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Date: 7 to 8 September 2019
Par�cipants: Joanne Armstrong, Jane�e Allan, Anthea Michaelis, Glenn Draper

was great to see lots of young people enjoying the
bush, we were gladthey all camped at Crosslandsso
we had the Calna Creek campsite to ourselves.
Some of us had trouble put�ng up our
shelters/tents with the strong winds which seemed
to pick up just as we reached the campsite. Luckily
it dropped overnight.

Sunday was a truly glorious day. We didn't run into
any “Duke of Ed-ers” on this day so we moved
quickly and we even had �me for a coffee at
Walk descrip�on: Berowra Waters. Luxury! The climb out of Berowra
Pack walk along the Great North Walk following Waters was very enjoyable with some great rock
Berowra Creek to Crosslands then via Berowra scrambling- it was my favourite part of the hike. We
Waters. Mostly good bush track with some fire trail. were also very impressed with all the wild flowers
Will collect water at Crosslands and continue on to out- especially in the section just before Cowan. We
Lyrebird Creekto camp.A numberof ups and downs were back at Cowan Sta�on just after 1pm.
with maximum ascent 220m. Map: Hornsby, Cowan

Report:
The previous day had wild weather- in fact I had to
pack for the walk in the dark on Friday night as my
suburb had no power- so Saturday was s�ll quite
windy and the track had lots of branches across it to
climb over or go around. The track was also very
busy with, it seemed, every high school Duke of Ed
group walking to Crosslands - at one stage it was
literally bumper to bumper backpacks! And while it

Report by: Joanne Armstrong 2 Photos: Joanne Armstrong