Mt Maroon Hike, 6th September

We (Nick, Dionne, Trent and the two of us) all headed down to Mt Maroon (near Rathdowney/Beaudesert) early Saturday morning, all squeezing into Dionne’s Car from Nick’s place.

Mt Maroon from the car park

Now this walk was much different to Mt Warning last month, and you could tell that straight away, just by the only other solitary car in the parking lot (there were about 40 cars at Mt Warning).

The last couple of days we had had some heavy down pours of rain, which worked to our advantage, as it is normally very dry and dusty. It was a beautiful day except for being a bit windy.

The first section of the walk was mainly straight up the mountain, no real track or signage (glad it wasn’t Nick’s first time), we had wonderful views no matter where we were.

The next section was a plateau, going around the outcrop, where we got to appreciate our surroundings.

Then next was the straight up rock scramble, then we had a little break where we got to appreciate the view and the tiny white wild flowers.

Then a 10 minute walk up the granite and we were at the top – it was blowy, but the view was magnificent, we sheltered on one side and had lunch for 30minutes.

Finally at the top, Mt Barney in the distance

We then did it all in reverse, the best hike we have done so far – highly enjoyable – just don’t do in the rain. Took us 2 and half hours up, 2 hours down.

We finished off the day with a beer and a massive serve of chips and gravy at the Rathdowney Pub




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