2019 Hume and Hovell Track
Camping on the side of the road
Day one is finally here and we started our Hume and Hovell trip just before 8.00am. The entire day was spent road walking with the first 10 walking into Yass then to the turn off on Black Range Road. Plenty of opportunities for coffee and McDonalds along the way but walking along a highway is not my favourite thing to do. Having said that I have driven through Yass many times but this walk allowed me to get a better idea of what the town was like.
Once we turned off onto Black Range Road the walk became much more interesting and we were amazed at some of the enormous mansions on show as well as the number of houses out this way. We were expecting to walk just on 22 km today but missed the camping area (we didn’t actually but were expecting some signage). We end up walking 26 km and stopped on the verge when we found a decent camp site. Plenty of water in the creeks and streams along the way except for the high point which was pretty dry.
Being a road walk the day was pretty hard and by the end of it we set up camp, ate dinner and were in bed, woo by 6.00pm. We both had a very good sleep in blocks of around 5 hours and are now just lazing around before heading off on the shortest day of our trip. Temperature last night was cool but not overly uncomfortable.
Day one is finally here and we started our Hume and Hovell trip just before 8.00am. The entire day was spent road walking with the first 10 walking into Yass then to the turn off on Black Range Road. Plenty of opportunities for coffee and McDonalds along the way but walking along a highway is […]