage of this was that we started Saturday at Oldfield’s Hut, which offered morning views which did not suck.

On Saturday morning we walked up to Mount Bimberi via Murray’s Gap. This involved following the ACT / NSW border up the hillside, which was reasonably well marked with tape and cairns.

Our route on the way to Bimberi:

And the way back:

On Sunday we walked back out to the cars and did the three hour drive back to Canberra. I’ll include the walk out here for completeness:

Trail run: Barnes and ridgeline

A first attempt at running to Barnes and Brett trigs, this didn’t work out quite as well as I’d expected (I ran out of time before I’d hit Brett trig). The area wasn’t as steep as I’d expected, being mostly rolling grazing land with fire trails. Lots of gates and now facilities, but stunning views of southern Canberra from the ridgeline. 11.11km and 421m of vertical ascent.

Trail run: Cooleman Ridge

This run includes Cooleman and Arawang trig points. Not a lot of shade, but a pleasant run. 9.86km and 264m of vertical ascent.

CBC Navigation Course

This was the GPS followup to the previous map and compass navigation exercise. A really nice walk, apart from crazy horse lady. The walk also included another visit to Forster trig. I’m not sure if its the time of year or the direction of approach, but this ascent was much nicer than my previous one, we seemed to avoid most of the prickly things. It would be interesting to recce the other side of the hill and see if I just got unlucky last time, or misread the contours.

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 finally the Majura trig, which was a new one for me:

I enjoyed the afternoon. I found a fair few geocaches, and walked for about five hours (not including driving between the locations). I would have spent more time geocaching at Majura, except I made it back to the car after sunset as it was.

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.

Percival trig

I had a pretty bad day, so I knocked off early and went for a walk before going off to the meeting at a charity I help out with. The walk was to Percival trig, which I have to say was one of the more boring trigs I’ve been to. Some of the forest nearly was nice enough, but the trig itself is stranded out in boring grasslands. Meh.

A team walk around Red Hill

My team at work is trying to get a bit more active, so a contingent from the Canberra portion of the team went for a walk around Red Hill. I managed to sneak in a side trip to Davidson trig, but it was cheating because it was from the car park at the top of the hill. A nice walk, with some cool geocaches along the way.

Melrose trig

I went for a short geocaching walk at lunch today. Three geocaches in 45 minutes, so not too shabby. One of those caches was at the Melrose trig point, so bagged that too. There is some confusion here, as John Evans and I thought that Melrose was on private land. However, there is no signage to that effect in the area and the geocache owner asserts this is public land. ACTMAPi says the area is Tuggeranong Rural Block 35, but isn’t clear on if the lease holder exists. Color me confused and possibly an accidental trespasser.