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| Consultation open on CANBERRA CENTENARY TRAIL PROPOSED ALIGNMENT. See here | Lesson from the last couple of weeks - good health is a blessing, as are good friends | Want an excellent and quick fix for your sick PC? Try Home Computer Centre on 0416 251 888 in Beasley St Mawson. I did - he's good! | Namadgi Visitors Centre has PLBs for weekly hire at very reasonable rates. Contact them on 02 6207 2900 | ACT Oracle, a list of places of interest in various formats, contains 2157 entries and is available from here | It's worth a visit to your local ACT Parks and Conservation Service depot or a look through www.tams.act.gov.au to pick up/tap into the huge range of brochures available which describe our natural environment and available walks. Many are linked to from this blog. An example is - A guide to eucalypts in the ACT | All 713 border markers, mile markers and blazes found to 5 Jul 11 are here | Wednesday Walks recently celebrated with a luncheon. See here for the history of Wednesday Walks | For old friends - Kathmandu will renew your Summit Club membership for $0 if you can flash your Seniors Card (otherwise renewal is $10) | Does anyone know anything about the Crowajingalong site just off Binns St Fraser? Email me | Modern communication - doing email business with 'Feral Kaza' at Wilpena Pound, 10 days into her epic 1000+km, 2½ month Heysen Trail stroll | Heritage Festival - this coming weekend CBC hosts Wonders of Wilderness Walking 10am-5pm Sat-Sun 16-17 April at the Crosbie Morrison Building, Australian National Botanic Gardens. Do come and bring your friends | Pago weir found - Tim the Yowie Man featured it on his CT Panorama mag article on Sat 12 March . John B chose the fine bottle of red rather than the large box of chocolates as the reward! | NATMAP Digital Maps 100K 2010 Release (plus your download of free ER Viewer) is a great resource for 1:100K and 1:250K topo views of all of Australia. See here | Fantastic - NPA ACT have made available Col McAlister's monograph on the Twelve historic sites in the Glenburn and Burbong areas. You can download it and read/print it for no cost. Thanks Col and NPA ACT | New blog feature - the walk number is now a link to the Picasa-stored, public access map segment showing track and waypoints | Free download of 1425 (and growing) locations of interest in the ACT. Text, GoogleEarth, .gpx (directly loadable into many Garmin GPS) and OziExplorer waypoint file formats. See the ACT Oracle entry here | The CBC 50th anniversary year 50 Peaks in 50 Weeks event is well underway. Check it out here | Does anyone know anything about the location of Pago weir? I've had a couple of searches, 16 Nov 10 and 4 Jan 11. A large box of chocolates or a fine bottle of red if you can get me there. And get there I might - see Brindabella Weirs | It appears that the Link fire trail from Honeysuckle Creek camping ground to the Orroral Ridge collimation tower car park is closed until further notice due to heavy rains causing a washout | Thanks to Dave Bremers for a plug for Johnny Boy's Walkabout Blog in the current Mont newsletter | Stranger than lists of border markers - ArchivesACT maintains a photopgraphic record of plaques at http://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesact/ | The Great Walks magazine has been kind enough to publish an article of mine on pages 60-64 of the current Dec/Jan issue | Using tons of hyperbole (grin), Tim the Yowie Man featured the Dry Stone Walls above Glendale Crossing walk in his Wall of silence article in the Panorama magazine of the Canberra Times on 4 December 2010. If you want to, you can read the article here (jpg format, 2.8MB) | Results of the 'Show Us Your Limits' competition announced on 1 Dec 10 (sadly, Kaz, Mike nor I won a prize) - see http://www.canberra100.com.au/show-us-your-limit/. Some truly excellent photos there | Here's a Christmas present for you: All (currently being populated) my Namadgi locations, in several different formats, on the Data page for you to download | A great new book The World of Tidbinbilla, get it from Southern ACT Catchment Group, Tidbinbilla Visitors Centre | Quote for the day - "strive for integrity, not popularity" | Wonderful records of Canberra urban history on Dave's ACT - well worth a look | Have a look at www.nearmap.com for aerial photos of selected areas of Australia |

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This page last updated 14Feb12