General Information
Distance: 16.5 kilometers
Total climb: unknown
Time taken: 4 hours 30 minutes
Maps: Rendezvous Creek 8626-1S 1:25 000; Corin Dam 8626-1N 1:25 000
Guide: Graeme Barrow, Namadgi & Tidbinbilla Classics: Tough Bushwalks in Canberra's
High Country (2000), pp. 43-45.
Start point distance by road from Canberra GPO: 61 kilometers
Start point map grid reference: 55H FA 77108 55440 [Rendezvous Creek]
Destination: Loop walk
End Point: Same as start
Route
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Description
The starting point for this walk is the Orroral Tracking Station picnic area, at the end of Orroral Road. From here we made our way to Cotter Hut Road which we followed northwest through grassland and then light forest, steadily climbing the western side of the valley.
At map grid reference 55H FA 74188 57820 Cotter Hut Road turns sharply to the southwest and climbs steeply over a ridge and into and into the valley of Sawpit Creek. The road parallels Prairie Dog Creek and Sawpit Creek until it intersects with the Smokers Trail at map grid reference 55H FA 71228 59043. We turned right on to Smokers Trail and continued to the start of the Orroral Valley Walking track at around map grid reference 55H FA 72557 59947. This led us through some very nice swampy terrain along Sawpit Creek.
This made way for more open grassland as we re-entered Orroral Valley.
Continuing down the Valley we duly arrived back at the start point.
I'm a big fan of the Orroral Valley, and although this was a reasonably long walk I enjoyed it very much. There is a bit of climbing until Sawpit Creek, but after that the track is gradually downhill. Settler remains are strewn through the Valley, and although there's generally not much left of them in this northern part I still think they are worth a look.
At map grid reference 55H FA 74188 57820 Cotter Hut Road turns sharply to the southwest and climbs steeply over a ridge and into and into the valley of Sawpit Creek. The road parallels Prairie Dog Creek and Sawpit Creek until it intersects with the Smokers Trail at map grid reference 55H FA 71228 59043. We turned right on to Smokers Trail and continued to the start of the Orroral Valley Walking track at around map grid reference 55H FA 72557 59947. This led us through some very nice swampy terrain along Sawpit Creek.
This made way for more open grassland as we re-entered Orroral Valley.
Continuing down the Valley we duly arrived back at the start point.
I'm a big fan of the Orroral Valley, and although this was a reasonably long walk I enjoyed it very much. There is a bit of climbing until Sawpit Creek, but after that the track is gradually downhill. Settler remains are strewn through the Valley, and although there's generally not much left of them in this northern part I still think they are worth a look.
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