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Two trigs and a first attempt at finding Westlake

I have to do HR paperwork for work at the moment, so I was looking for a quiet place to progress such things. I ended up beside Lake Burley Griffin working away on my laptop, which was quite pleasant. While in the area, it seemed like a good idea to have a quick first attempt at finding Westlake, which is the ruins of an abandoned builders camp from when Canberra was being constructed. I found some evidence, but I think I need to go further west in a subsequent wander.

           

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There was a planned walk to Davidson trig by the Facebook trig sweating group this evening, so I went along to that. Beforehand I was killing time in Yarralumla and bumped into the cub leader for my kids' troop. She's interested in trig walks suitable for cubs, so I am going to have to keep an eye out for some. Davidson was a nice on-track walk, probably suitable for cubs.

           

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Davidson finished about an hour earlier than expected, so I dropped in to walk to Mike on the way home in an entirely unplanned manner. This walk would be perfect for cubs if it wasn't almost entirely bush bashing. This is probably the lowest elevation trig I've been to so far.

   

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Related posts: Big Monks; A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig

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Syndicated 2015-02-05 14:27:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Geocaching in the evening

I went geocaching while the kids were at scouts. Overall, a very successful evening.

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Related posts: Another lunch time walk; Lunchtime geocaching; Big Monks; A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig

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Syndicated 2015-02-04 15:07:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Big Monks

I'm going to be honest here and say I got this one pretty wrong. Looking at Google Earth, Big Monks is about 1.7 km from the access road (which I got right), what I failed to notice is that it is super steep and that much of the walk is off the trail. So... A walk I thought would take 30 or 45 minutes took 2 hours. I didn't die though, so that's good.

Fantastic views at the top, and found a couple of geocaches. There is obviously a lot of walking potential in Rob Roy Nature Park.

             

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Related posts: A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig; Wanniassa Trig

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Syndicated 2015-02-01 21:25:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Cooleman and Arawang Trigs

Doug and I went out to walk Doug's dog at short notice yesterday evening, and managed to sneak in two trigs while we were at it. A nice walk, although it took longer than I expected it to, with our average speed only being about 3.5 kilometers an hour. I wonder how much of that was the two peaks to climb, versus the puppy in tow.

Along the way we found this super cool telegraph line, which appears to still have an active Telstra service on it. I wonder if we'll one day see fiber strung on these telegraph poles?

                       

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Related posts: Harcourt and Rogers Trigs; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig; A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill

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Syndicated 2015-01-31 16:15:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

First jog, and a walk to Los Altos

Today was a busy day, not only did I foolishly go for a jog 5 minutes after sunrise...

Interactive map for this route. ...but then I went for a walk with James in the afternoon as well.

Interactive map for this route. Let's just say my fitbit is very impressed with me.

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Related posts: Walking to work; Did I mention it's hot here?; Summing up Santa Monica; Noisy neighbours at Central Park in Mountain View; So, how am I getting to the US?; VTA station for the Santa Clara Convention Center

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Syndicated 2015-01-25 21:16:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

A walk in the San Mateo historic red woods

James, Tony and I went for a little post long haul flight walk this afternoon in some red woods. Very nice.

               

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Related posts: Did I mention it's hot here?; Summing up Santa Monica; Noisy neighbours at Central Park in Mountain View; So, how am I getting to the US?; VTA station for the Santa Clara Convention Center; Public transport to San Francisco from Santa Clara

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Syndicated 2015-01-25 06:48:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Harcourt and Rogers Trigs

I needed to visit someone in deepest darkest North Canberra yesterday, and there was an hour to kill between that meeting and the local Linux User's Group meeting. It seemed silly to have driven all that way and to not see a couple of trigs, so I visited these two. Both these trigs were easy to get to and urban. Frankly a little boring.

Harcourt trig is in what I will call a cow paddock -- it doesn't have a lot of trees happening and feels a bit like left over land. Access to the nature reserve wasn't very obvious to me from the suburban streets, but the KML file below might help others to work it out. It wasn't too bad once I'd navigated the maze of streets and weird paved areas.

             

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Rogers was similar, except access was more obvious because it is in an older suburb. This is a nicer reserve than Harcourt's, with a nice peak and some walking opportunities around the base of the hill. I think I'll probably end up coming back to this one as my wife is nostalgic about growing up backing on to this reserve.

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Related posts: A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig; Wanniassa Trig

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Syndicated 2015-01-22 13:10:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Another lunch time walk

My arm still hurts, so no gym again. Instead, another lunch time walk although this one was shorter. The skies were dramatic, but no rain unfortunately. I found GC1DEFB during this walk.

   

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Related posts: Lunchtime geocaching; A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to William Farrer's grave

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Syndicated 2015-01-19 22:45:00 (Updated 2015-01-20 10:06:58) from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Lunchtime geocaching

Woke up this morning with a sore left arm, which ruled out going to the gym. Instead, I decided to go for a geocaching walk at lunch time. I found these caches: GC235FM; GC56N78; GC5B9WT; GC5F6G3; and GC5F0PE. A nice walk.

         

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Related posts: A walk around Mount Stranger; Taylor Trig; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to William Farrer's grave; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig

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Syndicated 2015-01-18 20:30:00 from stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley (no blather posts)

Taylor Trig

At the top of Mount Taylor lies the first trig point defeated by a group walk I've been on. Steve * 3, Erin, Michael *2, Andrew, Cadell, Maddie, Mel, Neill and Jenny all made it to the top of this one, so I'm super proud of us as a group. A nice walk and Mount Taylor clearly has potential for other walks as well, so I am sure I'll return here again.

                 

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Related posts: A walk around Mount Stranger; Urambi Trig; Walk up Tuggeranong Hill; A quick walk to Tuggeranong Trig; Wanniassa Trig; A quick walk to William Farrer's grave

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