Trig #19 - Davidson Hill/Red Hill

Well I think I’ve found my favourite trig walk!

It had been a bit of a miserable weekend, so I'd been doing a bit of work on the computer, but by the afternoon today I was very restless! And I thought: it's cold and windy outside, and not very nice weather for mid-spring, but it's actually good weather for walking! So off I went. 

I was going to do this walk on Friday afternoon, but went home and did some pre-storm gardening, getting my tomatoes in before the nice rainfalls. So today I made my way to the carpark on Mugga Way and set off along the southern end of the trail loop. 

 

 

From the start I enjoyed the walk. The trail is obviously well-used and firm despite the recent rains (although it's a bit sad to see so much weed growth), and there were some friendly local birds along the way. 

There's a pretty good climb to the main ridge, where you are spoilt by some really lovely views down across Woden to the west

and the Jerrabomberra Grasslands to the east. 

If I thought the views were nice on the way up, they were downright amazing from the trig, with 360° views across all the amazing sites that Canberra has to offer, from the Tower to the city and the lake and all the beautiful green spaces. We really are spoilt!

I kept going along the route, down a little path that, if there hadn't been Parliament House and the city in the background, could have been a little country track. 

And despite all the weeds, there were also some very beautiful trees and non-weed flowers.

I went down a pretty steep hill and came to a crossroads, with about 6 different trails, including one back to my car. I decided I hadn't had enough yet and pressed on up the next hill (again steep) towards the Red Hill Lookout. 

I could see why they call it Red Hill...

I went past the lookout building and towards the stairs down past the tardis, a bit of a Red Hill institution.

The stairs down the hill were oddly sized and awkward, 

so I half staggered, half ran down until I met up with the fire trail at the bottom, enjoying some interesting views into the backyards of the multi-million dollar homes on Mugga Way. 

Including historic Calthorpe’s House. 

It really was a lovely walk, with a little bit of everything, except thankfully the rain that threatened much of the time. 😊

I will certainly be doing this one again.

Davidson Hill Trig to Red Hill Lookout
Elevation - 750m
Time to trig - about 25 minutes 
Difficulty - medium (some steepish bits)
Best part - a very nice all-round walk