View East from the shale knoll
Sunday 29 September 2024: Snowy Corner Cairn and the Shale Knoll ! – M/E-M. A slow hike up to the Snowy Corner cairn on the Tidbinbilla Range, a bit north, then south to the Shale Knoll.
Summary
From Garmin Connect (recorded on Epix Gen 2) – Distance: 7.58km | Climb: 620vm | Time: 2:08 moving + 2:16 of stops = 4:24 | Grading: M/E-M; M(10).
Photographs
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gpx file
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Track Maps
Here’s where I went.
Track Snowy Corner and the Shale Knoll
Track S and E from Snowy Corner cairn
Trip Report
With a spare day I decided to reward myself with another solo walk. I was last here on 1 Apr 23.
Walking at 9.25am. Always lovely crossing the bridges over Mountain Creek and feeders.
View downstream from Mountain Creek trails bridge 5
I am truly old and sick and slow. The slowest trip I’ve ever done from Mountain Creek car park to the Snowy Corner cairn on the crest of the Tidbinbilla Range. 1hr 45mins for the 2.7km climb of 530vm. Lost count of the number of exhaustion stops.
Snowy Corner cairn
Options, so I first headed north a bit.
Heading N along the crest
Turned around at the first open space, as I’ll be through here to the Pimple next month.
Turn around at the open area
Back through Snowy Corner I headed south.
Heading S from Snowy Corner cairn
The developing footpad a little harder to follow at first, as the ground is rocky. I decided to waypoint the tapes. Could be useful if one ends up up here in the snow or cloud.
A cairn feature looked too much like a rock stack to me, so I modified it. Apologies if it has real meaning.
Before and after
A nice descent from SH1431.
Heading down S from SH1431
There’s a dip with views.
View to TNR and Canberra from the dip before the shale knoll
Then a climb up the shale knoll to views to the next higher knoll.
Higher knoll S of the shale knoll
Breezy views to Ginini Falls.
Ginini Falls from the shale knoll
And, of course, the mighty view east.
View East from the shale knoll
12 noon, so time to head for home.
A brief munch at the Snowy Corner cairn. I don’t often stop (except to breathe) when walking solo.
I do enjoy this country!
Party
Just moi.
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Additional Trip Reports
As I age, I’m doing a few more simple hikes. I don’t always produce a full trip report. If you’re interested, you can find details of them on the Completed Walks tab. There you can access the trip’s map segment, download a gpx file, see the distance, climb and grading, and link through to the photo album. Additional metrics are available by looking at the start waypoint on the map segment – moving time, stopped time, total time.