Julian Yates kindly ran a bushwalking course for Scouts Australia over the last five days, which covered walking in Uncontrolled Terrain (the definition in the Australian VET scheme for the most difficult bushwalking — significant off track navigation in areas where emergency response will be hard to get). I helped with some of the instruction, but was also there working on my own bushwalking qualifications.
The walk was to Mount Bimberi, which is the highest point in the ACT. We started with a short night walk into Oldfield’s Hut on Friday night after a day of classroom work. The advantage of this was that we started Saturday at Oldfield’s Hut, which offered morning views which did not suck.
On Saturday morning we walked up to Mount Bimberi via Murray’s Gap. This involved following the ACT / NSW border up the hillside, which was reasonably well marked with tape and cairns.
Our route on the way to Bimberi:
And the way back:
On Sunday we walked back out to the cars and did the three hour drive back to Canberra. I’ll include the walk out here for completeness: