Victory Walk Springwood

Faulconbridge to Springwood.

This was our only Blue Mountains walk scheduled for this year.

Luckily, the weather was quite mild for May, and there was no sign of rain.

The majority of the 17 in the group travelled by train - some boarding at Central, others at Strathfield. All enjoyed the chance to catch up on the previous week’s activities.

We alighted at Faulconbridge and met those who had travelled by car. We set off on the Victory Track - the start is a very short distance along the road, on the southern side, walking east.

The track is a reasonably steep descent into the Sassafras Valley - not difficult, but those with walking sticks found them useful. It is beautiful bushland - not a lot of flowers, but lovely trees, shrubs and ferns, and a creek in the valley. We passed the Clarinda Falls. Lunch was eaten sitting under a ledge - a gentle trickle of water coming down through one of the huge rocks. We continued along the valley and then came the “up” bit - groups of well formed steps and plenty of places to stop for a drink on the way. A short walk on streets to the station - some beautiful autumn leafed trees showing all their glory.

The train timetable left us time to purchase a takeaway coffee, and then an enjoyable return train trip.

The successful use of public transport has led us to think that perhaps more mountain walks could be done using this method. We would, of course, need to choose those whose entry and finish points are within reasonable distance of a station.