Mt Namadgi views – Cotter Hut, Namadgi Spur, Mavis Ridge
Mt Namadgi views – Mavis Ridge, Lanyon Valley houses, the Tinderries on the horizon
Mt Namadgi views – Gudgenby grasslands, Yankee Hats, Mts Burbidge and Gudgenby, The Fortress, SH1733
Mt Namadgi views – Mt Kelly and the Kelly Spur
Mt Namadgi views – Kelly Spur, Mt Murray, Murrays Gap, Bimberi Peak, Cotter Hut
Saturday 8 November: Mt Namadgi Birthday Drinks – L/R. In conjunction with the CBC Worn Boot Bash. This old codger wants company to day walk (for the last time?) to Mt Namadgi. A very long and hard trip for quick and competent walkers. Very early start. Around 30km and 800m climb, 13 hours walking. Maps: Rendezvous Creek and Yaouk. Leader: John Evans 0417 436 877 john@johnevans.id.au. Limit: 4. Transport: $12 per person. Emergency contact details must be registered/provided to book. Book by 2pm the prior Thursday.
3 of us drove out to the Yankee Hat car park on Friday night. 2 more arrived on Saturday morning.
Further Information
In conjunction with the Worn Boot Bash:
Saturday 8 November: Day trips in the Namadgi #8 – Worn boot bash #11 – L/R. Mt Namadgi via Middle Creek from the Old Boboyan road car park. A demanding day hopefully logging ~30 km and one or two peaks. Map: Rendezvous Creek. Leaders: Jenny and Rob H. Transport: ~$40 per car.
Summary
Distance: 28.4km | Climb: 800m | Time: 5.40am-6.45pm (13hrs 5mins), with 50 mins of breaks | Grading: L/R,ptX; VH(15)
Track Maps
Track overview
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Photographs
Photographs are available, where you can start a large sized slide show.
Video
Google Earth
Download the Google Earth .kmz file here.
Track Notes
3 of us drove out Friday evening, leaving town at 7.30pm. I nudged a roo on the way out, but no damage to either of us. Rob and Jen set up their tent, I spread out a comfy mattress in the back of the car. A cuppa in the quiet evening (except for a distant lone Mopoke) under the blazing full moon, stars, satellites and planes. A wonderful experience.
Up at 4.30am and ready when the other 2 arrived. Unfortunately a more damaging clash with a roo.
Away just after 5.30am, walking into another glorious view (which I was able to capture) – the moon setting over Mt Burbidge and the sunlight just touching the peaks. Mist rose from Bogong Creek and and the grasslands were wet with dew. Packs of dogs howled in the distant south, to be answered by others in the north. That’s about as lyrical as I got; the rest of the day was a very hard slog for me. And it’s all about reaching the destination.
My 7th trip up this hill, the others being 10 Nov 12, 6 Nov 10, 7 Nov 09, 7 Nov 08, 10 Nov 07 and 30 Sep-2 Oct 06, so I ought to have the route correct. And it certainly was the best yet, although still not easy on a day with 30°C in Canberra. We kept the water up to our bodies all day and the champers was a mere nod.
The trip runs in several legs:
Yankee Hat car park – cross Middle Creek: 4.1km 50mins
Middle Creek – cross side creek 1: 1.5km 33min
side creek 1- cross side creek 2: 1.2km in 30mins
side creek 2 – cross side creek 3: 0.9km 20mins
side creek 3 – cross side creek 4 (Kaz’s crossing): 0.5km in 11mins
side creek 4 – saddle at top of Big Creamy Flats: 3.5km in 2hrs 30mins (incl 10mins morning tea)
saddle – leave Big Creamy Flats: 0.7km in 18mins
Big Creamy Flats – Mt Namadgi: 1.8km in 1hr 20mins.
Coming home we did:
Mt Namadgi – Big Creamy Flats: 1.8km 1hr
walk up Big Creamy Flats: 0.6km 10mins
saddle – cross side creek 4: 3.5km in 2hrs 15mins
side creek 4 – cross side creek 3: 0.5km in 20mins (incl 10mins arvo tea)
side creek 3 – cross side creek 2: 0.9km in 20mins
side creek 2 – cross side creek 1: 1.1km 31mins
side creek 1 – Middle Creek: 1.6km 40mins
Middle Creek – Yankee Hat car park: 4.1km 50mins.
I was generally a bit higher on the homeward leg and that seemed a fraction better in the lower half of the return. Although we were no faster coming back as I was pretty wacked. The scrub on the leg up from Big Creamy Flats to the more open Namadgi ridge is worse than I remember.
The views of course are wonderful! Logged GC182MT Namadgi in Namadgi – it was Ian’s first find!
I wonder if I’ll ever return?
Party
5 walkers for the combined two trips – Jill B, Jenny H (leader), Rob H (leader), Ian W, me (leader).
Meis
21 October , 2015 11:31 amI walked up to the top of Mt Namadgi in June 2015. The last time I had walked through this area was before the bush fires for a Duke of Edinburgh Awards bush walk. After 12 years of regeneration and recovery after the fires it seemed to be very much the same as it was before – bush bashing through dense scrub. This time I made an insightful discovery. Most people seem to walk along Middle Creek on the northern side of the creek (this is the southern side of the range). Hence, the bush is a lot denser and many more fallen logs. The southern side of the creek (aka the sunny northern slope of the range) does not have as dense bush as the other side of the creek. My recommendation is when starting from the Gudgenby grasslands (Boboyan Rd car park) cross the creek at the Big rock art site, where the old track ends. Head up the hill to the north 50 metres from the rock art site and then turn left, following the creek on your left hand side. The bush is not as dense further away from the creek. Stay on the northern side of the creek for only a little while (hour or so). When you reach the first clearing at around 1150 contour line (where John had afternoon tea on his Track 3 map image), cross the creek/clearing. Stay on the southern side of the creek until Big Creamy flats. make sure not to walk up the wrong creek to Rotten Swamp before the 1200 metre contour line. There were no fallen logs on this side of the creek and plenty of wombat tracks to follow adjacent to the creek.
Johnny Boy
21 October , 2015 11:36 amMany thanks for the tip
Guy Morrison
12 May , 2016 9:56 amI devised a bushwalk to Mt Namadgi (then Mt Boyle) in the mid 1970s: It departed from the Orroral Road at approx. 35 38’ and from there climbed through the ridges and gullies between Mt Orroral and Nursery Swamp (which was then rumoured to be a no-go snakepit). The route climbed through a pass below Mt Orroral and then down to Rendezvous Ck. A kilometre down the creek was a rather salubrious campsite where we spent the first and possibly second night. The next stage was to climb directly up the ridge face on the western side of Rendezvous (which we did – could have been worse and was pre-regrowth) to the peak directly NE from Mt Namadgi (and NW of point 1622). From here we would have descended to the col between Middle and Creamy Flats Creeks and ascended Mt Namadgi. There was heavy low cloud that day, so instead we proceeded down Creamy Flats Creek. I can’t remember exactly where we went from there: Either we joined a firetrail at about Little Creamy Flats which took us to the Cotter Hut Road or we found a route down to Cotter Flats and followed the road back to Orroral from there (where the walk finished). This was a great walk – I remember especially because we could get the pace happening on the trails in the nice bush on the last two days after the more difficult of track bush-bashing of the first 2 days. Also, going down Creamy Flats was fascinating.