Dan and I headed out to Morton National Park for a weekend walk into the Shoalhaven river, via Wineglass Tor. Given the considerable rain events that have been occurring over the past week (and over the past months in general), the river levels were well up – it had us both dreaming we owned pack rafts so we could float downstream to the heads at Nowra!
Phytophthora ‘Root Rot Trot’
I was fortunate to be asked by my friend Carol Isaacs to be involved in the recent NPWS driven Phytophthora ‘Root Rot Trot’ which was looking at taking soil samples from different catchments in quite remote parts of the Wollemi National Park.
South Coast Climbing
James and I headed off to the south coast – specifically Nowra and Point Perpendicular – for some climbing this weekend gone with Sunshine State friends Shawn, Sandra and Heinz…
Wolgan Valley Canyoning
Party: Dave N, Rob, Dan, Kate, Stew, James and I
Canyons: Firefly and Newnes (Starlight) Canyons
After the recent bout of big rain events around NSW/ACT and it having been a pretty wet summer in general, we decided with a good forecast for the Canberra Day long weekend to head north and celebrate the Great Nations Capital by doing a couple of canyons.
Mountain biking – Mount Buller
James’ mate Tim, Organiser Extraordinaire, lined up ourselves, Matt, Marti, Dave, my mate Adam and Matt’s mate Dan for a long weekend’s adventure on the fun and techy trails being built up around Mount Buller. We were particularly taken with Klingsporn and Stonefly, but all of the tracks (see map here) were worth the effort for at least one lap!
Tim and Marti descending Stonefly, Mount Buller
Boxing Day Canyon Trip 2011
James, John R, Chui Nee, Stu, Su Li, Col and myself headed off into the Wollemi wilds for a 5 day canyon trip between Christmas and New Year.
Following are some photos of that trip…
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- Blue Mountains canyon
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- Su Li in a remote Wollemi Canyon
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- A break for lunch in the Wollemi
A wildflower wander in the Budawangs
James, Dan and myself spent a very pleasant weekend walking in from Wog Wog in the Budawangs when many other areas of NSW and the ACT were being king-hit by a grand downpour from Huey!
Corang Peak, the Mighty Pimple!
