Distance: 3.6km one-way
Getting there:
If heading from Cairns head towards Port Douglas along the coastal road providing some of the best views on any road you will drive, when you get to the round-a-bout to turn off to Port Douglas go straight through and set your sights on Mossman. Once in Mossman travel on towards Wonga Beach again dont turn into Wonga Beach you will start to see signs for the Daintree, follow these signs to the Ferry. The ferry charges about $25 return per vehicle. The trail like I said does not begin till almost at the start of the Bloomfield track, once you pass Kulki day-use area start to slow down 300m past this turn off you come around a corner and will notice a pull over area on your right. If you pull into here and park your car when you look across the road you should be able to see and old national parks sign leaning over with "Mount Sorrow ridge trail" on it.
The walk is not easy and there are no creeks or other places to fill water bottles ont he way so make sure to carry an absolute minimum of 2.5 litres of water. From the get go you begin climbing up the ridge the line, once on top it settles down and is moderately flat for a few 100m. The walk then begins to traverse up the mountain ridge to the peak of Mount Sorrow. The steepness is genuinely what you should expect going steep up a mountain however in particular there is one very steep part, rope has been laid however to give you something to grip onto and pull yourself up to stop you from falling over. When you begin to reach an altitude of around 580m the vegetation begins to thin out from dense rainforest to ferns and other smaller plants.
Once at the top the viewing platform gives about 190 degree views however depending on how well trimmed back the trees are this could severely reduced.
Note 1: This path doesn't end here, it continues along a knife edge ridge line, eventually taking you to Roaring Meg Creek, and even further to the top of Mt. Pieter Botte. I will put this in another blog.
Note 2: I have included the topographical and satellite image of this walk fro reference of the steepness of this walk.
