Owing to unforeseen circumstances, we were short-handed last night on our walk from Olinda to Woori Yallock, a 30km stretch of the trail that we demolished in a touch over 5 hours. It was quite a hard walk, in that we really pushed the pace, but the actual trail itself was fairly easy-going. The revised route between Olinda and Mt Evelyn (taking in Silvan dam) has removed some of the more precipitous downhill sections, and also excised the 'mystery hill' that wasn't on the cross-sectional plot last year. The only slightly unpleasant section is just after Silvan dam, when one sees a sign saying 'Mt Evelyn - 4.6km'. After walking for about 15 minutes, we came across a new sign saying 'Mt Evelyn - 4.8km'.
The Warburton trail was closer to the road than I remembered, and there seemed to be many more houses close to the path (they can't all have been built in that time, surely?). However, it's still pretty long and boring. We were pretty pleased when we got to the Killara platforms at about 11:15pm, with only about 4km left to go...
As you can see, it was pretty dark, and my diddy cameraphone struggled to make Eoin out. Still, we got to Woori Yallock on the stroke of midnight, slightly sore but with increased confidence for the event. Maybe next weekend we'll repeat the dose with the other two MOOs.
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