Strange ways at the Pinnacle

A year on… and you should see what that pick axe has been up to!

Walking in the Reserve today I couldn’t help my curiosity and had to check out what the orange council fencing in the bush was about. I admire the work of those who did it, because it has been done well, but did they really have to build the tracks here?

There was a notice on the fencing mentioning working with the council to make mountain biking better in the ACT, but I doubt the council will ever really listen to these young people let alone make a space where a young person’s creativity and adventure can truly be expressed.

Why on earth with all the BMX tracks available in Canberra would someone go and dig holes in a nature reserve?

PBO said :

Surely we can read more into it than this. If there is no conspiracy apparent then we should pool our minds and make one up.

+1

Surely we can read more into it than this. If there is no conspiracy apparent then we should pool our minds and make one up.

BMX jumps? Personally whenever I used to dig up dirt for jumps, or anything for that matter, I didn’t use a pickaxe, pretty sure I used, y’know, a shovel.

If those are in fact jumps they are the poorest attempt I’ve ever seen. That lump in the top of the photo isn’t a jump, it’s just a pile of dirt. No tyre tracks anywhere to be seen.

S4anta, Grrrr… no imagination! 😉

Thorry ’bout that.

As for signs, I think the ‘Friends of the Pinnacle’ and ‘Friends of Aranda bushland’ got a landcare grant to stick a couple fo signs for walks etc.

I can’t read all the signs in your photos, but the Tullys own one of the neighbouring properties and Kama was originally owned by a Dowling (not sure who lives there now)

The tullys are over back behind Cook, and Kama is now owned by ACT Govt (behind Hawker), was ear marked as a rehab facility or some such odd tid bit, but surprisingly ti got rolled by the locals.

The Tullys are just on the other side of Coulter Drive from the Pinnacle Nature Reserve. Maybe their land originally incorporated all or part of the Pinnacle? Do they own the agistment paddocks on the Western Side of Coulter drive? Or is that part of Kama? Or ACT Govt?

On a similar tack, how about the fantastic Kokoda Track signage on the climb up Mt Ainslie? That was a truly inspired idea. You don’t worry about getting puffed on a hot day heading up Mt Ainslie when you’re passing Owen’s Corner, Eora Creek and Templeton’s Crossing on your way!

S4anta said :

BMX jumps kiddies

Agreed. Obvious. Correct.

niftydog said :

S4anta, Grrrr… no imagination! 😉

Thorry ’bout that.

As for signs, I think the ‘Friends of the Pinnacle’ and ‘Friends of Aranda bushland’ got a landcare grant to stick a couple fo signs for walks etc.

smeeagain said :

I can’t read all the signs in your photos, but the Tullys own one of the neighbouring properties and Kama was originally owned by a Dowling (not sure who lives there now)

The tullys are over back behind Cook, and Kama is now owned by ACT Govt (behind Hawker), was ear marked as a rehab facility or some such odd tid bit, but surprisingly ti got rolled by the locals.

S4anta, Grrrr… no imagination! 😉

I would suspect S4anta is right – isn’t that a jump in the top of the pick-axes photo? Dirt Jumpers are often too lazy to take their tools home with them, and instead just leave them at the site for next time they feel like building.