Date: 19 April 2014
Points of Interest: A little bit off the beaten path, burnt trees, sweeping views of the Tuggeranong Valley
Difficulty rating: 1.5
This trig station is a little bit away from Canberra suburbs and is less accessible than usual. Access is via the Old Tuggeranong Road off Monaro Highway. However, as this road is only open for authorised vehicles, I had to walk around 20 minutes to get near the trig station.
There is no track to the trig station, and requires climbing over a fence to reach it. It is not a steep hill, but at the trig station you will be rewarded by sweeping views of the Tuggeranong Valley and the nearby Calwell suburb. I think I can see Gowrie (our suburb), which suggests that I should be able to see this quadripod from Gowrie (with a telescope?).
There is a single large house (manor?) along Old Tuggeranong Road visible from the trig station, which appears well tended. It may have been previously a sheep station or farm, but I did not see any stock. Wonder who lives there (noting that there is no public vehicular access to this road)? After a little bit of googling, have found out that this is a private property most recently sold for $2.3m (see pictures here, and a local news article)
Continuing to enjoy exploring areas of Canberra that I have not visited before as part of this quadripod mission! Ceri raised the question of whether all the quadripods are on public land and publicly accessible -- if not, it will make fully accomplishing the mission a little bit more challenging.
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| Climbed over this fence. The quadripod is straight ahead. |
New gum tree.
Gowrie is somewhere in the background.
View of Tuggeranong Valley.
Eddie, get your self an amateur radio licence and delight a few local hams with a few transmissions from the mountain tops. Take a look at 'SOTA Australia' in Google. Best wishes, and no small amount of envy, Ron (G7DOE)
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