Mt Compass/ Kyeema/Dashwood Gully Rd
Sat 15 to Sun 16 Jul 2023
Registrations open 7:00am Monday 3 July, 2023
- Walk name/location
- Mt Compass/ Kyeema/Dashwood Gully Rd
- Walk grade
- End-to-End 16
- Description
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Note: If you wish to walk on only one day, please contact the FOTH office (once bookings open) to register for that day’s walk.
The online registering will only allow you to register for both days
Day 1 Saturday – Mt Compass – Kyeema
The pretty dairy pastures of Mt Compass and Nangkita provide the backdrop for the first section of this walk. Back roads then lead walkers up a steady incline through to Finniss Conservation Park and into Mt Magnificent Conservation Park, where a short steep hike off the main trail which will reward walkers with spectacular views from Mt. Magnificent over the southern Fleurieu Peninsula.
A combination of native bushland then back-road walking completes the day.
Fitness: The Heysen Trail walks are demanding and suitable for experienced walkers who have walked regularly in various terrain consisting of long-distance trails with some steep inclines/declines, irregular surface with loose uneven, slippery base. They have a walking time of about 5 to 7 hours and will require a good degree of physical fitness.
Day 2 Sunday – Kyeema – Dashwood Gully
The walk starts off in the dense native bushland of Kyeema Conservation Park, and then the plantations of Kuitpo Forest. The walking here is gently undulating sandy trails.
We cross over a couple of main arterial roads where care needs to be taken.
We then exit Kuitpo Forest onto Stagecoach Road for the return to the cars.
BIOSECURITY MEASURES – Please ensure you thoroughly clean your footwear, clothing, walking poles and other equipment before and after each walk to remove all seeds, dirt and other debris. Removed seeds should be bagged and disposed in a ‘to landfill’ garbage bin.
- Start
- Saturday 15 July 2023
- End
- Sunday 16 July 2023
- Walk Leaders
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Kathy Wright
Paul Gill - Export to Calendars
Map legend:
- Walk section along Heysen Trail shown in red:
- The rest of the Heysen Trail shown in blue:
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Event created: 12:00 pm Friday 2 September, 2022
Event last edited: 8:05 pm Monday 9 January, 2023
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