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Bushwalking

The Cartophiles Bushwalking Club provides an opportunity for the people of Wahroonga to share the wonderful bush of our region in a relaxed, friendly group. The Club is open to both members and non-members of the congregation of St John’s Uniting Church.

The Club aims to do about eight day walks a year, mostly of easy/moderate grade, three or four overnight walks of a moderate grade and one or two harder walks of 3-4 days duration for experienced walkers. Membership of the Club is free.

Our Walks Leader is Kit Craig, a former army officer and scout leader who has trekked locally and overseas. Kit can provide advice and training, if required, on equipment, camping or navigation for novices.

For more information please call Kit on 0411 507 422, or e-mail him at cartophiles@stjohnswahroonga.org.

A full schedule of planned walks for 2013 is available by following this link 2013 Walk Program.

Recent Cartophiles News

Marramarra Creek Campground (sort of), Sunday 21st April, 2013

This walk was destined to never happen.
It was scheduled for Saturday 20th and eight Cartophiles turned up in he pouring rain ready to start.  Rachel & Tertius even drove up from Canberra to be part of it.  Over coffee in the Connanbarra cafe we unanimously agreed that walking in that dreadful weather was ridiculous, but we did reconvene at the Blue Gum Hotel at lunch time for a debrief.…

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Meadowbank to Cabarita, Saturday 16th March, 2013

A VERY select group of Cartophiles undertook this surprising and delightful walk.  Despite their problems finding the ferry wharf at Cabarita, Sandra, Sue and Kit caught the ferry to Meadowbank on time.
The navigational problems continued with finding the route from the Meadowbank Ferry Wharf onto pedestrian way across the old Ryde rail bridge. …

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St Johns Cartophiles Complete Wild Endurance!

We made it!  At 2:36pm on Sunday 5th May the Cartophiles team crossed the finish line for WildEndurance, completing the 100km course through the Blue Mountains
in 30 hours and 6 minutes.
The team of four (Kayla, Owen, Sue and Kit) started at 8:30am on Saturday and walked through the night. …

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Loxtons Win Cartophiles’ Metrogaine

Annie & James Loxton‘s team, The Chasers, won the first intra-Cartophiles rogaine on Sunday 10th February.  They out-walked, out-swam and, most importantly, out-scored the other Cartophiles team, The Enduros, in the six hour Metrogaine event at Swansea.
The Chasers came 57th in a field of 132 teams, finishing two places ahead of their highly-fancied Cartophiles rivals. …

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