APPLE TREE to WARRINGA POOL AND RETURN

Description: Apple Tree to Purlingbrook via Warringa Pool and return
Difficulty: Moderate: Grade 3 to 4
Distance: 12 kms return:
Time: 3-4 hours approximately (+ lunchtime stop)
Area: Springbrook NP
Start Time: 9.00 am
Meet-up time: 8.45 am
Location: Apple Tree Park

Walk leader: Warwick 0408 300056

Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.

PURLINGBROOK FALLS AND WARRINGA POOL

Car Pooling from Nerang Fair. Meet up 8.00 am leave 8.15 am.

TIP: The best road up to Springbrook is through Nerang and via the Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd, then turning left after the dam onto Pine Creek Rd this is a great road up to Springbrook. Please give drive $5.

This is only 12 kms with a spectacular waterfalls and canyons.

Enjoy hiking along a section of the Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk and the Warringa Pool Track before heading up to the Purling Brook Falls Lookout via the Purling Brook Falls Circuit. This is a great trail as you get to experience the falls from both the bottom and the top! This trail requires a degree of fitness and involves several creek crossings which may require you to wade through the water if attempting after heavy rainfall. The climb down to Little Nerang Creek is steep and even harder than the last leg home.

We'll meet at Apple Tree Car Park, crossing the road and climbing down into the Little Nerang Dam catchment area. We follow the Little Nerang Creek, crossing it several times until we reach Warringa Pool. We then return to Apple Tree by the same route.

Those who are happy to finish here are welcome to do so. Those who aren't tired enough can then try some or all of the 900 steps down the other side of Springbrook plateau by following the Great Walk signs down towards Numinbah Valley.

Please carry your lunch.

Conditions of Group Membership and event participation

1 GCMWWG is not an incorporated association or organisation and is composed of individuals who join with each other in an informal manner to engage in the pleasurable activity of bushwalking and accordingly each individual member is required to take personal responsibility for his or her own safety and to comply with the recommendations published on the Group’s meet up website and with directions given from time to time by any walk leader of a Bushwalk undertaken by the Group.
2 Participants are recommended:
(i) to wear walking boots which provide ankle support;
(ii) carry his or her own rucksack which will contain at least 1 litre of fresh water in watertight containers and personal first aid items including band-aids (or similar), bandages, antiseptic, insect repellents and sunscreen and foodstuffs appropriate to the length and timing of the bushwalk;
(iii) to make a realistic assessment prior to participating in a bushwalk as to whether the participants’ physical condition will allow the participant to enjoyably and safely engage in the bushwalking activity without endangering the safety and enjoyment of other participants;
(iv) to wear or carry clothing suitable for each walk including clothing (such as a waterproof jacket or poncho) that is appropriate for unexpected changes in the weather.
3 Each bushwalk undertaken by the Group shall have a nominated leader who will walk at the front of the Group (“walk leader”) and a nominated person who will walk at the rear of the group (“back marker”). The walk leader will set the pace of the walk and will halt the walk at appropriate times in his or her discretion for rests and drink breaks and meal breaks. The back marker will endeavour to keep the group together at all times and to notify the walk leader if any untoward accident or injury is sustained by any participant. The walk leader and the back marker for each bushwalk will be nominated by the Group Leader.
4 Each participant will be required to observe any directions or instructions given by the walk leader including any instruction to shorten the walk, change the route of the walk or abandon the walk due to any unexpected change of circumstances such as track closure or obstruction, inclement weather and/or injury or illness suffered by any member.
5 Any one of the Group Leader, walk leader or back marker for each bushwalk undertaken by the group shall carry with him or her a mobile phone and a first aid kit.
6 There shall be published in each event's description a degree of difficulty by the Group a statement as to the degree of difficulty of the proposed bushwalk so that members may realistically assess whether they (or their guests) have the requisite degree of physical fitness required to pleasurably and safely undertake the proposed bushwalk.
7 Details of each proposed bushwalk including the walk route, the commencement time and the anticipated time required to complete the walk will be published on the Group’s meet up website.