Category Archives: Canyoning

Hindsight is always 20-20

Posted on February 14, 2021 by marilyn

NEWNES PLATEAU – 13 & 14 February 2021 This turned into (yes David), yet another epic trip.  In hindsight, we should have gone with the option to exit via the Tiger Snake exit track, it would have meant backtracking 600m … Continue reading →

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3 Bullets Dodged

Posted on February 12, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS NP – 12 February 2021 Haystack Ridge>Lower South Bowen> North Bowen exit. You think you’ve hit the jackpot when you “dodge a bullet” as they say in Australia (you know, when you just avoid a near disaster).  Imagine … Continue reading →

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A wet Dalpura trip

Posted on January 30, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS NP – 30 January 2021 Alan C told me it rained all night on Friday night, I’d had 2 glasses of wine and some panadol, so I slept through the whole lot (in my car – no wet … Continue reading →

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40 days and 40 nights – almost

Posted on January 29, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS NP – 29 January 2021 I had a great weekend planned, an off track adventure for Friday, then 2 days of canyoning with Rod S.  And then it started raining AGAIN.  By Thursday I was starting to be … Continue reading →

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How not to drown in high-flow waterfalls

Posted on January 23, 2021 by marilyn

SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS – 16 – 17 & 23 January 2021 This started out as a simple weekend away abseiling Macquarie Pass and a new creek called The Cascades, but then it morphed into a SRT workshop on the Saturday and … Continue reading →

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