Owls are Powerful

From the end of Gordon Road, head up Quarry trail for just a few metres, then hang a left onto Maculata Track. This lovely technical singletrack takes you uphill all the way to the sealed road (Sir Samuel Griffith Drive), which you cross to pick up Springybark Track. Springybark travels downhill until you bridge/walkway at West Ithaca Creek - don't cross over but take a right onto Eugenia Circuit. Follow this trail around then up until it meets Powerful Owl - a broad trail cutting up the centre of the mountain. Turn right and take Powerful Owl almost to the road, but not quite - hang a left to get onto Litchfield Track.

Litchfield Track takes you in glorious undulations vaguely parallel to the road above (sometimes but not always visible through the bush) until it crosses a small road access - continue straight onto Mahogany Track which continues paralleling below the road, curving around the mountain and down to the JC Slaughter Falls Picnic Area. Here, hang a sharp left and head steeply uphill on Pinnacle Track - a bit of a shock for the legs after the runnable descent - and climb up until you meet Powerful Owl again (lower down than the last time you were here).

Left onto Powerful Owl for just under a km, looking out for a cut-through trail on your right (I clocked this at 12.6 km). Take this trail to get back onto Eugenia Circuit and turn left to complete the half of the Eugenia loop you haven't done yet. This brings you back to the West Ithaca Creek bridge, which you'll cross to get back onto Springybark Track.

From here, it's retracing your steps back up Springybark, across the road, and down Maculata to where you started.