Bushwalking in Barrington Tops NP
Jonathan
Barrington Tops NP in October and would be grateful for any
suggestions, route notes etc
Cheers
Jonathan
Ken Beath
The basic Barrington walk involves a loop around the plateau. The NPWS
has a info brochure on this and they maintain the tracks. Barrington
is sub-alpine so the weather can be quite cold with a possibility of
sleet or snow. It can also be quite pleasant. Often both on the same
day.
For some photos have a look at http://homepage.mac.com/kjbeath
Suggested itenerary. This walk allows ample time for relaxing.
Day 1: Leave cars at Polblue camping are (on Scone Gloucester Road)
after leaving most walkers at start of Barrington Trail. You can leave
the cars at the entrance of the Barrington Trail but Polblue seems
safer. Then walk along Barrington Trail to Beean Beean plain and along
Waterguage Trail, cross Barrington River and then to Big Hole to camp
overnight. This is an excellent campsite.
You can take a more direct route from Polblue to the Barrington or
Polblue trails but care needs to be taken as some of the scrub can be
very thick. I can provide details.
Day 2: From Big Hole past Black Swamp to Careys Peak. A track from the
clearing leads to the lookout. The hut is almost a ruin. Follow the
Careys peak trail about a km to the west . A track (not shown on the
Barrington Tops topo map) turns off north across Edwards swamp. Just
after crossing the Barrington the NPWS have mown a campsite a short
distance downstream.
A side trip could be taken down the Careys Peak trail to inspect Selby
Alley hut and Basdens Falls. The track to the hut is not marked. From
memory the 4wd track divides around an old dead tree with a broken off
top. This is more noticable walking uphill which is of course not the
direction you are going. Foot track heads off to east crossing the
creek just above Basdens Falls to the Hut.
Day 3: Continue following the track until it meets the Junction Hole
trail. Have a look at Junction Pools. This could also be used as a
second night campsite but can be fairly heavily used by 4 wheel drives.
The track continues on slightly to the north of where it meets the 4wd
trail. Across Brumlow swamp it is marked with posts but can be a little
difficult to find. This eventually meets the waterguage trail which you
follow back to Polblue.
An alternative walk is to start at Lagoon Pinch, walk up the Corker
along the Careys Peak trail and then do the loop. The ascent from
Lagoon Pinch to Careys Peak is about 900m and seems to last forever.
Some great views. For a 2 day walk this is the best starting point.
Camp at Big Hole and detour to Careys Pk on return trip. You can also
go to Careys Peak as a day walk.
Another option is to start at Gloucester Tops and walk across the Link
trail to camp at Wombat Creek. Then do a day walk around the tops and
return along link trail.
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Jason - The Gadget Shop
start a walk, but the guest house isn't a bad start point. Big Hole is a
nice camp area, but only 4km flat walk from road, so traffic is sometimes
high - good for a swim though if you don't mind blue skin! The Gloucester
falls-Carey's peak/Wombat crossing/ck? track is a bit of a trudge, but not
bad as a 20km day. Wombat whatever-it's-called is a nice camp spot - water,
shelter - though again close to road... hard to find good 3 day loops in
Barr. NP, so you might be stuck with day in, day walk, day out same way...
car shuffling is possible, but the distances to get around by road are quite
large...
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Ken Beath
bighole, camp at wombat ck. Link trail to camp at Darby Munro hut at
Gloucester
Tops then follow 4wd trails to Mt Nelson and down (forget names of
intermediate
roads). This involves a shorter car shuffle. Can also be made into a two day
by going
up the corker in the eveningand then trying to find Selby Alley hut in the
dark..
I wouldn't advise this unless you've been to the hut previously.
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David Morrison
> six other walkers waiting for you in the rain on the main trail back when the
> road up was open to 4 x 4s and all we had was a map (very wet) and some very
> basic directions from Selby alley himself yes back in 1985 Easter what fun. I
> do believe the hut is maintained by the Newcastle uni bush walking club or
> was. a great place to check out. must do take camera water proof i have never
> been there when it didnt rain or snow
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maintained by them. AFAIRI, the original name came from the fact that
what became the NBC actually started as a group at the original Uni Tech
or some such similar name on the site of Tighes Hill(?) Tech. The Uni
part went west with the full blown University when it was set upUni and
the Tech college part remained at the Tech, so the name became NBC.
As far as I know, the University of Newcastle
"Bushwalking" Club has always been called the Newcastle University
Mountaineering Club, but most keen members ended up at NBC and or other
groups like Rogaining, Canoeing, etc.