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Adelaide Bushwalkers is a hiking club enjoying multi-day hikes carrying packs & camping, day walks, kayaking, cycling and other activities, near Adelaide, South Australia & interstate.
Upcoming Hikes & Activities
A selection of our upcoming Activity Program is below.
| Date/s | Activity Type | Name / Location | Grading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 5th - Sun 6th Jul | Multi-day Walk | Deep Creek National Park | M M M Q |
| Sun 6th Jul | Training Walk | Orienteering Belair National Park | S E E |
| Fri 18th - Mon 21st Jul | Multi-day Walk | SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES | M H M Q |
| Sat 19th - Sun 20th Jul | Multi-day Walk | Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks) | M E M |
| Sat 26th - Sun 27th Jul | Multi-day Walk | Mambray Creek Mt Remarkable National Park | M E E Q |
| Sat 26th Jul - Sat 2nd Aug | Multi-day Walk | ABW Snow Week - Jindabyne | S M H |
| Sun 3rd Aug | Training Walk | Morialta | M E E |
| Fri 8th - Sun 10th Aug | Multi-day Walk | Flinders Ranges - Hayward Ridge and Beyond | M H H |
| Fri 8th - Mon 11th Aug | Multi-day Walk | 3 Day Spectacular 2025 - Southern Flinders | M M M |
| Mon 11th - Sun 17th Aug | Multi-day Walk | Mt Compass to Scotts Shelter | L E E Q |
| Fri 29th - Sat 30th Aug | Training Walk | Bushwalking Navigation Training Course (2 Day) | S E M |
| Sat 30th Aug - Sun 7th Sep | Multi-day Walk | Great Ocean Walk (GOW) | M E E |
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Activity
Details
Date
Sat 5/7 - Sun 6/7
Location
Deep Creek National Park
Date
Sun 6/7
Location
Orienteering Belair National Park
Date
Fri 18/7 - Mon 21/7
Location
SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES
Date
Sat 19/7 - Sun 20/7
Location
Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks)
Date
Sat 26/7 - Sun 27/7
Location
Mambray Creek Mt Remarkable National Park
Date
Sat 26/7 - Sat 2/8
Location
ABW Snow Week - Jindabyne
Date
Sun 3/8
Location
Morialta
Date
Fri 8/8 - Sun 10/8
Location
Flinders Ranges - Hayward Ridge and Beyond
Date
Fri 8/8 - Mon 11/8
Location
3 Day Spectacular 2025 - Southern Flinders
Date
Mon 11/8 - Sun 17/8
Location
Mt Compass to Scotts Shelter
Date
Fri 29/8 - Sat 30/8
Location
Bushwalking Navigation Training Course (2 Day)
Date
Sat 30/8 - Sun 7/9
Location
Great Ocean Walk (GOW)
Hiking gear for hire at reasonable rates. Try out gear before you buy your own.
Checklist of equipment, food ideas, water, first aid list, rules, minimal impact bushwalking and what to do if you get lost.
Joining ABW takes you to new places you may never have heard of, off the beaten track, and to have new experiences.
Meetings 7:30pm on the 1st Wednesday of the month, in the hall at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
From Our Blog
It’s right in the middle of the peak South Australian walking season, so I’ll keep this brief. You’ve got trails to walk.
The headline article is the sort of thing we all want to see a LOT more of. That is, stuff by you, in your voice. I can’t tell you how much I love this article. Just read it and see for yourself.
Mike has then written an entertaining piece about the big pond at Wilpena. It’s so great to ...
So, I’m watching episode 7 of House on Netflix, fiddling with my laptop and staring at the ABW website walks page.
Packrafting in Tasmania. End of March this looks good. TREVOR oh no! That can’t be good.
Hit the View button, the red JOIN THIS ACTIVITY button is staring at me, voices in my head say no don’t do it, press it, no don’t do it, you know he’s crazy, don’t do it.
5:15 pm March 5th, 2025, and I’m stepping off flight ...
Wilpena Gap’s ‘Big Pond’ as I call it, sits in a peaceful setting just meters off the dirt road that takes you into the Pound from the tourist village, and this surely must be the most visited pond in the Flinders. It’s filled by water from Wilpena Spring which is situated in the Pound as close as the creek gets to the former Hills homestead and with probably a much larger contribution from underground flow.
Below the pond, ...
Look out there, what do you see?
I see a blaze of sun coated peaks surrounding this rocky mountain zenith,
A scarlet currency of outback and altitude that draws both climber and gaze,
And like the many climbers up here before me, I’m not disappointed atop Patawarta,
So I see the world as others do, mostly, logically, typically…
Look out there again … what do you see?
I see jagged summits guarding a distant plain, postcard soldiers beneath a blue Camelot sky,
I see an encircling ...