by bluewombat » Thu 16 Mar, 2023 11:01 am
Just a quick note regarding the lower part of the Jukes walk. The most recent edition of the Abels suggests walking up from the Mt Owen lookout and then before the road cut starts again, heading up to the right. I found a couple of cairns where the book mentions but if you walk a little further up until you reach the only power pole on the right side of the road (400 mtrs from the car park). Here there is a bit of pink table, climb up at that point. You are now on an old vehicle track, head parallel to the road towards the high point of the road, once you are close to the high point (another 100 mtrs) look right. There is a bright quartzite cairn and beyond that another cairn leading to a cutline through the teatree (mentioned elsewhere on the forum). You can follow that cutline and then more pink tape and a bit of a pad through much of the lower scrub (it does weave around a fair bit). In due course this leads to a point where following the cairned track is more obvious. For me this seems to have avoided the common problems trying to follow the track over the lower portion of the walk. BTW I would recommend keeping an eye on your GPS on the way down particularly in the 750-1000 mtr band, there are a few cairns visible on the way down which are not on the main track. These made for a couple of 'interesting' detours on my part.
I did not actually head out to Pyramid but there is an obvious watercourse probably half way between Jukes and Pyramid which I could see water in (mid March)
BW
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