Takes you places!

  • Gardens of Stone National Park

    Gardens of Stone National Park

  • Federation Peak, Tasmania

    Federation Peak, Tasmania

    © Trevor Jones

  • Kayaking the Big Bend, River Murray

    Kayaking the Big Bend, River Murray

    © Jeremy Carter

  • The Arch, Grampians, Victoria

    The Arch, Grampians, Victoria

    © Mark Proctor

  • Flinders Chase Coastal Trek, Kangaroo Island

    Flinders Chase Coastal Trek, Kangaroo Island

    © Jeremy Carter

  • Blinman Pools, Flinders Ranges

    Blinman Pools, Flinders Ranges

    © Gabrielle McMahon

  • Creek gorge, the Bunkers, Flinders Ranges

    Creek gorge, the Bunkers, Flinders Ranges

    © Jeremy Carter

  • Heysen Trail extended walk - Quorn area

    Heysen Trail extended walk - Quorn area

  • Northern Flinders Ranges

    Northern Flinders Ranges

  • Heysen Trail extended walk – Northern Flinders Ranges

    Heysen Trail extended walk – Northern Flinders Ranges

  • Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail

    Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail

  • Deep Creek

    Deep Creek

  • New Member Weekend

    New Member Weekend

Adelaide Bushwalkers – home page

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
Fri 27th - Sun 29th Jun Multi-day Walk Northern Flinders Ranges - Mountains of the Oratunga M H H
Sat 28th Jun Social ROGAINING Mt Crawford M E E
Sat 28th - Sun 29th Jun Multi-day Walk Qualifying walk: Warren CP - Mt Crawford FR M E E Q
Sat 5th - Sun 6th Jul Multi-day Walk Deep Creek National Park M M M Q
Sun 6th Jul Training Walk Orienteering Belair National Park S E E
Sat 12th - Sun 13th Jul Multi-day Walk Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks) M E M
Fri 18th - Mon 21st Jul Multi-day Walk SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES M H M Q
Sat 26th - Sun 27th Jul Multi-day Walk Mambray Creek Mt Remarkable National Park M E E Q
Sat 26th Jul - Sat 2nd Aug Multi-day Walk ABW Snow Week - Jindabyne S M H
Sun 3rd Aug Training Walk Morialta M E E
Fri 8th - Sun 10th Aug Multi-day Walk Flinders Ranges - Hayward Ridge and Beyond M H H
Fri 8th - Mon 11th Aug Multi-day Walk 3 Day Spectacular 2025 - Southern Flinders M M M

Click on events below to reveal further info

Activity
Details
Date
Fri 27/6 - Sun 29/6
Location
Northern Flinders Ranges - Mountains of the Oratunga
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M H H
Date
Sat 28/6
Location
ROGAINING Mt Crawford
Activity Type
Social
Grading
M E E
Date
Sat 28/6 - Sun 29/6
Location
Qualifying walk: Warren CP - Mt Crawford FR
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M E E Q
Date
Sat 5/7 - Sun 6/7
Location
Deep Creek National Park
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M M M Q
Date
Sun 6/7
Location
Orienteering Belair National Park
Activity Type
Training Walk
Grading
S E E
Date
Sat 12/7 - Sun 13/7
Location
Onkaparinga River National Park (Day walks)
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M E M
Date
Fri 18/7 - Mon 21/7
Location
SOUTHERN FLINDERS RANGES
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M H M Q
Date
Sat 26/7 - Sun 27/7
Location
Mambray Creek Mt Remarkable National Park
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M E E Q
Date
Sat 26/7 - Sat 2/8
Location
ABW Snow Week - Jindabyne
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
S M H
Date
Sun 3/8
Location
Morialta
Activity Type
Training Walk
Grading
M E E
Date
Fri 8/8 - Sun 10/8
Location
Flinders Ranges - Hayward Ridge and Beyond
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M H H
Date
Fri 8/8 - Mon 11/8
Location
3 Day Spectacular 2025 - Southern Flinders
Activity Type
Multi-day Walk
Grading
M M M

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

It’s right in the middle of the peak South Australian walking season, so I’ll keep this brief. You’ve got trails to walk.

The headline article is the sort of thing we all want to see a LOT more of. That is, stuff by you, in your voice. I can’t tell you how much I love this article. Just read it and see for yourself.

Mike has then written an entertaining piece about the big pond at Wilpena. It’s so great to ...

So, I’m watching episode 7 of House on Netflix, fiddling with my laptop and staring at the ABW website walks page.

Packrafting in Tasmania. End of March this looks good. TREVOR oh no! That can’t be good.

Hit the View button, the red JOIN THIS ACTIVITY button is staring at me, voices in my head say no don’t do it, press it, no don’t do it, you know he’s crazy, don’t do it.

5:15 pm March 5th, 2025, and I’m stepping off flight ...

Wilpena Gap’s ‘Big Pond’ as I call it, sits in a peaceful setting just meters off the dirt road that takes you into the Pound from the tourist village, and this surely must be the most visited pond in the Flinders. It’s filled by water from Wilpena Spring which is situated in the Pound as close as the creek gets to the former Hills homestead and with probably a much larger contribution from underground flow.

Below the pond, ...

Look out there, what do you see?

I see a blaze of sun coated peaks surrounding this rocky mountain zenith,

A scarlet currency of outback and altitude that draws both climber and gaze,

And like the many climbers up here before me, I’m not disappointed atop Patawarta,

So I see the world as others do, mostly, logically, typically…

Look out there again … what do you see?

I see jagged summits guarding a distant plain, postcard soldiers beneath a blue Camelot sky,

I see an encircling ...