Easy daywalk 16km on gently graded firetrails to visit Demandering Hut and Horse Gully huts, then return via same route. Suitable for beginner walkers who have suitable fitness to spend a whole day (6-7 hours walking.
Walk description:
This walk starts near the Mt Clear camping ground at the locked gate on the Naas Valley Fire Trail about 46-km from the NVC. A detailed self-guided walks brochure entitled ‘Naas Valley to Horse Gully Hut’ is available from the NVC. It is a return walk along the Naas Valley Fire Trail. On the way the walk passes the modern Mt Clear horse yards and twice fords the Naas Creek, which could result in wet feet. A turnoff at about 6km leads to Demandering Hut which is some 200-m off the fire trail. This small hut of galvanised iron was built in the 1940’s. Return to the fire trail and continue a further 2-km, passing the burnt remains of cattle yards, to Horse Gully Hut. This bigger hut also of galvanised iron was also built in the 1940’s adjacent to the site of an earlier 1890’s hut. There is little evidence of this earlier hut except the stones of chimney. Along the way the fire trail passes through forests of tall eucalypts, Ribbon Gum, Manna Gum, Peppermint and Candlebark. Also Black Sallees which mainly front frost hollows and boggy ground. Return to the start back along the fire trail.
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