Wednesday 22 July 2026: Smiling Rock via Hospital Hill N spur recce * – M/R,X. EOI for a recce. An attempt to revisit Smiling Rock via a scree/vegetation route up the N spur of Hospital Hill. Return via a 200vm descent down scree that frightens the daylights out of me. Around 8km and 450vm climb. Best suited to strong off-track walkers. If I survive I’ll put it on again. Express interest in the recce.
Sunday arvo 26 July 2026: Urambi Hills – Trigs and Nature Reserves #15 * – S/M. A Sunday afternoon circumnavigation of Urambi Hills, bagging TG26 trig and walking in the UHNR. Climb the new-ish track from the south-east, descend from the second bump to the NW and return via the SW flank and the Tuggeranong drystone wall. Around 7km and 210vm climb. Book on the hike.
Wednesday 29 July 2026: Easy-Medium Wednesday Walk #2 – All over Tuggeranong Hill * – M/M. I was gazumped by last week’s walk in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor (joke – no one ‘owns’ a walk). So let’s have a scout around Tuggeranong Hill. We can hike the area a few times, each different walk being optional. You can leave at any time you’ve had enough.
Walk 1: From our meeting point in Callister Cres Theodore, we’ll top the two knolls in the north-east part of the Nature Reserve. Great suburban and mountain range views further afield. We’ll continue on to visit the Theodore axe grinding grooves and return via the suburban edge management trail. Around 5km and 240vm climb.
Walk 2: From out meet point, we’ll walk NW on the edge management trail, then turn off-track up a lovely open woodland spur. At a shallow saddle, we join a footpad steeply up to Tuggeranong Hill trig. Our return is initially down the main Tuggers Hill FT, then off-track steeply down through woodland to join the southern suburban edge FT and so back to our vehicles. Around 4km and 210vm climb.
Walk 3: From our meet point, walk up the main Tuggers Hill FT to the trig again. Descend to the NW via a footpad, then across the N flank of the hill again on FT. A short off-track leg, then back to our cars via management trail. Around 4.5km and 220vm.
“I’ll have that with the lot” – around 13.5km and 670vm climb. Graded M/M CBC, M(10) BBC, 2A/B NPA. See walk description.
Saturday 1 August 2026: Ginninderry Conservation Corridor including Jahli’s Lookout; Shepherds Lookout * – L/E. Walk the well-formed Grade 3 tracks in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor, including the newer NW extension which includes Jahli’s Lookout over the mighty Murrumbidgee River. The brochure notes ‘many steep steps’ in this area. There are two swing bridges. Stunning views! Around 10km and 330vm climb. You can finish here if you like, as we will be back near the start.
The second part of the hike is a loop to Shepherds Lookout with another view over the ‘bidgee. This easy hike traverses a number of different vegetation zones (including the Callitris Forest) on the way back and visits a number of lookouts (such as the Scribbly Gum lookout and Gruner’s Vista). This second part is around 7km and 190vm climb.
Doing both parts is around 17km and 520vm climb. Book on the hike.
2-14 August 2026: Hospital – no walking.
?? Saturday 15 August 2026: Devil’s Peak from Genges Road. See activity details.
Saturday 22 August 2026: ‘Mt Evans’ and North Bushfold Flats * – L/M,ptX. Last century Outward Bound named a knoll north of Mt Tennent ‘Mt Evans’, so I’ve been told. Wanna visit this magnificent 1008m scrubby knoll? From the Namadgi Visitors Centre, take the AAWT to the northern end of Bushfold Flats. Visit several European settler sites including Duncan McKeahnie’s 1884 Hut site, Dunns’ 1910 hut site and Russell and Muriel Read’s 1957 Hut site. Then off-track to ‘Mt Evans’. Return via the spur that runs north from Mt Tennent and down the usual track. Around 17km and 780vm. Book on the trip.
Wednesday 28 October 2026: E-M Wednesday Walk #2 *.
