Saturday 26th Jan 2008 - Ararat Reserve to Acron Oval

Two sections were done this week from Cp1 at Ararat Reserve, Frenchs Forest via Cp2 Davidson Reserve, Killarney Heights to Cp3 at Acron Oval, St Ives. A fairly easy one this week unless you had a 13kg pack on your back to lug up hills and under fallen trees. Overall though the pace was pretty good with only real challenge coming at the end with steep fire trails into Acron Oval.

Cp1 to Cp2 map here.
Cp2 to Cp3 map here.

The Coffee Boat

THE STATS

Cp1 - Cp2

Start Time: 6:50am

Duration: 1:24:55

Stopped: 00:23:05

Finish Time: 8:38am

Distance: 6.6 km

Average Pace: 12.52 min/km

Average Speed: 4.7 km/h

Cp2 - Cp3
Start Time: 8:50am
Duration: 2:10:23
Stopped: 00:15:37
Finish Time: 11:16am
Distance: 10.29 km
Average Pace: 12.4 min/km
Average Speed: 4.7 km/h

For Google Earth files of this week's walk, click here.
To see a full sized image, click here.

Saturday 19th Jan 2008 - Start to Ararat Reserve

A NEW START

Rather than send out emails to everyone whether they want one or not, I thought I'd trial starting up a blog to let you know the details of walks we've done and possibly also to post info on upcoming walks. If you prefer the old email method or have suggestions for this blog, let me know.

Anyhow, onto this weekend's effort.

Todays walk was a bit of a gentle opening for 2008 from the start line at Chowder Bay to Ararat Reserve in Frenchs Forest since we'd missed a few weeks over the Christmas period.
This leg comprised lots of footpaths and paved tracks with a couple of decent climbs sometimes in light rain. The link below is a pdf of the map and trail directions.
http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/sydney/trail/docs/Start-CP1.pdf

Bantry Bay

THE STATS

Start Time: 7:13am
Duration: 2:32:32
Stopped: 00:11:28
Finish Time: 9:57am
Distance: 12.41 km
Average Pace: 11:34 min/km
Average Speed: 5.2 km/h

For a Google Earth file of this leg, click here.

To see a full sized image, click here.