Actually, Mount Baldy, near Atherton in
Far North Queensland isn't really that steep a trail, it's steep, but
not crazy steep like some others. But, this blog post would have
been way too short with one picture of the view from Mount Baldy
today and description of the short trail (fast folks could go up and
down in an hour) to the top.
Mistakenly, I did think that when we
moved to Australia, steep trails (think of the trail from Henrietta
Lake up towards Mt Sedgwick) would be a thing of the past, but, one
of the first overnight bushwalks we did – the Kedumba Circuit in
the Blue Mountains – featured an incredibly steep descent from
Mount Solitary down to the Kedumba River. One of those descents that
you are glad you are not going up, and have to lower yourself from
tree to tree to avoid a long sliding fall all the way down.
Of course, the trail up Bartle Frere is
steep, probably more so from the east than the west, but I've only
been up from the west and have no intention of going up from the
east. My theory is that these steep trails were never actually
built, they just evolved from people walking that route, and, at some
point, the National Parks took them on and wacked a few trail markers
on trees but did nothing else.
Anyway, today we walked up Mount Baldy.
I had been up before in a rain storm and seen nothing. This time it
was pretty clear and there is a nice view of Atherton. You can do it
in an easy 1.5 hours. Take the Herberton Road from Atherton and turn
onto Rifle Range Road.
Atherton From Mount Baldy
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