I went on a walk on Monday with the Canberra Bushwalking Club up Little Black Mountain. Its a nice area and I mostly enjoyed the walk. I say mostly because the walk leader was quite un-welcoming. There was the lecture about emergency beacons, and then the lecture about how he’s never been bitten by a…
Author: mikal
Geocaching in the evening, the second
I went geocaching while the kids were at scouts. Overall, a very successful evening. The first hour was a phone call with Tristan Goode, and what I learnt is I should call Tristan more because every call (based on a data set of one walk) is 5km.
Tuggeranong Stone Wall
Its not every day that your walk is to a 140 year old stone wall that you’ve been driving past for years without even knowing its there. That however was today’s walk, inspired by a walk post by John Evans. I really enjoyed this walk, and it was a good length too. It would have…
Point Hut Crossing to Pine Island
Andrew and I decided to walk from Point Hut Crossing (near our house) to Pine Island yesterday. Its a nice walk, about 4km and mostly flat with a track the whole way. We even found some geocaches along the way. I think this route would be a good one for cubs.
Two trigs and a first attempt at finding Westlake
I have to do HR paperwork for work at the moment, so I was looking for a quiet place to progress such things. I ended up beside Lake Burley Griffin working away on my laptop, which was quite pleasant. While in the area, it seemed like a good idea to have a quick first attempt…
Geocaching in the evening
I went geocaching while the kids were at scouts. Overall, a very successful evening.
Big Monks
I’m going to be honest here and say I got this one pretty wrong. Looking at Google Earth, Big Monks is about 1.7 km from the access road (which I got right), what I failed to notice is that it is super steep and that much of the walk is off the trail. So… A…
Cooleman and Arawang Trigs
Doug and I went out to walk Doug’s dog at short notice yesterday evening, and managed to sneak in two trigs while we were at it. A nice walk, although it took longer than I expected it to, with our average speed only being about 3.5 kilometers an hour. I wonder how much of that…
First jog, and a walk to Los Altos
Today was a busy day, not only did I foolishly go for a jog 5 minutes after sunrise… …but then I went for a walk with James in the afternoon as well. Let’s just say my fitbit is very impressed with me.
A walk in the San Mateo historic red woods
James, Tony and I went for a little post long haul flight walk this afternoon in some red woods. Very nice.