Party: Tim and Michelle Vollmer, Leah Charlson, Naser Ghobadzadeh, Colombina Schaeffer, Jana Fromm, Naomi Rellum, Yumi Hong, Terence Nhan, Murray Booth, Adrian Dries (and friends) A steady stream tumbling over a waterfall into a large, deep pool which is skirted by a beautiful sandy beach and towered over by cliffs on one side. From the first glimpse you get… [Read more…]
December 18, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Kosta Seiler, Sierra Classen, Todd Harford, Saul Richardson, Damian O’Connor, Phil Davey, Ross Davey and Barnaby Heaton – photos There was a chill in the air at Leura as we stood around waiting for the train to bring the last of the group. All week the weather forecast had been miserable, with… [Read more…]
September 4, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Tim Gastineau-Hills, Mitch Isaacs (for the easy part), and about 80 other bushwalkers (again for the easy part only!) — T2′s photos | T1′s photos With an unseasonably hot sun bearing down through the crisp spring sky, about 80 bushwalkers joined in a chorus of “The People’s Flag” — an old socialist classic… [Read more…]
September 3, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim, Michelle, Dyson, Uriah and Amani Vollmer, Leah Charlson, Natascha Rohr and Meredith Thomas Challenging bushwalks that take you to far away places can be wonderful, but it is amazing how much beauty can still be found close to suburbia, tucked just a short stroll away from the hustle and bustle. My aim was to head to… [Read more…]
August 28, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Peggy Huang, Sarah Chan, Diana Ocampo, Daniel Arnesson, Jiri and Cat Svec, Chee Wong, Lilian Donoso, Chantal Bronkhorst, Melanie Luxem and Andrew Randall — T2′s photos I remember collapsing onto hands and knees — fighting back the urge to vomit as the adrenaline surged through my body — before composing myself and pulling out… [Read more…]
Party: Rocky (Joshua Hill), my existential and physical pain, and some other guys… I would like to give my perspective on the apparent controversy of me (Joshua) walking out alone from Squatting Rock Gap, to Yerranderie. First off I would like to clear up the issue of me “blacking out…on the decent”. This was not the… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Tim Gastineau-Hills, John Lieberth, Stephen Sheehan, Adrian Spragg and very briefly Joshua Hill — T2′s photos | T1′s photos | Adrian’s photos For a week the weather forecasts had been steadily worsening, so that by the time we left we were pretty well guaranteed rain on every day of the walk. We made our… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Gastineau-Hills, Tracey Bullivant, Tim Vollmer, Stephen Sheehan, Pete Raines, Nigel Butler, Joshua Hill, Mary Merlo — photos When you think about the ways a canyoning trip can go horribly wrong, your mind normally goes to things like thunderstorms, snake bites, rock falls or rope jams. But for all those potential disasters, there is… [Read more…]
June 19, 2011 by Tim Gastineau-Hills
Party: Tim (T1), Tracey I cast the mind back to January 2010 and the birth of the Fat Canyoners Club, from “the deranged ramblings of a multi-day canyoning trip” in Bungleboori Creek North Branch. Despite not quite meeting the ahhh… profile of a Fat Canyoner, I was happy to accept honorary membership of this exclusive… [Read more…]
June 11, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Michelle Vollmer, Sky Reidy, Angie Bulic, Glenn Woerndle, Naomi Norris, Chee Wong and Nikita Rybak — photos I’d spent more than a month trying to find out what Michelle wanted to do for her birthday, so when she eventually asked for an easy overnight bushwalk I figured it was finally my chance to… [Read more…]
June 5, 2011 by Tim Gastineau-Hills
Party: Tim (T1), Tracey What is mysterious about Mystery Mountain? Is it something about the imposing rocky head, 370m above Newnes and the Wolgan River? Is it the interesting collection of pagodas, which you can scramble up fairly easily, but only to spot a taller one nearby? Well, it’s none of those and all of… [Read more…]
June 5, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Bjorn Sturmberg, Stephen Sheehan, Adrian Spragg, Peggy Huang, Lilian Donoso — photos When I was first grabbed by the idea of exploring all the passes of Narrowneck I knew of just eight. By the end of this trip a dozen had been completed, at least another two uncovered and few areas on this… [Read more…]
May 28, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
Party: Tim Vollmer, Nigel Butler, Mary Merlo, Lisa Jonas – photos I’d been itching for an overnight trip for a while, and a conversation with Rocky got me thinking about the Wild Dogs, so I decided to organise a trip to check out a few of the places on Dunphy’s sketch map that had intrigued me. A… [Read more…]
Party: Kosta, Mary, Mel, Peggy, Scott, Sky – Mary’s photos After leaving Sydney during some misty weather, this turned out to be a beautiful day up in the Blue Mountains. The original plan was to do two abseiling trips down Malaita Point and Wall, but we decided to replace Malaita Point with a Boars Head Rock… [Read more…]
May 19, 2011 by Tim Gastineau-Hills
Party: Tim Gastineau-Hills, Fiona Knox, Stacey Ly Here’s a change from the norm – a trip that’s not a bushwalk, not a canyon, and only a bit bushy! This is very civilised, easy cycling in scenic, subalpine northeast Victoria. Just perfect for an FCC trip. When an old friend of mine [a keen canyoner and… [Read more…]
May 14, 2011 by Tim Vollmer
The Gardens of Stone, on the western side of the world heritage listed Blue Mountains, are an iconic area full of stunning sandstone cliffs, pagodas, and canyons. While parts of the gardens are protected as national park, large sections are state forests and are increasingly being encroached on by coal mines. On Saturday my three… [Read more…]
Party: Bjorn Sturmberg, Tim Vollmer, Tim Gastineau-Hills, Joshua Hill, Pete Raines, Kosta Seiler – photos Joshua, T2, T1 Pierces, T1 Bridal After weeks if not months of bad weather we got a sunny mild Sunday that had us in high, if somewhat nervous spirits as we headed down the track at 9:30am to ‘the base jumpers… [Read more…]
Party: Bjorn, Emma With a short cowardly email, the adventurous Easter plans of the Fat Canyoners Club dissipated late on Friday night, a mere seven hours before the train was to take me up into the Mountains. There was a no call to check I’d received the notice of the pikers desertion, with a fleeting … [Read more…]
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