Saturday 7 March 2026: RAMSAR Wetlands and Upper Ginini Falls, Mt Franklin and the westernmost point of the ACT * – M/R. Drive to the Mt Ginini car park above the RAMSAR listed wetlands. Visit Upper Ginini Falls (for a geocache). Walk the edge of Ginini Flats, Morass Flats and Cheyenne Flats. On regaining the Mt Franklin Road, visit the Duntroon ski lodge site and Mt Ginini. Drive back along the Mt Franklin Road to the Mt Franklin car park. Skip up to Franklin trig and down to the Austin A40. Back at the car park, off-track to visit the westernmost point of the ACT. It’s been some time since I was in this area so expect the unexpected. Around 14km and 550vm. Your footwear and gaiters must be spotless and we’ll use a bleach bath. Limit 8. A long drive of 1hr 30mins each way, 130km round trip. CBC members book on the trip.
Saturday 14 March 2026: The Bobeyan Divide * – L/M. The Bobeyan (Boboyan) Divide forms the southern border of the ACT. We’ll walk in via the Settlers Track to Waterhole Hut, then SW to the Divide to discover border markers and blaze trees. See where the Mouat Tree at the Namadgi Visitors Centre came from. We’ll return SE along the Divide, passing a marvellous NSW portion survey reference tree. Home via Westermans graves and homestead and the Settlers Track. Around 20km and 500vm spread throughout the day. Relatively easy walking on the Settlers Track, open valley floor and fire trails. A relaxed pace. Book on the hike.
Tuesday 17 March 2026: Fishing Gap and Mt Domain * – M/M. Fishing Gap was so named because old timers used to head over and down to the Cotter River to fish. Marmaduke Rothschild has a 10 metre fishing pole, but not for fishing fish. Join us if you dare to go ‘fishing’ for several geocaches on Fishing Gap Road in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. You’ll need to be patient as there will be long ‘fishing’ stops. We’ll go on the climb to Mt Domain for luncheon views. Around 13km and 750vm.
Looking for caches GCB18K6 Tidbinbilla – Wandarawari Track, GCBGX7A A Gap on Fishing Gap FT – 5, GCBGX74 A Gap on Fishing Gap FT – 4, GCBGX70 A Gap on Fishing Gap FT – 3, Final GZ of GCBGX70 A Gap on Fishing Gap FT – 2, GCBGV02 A Gap on Fishing Gap FT – 1, GCBF1T6 Highest Mint Tin in Tidbinbilla, GCBF1T4 Fishing on the rocks, GCBF0PY Celebrating Mindjagari’s Views.
CBC members, guests and muggles (non cachers) are very welcome to book on the walk.
Wednesday evening 18 March 2026: Presentation A hidden world – the bogs and fens of the ACT.
Sunday 5 April 2026: Hill above Snake Rock, East of Gibraltar Creek. Guest of David D, BBC trip.
Wednesday 29 April 2026: Tree hugging and Sullivans Creek canyon at Goorooyarroo NR * – M/M. 2nd E-M Wednesday Walk. Gooroo NR like you may not have seen it before. From Wildbark, we’ll head south then up onto Sammy’s Hill from the SW. Descending to the SE, we’ll drop into Sullivans Creek and follow it down through the canyon for around 1.5km. Our next objective is Burnt Stump Hill for some tree hugging. The next leg is the usual route to the north over some of the eastern hills – Gecko Hills and Old Joe Hill. We re-enter the protected area through the Buru (Kangaroo) gate and head to a pleasant knoll to the N of Sammy’s Hill. From there, it’s SW to join the Earth to Sky Track and back to Wildbark. Around 12km and 450vm, BBC grade 9, NPAACT grade 2B, CBC grade M/M. We’ll try for gates, but there may be a couple of fences to cross. Gaiters essential.
Tuesday evening 19 May 2026: CBC Navigation Course session 5 – GPS *.
Saturday 23 May 2026: CBC Navigation Course session 6 – GPS practical navigation exercise *.
Wednesday 24 June 2026: E-M Wednesday Walk *.
Coming up:
- Tidbinbilla NR – Minjargari Track geocaching
- Jerrabomberra Grasslands NR – a once in a lifetime experience + bag Mike trig
- Kosciuszko NP – Mt Townsend
- Namadgi NP – Northern Hospital Hill scree
- Tidbinbilla NR – Gibraltar and Billy Billy Creeks
- Namadgi NP – Glendale drystone walls
- Deua NP – Big Hole and Marble Arch
- Stoney Creek NR – Below Mt McDonald to Uriarra Crossing West
- KNP/NNP – Bimberi Peak
- KNP – lunch spot on Perisher Valley to Bullocks Flat (wait till SM back from NZ)
- (South) Kama NR (now part of Murrumbidgee River Corridor) – see the elephant foot tree
- MRC – Molonglo River granite
- a combined CBC/NPA hike
- NM NR – Nadjung Mada NR exploration for BYJC
- ‘Mt Evans’ – NNP
- Molonglo Ridge from Mt Molonglo to Yarrow Pic – Woolcarra private property (wait till SM back from NZ).
