Northern Blue Mountains Canyoning - 26 - 31 December 2012
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Party - Rik, Rob, Su Li, Sarah, Paul, Dave
The period between Boxing Day and New Year provides a good time to
venture into some of the more remote parts of the Northern Blue
Mountains for some canyoning. These trips have a number of
challenges. Most of the canyons would require taking our full packs
through them - so we had to go as lightweight as possible. But the
canyons we planned to visit would have a lot of swimming - so most
of the party ended up taking wetsuits. The country between the
canyons was rough and quite scrubby - so we also needed to carry
long pants, and some of us also carried scrub gloves and gaiters.
This does not leave too much room for food or photographic gear.
Day 1
Above - Boxing Day 2012 - wet and cold! The party near the start -
Su Li, Sarah, Rik, Rob and Paul
Above - the first part of the trip was through pagoda country
Above - Sarah and Su Li have a drink
Day 2
We visited our first canyon - as a side trip without our large packs
Above - canyon formation
Above - Su Li and Sarah in the canyon
Above - Rik on a short hand over hand into a plunge pool
Above - Su Li in another plunge pool
Above - Rob at the bottom of a short abseil
Above - Rik on the next abseil
Above - canyon formation
Above - Rob abseils
Above - Rik shooting video
Above - Su Li abseiling
Above - canyon formation
Above - canyon formation
Above - the next abseil is through this natural arch
Above - Su Li abseiling
after the canyon we return to camp and pack up. Then a short scrubby
walk takes us to our next canyon.
Above - Rob and Rik in the creek upstream of the canyon
Above - The canyon is not far downstream - Rik peers in.
Above - looking down the canyon - it is long series of very dark
tunnels
Above - Sarah below the abseil
Above - the way ahead is squeezing through this logpile - hard work
passing the packs through!
Above - canyon formation
Above - Su Li on the abseil
Above - Rik and Su Li further down the canyon. Theer are many long
and cold swims. The canyon is very dark and beautiful.
Above - Sarah swimming
Above - Rik, Rob and Su Li
Above - passing packs down a tricky section
Above - Rik videos as Sarah swims
Above - Paul and Su Li on the long swim
Above - the canyon opens up somewhat (for a short while)
Above - Su Li and Paul swimming
Above - we climb out of the creek and camp on a rock shelf on the
ridge
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