Then, now and next walk: Upper Pennsylvania

Wednesday 7th October at 14:00-16:00

Meet Rose Swift at the bus stop Florida Drive on Stoke Valley Rd at 2pm

Rose Swift offered to lead a walk through Upper Pennsylvania. It will on Stoke Valley Road, walk behind this road along a path to admire the surrounding countryside, follow the Northbrook at the bottom, enter the Mincinglake Valley Park to view the recent wildfire devastation and end on the local community cafe on Collins Road. The K bus service can bring you to the starting point and back on your return to the city. There is also free parking along Stoke Valley Road.

Please be aware that Gert will not be available for help or listing you for this walk. So the only way will be to express your interest via the whatsapp group.

All our walks are advertised in the public section of our website under ‘Events’. They are also listed in the monthly News Bulletin. Before leaving home to join us on a walk, can we please ask you to check the website entry. At times we had to cancel walks last minute due to weather or illness of the lead. So please double-check that the walk is actually still on to avoid disappointments.

For walks you can subscribe (as preferred means of communications) to a Whatsapp group now run by Gert Vonhoff for the ECS walks under: https://chat.whatsapp.com/H9GRjkBkiIoBNc6ZfwAnMK ; all information and communications should preferably run via this group. You need to check before coming that the walk is on like scheduled, as cancellations will be notified through this platform. This Whatsapp group is restricted, so you need contact Gert to be granted access. This might take a few days, and it is best to send Gert an email with the request, your full name and mobile number, so he can add you to the group. Additionally you need to have Gert with mobile and email listed in your contacts.

As the function of the Whatsapp group is to communicate about the walks, please do not use this as a general chatroom.

If you prefer not to become member of the Whatsapp group, you are requested to book yourself in for each individual walk by either sending Gert an email (gertvonhoff@btinternet.com) or a text message to his mobile (07766 706614). This way we can inform you should a walk have to be cancelled with short notice.

Otherwise please use Gert’s mobile phone contact only as a means of last resort.

A word about insurance: please be aware, you won’t be insured via the Civic Society or the lead of a walk, but only by your own insurance.