Bushwalk Australia

My two eldest sons and I took a walk the other week up Mount Roland. The weather cleared beautifully for us on the way up. Great day.

Great pics.

Nice pics. Did you go up via O'Neills Rd or Kings Rd? I'm planning a walk up there in a few weeks time, but am not sure which route to take. I have read in a couple of places that O'Neills is closed, in other places that Kings Rd is not recommended.

I prefer kings rd, the front face. It's quicker and shorter and has no boring fire trails. The views are great. It is slightly more challenging and requires a little boulder hopping and the occasional use of hands to climb over a rock etc. but far from difficult.

I doubt o'neils would be closed anywhere, it's more of a highway.

Frosty wrote:Nice pics. Did you go up via O'Neills Rd or Kings Rd? I'm planning a walk up there in a few weeks time, but am not sure which route to take. I have read in a couple of places that O'Neills is closed, in other places that Kings Rd is not recommended.

If you can arrange a car shuffle, it makes a great circuit walk.

Thanks all. I like the idea of doing it as a circuit. After doing Stacks Bluff last month, I reckon I'll survice the boulder hopping on the Kings Rd track.

It's good fun coming down the boulder field. They aren't that big, its just a long section of scree. Even better is the full traverse from Mt Claude to Kings Rd. Took me 7 hours at a very casual pace, it can be run in about 2 hours!

Frosty wrote:Nice pics. Did you go up via O'Neills Rd or Kings Rd? I'm planning a walk up there in a few weeks time, but am not sure which route to take. I have read in a couple of places that O'Neills is closed, in other places that Kings Rd is not recommended.

Thanks, We went up O'Neills and it was all certainly open. The firetrail and track are very good walking on O'Neils but I don't know anything about the other apart from it appears to bring you out right next the trig. From the car park on O'Neills it was roughly 17.5k to the trig and back.

pazzar wrote:It's good fun coming down the boulder field. They aren't that big, its just a long section of scree. Even better is the full traverse from Mt Claude to Kings Rd. Took me 7 hours at a very casual pace, it can be run in about 2 hours!

Thanks. I have discovered the 'Triple Top' concept in the last few days and I think that's what we'll do! 7 hrs at casual pace sounds pretty reasonable to me.