We wish you were with us Nat

Posted on May 26, 2016 by marilyn

me on the 2nd pitch. Photo: Julie BMIRROR BALL ABSEIL – MAY 2016
Julie B, Aine G and I had intended going out to the Mirror Ball abseil to scatter some of Natalie’s ashes.  She had already been blasted out of a cannon at IronFest, scattered by acrobats at the Canberra Folk Festival, sprinkled in Fergies and MidWinter canyons and buried under a hundred tree seedlings.  Mirror Ball was the last abseil that Nat did (with Julie and Aine) before she found out she had cancer. Continue reading →

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How could there be two identical caves?

Posted on May 15, 2016 by marilyn

Brad climbing up to set handlineWOOLPACK ROCKS  #3 – MAY 2016
Unnamed pass > Newnes Plateau > Collett Gap > Red Rocks Creek > Woolpack Gap >  Collett Gap
This was our 3rd or 4th trip to Woolpack Rocks (depending on what you counted) and our 3rd trip down to Collett Gap, we knew what terrain we were looking for and when we dropped down into a pass, we convinced ourselves that the cave we saw was the one we had seen three times before.  Not! Continue reading →

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What if the overhang collapses on us while we’re asleep?

Posted on April 23, 2016 by marilyn

This hole in the rock was too good to pass up!ETTREMA THREE CAVES WALK – APRIL 2016
Sassafras > Ettrema Tops > Waterfall Cave > Discovery Cave > Bollards Cave > Sassafras
Three camp caves, waterfalls, stunning creeks and The Passages of Time rock formations … all in an area I’d not been to before, add to that the usual Ettrema Scrub, and this had all the hallmarks of an epic trip.  Continue reading →

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Revisiting the scene of Martin’s heli-evac

Posted on April 16, 2016 by marilyn

thumbnailCOLO RIVER – APRIL 2016
Caloul Ridge > Crawfords Pass > Wollemi Creek > Colo River > Pass 6  (Slot Pass) > Caloul Ridge
Martin D and his wife Jenny were walking down Pass 6 about five years ago and a rock fell on Martin’s leg, breaking it.  When I said let’s do an overnight walk, Martin decided that he wanted to go back to the scene of the accident. Continue reading →

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Why is it called Alcatraz?

Posted on April 11, 2016 by marilyn

Me on the one and only abseilALCATRAZ CANYON – APRIL 2016
I had decided that I just wasn’t up to mountain biking to the start of another canyon in the Northern Wollemi with the guys, too much potential for me to break something, so, I planned an exploratory trip down Alcatraz with Aine and Colin G, none of us had done it before, how hard could it be?   Continue reading →

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