Fifteen risk taking hikers walked carefully along the often difficult eight kilometres from the edge of the Killawarra Forest to Peechelba, mainly along the rarely visited and narrow Irishtown Creek “corridor”.
This was a new walk, and a journey which connected two parts of the Warby Ovens National Park (Killawarra, which was part of the Warby-Ovens State Park before 2010, and the Ovens River) for possibly the first time ever!!
We managed to amble mostly beside the creek where no track existed and experienced an “interesting” hazard of exceptionally long, wet grass hiding old fencing wire and small logs/red gum branches!!
After touching the flooded Ovens in Peechelba, we drove back into the Killawarra Camp and gathered around a campfire for lunch, and a celebration to mark the Spring Equinox!
[Andy]
Coming Events
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th October
Weekend at Typo Station, Upper King Valley
Geoff, 0418 530 242 or bushydinning@gmail.com
A weekend at Typo Station, Rose River, with easy, medium and a hard walk (approx 15k).
Walks include an approx 10k walk to Mount Cobbler for some of the best alpine views in Victoria.
Typo Station provides self catering bunkhouse accommodation in expansive park like grounds.
Accommodation cost is determined by the number attending. For example; 20 participants, approx $85 pp for the weekend, including a shared dinner on Saturday night.
Contact Geoff at bushydinning@gmail.com for further details of what’s on, and what to bring.
See also the blog on our website for the Typo Station PDF, or visit their website – acre.org.au
Thursday, 13th October. Sunrise Track Plus! Andy, 0439 209 749
We will walk the easy to medium six kilometres of the popular Sunrise Track in the Warbys, but also make a special visit to the abandoned, pioneering Bush Corner Reserve of Miss Doreen Nason, off the old road to the quarry, where granite for the Wangaratta Cathedral was mined.