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Two trigs and a first attempt at finding Westlake

Post author:mikal
Post published:February 6, 2015
Post category:Diary

I have to do HR paperwork for work at the moment, so I was looking for a quiet place to progress such things. I ended up beside Lake Burley Griffin working away on my laptop, which was quite pleasant. While in the area, it seemed like a good idea to have a quick first attempt at finding Westlake, which is the ruins of an abandoned builders camp from when Canberra was being constructed. I found some evidence, but I think I need to go further west in a subsequent wander. [kml: 20150205-1] There was a planned walk to Davidson trig by the Facebook trig sweating group this evening, so I went along to that. Beforehand I was killing time in Yarralumla and bumped into the cub leader for my kids' troop. She's interested in trig walks suitable for cubs, so I am going to have to keep an eye out for some. Davidson was a nice on-track walk, probably suitable for cubs. [kml: 20150205-2] Davidson finished about an hour earlier than expected, so I dropped in to walk to Mike on the way home in an entirely unplanned…

Big Monks

Post author:mikal
Post published:February 3, 2015
Post category:Diary

I'm going to be honest here and say I got this one pretty wrong. Looking at Google Earth, Big Monks is about 1.7 km from the access road (which I got right), what I failed to notice is that it is super steep and that much of the walk is off the trail. So... A walk I thought would take 30 or 45 minutes took 2 hours. I didn't die though, so that's good. Fantastic views at the top, and found a couple of geocaches. There is obviously a lot of walking potential in Rob Roy Nature Park. [kml: 20150202]

Cooleman and Arawang Trigs

Post author:mikal
Post published:February 1, 2015
Post category:Diary

Doug and I went out to walk Doug's dog at short notice yesterday evening, and managed to sneak in two trigs while we were at it. A nice walk, although it took longer than I expected it to, with our average speed only being about 3.5 kilometers an hour. I wonder how much of that was the two peaks to climb, versus the puppy in tow. Along the way we found this super cool telegraph line, which appears to still have an active Telstra service on it. I wonder if we'll one day see fiber strung on these telegraph poles? [kml: 20150131]

Harcourt and Rogers Trigs

Post author:mikal
Post published:January 23, 2015
Post category:Diary

I needed to visit someone in deepest darkest North Canberra yesterday, and there was an hour to kill between that meeting and the local Linux User's Group meeting. It seemed silly to have driven all that way and to not see a couple of trigs, so I visited these two. Both these trigs were easy to get to and urban. Frankly a little boring. Harcourt trig is in what I will call a cow paddock -- it doesn't have a lot of trees happening and feels a bit like left over land. Access to the nature reserve wasn't very obvious to me from the suburban streets, but the KML file below might help others to work it out. It wasn't too bad once I'd navigated the maze of streets and weird paved areas. [kml: 20150122-1] Rogers was similar, except access was more obvious because it is in an older suburb. This is a nicer reserve than Harcourt's, with a nice peak and some walking opportunities around the base of the hill. I think I'll probably end up coming back to this one as my wife is nostalgic about growing up backing on to…

Taylor Trig

Post author:mikal
Post published:January 19, 2015
Post category:Diary

At the top of Mount Taylor lies the first trig point defeated by a group walk I've been on. Steve * 3, Erin, Michael *2, Andrew, Cadell, Maddie, Mel, Neill and Jenny all made it to the top of this one, so I'm super proud of us as a group. A nice walk and Mount Taylor clearly has potential for other walks as well, so I am sure I'll return here again. [kml: 20150118]

Wanniassa Trig

Post author:mikal
Post published:January 5, 2015
Post category:Diary

I walked up to Wanniassa Trig this afternoon. It was a nice walk, the nature park is in the middle of suburban Canberra, but you couldn't tell that from within much of the park. The nature park also has excellently marked fire trails. There were really cool thunderstorms on the ranges as I walked, whilst I managed to avoid getting rained on while walking. [kml: 20150104-2]

Urambi Trig

Post author:mikal
Post published:January 1, 2015
Post category:Diary

Another day, another trig. This time with Doug, who got to play with his new radio at the top of the hill. [kml: 20141231]

A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig

Post author:mikal
Post published:December 31, 2014
Post category:Diary

This one was a super quick walk on the way to the hardware store. As well as the trig point, there was a defunct radio repeater at the top of the hill -- I believe this one was for the old analog Police radio network. [kml: 20141230]

A walk around Mount Stranger

Post author:mikal
Post published:December 29, 2014
Post category:Diary

This is a walk around another hill a short drive from my house. The track was less well defined this time, so more bush bashing. There were these star pickets with white caps along the way which marked a join between two fire trails -- I think they indicate where fire trucks should go if they need to, but I am guessing. Bagged another trig point this walk as well. See more thumbnails [kml: 20141228]

Walk up Tuggeranong Hill

Post author:mikal
Post published:December 28, 2014
Post category:Diary

I've had a hankering to do a bush walk for an while, and so I spent some time yesterday walking up Tuggeranong Hill. This was a really nice walk -- the access road for the ACTEW substation provides parking with shade from trees, and its very very close to my house. The entrance to the fire access road for the broadcast repeater at the top the hill isn't well marked, so I ended up going the long way. I think this made the walk more fun to be honest. [kml: 20141226]