MountainSphere Adventures | Navigation Weekend 18-19 October 2025

A cool change with thunderstorms swept across the mountains late on Friday, by Saturday morning all was calm and misty when the group of 8 met at Bell for the latest navigation weekend. It soon fined up to a beautiful warm day, and on both days of this navigation weekend we took a little time out for a refreshing dip in the Wollangambe River! But as well as being a great wilderness hike in beautiful weather with opportunities for swimming in the clear river rapids, it was a highly educational weekend filled with skills training on how to read a map and how to use a map with a compass to find your way. These are the indispensable skills of the bushwalker who wants to explore wild places off the beaten track. We saw almost no other walkers out on this weekend and we had an amazing campsite all to ourselves. As well as learning navigation, we squeezed in a short rope skills session as well. It was a pleasure to have such a diverse group of people on this navigation weekend, including a couple who had travelled all the way from Singapore to come on this hike and improve their navigation skills. The long journey here to do this course was definitely well worthwhile and was enjoyed by all!