Party: Emma Spencer and Tim Vollmer My first trip with the Sydney University Bushwalkers (SUBW) was an overnight amble to and from the Colo River. It was a 6km on-track bushwalk and thus it provided scant chance to appreciate the remoteness and the roughness of the surrounding country. Still, as I gazed up at the …
Party: Paul, Kosta, Helen, Josh and Stephen Danae Brook is one of Kanangra’s most iconic slot canyons and well known for being a long, challenging, yet spectacular trip. There are several exit options, but arguably the most interesting one involves scrambling up and over Thurat Spires. With my thesis submission date looming ever closer, I …
Party: Tom Murtagh, Emma Spencer, Helen Smith, Iza Spaleniak, Jiri Svec and Tim Vollmer – Trip report by Tom Murtagh: Been wanting to get to the Gangerang Plateau for ages. All indications were that the area around the base of Cloudmaker is a wonderful mess of open scrub between assorted hillocks, and (more to the point) several decent-sized caves …
Party: Bjorn Sturmberg, Tim Vollmer, Tom Morris Following the rule of thumb that the epicness of a trip is inversely proportional to the rate of piking in the 24 hours preceding its start I was anticipating great things from this day out. By the time we met at the Mt Banks carpark on Saturday morning we …
Party: Tim Vollmer, Jeremie Rossy, Joshua Hill, Tom Begić and Pete Harvey I’m not one for “ticking off canyons” — that sort of conquest mentality really rubs me the wrong way — but I am someone who notices lingering gaps on my maps; those places that I’ve wanted to go for a long time, but for …
Party: Leo Garnac, Felix Ossig-Bonanno, Tony Ruzek, Pierrette Michaux, Adrian Spragg Leo collected Adrian from Redfern Friday at 3pm ….. and as a harbinger for Leo’s ambitious plans for the weekend, they crawled bumper to bumper on the M4 to Penrith. Leo had evidently not cleared his plans with Huey, and after heavy rain through … Continue reading
When first looking at topo maps to decide on walks to do, I had seen this canyon marked on the map. I wasn’t expecting a slot canyon but more of a gorge and planned a route that would link a few things together. I had attempted this trip the day before but poor weather had … Continue reading
Party: David & Nicole Lee (+1 in utero), Tim Vollmer (T2), Tom Murtagh, Yumi Hong, Tony Ruzek Yes, yes, I know this was a while ago, but I promised at the time to write the trip report, so here it is. Hope you are happy. If I have misremembered anything, I take no responsibility. Mount … Continue reading
Party: Mum and I ================================================= Preamble: Earlier in the year Adrian had organised a big Kanangra day (and some night) trip were we did Kalang, Thurat Spires and Danae Brook. Since that trip I have been recommending Danae to everyone who will listen. Living in a family who goes canyoning on Christmas Day also means … Continue reading
Party: Me, Jimmy (James), Lukas and Leo Photos: Leo and I Jimmy, Gumbshoe and I awoke around 6, and after some breakfast and final packing started on the 2hr drive to meet Leo. We passed by Lukas’s place to grab his forgotten EpiPen (Epinephrine) and Phenergan (antihistamines). I had been a bit slack organising … Continue reading
Party: Mum, Dad, Me, Gumbshoe, Bugs, Kristian, Allie, and Denis Photos: Me and whoever borrowed my camera Written in alternating sentences by myself and Kristian We met up for a civilised start at 0800 and set of down the Mt Bell Entrance Track in good spirits. After a quick stocktake on first aid kits, PLBs … Continue reading
Party: David and I The two SUBW Newnes canyoning trips got merged into one so it ended up being four days of canyoning fun! Can anyone tell me what the spider is? Also are both the frogs Blue Mountains tree frogs? ================================================================================ Monday ================================================================================ David was on night shift until 6am so we opted for … Continue reading
Days 1-5, Exploratory: Me, T2 & Bron, Kshitij, Josh and Kosta Day 6 (Jan 1st): Me, Kshitij, Christian, Rick & Robyn, Al, Nicole, Katy, Martin and Mum. Day 7: Me, David, Al, Katy, Martin, Mum and Denis New Years is the time of the year were SUBW visits Coorongooba. Boxing day for me means visiting … Continue reading
Party: Yumi, Owen, Nuria and Felix (photos by Owen, Nuria and Felix) SUBW trip details: I had never really done much walking on Narrow Neck. For sure I’d been down the Golden Stairs on long forgotten trips, but I’d never really even walked the full length (that I can recall) – unless you included the painful … Continue reading
Party: Lauren, Michael, Claire, Tony, Yang, Anqi, Li-Jia and Felix (Photos: Yang and Felix) SUBW trip details: Lauren, Michael and I had a sleep-in compared to everyone else who utilised a combination of train and bus to make it up into the mountains. After dumping our bikes into the tray and grabbing a few lemons … Continue reading
Party: Katy, Lilian, Andrew, YiLing, Zhan and Felix (photos by Felix) SUBW trip details Credit: Many thanks to Trevor Leaman (from the Nura Gili astronomy team) for his permission in using the star diagrams that appear in this report. Great talk at the Redfern Community Center by the way🙂 Disclaimer: I have tried to include … Continue reading
Date: 21-23/08/2015 Party: Ankit, Dave, Grant, Marty, Peter, Kosta The weather forecast wasn’t very promising with both the Bureau as well as the Norwegians predicting a mixed bag on Saturday and sure rain on Sunday. This brought back memories of a previous trip in the area and left me with only a small hope of … Continue reading
