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Para Wirra Conservation Park

Date: Sun, 27 May 2018

Start at 8.00 a.m. (short course runners) and 7:00 a.m. (long course runners) from meeting place, which will be immediately south of the junction of Bassnet Rd with Humbug Scrub Rd, for google maps directions click here. The nearest toilets that David knows of are on the west side of Kersbrook (beside Kersbrook Rd), and inside Para Wirra Conservation Park.

The run will be mainly within Para Wirra Conservation Park. Both courses are shown on the map in downloadable form. The long course goes around the whole park, following tracks the names of which will be distributed. The short course will consist of Mack Creek Loop (a signposted trail) in the southern portion.

For afterwards, David suggests we drop in at The Gully. Public House & Gardens on North-East Rd, opposite the junction with Perseverance Rd.

Routes

Para Wirra long

Distance: approx 24 km

Altitude Range: approx 197 m

Total Climb: approx 536 m

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Para Wirra Social Run Short

Distance: approx 7.72 km

Altitude Range: approx 82 m

Total Climb: approx 120 m

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Waterfall Gully to Mt Lofty Time Trial

Date: Sun, 03 June 2018

See how fast you can climb the biggest hill around Adelaide – 425 metres elevation, and 3.8 kms distance, from Waterfall Gully cafe to Mt Lofty Summit cafe. This will be excellent training, because, after you do it, all other hills will seem easy.

We’ll have to run one at a time, and time ourselves. A volunteer at the summit will record your time for publication in the next newsletter. There is a big Strava “segment” on this hill, so that you can see how well others have done.

We’ll park in the Waterfall Gully carpark, or, if this is full, further down Waterfall Gully road. We’ll start the time trial at 7.00 a.m.

Social Run on the Mt Misery course

Social Run on the Mt Misery course

Date: Sun, 29 April 2018

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Start at 8.00 a.m. from inside Croft Rd gate to Forestry SA land. This is 2.4 kms west of intersection of Croft, Fox Creek and Cold Store Rds.

Downloadable maps and directions are on the event web page.

For afterwards, coffee obtainable from Anderson Hill Winery (next to Croft Rd parking area) from 11.00. Lunch available from 12.00. Bookings necessary for lunch.

Routes

Mt. Misery 15

Distance: approx 15.14 km

Altitude Range: approx 313 m

Total Climb: approx 854 m

DIRECTIONS

  1. Starting from Croft Rd, follow Mawson Trail westwards for 3.5 kms. Ignore the Mawson Trail Loop signs which are indentical to the Mawson Trail signs except that they have a loop logo. At 3.5 kms, you reach the intersection with the Heysen Trail. This is clearly marked, and there is a glass-fronted map under a roof.
  2. Turn left into Heysen Trail and follow this for c.2 kms, entering Montacute Conservation Park, and descending to the bottom of a deep valley. The track turns left and after c.150m take a rough track to the right going up a steep slope.
  3. After c.1.3 kms you reach a gate and just beyond this you come to Stone Hut Rd (signposted) which is also the Mawson Trail.
  4. Turn right, and follow this for 2 kms up a steep hill, to the intersection with the Heysen Trail which you passed before.
  5. Now turn left into Koch Track/Heysen Trail. After c.1.3 kms you reach the bottom of a steep valley with a camp ground on the right. The track turns sharp right. Immediately, c.20m further on, take an indistinct path to the left. Follow this down a steep bank and across a creek. From here on the route over Mt Misery is usually marked with our signs.
  6. Follow a disused track uphill for c. 300m. The track turns round to the right, then continues to the top of a bare hill with magnificent views.
  7. Continue in a straight line over this hill, and descend to a saddle. After c.300m from the top a hill, go through the gate in front of you and continue to the Mt Misery trig point.
  8. From a point c.150m further on, the Mt Misery Track (not signposted but well used) goes downhill. Follow it for 1.5 kms.
  9. At the bottom of a dip, the track forks. The left fork has a sign barring access to vehicles. At this point, turn sharp right into an indistinct track, crossed by many fallen saplings.
  10. Follow this for c.400m until you reach an indistinct path on your right, down a steep slope.
  11. This brings you back to Koch Track/Heysen Trail. Turn left.
  12. Follow Koch Track for one km until you come to a junction with Thomas Hill Track. Ignore left turn into Heysen Trail 250m before this junction.
  13. Turn left and follow Thomas Hill Track  back to the start, ignoring a left turn into Munns Track.

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Mt. Misery 8

Distance: approx 8.17 km

Altitude Range: approx 254 m

Total Climb: approx 378 m

8k-mapThe tracks referred to are all clearly signposted.

  1. Starting from Croft Rd, follow Mawson Trail westwards for 3.5 kms. Ignore the Mawson Trail Loop signs which are indentical to the Mawson Trail signs except that they have a loop logo. At 3.5 kms you reach the intersection with the Heysen Trail. This is clearly marked, and there is a glass-fronted map of the area under a little roof.
  2. Turn right into Heysen Trail which is also Koch Track. Follow this for c.3.5 kms. Just before the end, the Heysen Trail diverges to the left. Continue straight on for another 250m until you come to a junction with Thomas Hill Track.
  3. Turn left and follow this track back to the start, ignoring a turnoff into Munns Track on the left.

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Mt. Misery 24

Distance: approx 23.7 km

Altitude Range: approx 321 m

Total Climb: approx 1033 m

24K-map

  1. Starting from Croft Rd, follow Mawson Trail westwards for 3.5 kms. Ignore the Mawson Trail Loop signs which are identical to the Mawson Trail signs except that they have a loop logo. At 3.5 kms, you reach the intersection with the Heysen Trail. This is clearly marked, and there is a glass-fronted map under a roof.
  2. Turn left into Heysen Trail and follow this for c.2 kms, entering Montacute Conservation Park, and descending to the bottom of a deep valley. The track turns left and after c.150m take a rough track to the right going up a steep slope.
  3.  After c.1.3 kms you reach a gate and just beyond this you come to Stone Hut Rd (signposted) which is also the Mawson Trail.
  4. Turn right, and follow this for 2 kms up a steep hill, to the intersection with the Heysen Trail which you passed before.
  5. Now turn left into Koch Track/Heysen Trail. After c.1.3 kms you reach the bottom of a steep valley with a camp ground on the right. The track turns sharp right. Immediately, c.20m further on, take an indistinct path to the left. Follow this down a steep bank and across a creek. From here onwards, the route over Mt Misery is usually marked with our signs.
  6. Follow a disused track uphill for c. 300m. The track turns round to the right, then continues to the top of a bare hill with magnificent views.
  7. Continue in a straight line over this hill, and descend to a saddle. After c.300m from the top of the hill,  go through a gate in front of you.
  8. Continue uphill to a ridge. Turn right and you see the Mt Misery trig point. From a point c.150m further on, the Mt Misery Track (not signposted but much used) goes downhill. Follow it for 1.5 kms.
  9. At the bottom of a dip, the track forks. The left fork has a sign barring access to vehicles.
  10. Follow this for c.400m until you reach an indistinct path on your right, down a steep slope.
  11. This brings you back to Koch Track/Heysen Trail. Turn left.
  12. After c.1 km you come to a Heysen Trail arrow pointing left off Koch Track. Take this turning.
  13. Follow Heysen Trail for c.2.5 kms until you come to Grandad’s Camp on the left and Pratts Track turning right. Follow Pratts Track.
  14. After c.300m you reach a fork. It doesn’t matter which fork you take, but I’ve been following the left one which from memory is CC17.
  15. After another 1.2 kms which include ascent of a monster hill, you reach an intersection of 7 tracks on a ridge. Turn left into the largest track, which happens to be the only one not signposted! This is Big End Track.
  16. Follow this for c.2.5 kms till you reach the bottom of a valley and Fox Creek Rd car park. Ignore turnoff uphill to Old Ned’s Track.
  17. Turn right to the furthest end of the car park, and follow a track running away from the car park along the bottom of a valley. This is The Guts Track; but a sign doesn’t appear until 200m later.
  18. After another 150m, turn left into Ridge Track, up a steep and long hill.
  19. After 2.9 kms of climbing, at the top of a ridge, you come to Farrel Track. Turn right into this and after about one km you return to the start point.

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Tangari Recreation Park & Reynella East parkrun

Tangari Recreation Park & Reynella East parkrun

Date: Sat, 26 May 2018

We will first be running Reynella East parkrun, then heading off on a 12km run to explore the Tangari Recreation Park Trails. The distance is 12km, or 17km if you include the parkrun.

Reynella East parkun is about 30 minutes South of Adelaide. Meet there at 7:40AM for an 8:00AM start, and make sure that you have registered for the parkrun and bring your barcode. We will head off on the second part of the run, to Tangari, from about 8:45AM.

Directions (the easy way): Click here

Coffee/brunch afterwards at TBC.

Galileo strongly recommended for the Tangari part: We strongly recommend you download the Galileo mapping app for your phone, and load the GPX map into it. The “download gpx” link is just above the map on this page.

If you are having trouble, arrive approximately 20 minutes early and ask around for help on how to set it up. If you know how to load a GPX file into Galiello  please do that before coming.

For iPhone users – the “download gpx” link wont work if you click it from within facebook. You need to open the safari app on your phone, visit trailrunningsa.com, and go from there.

If you would prefer not to use Galileo, a printed map is also available by clicking the print map (PDF) button next to the map below.

Routes

Tangari from Reynella East

Distance: approx 12 km

Altitude Range: approx 143 m

Total Climb: approx 273 m

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