Category Archives: Grose Wilderness

Canyon Photography Weekend – 19-20 December 2015

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Dave Noble

Last year, about the same time, I had spent a very enjoyable weekend in the Northern Blue Mountains with a friend Albert and we had photographed some of the showcase canyons. On that trip, we had visited Rocky Creek Canyon, … Continue reading →

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A few Orchids and a Canyon – 17 December 2015

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Dave Noble

I was on one of my regular mid week canyon trips with Bob. On the way up the mountains we picked up Tom and then considered options. It had been quite wet the day before and it was raining lightly at … Continue reading →

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Fortress Creek Canyon – 19 November 2015

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Dave Noble

Fortress Creek Canyon is not one of the more spectacular canyons in the Blue Mountains, but it is quite nice and it is very accessible, being a short walk from the Mt Hay Road out from Leura. It had been … Continue reading →

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Orang Utan Pass – Blue Gum Forest Walk – 11 November 2015

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Dave Noble

I headed up the mountains with Bob. He was keen to visit Orang Utan Pass. This is a pass of historic interest. It goes down into the Grose Valley at Surveyors Creek and near Clarke Head. It was used by Tim … Continue reading →

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Nature Walk – Hat Hill – 24 October 2015

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dave Noble

Wendy had organised a weekend in the Blue Mountains. We spent the first day on a nature walk along the ridge from Hat Hill to Bald Head at Blackheath. Hat Hill is just off Hat Hill Road, which is the … Continue reading →

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Brownes Path – Grose Valley Pass – 11 August 2015

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Dave Noble

This was a pleasant day in the bush with Bob yesterday wandering around some seldom used passes at the end of the ridge that branches out from Hat Hill at Blackheath. This ridge, called the bald head Ridge, terminates at … Continue reading →

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Looking for Frank Walford’s Cave – 26 May 2015

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Dave Noble

Bob and myself travelled up the mountains and headed out the road at Medlow Bath past Katoomba Airport and parked at the lookout at Point Pilcher. Our object was to find an obscure old cave used as a retreat by … Continue reading →

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Blue Gum Forest Walk – 25 May 2015

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Dave Noble

Wendy had invited me to join her on a walk in the Upper Blue Mountains. She wanted a fair leg stretch so suggested a walk from Govetts Leap down to Blue Gum Forest and return. As it turned out, we … Continue reading →

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Easter Walk – The Grose River – 3 – 6 April 2015

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dave Noble

The walk down the Grose River in one of the classic bushwalks in the Blue Mountains. This is one walk that I have never done, and one that I had saved up from my early bushwalking days, and thus keeping … Continue reading →

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Claustral Canyon – 4 March 2015

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Dave Noble

Claustral Canyon is always a pleasant day out. This visit was with Bob Sault and Tom Williams. Tom had been on my first visit to Claustral Canyon, sometime in late 1973. It was my second canyon trip and his first. … Continue reading →

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