Another day with our new leaders, where we did a series of abseils down Castle Head towards Ruined Castle. We did 6 dry abseils, with beginners getting valuable experience through some tricky abseils and new leaders having some practice rigging and anchor managing. The day was quite dramatic and hence warrants a trip report. We got…
As the coldness sinks in and the canyoning season comes to an end, I thought it’d be a great time for us to start training up new canyoning co-leaders. Leadership training within our club has been far and few between, and it’s important to have them run regularly to avoid the same downturn as we’ve had years before. The idea…
For the first time this year, an abseiling induction is being held in suburban Sydney. It’s not a particularly interesting trip, but I thought I would leave this trip report for the reference of future trip leaders (and beginners looking to join one of these). Vincent and I have run two of the same sessions in the same location. For most…
Report by Jessica Having checked the weather report for once, I knew it was going to be a beautiful day for learning how to abseil. I packed my bags the day before after work (saving myself much frantic last-minute scrambling) and made it to Lidcome Station where Iris was kind enough to pick me up for a ride over to Macquarie Falls. The drive…