The Coast Walk is is a 30 km hike (includes a few detours) meandering along the spectacular coastline of The Royal National Park south of Sydney. We chose to start at 06:00 am from Otford Station in order to catch the twilight and sunrise over the Australian East Coast. We were rewarded with mild conditions and cloudy views. The skies…
We set out along the Asgard Swamp fire trail around 11am, heading for Thor Head. After a quick visit to the coal seam cave, for which some clever people had brought head torches without any prompting, we enjoyed a lovely lunch on the cliffs overlooking the Grose valley. After lunch we took the scenic route along Asgard Head towards the car, and explored Pyramid Rock overlooking the swamp. Although we…
The weather forecast for Sunday was not promising – Max 9 and winds gusting to 60kmh – a march of folly indeed. Despite this, nine brave souls arrived outside the Main Quad to share cars. At that point there was no wind at all in Sydney, and in fact it turned out to be a nice day in the mountains – bright and sunny, reaching a tropical 12 degrees at one point, and nothing like those windspeeds. Clear Sunday…
We had one person having to drop out due to an unfinished assignment, but there were no “no-shows”. After most of us met up at Central Station we set off, collecting Sophie at Strathfield, Conrad at Parramatta, with Andrew and Zachary waiting for us at Katoomba Station. At Katoomba we were greeted with a crisp clear Blue Mountains day, and after a stop off at the Hatters’ Café for some coffee for some (and thus helping the local economy), we did the road bash to Echo Point. There were…
What does one do when you are thinking about a weekend walk, but really can’t decide where you want to go? Have a Magical Mystery Walk, that’s what! So I put it out there, hoping someone at SUBW would be game enough to come along, and sure enough, a few folk were… It turned out to be the coldest day of this year so far with a max of only 9C predicted. But no…
Saturday’s weather forecast had been for windy, cloudy conditions, with a chance of rain. As it turned out, while the cloud was with us the whole day, the temperature was mild, and the only rain we experienced came from Wentworth Falls being tossed around in a gentle, warm breeze. The absolute…
Even after a long cool drink at Dex’s, I as pretty much down with lugging my pack up hills so I pitched my tent in the choicest spot then carried just a few essentials for the short stint up to Cloudmaker, where I was just in time to act as official photographer for a party that had ascended from the Kowmung via Compagnoni Pass. The late…
Yes, yes, I know this was a while ago, but I promised at the time to write the trip report, so here it is. Hope you are happy. If I have misremembered anything, I take no responsibility. Mount Kaputar is an extinct volcano, and the area surrounding it is full of basalt plugs, lava terraces and volcanic dykes, making for a very different landscape to our usual haunts in the Blue Mountains. The plan…
The mostly untracked Tinderry Ranges are just south of Canberra, near the small village of Michelago. If you are on your way to the Snowy Mountains they are a prominent feature to the east of the Monaro Highway. I have wanted to climb 1619m high Tinderry Peak ever since I saw it about 12 years ago. On Saturday…
Through out the weekdays I was tightly keeping my eyes on the weather forecast hoping the pathetic raining days could be gone in the weekend, even the last day I even called Chantal to asked her whether I should postpone or press on regardless, although up until saturday morning weather report of Glenbrook showed there will be 5mm rain fall each day during the weekend, the god of luck actually treated us well, no strong sun, no crazy wind, no rain. Temperature was…