The Grand Canyon at Blackheath

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Dave Noble

A few photos of this very nice canyon at Blackheath. This was our prelude trip before going down to the Coxs RIver with SUBW to celebrate the festive season.

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Mountain Biking at Yellowmundee Regional Park

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dave Noble

A nice ride with Chris, Clare and Stacey at Yellowmundee Regional Park – thanks to a great single-track built by WSMBC. The riding was good but the weather was very bad. Heavy rain for the whole loop – so that was all we did!

More photos and a link to the GPS plot of the ride on my website here.

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Mt Hay Canyon

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave Noble

Mt Hay Canyon is a relatively short canyon – but it has remained a classic canyon. It packs a lot in its short length. This essay will mainly focus on some of its history. The creek that the canyon is in is marked as “Rocky Points Ravine” on the official map. An early bushwalkers sketch map called it “Many Caverns Creek” – a name I think was due to Marie Byles. She may have visited the upper part of the creek but it is very unlikely that she went through the canyon section.

Jan on the second abseil of the main drop

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Rocky Creek Canyon

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave Noble

December is a good time to go canyoning and in particular a good time to visit Rocky Creek Canyon. Its a long and fairly cold canyon and best visited on a warm or hot day. Last saturday was warm – but not that warm. Its been quite a cool start to summer (the coldest summer start for 50 years).

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New Blue Mountains Wildflower Gallery

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave Noble

Thanks to Col Gibson and some of his friends I have now put online a new set of web pages of (mainly) wildflower photographs taken in the Blue Mountains. Col went through some of my bushwalking and canyoning photo sets and pulled out some I had taken of plants, and then went to the trouble of identifying them. The first page of the gallery can be accessed here.

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Koombanda Canyon

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave Noble

Koombanda Canyon is one of the small upper Grose River tributaries. After doing Whungee Wheengee Canyon the day before with Su Li and Disco, we decided to spend the Sunday doing something shorter. Rain was forecast for the early afternoon.

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Whungee Wheengee Canyon

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave Noble

Whungee Wheengee Canyon is a tributary of Wollangambe Canyon. As canyons go its not too bad at all. It is reasonably  long and has many deep dark sections. It is also quite a sporting canyon – with lots of swims, numerous tricky down climbs, and a couple of abseils thrown in.

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Wollangambe Canyon – The Tourist Section

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dave Noble

The day before we had visited Bowens Creek. On the Sunday, another warm day, we went down a section of Wollangambe Canyon. When its a hot day in Sydney, its hard to imagine a better or more delightful place to be in that in the Wollangambe.

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Bowens Creek Canyon – North Branch – Lower Section

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dave Noble

On Saturday, last weekend, four of us (Rik, Wendy, Rob and myself) visited the short lower constriction of the North Branch of Bowens Creek near Mt Wilson. It was a beautiful day and plenty of wild flowers were out. The canyon itself is very nice – but way too short compared to the walk in and out.

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M7 Cycleway Ride

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave Noble

From my place this is a nice loop ride of about 110km. The M7 has a very nice cycleway right along its length and for the whole 40km or so there are no traffic lights or other places where you have to stop. This was my first ride along the M7 since the cycleway was closed and repaired.

M7 Cycleway

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