Exploratory Canyoning - Northern Blue Mountains - 26 - 31 December 2010

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Day 4

Above - morning mist

Above - rugged country. We look down into our third potential canyon

Above - Rob and Sarah in the creek bed.

Above - Rik surveys the creek downstream - its certainly not canyon here!

Above - but it was canyon further downstream. James abseiling

Above - John watches Chuin Nee abseiling

Above - John and Chuin Nee on a tricky down-climb

Above - canyon formation. This canyon was not long or very spectacular.

Above - Rik on the way out looking back into the creek

Above - nearby country

Above - on top of the pass out

Above - more rugged country

Above - Looking into the canyon from the top of the pass

Day 5

We split up this day. I went exploring a potential canyon with Chuin Nee

Above - Chuin Nee in the creek

Above - Looking down. It certainly was a canyon.

Above - looking down

Above - Chuin Nee abseils in

Chuin Nee explored downstream to the next drop. But with only one rope - we do not consider it wise to continue. Chuin Nee prussiks out and we head back to camp. Meanwhile - Rik, John, Rob and Sarah have explored another creek. They report a very good canyon - on the way down it (it had 6 abseils) - they find a piece of old sling - so at least one party had been down it before. Later that day - Chuin Nee returns with John and Rik to complete the descent of the canyon I had looked at with Chuin Nee. It was quite good - but fairly short. Not much longer than what Chuin Nee had been through earlier.

Day 6

We walk back to the cars and head for home. The end of a great trip.

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