General Information
Grading: mediumDistance: 11 kilometers
Total climb: 399 meters
Time taken: 3 hours 15 minutes
Maps: Michelago 8626-4S 1:25 000
Start point distance by road from Canberra GPO: 65 kilometers
Start point map grid reference: 55H FA 81153 42817
Destination map grid reference: Brandy Flat Hut - 55H FA 82727 45753
End point: 55H FA 81326 48881
Route
Description
We took two cars on this walk. The first we placed at the Glendale Walking Track carpark on Brandy Flat Fire Trail, just before the locked gate (the end point of our walk). The second car we drove down to the South Brandy Flat carpark just before the unsealed section of Boboyan Road begins: if you hit gravel you've gone too far.
From the South Brandy Flat carpark we set out along a short section of walking track which soon connected with the Brandy Flat Fire Trail, which we followed from there. We first descended steeply to the aptly-named Dry Creek and then started a steep climb up the other side.
This was pretty hard going, but as we gained elevation we were treated to some good views back towards Mt Gudgenby, Yankee Hat, Mt Kelly and Rendezvous Creek on the far side of Boboyan Road.
Climbing to just a bit under 1100 metres in elevation the track levelled out for a while before we started a mostly gradual 100 metre descent to Brandy Flat Hut.
From Brandy Flat we could get a good view of Booths Hill, which we decided might be worth climbing another day.
Climbing away from Brandy Flat we passed through some more forest before the terrain opened up again and we could soon get views across to the area around Nursery Hill.
Not long after crossing Reedy Creek we came to the walking track on the right which we followed from there. Some more nice views along the way...
...and we were able to pause in one of these spots for lunch before making it back to the car we left at Glendale.
No comments:
Post a Comment