Walking In The Bush On The North Side

Today:
Purpose: work group walk No. 12
Distance:  24.2 kms
Time:  4 hrs 48 mins 53 secs
Rate:  11' 56" per km
Altitude gain: 450 metres
Weather:  sunny, temp range 15-25 degrees, humidity 35%, wind southerly 20 kmph easing to SE 15 kmph

Week:   114.2 km,   Dec:  441.6 km,   Year:  5286.5 km

The new Canberra Centenary trail covers most of the inhabited area of the ACT. But being a dedicated southsider, I rarely venture to the northern trails & certainly not to the very North West area that borders with NSW.
Today, the work group started at the village of Hall, just inside the border & followed the new trail for about 12.5 kms before turning back. As it turned out, we were only 1 km from the end of the Northern section at the Campsite, we didn't know it at the time.
But, we did climb up One Tree Hill with a very strong wind making life difficult. You can see the slight detour on the map just before half way.
The track surface is all soft dirt making it nicely walkable & absolute fun for the many mountain bike riders that came past or we met. Quite technical in places, open space & fast at other times. And a few hills to climb & descend.
There were 7 of us today, a good number to walk in a group & keep close enough together but being able to spread out.
This was seriously good fun to walk & can't wait to be able to run it in February.