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Adelaide Bushwalkers is a hiking club enjoying multi-day hikes carrying packs & camping, day walks, kayaking, cycling and other activities, near Adelaide, South Australia & interstate.
Upcoming Hikes & Activities
A selection of our upcoming Activity Program is below.
| Date/s | Activity Type | Name / Location | Grading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 29th - Sun 30th Mar | Multi-day Walk | Barossa Valley | M E E |
| Sun 30th Mar | Day Walk | Morialta Conservation Park | S E E |
| Sat 12th - Sun 13th Apr | Multi-day Walk | Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks) | M E M |
| Sun 13th Apr | Day Walk | Sturt Gorge Recreation Park | S E E |
| Fri 18th - Sun 20th Apr | Multi-day Walk | Coorong National Park in Autumn | M E E Q |
| Sat 19th - Sun 27th Apr | Extended Walk | Australian Alps - Jagungal loop | L M M Q |
| Sat 3rd - Sun 4th May | Multi-day Walk | Crafers to Brownhill Creek Circuit | M E E |
| Sat 17th - Sun 18th May | Multi-day Walk | Deep Creek Circuit | M M E Q |
| Sat 24th - Sun 25th May | Multi-day Walk | Scorpion Springs Conservation Park | M E M Q |
| Fri 6th - Mon 9th Jun | Multi-day Walk | Ikara-Flinders Ranges - Wilpena | M M M Q |
| Fri 6th - Mon 9th Jun | Training Walk | Ikara-Flinders Ranges NP | M M H |
Click on events below to reveal further info
Activity
Details
Date
Sat 29/3 - Sun 30/3
Location
Barossa Valley
Date
Sun 30/3
Location
Morialta Conservation Park
Date
Sat 12/4 - Sun 13/4
Location
Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks)
Date
Sun 13/4
Location
Sturt Gorge Recreation Park
Date
Fri 18/4 - Sun 20/4
Location
Coorong National Park in Autumn
Date
Sat 19/4 - Sun 27/4
Location
Australian Alps - Jagungal loop
Date
Sat 3/5 - Sun 4/5
Location
Crafers to Brownhill Creek Circuit
Date
Sat 17/5 - Sun 18/5
Location
Deep Creek Circuit
Date
Sat 24/5 - Sun 25/5
Location
Scorpion Springs Conservation Park
Date
Fri 6/6 - Mon 9/6
Location
Ikara-Flinders Ranges - Wilpena
Date
Fri 6/6 - Mon 9/6
Location
Ikara-Flinders Ranges NP
Hiking gear for hire at reasonable rates. Try out gear before you buy your own.
Checklist of equipment, food ideas, water, first aid list, rules, minimal impact bushwalking and what to do if you get lost.
Joining ABW takes you to new places you may never have heard of, off the beaten track, and to have new experiences.
Meetings 7:30pm on the 1st Wednesday of the month, in the hall at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
From Our Blog
Are you interested in hiking the Larapinta? Hopefully after reading you’ll have a better idea if it’s for you, and what preparation you’ll need. Then you might like to take a look at our 17-day itinerary.
This article is designed as a quick summary of the important points. Additional resources include the excellent official trail site and Chapman’s guide to walking the Larapinta Trail. While all effort has been made to ensure accuracy, please do not rely on this information alone.
When ...Five of us recently walked the entire 223km Larapinta Trail route west to east, including a highly recommended side trip. We took these notes along the way.
Why west to east? To all of us it felt more significant to finish in Alice Springs. That and it was less hassle not having to coordinate with a transport company*. A lot of ink has been spilled about walking east to west so the sun isn’t in your eyes. It wasn’t in ours ...
The following is a brief account of a walk in 1992 round the perimeter ridge of Wilpena Pound completed by Steve Weir and Graham Dingley with Jan Dingley supplying back up support.
Anyone visiting Wilpena Pound can’t help noticing the broken ridge running all the way from Pompey Pillar to St. Mary’s Peak – that’s what makes it the ‘Pound’. It’s such an obvious feature that the idea of walking round the ridge probably jumps to most walker’s minds when they ...
What an epic:
3 days 104km 37.5 hours in boots 6,315m vertical gain (72% of the way up to Everest!)‘The Aussie 10’ is a hike I’ve been planning for years: to summit the highest 10 peaks in Australia; but the timing to do this has been continuously thwarted. These mountains are all conveniently located within the Kosciusko National Park, NSW. Also though, there are very interesting mountains in vicinity of the Aussie 10 – all about or above 2,100m, so my list of summits to ...