Turn right: From the intersection, the walk heads downstream, keeping the creek on the left. After approximately 10m, the walk comes to a bushy creek crossing and winds over the rocks and through the bushes. Following this, the walk keeps the creek on the right whilst winding downstream. The track soon arrives at an intersection, which is a sandy area with rocks and stairs leading up the hill.
Turn left : From the large boulder, this walk heads up the hill and climbs the stone steps steeply, with a number of pink ribbons marking the initial track. The track continues steeply (eroded in places) up the hill and winds its way up to the un-signposted T-intersection.
Turn sharp right: From the intersection
[2], this walk heads along the mostly flat track along the side of the hill, keeping the valley to your right. Soon the track leads to another intersection at the base of more stone steps, and a rock wall (on the left) that has ‘Florabella Pass’ engraved in it
[3].
Continue straight: From the intersection, the walk heads around the boulder (which is on the left) and soon meets a set of stairs, to the left of a ‘Pippas Pass’ sign
[4] in a tree.
Turn right: From the intersection
[5], this walk follows the ‘Pippas Pass’ sign
[6] (that is about 2m up a tree) gently downhill along the track, directly away from the rockface, keeping the main valley to your right. The track winds along the side of the hill for about 100m
to then climb up a set of sandstone steps just past a shallow sandstone overhang
[7]. From here the track gently undulates along the side of the hill (with a steep valley to your right
[8]) for about 300m to lead gently down and cross the usually small creek in the shaded valley
[9]. Just after crossing this creek
[10], the track bends left to head gently up through the valley along the base of a few natural sandstone walls
[11] for about 200m, where the the track becomes rocky and starts to climb a bit more steeply. The track then leads up through a cleft in the rock
[12] then about 60m later comes to a unsignposted three-way intersection (with the track on the left crossing the creek), marked with a smooth bark Angophera
[13].
Turn left: From the intersection
[14], this walk crosses the sandstone platform and creek
[15]. Here the track winds gently uphill for about 40m to cross a smaller often dry creek
[16] where the track continues uphill for another 30m to pass a grafittied sandstone overhang (on your left)
[17]. The track continues gently uphill and bends right to cross a sandstone rock platform and small creek
[18] to almost immediately come to a faint intersection with a track in the tall heath
[19]. Here the walk turns left and heads uphill for for about 50m where the track then leads up some steps to come to the base of a sandstone cliff and smaller overhang
[20]. Here the track bends left and and continues along the side of the hill for another 15m to pass a larger and more grafittied sandstone overhang
[21]. From here the track continues to wind more steeply uphill for about 80m before turning left and following a wider track (away from the houses) and into the lower car park of Blaxland library just past the ‘Bushcare site’ information sign
[22]. Here this walk turns right to head up to the library and main car park
[23].
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