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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 20th - Sun 21st Sep | Training Walk | Security on Steep Ground Course (2 Days) | S H H |
| Sat 27th - Sun 28th Sep | Multi-day Walk | Bill Lindsay Trail | M E M Q |
| Sat 4th - Mon 6th Oct | Multi-day Walk | Grampians Vic - Fortress and Arch loop | M M H Q |
| Sat 4th - Sat 18th Oct | Extended Walk | Great South West Walk (GSWW) and Canoeing | M E E |
| Sat 11th Oct | Social | FOUR SEASONS: SPRING SOCIAL WALK | S M M |
| Sat 18th - Sun 19th Oct | Training Walk | Security on Steep Ground Course (2 Days) | S H H |
| Tue 21st - Sun 26th Oct | Multi-day Walk | KANGAROO ISLAND WILDERNESS TRAIL | M E E |
| Mon 27th - Fri 31st Oct | Day Walk | Melrose base-camp - CONFIRMATIONS REQUESTED | M E E |
| Sat 1st - Sun 2nd Nov | Multi-day Walk | Fox Creek Trails - Sunset Dinner | S M E Q |
| Sat 8th - Sun 9th Nov | Day Walk | Newland Head CP - Night + Day Walk | M E E |
Click on events below to reveal further info
Activity
Details
Date
Sat 20/9 - Sun 21/9
Location
Security on Steep Ground Course (2 Days)
Date
Sat 27/9 - Sun 28/9
Location
Bill Lindsay Trail
Date
Sat 4/10 - Mon 6/10
Location
Grampians Vic - Fortress and Arch loop
Date
Sat 4/10 - Sat 18/10
Location
Great South West Walk (GSWW) and Canoeing
Date
Sat 11/10
Location
FOUR SEASONS: SPRING SOCIAL WALK
Date
Sat 18/10 - Sun 19/10
Location
Security on Steep Ground Course (2 Days)
Date
Tue 21/10 - Sun 26/10
Location
KANGAROO ISLAND WILDERNESS TRAIL
Date
Mon 27/10 - Fri 31/10
Location
Melrose base-camp - CONFIRMATIONS REQUESTED
Date
Sat 1/11 - Sun 2/11
Location
Fox Creek Trails - Sunset Dinner
Date
Sat 8/11 - Sun 9/11
Location
Newland Head CP - Night + Day Walk
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 ...