Category Archives: MSS

All Trails – a love hate relationship

WHEENY CREEK – May 4, 2025 Most people I bushwalk with these days use an app to get details of walks, sometimes downloading the actual track.  One of the popular apps is AllTrails.  AllTrails irritates the shit out of me, … Continue reading

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How NOT to …

BORENORE & GLENROCK – April 2025 I love the HowNOT2 social media posts – mainly focusing on how not to kill yourself when doing ropework.  When I coordinated some Introduction to Caving weekends for MSS to introduce those who haven’t … Continue reading

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The best laid plans – or how many vehicle events can you have on one trip?

NEWNES – 1-2 March 2025 Jim and I cobbled together a weekend of canyoning on the Newnes Plateau.  We had a few beginners, a couple of unknown canyoners and the idea that we’d do some easy fun canyons.  Not everything … Continue reading

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The Panty Hose Trip

GLOUCESTER – 22 & 23 February 2025 After a request (at the last Calendar Planning Meeting) from Jim to do some multi pitch creeks in the Gloucester region … aka Leech Country.  I reached out to some BWOC members so … Continue reading

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It was a great adventure!

BLUE MOUNTAINS NP – 14 February 2025 The weekend was supposed to be caving at Wombeyan, but storm damage had closed the park, and we didn’t find out for sure until 2 days before the trip. So, I scrambled around … Continue reading

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