Tiger Snake Canyon

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave Noble

We visited this canyon on a wet day. Despite the continual rain – we had a great time. The canyon was very beautiful – and some water was flowing!

Here are a few photos from the day –

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Canyons Near Deep Pass

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave Noble

Last weekend I was in a big group that camped at Deep Pass Clearing in Wollemi National Park. The purpose of the gathering was to celebrate the birthdays of James and Sarah.

During both days, many in the group visited nearby canyons. Saturday was a beautiful fine day (rare this summer!) – and it wasn’t far to go to see some nice canyons.

Below are a selection of photos from the day.


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Dead Tree Canyon

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave Noble

Dead Tree Canyon lies in the Wollangambe Wilderness. It is a tributary of the South Branch of Bungleboori Creek. It was first descended by Bob Sault and Ian Wilson of SUBW in early 1982. After being in the party that did the first descent of Crikey Canyon the day before, they had been dropped off at the end of the Waratah Ridge fire trail. They set out, and after exploring the canyon, they then had to walk back to Bell to catch a train to the city. On that first descent – they had had to push their way through the branches of a recently fallen tree on one of the early abseils – hence the canyon’s name.

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Greenway Update

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave Noble

Despite a massive petition being presented in Parliament, the Minister has failed to act to reinstate the Greenway – walking and cycling track. This is very disappointing. You can read the minister for transport’s answer to a question here. If you want to show your support for the Greenway, then an easy way is to go this link and send off an email to the Premier and Minister. Please do this.

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Dargans Creek and the Dam Cliffs – Access Changes?

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave Noble

Dargans Creek Canyon is a nice outing, and can be combined with some climbing at the Dam Cliffs Climbing Area. Access to both these places is currently via a railway access road.

Dargans Creek Canyon

The managers of the land – the Crown Lands Office are currently considering some major changes to the area. This will change the access for climbing and canyoning and ban swimming in the dam. Continue reading →

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The 2012 Festival of Canyons

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave Noble

The Festival of Canyons is an event organised yearly by the UTSOAC to promote canyoning and to allow members of university clubs to get to know each other.

This year is was held at Mt Wilson. A lot of people turned up – which was really good considering the run up of bad weather. Parties set off for various canyons on Saturday morning. Some of them found the Wollangambe River too high to cross and had to change their plans. I was in a party that set off down the very safe Dalpura Canyon. Continue reading →

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Splendour Rock Bushwalk

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dave Noble

Thanks to Helen from SUBW who organised this very nice walk. Summer is a bit hot for bushwalking in the Blue Mountains and better suited to canyoning. But with so much water in the creeks, I thought a bush walk may be better for the weekend. The other members of the party were Albert, Peggy, Cathy, Crystal and Mary


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Western Arthurs – Visitation Figures

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave Noble

While waiting for  our bus at Scotts Peak Dam after the Western Arthurs walk I had a bit of time on my hands. So I perused the intentions logbook at the trailhead and made a few notes. Back home, I have looked at the figures and presented some of the results in some graphs.

Some people may be interested in these statistics. The logbook was placed at the end of July 2011 and figures are up to about 20 Jan 2012 and are only for parties that signed out at that logbook.

This first graph shows month of starting trip. The figures for January are extrapolated based on actual data for 20 days. It records the number of parties. Continue reading →

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Hat Hill Canyon

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave Noble

A return visit to Hat Hill Canyon. It was supposed to be a trip down Claustral Canyon but recent rain made this unwise. None of the others had been down Hat Hill Canyon so this made it a good alternative.

Well! We found the creek quite high. The start of the first constriction was a churning sea of foam. It didn’t look to good to go down and perhaps with a big jump you could jump out past the white  water – but it looked dangerous and the depth would be unknown. Continue reading →

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Western Arthurs – Tasmania

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave Noble

One of my favourite walks is a traverse of the Western Arthur Range in South West Tasmania. I first visited this range as part of a long walk back in 1975, and it is one place that I have been regularly returning to over the years. This summer I was fortunate in being able to visit the range again as part of an 11 day bush walk.

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