General Information
Grading : easy
Distance: 9.33 kilometers
Total climb: 460 meters
Time taken: 2 hours 15 minutes
Map: Tidbinbilla 8627-2S, 1:25 000
Start point distance by road from Canberra GPO: 47 kilometers
Start point map grid reference: 55H FA 73043 74179
Destination map grid reference: 55H FA 71866 75588
End point: same as start
Route
Description
I began this walk at the Koala Enclosure car park just off Tidbinbilla Reserve Road. I walked back along the road until I saw a track off to the left and followed that in a generally northeast direction through a mix of management facilities for the Reserve and some very nice bushland.
This turned out to be the Man on Horse Trail, which I followed until I turned left at the Spur 1 Trail. This trail is relatively steep in some places, but gave some views of the Tidbinbilla Range as I climbed.
Eventually I reached the Camelback Trail, and briefly considered bush bashing my way through to Red Hill, off to the southeast from there. I decided against it due to the fact that I was on my own (never a good idea while bush bashing in unfamiliar terrain where nobody knew I might be going) and thickening scrub.
So instead I walked back down the Spur 1 Trail and the Man on Horse Trail until I reached Tango's Track on the right (this is signposted - photographed below on the way up).
I followed Tango's Track back to Mountain Creek Road, and from there back to the start point.
