28 July 2012 Nursery Swamp & Nursery Hill

Nursery Hill cairn with Mt Gudgenby over the top

Map: Rendezvous Creek 1:25000

Getting There

This walk was organised and led by Phillip S as a CBC walk:

Saturday 28 July - Nursery Swamp & Nursery Hill - M/R. We will leave from the Nursery Swamp car park just off Orroral Road and follow the Nursery Swamp walking trail. From the end of the trail we walk off-track to Nursery Hill where will have lunch. We will then return, off-track, roughly parallel to the walking track we came in on. We will turn back to meet the walking track at about its half-way point. From there we follow the track back to our vehicles. This walk is almost half on track while the rest will be off-track. If the going is too difficult or we are pressed for time we can return to the walking track earlier. Distance around 15 km with climbs totalling about 450 m. Map: Rendezvous Creek, Leader: Phillip S. Transport: ~ $11.

12 of us drove in 3 cars to Nursery Swamp car park.

Photographs

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Walk

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Canberra fog cleared on the road out and the day sported blue sky with a couple of puffs of cloud.

A pleasant trip in up the Nursery Swamp Walking Track and down the side of Nursery Swamp to morning tea. 5.2km in 1hr 25mins.

On the trip up to Nursery Hill, the temptation was too great not to cut the corner and after forcing through a bit of regrowth we found ourselves on the crest of the spur, mixing it with some large granite tors. We had to get round them to the N. The climb then slackened and the more gentle top to Nursery Hill had more open vegetation.

Lunch at the top with nice views to the W.

A perfect line going home, Phillip taking a route a little more to the Rendezvous Creek side. Around 100m S of the morning's large tors. The vegetation was a lot lighter. Crossed the W-E creek beside a large tree spanning the creek and another pleasant leg down the N side of the creek.

Back up the side of the Swamp and down the track.

Thanks Phillip and all.

Distance: 18.0km Climb: 550m. Time: 8.55am - 4.15pm (7hrs 20mins), with 50mins of stops.
Grading: L/R; H(12)

KMZ file for Google Earth/Maps: Nursery Swamp and Nursery Hill

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