Enjoying the Sherwood daffodils
Sunday 31 August 2025: Sherwood Daffodils * – M/E. A popular trip to a great location. An overflow trip from Phillip’s walk yesterday. Around 10km and 350vm. You can read background information here.
Summary
From Garmin Connect (recorded on Epix Gen 2) – Distance: 9.17km | Climb: 370vm | Time: 2:21 moving + 1:01 of stops = 3:22 | Grading: M/E; E(7).
Photographs
View photographs here. Some more from our look-see last Monday here.
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Track Map
Here’s where we went:
Track Sherwood daffodils
Trip Report
Last year was on 4 Sep24.
Walking at 8.35am from the car park just off Mountain Creek Road. A fire trail slog up around the NW flank of our first objective, then a pleasant off-track U-turn and climb to join the fire trail heading up to Mt Dowling from the SW. A lot of patched of burnt eucalypts, looking like a controlled burn was a bit hot.
Walkers at Dowling trig
More open views by backing out 20m.
View S to Uriarra Village, Mt McDonald and Mt Tennent
Fire trails SW and W-ish.
View S to the Tidbinbilla Range
Next, a gentle descent to Uriarra Weir.
Uriarra weir
There are 18 weirs dotted about the eastern fall of the Brindabellas and you can read about them here.
A damp foot or two as we got across the creek.
Crossing Uriarra Creek
We had the Sherwood Homestead site and daffy-dills to ourselves. This is all that remain of the homestead.
All that remains of Sherwood Homestead
A lovely spot for morning tea/brunch.
Enjoying the Sherwood daffodils
We then walked over to Ropers Hill and the Phillips grave. Alas, no oak tree stump (tree burnt 2003) or replacement planting, just Cassinia.
Plaque at the Phillips grave site
To make a bit of a round of the trip, we exited west up the side of Sherwood Forest.
Walking the edge of Sherwood Forest
We ran into Henry and his BBC trip.
We handrailed the fence line on the north of the forest, as it runs east from Two Sticks Hill. A small cross and stones (pet burial?) marked our turn to the south, back to very near our inward track.
Just to prove that you can always teach an old dog new tricks, we paralleled our entry fire trail down a lovely, grassed creek line that I’ve never walked before.
Delightful return creek line
Very, very pleasant!
Delightful return creek line
We popped out at the rubble heap, very near our vehicles.
Trust everyone enjoyed the morning. A few hadn’t been there before.
The AllTrails map is here, where you can pan and zoom.
Party
13 walkers – Angela C, Danielle D, Hannah D, Cate E, Sharon E, Tam G, Sarren G, Shannon H, Mon H, Tarn L, Nathan L, Jenny S, me.