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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 22nd Jun | Training Walk | Pack-carrying practice in Sturt Gorge Rec. Park | S E E |
| Sun 22nd - Fri 27th Jun | Extended Walk | Heysen Trail, Melrose to Quorn | M M E |
| Fri 27th - Sun 29th Jun | Multi-day Walk | Northern Flinders Ranges - Mountains of the Oratunga | M H H |
| Sat 28th Jun | Social | ROGAINING Mt Crawford | M E E |
| Sat 28th - Sun 29th Jun | Multi-day Walk | Qualifying walk: Warren CP - Mt Crawford FR | M E E Q |
| 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 |
| Sat 12th - Sun 13th Jul | Multi-day Walk | Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks) | M E M |
| Fri 18th - Mon 21st Jul | Multi-day Walk | SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES | M H M Q |
| 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 |
Click on events below to reveal further info
Activity
Details
Date
Sun 22/6
Location
Pack-carrying practice in Sturt Gorge Rec. Park
Date
Sun 22/6 - Fri 27/6
Location
Heysen Trail, Melrose to Quorn
Date
Fri 27/6 - Sun 29/6
Location
Northern Flinders Ranges - Mountains of the Oratunga
Date
Sat 28/6
Location
ROGAINING Mt Crawford
Date
Sat 28/6 - Sun 29/6
Location
Qualifying walk: Warren CP - Mt Crawford FR
Date
Sat 5/7 - Sun 6/7
Location
Deep Creek National Park
Date
Sun 6/7
Location
Orienteering Belair National Park
Date
Sat 12/7 - Sun 13/7
Location
Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks)
Date
Fri 18/7 - Mon 21/7
Location
SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES
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
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
A research project and an invitation.
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 ...
Patawarta Hill, an impressive landmark some ten miles north of Blinman, is a red sandstone peak, 3,306 feet high. It is at the south-western end of the pound-like formation which has Mt. Hack at its northern end, but unlike Mt. Hack, which appears simply as a bump on a ridge, it is a distinct peak rising well above its surroundings. A trip to Mt. Hack was described by Alison Beer in “Tarndanya”, 1967. [Mt Hack is the highest bump on ...