Perhaps with the exception of freezefest (where most today seem to do dry canyons anyway), canyoning in winter seems to be rather unpopular. Just 10 days from the official end of winter, our party of 4 decided to enjoy the rather warm winters day with a trip through Claustral. At 6:20AM…
After running a rather unsuccessful narrow neck passes trip in June, where we were bushbashing through very dense scrub for a dishearteningly long time only to discover that we couldn’t ascend the pass we were looking for, I knew I had to come back for redemption. So, me and Ben (who was also very keen for narrow neck pt.2) picked a weekend, and I asked a few people if they’d be interested, eventually settling the night before on a group of 3; me, Ben and Kevin. Bushbashing hell…