A day in the bush with Bailey

Posted on September 7, 2016 by marilyn

thumbnailMogo Campground > Mogo Creek & return – September 2016
It doesn’t often happen but my grandson, Bailey, and I had a Sunday when neither of us had plans so we decided on a bushwalk and I put the word out to my blog friends.  Roy (who’d been keen to go on a walk with me for a while) and old friends Peter C and Kathy D, joined us.  As it was Roy’s first off track trip with me, I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t going to burn him for future walks, so, I decided to return to Mogo Creek! Continue reading →

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Return to Sugee Bag Creek – a T & M Adventure

Posted on August 22, 2016 by marilyn

P1060373About a year ago, Trish and I walked in to the headwaters of Sugee Bag Creek looking for a grassy meadow campsite that we could return to when we were old and grey.  We found some flat ground but nothing to write home about, would do in a pinch but surely there’d be something better!  Trish and I had set aside this weekend for a walk but couldn’t quite make up our minds where to go, so settled on returning to Sugee Bag to see if there was anything better downstream, Steve R joined us. Continue reading →

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A night at “Everest Base Camp” with an Aldi Tent

Posted on August 15, 2016 by marilyn

P1060215Well, maybe not Everest Base Camp but it felt that way with the winds during the night and I wasn’t sure the Aldi tent would survive.  But more about that later!  This was a David S Adventure and he’d invited me along and I’d invited Gl M.  We were going to try snow-shoeing with him at Perisher Valley and camp out in the snow.  None of us had snow-shoed in the past, but how hard could it be?  Sounded like a great adventure, right? Continue reading →

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In Search of The Folly #3

Posted on July 23, 2016 by marilyn

IMG_4707SOUTHERN WOLLEMI – 23 July 2016
After two failed attempts, the repeat offenders agreed to come out with me yet again to find this unpublished canyon.  Jeff, Trish N and I met up with Beth L, Andre M, Rod S and Heather R at the meeting spot.  None of us wanted to get out of our warm cars, it wasn’t looking at all attractive, bitingly cold gale force winds.  We shouldn’t have been surprised though, the wind was forecast and it was after all July! Continue reading →

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Honing my navigation skills

Posted on July 18, 2016 by marilyn

MOGO CREEK – 16 & 17 JULY 2016
Mogo Creek Campground > Unnamed spurs > Mogo Creek > Unnamed Ridges > Boree Track > Little Boree Creek > Unnamed Ridges > Mogo Creek > Mogo Creek Campground
When I didn’t get any novices on what was to be an easy overnight walk, I decided to ramp it up a bit and make it a little more challenging,  plus, I’d be doing the navigation this weekend (I don’t like navigating with novices on a trip, they get cranky when you have to backtrack).   The Plan was to check out a couple of places that I’ve not been to before. Continue reading →

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