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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Canyoning with the Legends in Middle Earth

Posted on April 10, 2016 by marilyn

The waterfall abseil. Photo: John GCANYONING NORTHERN WOLLEMI – APRIL 2016
When Rod S said he was planning a weekend canyoning in the Northern Wollemi, I jumped at the chance to go along.  The opportunity to canyon with a couple of canyoning’s legends doesn’t happen very often, they’re very busy so it usually only happens once a year, and we had a great day out doing Middle Earth canyon, an unpublished one.

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