Making up for M’s Folly

Posted on September 15, 2019 by marilyn

NEWNES PLATEAU – 15 September 2019
Our second day’s canyoning was a canyon I’d wanted to do for over four years but just never had the opportunity.  It’s an unpublished canyon, but for this post we’ll call it Portal Canyon.  Mind you, it’s been done to death lately, so everyone seems to know about it, but still probably a good idea for it to be “relatively” unknown. Continue reading →

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Canyoning – Boudoir and M’s Folly

Posted on September 14, 2019 by marilyn

NEWNES PLATEAU – 14 September 2019
I had six people signed up to do Tuglow Main Cave – I’d never done it before and it was a case of do it now – or forget about it.  I’d put on a few SRT training days so everyone would be up to speed for the prussik out (especially me), and I’d applied for the permit six months ago and been given verbal confirmation that it was approved.  And then disaster struck! Continue reading →

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Abercrombie – again?

Posted on September 13, 2019 by marilyn

ABERCROMBIE CAVES – 16 – 20 September 2019
How many times can you visit Abercrombie Caves in one year?  Well when your speleo club decides to write a book on the area, and you’re a soft touch when the word goes around to help out, the answer is “heaps”.  However, this time it was much more interesting – at least for me. Continue reading →

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Gang Gang Creek – unfinished business

Posted on August 25, 2019 by marilyn

SUNNYSIDE RIDGE – 25 August 2019
Day 3 of our Sunnyside Ridge Trifecta.  A couple of years ago John and I (and others) had explored Gang Gang creek and its uninspiring canyon.  But, we did come across a major side creek that had a big cavern formed by a massive rock fall.  We couldn’t go any further but determined that we’d come back from upstream of the rock fall to check out the creek.  So, here we were, off on another adventure. Continue reading →

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Sunnyside’s secrets – The Cracks of Doom

Posted on August 24, 2019 by marilyn

SUNNYSIDE RIDGE, NEWNES – 24 August 2019
Ever since Craig F recorded a visit to the Cracks of Doom, I’d been hanging out to go there, it looked really cool.  For Day 2 of the Sunnyside Trifecta – we’d be checking out the Cracks of Doom 1 & 2, plus Cathedral cave.  Continue reading →

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