2009 Goldfields Exploration Series of Walks

 

The Goldfields Track (Mt Buninyong/Ballarat to Bendigo) will be launched in 2009. The promotion of the Goldfields Track is a partnership initiative between Goldfields Tourism, Parks Victoria, People and Parks Foundation, Conservation Volunteers Australia and the Great Dividing Trail Association (GDTA).  To commemorate the launch of the Goldfields Track, the GDTA has arranged to walk the Track in manageable sections during 2009. The distance is approximately 200 kms, to be undertaken by 13 separate day walks. (The 22 May walk is an extra GDTA Walk, not part of the Goldfields Track Series)
 
Walk
Section
Distance
Rating
Date
Leader
1
Exploring Buninyong village:
Mt Buninyong - Whitehorse Bridge to Sebastopol
 
13 kms
Easy
Sunday 15 February 2009
Patrick Hope 5341 3711
2
Crossing Ballarat’s hidden valleys & wetlands:
Whitehorse Bridge – Gong Reservoir
 
14 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 8 March 2009
Neville Fraser 0418 558 278
3
Skirting cool highland lakes & rivers:
Gong Reservoir – St George’s Lake Creswick
 
16 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 29 March 2009
Alison Lanigan 5345 2958
4
Conquering the Divide & discovering potato country: St George’s Lake – Mollongghip
 
20 kms
Medium
Sunday 19 April 2009
Barry Golding 5345 6343
5
‘Falling’ off the Divide along railways & timber tramways: Mollongghip – Sailor’s Falls
 
15 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 3 May 2009
Gib Wettenhall 5334 5490
6
Exploring Daylesford’s lakes & valleys:
Sailor’s Falls – Bryce’s Flat
 
[*Yankee Gully Walk: detail TBC
 
14 kms
 
 
 
 
 
TBC
 
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
TBC
Sunday 17 May 2009
 
 
 
 
22 May 2009
Neil Campbell 9478 7995
 
 
 
 
Ron James 5345 7539]
 
7
Meandering through Hepburn Springs’ valleys:
Bryce’s Flat – Chocolate Mill Daylesford
 
12 kms
Medium-Hard
Sunday 21 June 2009
Ed Butler 5348 3059
8
Experiencing the wild beauty of the upper Loddon forest: Chocolate Mill – Vaughan Springs
 
21 kms
Medium
Sunday 26 July 2009
Bill Casey 0407 347 319
9
Going for Gold along the water races into Castlemaine: Vaughan Springs – Castlemaine
 
18 kms
Medium
Sunday 16 August 2009
Ed Butler 5348 3059
10
Exploring the historic Mt Alexander goldfields:
Castlemaine – Calder Highway
 
15 kms
Medium
Sunday 13 September 2009
Neil Campbell 9478 7995
11
Crossing Leanganook – the granite mountain:
Calder Highway – Sutton Grange
 
14 kms
Medium-Hard
Sunday 27 September
2009
Richard Piesse 0448 572 867
12
Discovering historic water channels through ironbark country: Sutton Grange – Sandhurst Reservoir
 
20 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 18 October 2009
Gib Wettenhall 5334 5490
13
Reaching Bendigo’s golden edges:
Sandhurst Reservoir – Bendigo
 
 
Mt Franklin to Franklinford: Celebration Breakfast & Lunch  and Christmas Get Together
11 kms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12km
 
 
Easy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Easy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sunday 29 November 2009
 
 
 
 
 
 Sat 5 Dec 2009
 
 
Barry Hunter 5449 3286
 
 
 
 
 
 
Barry Golding 53456342

 

 

 

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