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Mt Coolum: The Morning Dash
While staying up at Coolum over the weekend for my brothers family birthday celebrations, I decided to hike up Mt Coolum at 6.30am. Named by Aborigines for its blunt appearance, Mount Coolum is only 208m above sea level.
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Summit views. |
East face. |
The walk is rated as a moderate 2.5 km hike with a 2 hour return trip. Since I was on my own, I could set my own pace. I summited within 23 minutes. Due to the previous days rain, the track was a little slippery and clouds were still hovering around. Visibility up and down the coast was not the best. In Winter, you can see all the way up to Noosa and far down south to Bribie and Moreton Islands! My descent was slightly quicker (17 minutes) but could have been faster if it wasn’t wet.
References:
EPA webpage for Mt Coolum: http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=159
Hope you had a blast at your bro’s birthday!
23 minutes is pretty good. We have started the Mount Coolum Wall of Fame on Facebook if you’d like to join us and add your time and pics there!
Check out our local bloggers attempt to outdo his mate at 8 mins
Also looking for more info on how to get to the entrance to the Climbing section for our rockclimbing page. If you can help us out, please email me info@visitcoolum.com.au
Cheers
http://www.visitcoolum.com.au
Hi,
To summit in 8 minutes is fast indeed!
For rock climbing at Mt Coolum, check out the
Coolum rock climbing guide for all information regarding access, routes and topos.
–Dennis
Hey Thanks for the guide. We also found a guy on our Flickr group who takes some cool photos of climbers who helped us out. Funny enough, he’s only tried indoor climbing once but loves to hang out and take awesome photos of the action!
Hoping to get up there soon for a climb but need more practice at Mt Tinbeerwah as I’m only a 16 noob at the mo! In the meantime I’ll have to be content with trying to get under 20 mins to the top! – No way 8 is going to happen
Thanks again for a great resource!
Kiki