Starting from the Tinderry Rd we'll take a couple of fire trails for 4km before peeling offtrack to spot height 1325 to search for my compass (which I inadvertently left behind a couple of years ago). We then continue offtrack to climb Tinderry Peak (1619) before heading south towards the Onion. Depending on participants' appetite for going up and down densely scrubby ridges we can continue southward or peel off on a spur to hit the Round Flat Fire Trail and back to the cars. At least 500m of climbing - some on a fire trail, some off track, and some of it quite steep - and at least 15km distance. The views should make up for climbing and the dense regrowth we may need to push through. As it'll be winter and we'll be above 1000m we'll need to deal with very cold temps.

As much of the walk involves off track and is exploratory for the leader, participants need to be experienced at off track walking, reasonably fit and suitably prepared to cope with whatever the terrain might throw at us.

Car pooling from the Hume petrol station on the Monaro Hwy and further carpooling from Michaelago General Store (due to limited carparking at the start of the walk).

Note: This is an irregular capped X/M-H (exploratory and moderate to hard grade) walk sponsored by the CBC that is not part of the existing inter-club Wednesday Walks program.