Barrington Tops
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Intermediate canyoning weekend
21 people arrived on Friday at the Old Newnes Hotel campsite in the beautiful Wolgan Valley for a series of canyoning trip designed to consolidate skills learnt at the Beginners Canyoning trip and Abseil Training Day. Some attendees had actually done the Beginners trip in 2019, and others were returning to the club after a few years of busy study, like ex-President Stella. On Saturday…
Kosciuszko High Plains
55km, 1500m ascent All pretty straight forward on paths or open plains with the exception of a small stretch following Goodradigbee River at the start. https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=11.6/148.6130/-35.6605&pubLink=HXWoi2Pj0ZMrTfpS4tDKyP0H&trackId=a372ac56ffa4908aa80b0a68d34e564fe0f54dc4 Caption
Cox river from Dunphys campground
This was my first time co-leading with Aidan in a refresher trip. This year, we were going to the Jenolan river through Breakfast creek. Some of us camped at Dunphy’s campground the day before. Although it was a lively night with earsplitting laughter from one of the other groups, we were able to enjoy the beautiful sky and saw some shooting stars before heading off to bed. The morning…
Beginners canyoning weekend
Trip Report by Isla Mowbray Please disregard the disruptions Disconnect from the obstructions The of this canopy pleads Unweave the wired that bind Recharge yourself and Re find Another way to be – Excerpt from Dreaming Track by Lorna Munro From the 5-7th of March SUBW ventured out on the Beginners canyoning trip. This was…
Joint canyoning camp with Northern Rivers Bushwalking Club at Mt Wilson
This was a fantastic four days of intensive canyoning. Six members of NRBC drove down to join us and twelve SUBW members showed up, making 18 participants, but no more than 16 on any one day. The first SUBW people arrived at Cathedral of Ferns on Thursday night, where NRBC had captured the wet-weather shelter! It was good to see Shane again, who had guided us through the Border Ranges canyons in December, and to meet some more Northern Rivers people. Friday morning…
Western Arthurs Traverse
Mud, Bad and Dangerous to Know [1] – The Western Arthurs Traverse The Western Arthurs are an ice-carved range of mountains in southwest Tasmania. Its jagged peaks and spectacular glacial lakes feature in some of the most famous photographs of the Tasmanian wilderness. First traversed…
Budawangs
Caption 30km, 1800m ascent https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=12.7/150.1311/-35.2938&pubLink=kbrMKb2az4h2vKrcGB1opfME&trackId=fe619e42-a7f0-4f7c-864f-844089622f2d Yadboro River whilst slow was relatively easy work. Freeman Creek became too steep and had to divert after encountering a 2nd waterfall Whilst incredibly narrow after re-joining Freeman creek was still accessible but you needed to be quite agile to reach the path.
Barrington River Packrafting 16-17 January 2021
The Barrington River Rapid Adventure. The clouds were lighting up and there was a rainbow in the sky as we rolled into Gloucester on the Friday night. A good omen for the Barrington River Rapid Adventure ahead. Everyone managed to make it to The Roundabout Inn, some just before the kitchen closed (8pm for future reference). Present were…
Kosciuszko
Guthega Power station -> Geehi Resevoir -> Sirens Song Tunnel -> Opera House Hut -> Lake Albina -> Blue lake -> Charlotte Pass Reserve https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=11.0/148.2825/-36.3416&pubLink=504iRdFYGrmO3NcpwYApdzkk&trackId=d15d23209b21e39b8cd75a6bdc2d992e859617b2 61km with 3600m of ascent Sirens Song tunnel was only about mid thigh at its deepest Lady Northcotes had very different speeds for different people fastest was 1.2h per km and slowest 2.2 per km Caption
Budderoo Waterfall Weekend
Matthew was the first to arrive at Kangaroo Valley on Friday and checked us in to the campsite. Another 14 people showed up between 6.00 and 11.00 and so the party grew larger, first at the pub and then sitting around Jen’s immaculately restored VW camper for tea, timtams and whisky. We had…
Mount Royal National Park
Quite a long report but I think you will find it interesting. This trip was originally planned for Coolah Tops but that park put on a local fire ban on the weekend intended for the walk, so that would mean no camp fire. So instead I decided to do Mount Royal National Park instead, as there was no park fire ban there, so a camp fire was allowed in their campfire sites (but not elsewhere). It also…
May the fourth be with you – Glowworm Tunnel
A planned mid morning departure from Strathfield got delayed due to my being delayed by a car breakdown right in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge on the M1 (F3), causing an initial half hour delay. Of course the delay meant I ran into heavier traffic on the Pacific Highway and Ryde Road which meant I was 45 minutes late getting to Strathfield. Eventually I…
Davies Canyon
After travelling up by various means and at various times the group coalesced on Saturday morning over an obligatory cup of tea. Then it was off to Mt Thurat and into the gorge fairly high up, entering in the lower part of Thurat Creek. This gave us the opportunity to see some of the upper gorge which was beautiful on this hot day, with several wades, short swims and downclimbs.