DRIVERS would have seen a group of walkers picking their way along the edge of the road between O'Connell and Bathurst on Thursday as the occasional truck rumbled past.
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The walkers have been in the region for the third annual Pub to Pub Tour created by Sydney teacher Patrick O'Shea in memory of his late wife Michelle Hanrahan.
The group included Ms Hanrahan's school friends Jane Beaumont and Liz Johnson (who had Ms Hanrahan as her bridesmaid more than 35 years ago) and Mr O'Shea himself.
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They met with Ms Hanrahan's uncle and aunty, Frank and Eileen Hanrahan, at Black Springs on Tuesday and walked a trail through a eucalyptus forest at Isabella selected by Mr Hanrahan.
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Mr O'Shea said there had been a number of highlights.
"Green scenery around Black Springs and Isabella, lunch with Frank Hanrahan and family and meeting some great Central West characters," he said.
Bathurst musician Kerry Hodge, he said, had sung for the group at the O'Connell Hotel.
Ms Hanrahan was a Bathurst girl who made a career in the health sector in Sydney and Mr O'Shea said the annual walk throughout the Central Tablelands was a way to "trace her life steps".
The Pub to Pub Tour - which ended with a walk from North Bondi to Clovelly in Sydney's east on Friday - raised money again this year for the Love Your Sister charity, which encourages Australian women to have their breasts checked and raises funds for scientific research.