Canyoning is the perfect summer adventure and often involves a variety of activities including swimming, wading, jumping into pools waterjumps, abseiling through waterfalls, bushwalking and scrambling over rocks and boulders. More experienced athletes will be able to explore the multiple blue mountain attractions from far higher up as they book a trip to the claustral canyon. Serendipity canyon tour blue mountains canyoning book now. This 6 day canyoning course introduces you to advanced rigging, roping and rescue techniques specific to blue mountains canyoning. The empress canyon experience in the blue mountains serves as the ideal introduction for those wanting to get started with the canyoning experience. Experience canyoning in the blue mountains on this adventure tour from wentworth falls. It provides a brief introduction to canyoning in the blue mountains, the history of canyon exploration, some safety advice, and information on equipment and basic technique. There are several exhilarating abseils straight down waterfalls, swims up to 50 metres, water jumps and lots of rock scrambling.
Private blue mountains abseiling and canyoning day trip. Experience abseiling and canyoning in the blue mountains world heritage area on this private day trip from sydney. The blue mountains is a beautiful area to explore but if you want to get up close and embark upon a real adventure, book this guided abseiling and canyon tour. Canyoning is the perfect summer adventure and often involves a variety of activities including swimming, wading, jumping into pools waterjumps, abseiling through waterfalls, bushwalking and. All canyoning equipment, qualified canyoning guide, safety instruction including abseiling techniques. Full day walks, sightseeing tours, dinner with wild kangaroos, overnight hikes and remote wilderness treks, canyoning and abseiling adventures tailor made to suit you. The canyon involves four short but exciting abseils, an optional water jump and some short swims.
Full day walks, sightseeing tours, dinner with wild kangaroos, overnight hikes and remote wilderness treks, canyoning and abseiling adventures. There are only two guidebooks to blue mountains canyons generally available. Highlights from a trip down empress canyon, led by the australian school of mountaineering. The slatecoloured haze that gives the mountains their name comes from a fine mist of oil exuded by the huge eucalypts that form a dense canopy across the landscape of deep, often inaccessible valleys and chiselled sandstone outcrops. If youre interested in heading out on your own canyon adventures, exploring new places and staying out of trouble while youre at it, then youre invited to join us. Canyoning canyoneering in the united states, kloofing in south africa is travelling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include other outdoor activities such as walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and swimming although nontechnical descents such as hiking down a canyon canyon hiking are often referred to as canyoneering, the terms canyoning and. Joining a group canyoning experience may not be what you are looking for in a canyoning trip.
Blue mountains canyoning our guide to this adventure sport. A traditional guidebook, most of the book is devoted to providing notes. The day will be spent following an ancient river, through a beautiful canyon with stunning rock escarpments on either side and youll watch as the landscape changes around you. Choose from a range of world class blue mountains introductory canyoning adventures to suit your ability for an adventurous day out near sydney.
Created over millions of years, the running streams have methodically carved their way down through the blue mountains sandstone plateau to form what is one of the most complex, intricate and visually spectacular canyon systems in the world. The publics understanding of the extent of the blue mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive. Track notes, trip reports, photos and maps for canyons in the blue mountains and other areas around sydney. Canyons near sydney canyoning guide book mountain equipment. The canyon involves four short but exciting abseils. Serendipity canyon tour blue mountains canyoning day tour. The first half of the day is spent abseiling, beginning with small cliffs and building up to those more challenging ones. The resort features a wide range of free leisure activities, including 2 swimming. Full day walks, sightseeing tours, dinner with wild kangaroos, overnight hikes and remote wilderness treks, canyoning and abseiling. This is effectively the bible of canyoning in the sydney region and almost everyone involved in canyoning has a copy of this book. While the ferncovered track is rather easy to get across, there are some challenging sections, including some which may require swimming and abseiling. For an invigorating day in the blue mountains, a trip down wollangambe cant be beaten. Canyoning adventures blue mountains guides blue mountains. For many this canyon defines what blue mountains canyoning is all about.
Wollangambe is a popular canyoning trip, which requires no abseiling experience and can be undertaken by canyoners of all ages providing they can swim. This book is in a5 format, in full colour with 464 pages. With stunning natural beauty, the world heritage region of the blue mountains is an australian highlight. Tripadvisor blue mountains canyoning new south wales. A moment to cool off our feet is followed by an arduous climb up the far side of the river, onto a long ridge that takes us to the top of our canyon the entry walk takes us approximately 2 hours.
Blue mountains adventure company are abseiling, rock climbing, canyoning, and bushwalking specialists. The blue mountains boasts the most extensive wet sandstone canyoning system on earth. Begin with a 5metrehigh cliff and build up to 30metrehigh cliffs during the morning. The most epic way to spend a day in the blue mountains. Blue mountains canyoning adventures australian school of. Blue mountains canyoning tours book now experience oz. This full day canyoning and abseiling adventure is the perfect way for beginners to experience this amazing landscape and the exciting sport of canyoning. Swim past water lizards standing guard, head raised on smooth stone outcrops in the. The water is slow moving and gently winds its way through the towering sandstone cliffs. Blue mountains adventure company has two spots left on our sunday 1st december claustral canyon adventure. Blue mountains introductory empress canyoning tour book.
Canyoning in the blue mountains with blue mountains. Book a hiking, abseiling or climbing trip with adventure aid and. Youll visit some of the highest and deepest places as you trek, climb, rappel, swim, jump and otherwise navigate your way through this amazing terrain. Blue mountains wild adventures canyoning abseiling. Youll find tours offering unforgettable canyoning, caving and rock climbing experiences in spectacular world heritage wilderness, as well as stunning mountain biking and horseriding trails there are many bike trails to enjoy, such as the woodfordoaks trails breathtaking track from. Canyoning blue mountains wild adventures canyoning.
The region borders on sydneys metropolitan area, its foothills starting about 50 kilometres 31 mi west of centre of the state capital, close to the major suburb of penrith. A fantastic abseiling and canyoning combination, this is our pick for the best way to spend a day in the blue mountains. Located in katoomba, just 90 minutes from sydney in the blue mountains national park. Canyoning in australia is centred around the blue mountains world. A canyoning adventure will have you abseiling down water falls, walking along small ledges, wading through creeks and rivers, swimming. Posted in blue mountains, canyoning, photography, wilderness photography tagged blue mountains canyons, claustral canyon, rocky creek canyon leave a comment sassafras gully walk 15 april 2020 posted on april 25, 2020 by dave noble. Canyoning for independent canyoners blue mountains. This is a beautiful yet challenging canyon that involves just about every canyoning technique possible. Since the blue mountains is bursting with some of the most intricately carved canyons in the world, you can be sure to enjoy unparalleled beauty. Serendipity canyon blue mountains canyon adventures bmac. With all equipment provided, this group tour caters for up to 4 people plus your private guide. Serendipity is a beautiful canyon where youre likely to see some freshwater yabbies, birdlife, plants and cool fungi, and some amazing rock formations.
These form a historical record of canyoning in nz and a start point for the experienced and adventurous to venture into the wildest and most remote canyons. This is effectively the bible of canyoning in the sydney region and almost everyone involved in canyoning has a. It is recommended to have a medium level of stamina and fitness to book a trip to this. Beginners blue mountains canyoning tour the big bus. Abseil, water jump, and swim in empress falls canyon with our halfday canyoning tour in the blue mountains. Ride forget interlaken, forget queenstown, the blue mountains is like no other canyoning and abseiling destination in the world.
Canyons near sydney guidebook 5th edition by rick jamieson. Blue mountains canyon adventures and canyon courses. In the warm months of summer, canyoning in the blue mountains means slipping on a wet suit, putting on a harness and helmet, packing your dry bag and taking off for a half day, full day or weekend of adventure. Blue mountains wild adventures will get you canyoning, abseiling and hiking in the stunning world heritage area just outside sydney. This tour features a blend of lush rainforest, rock jumps and culminating in a final 30m abseil down the side of a waterfall. Rick also uses his own basic rating of canyon difficulty, which while useful for popular canyons, generally fails to address the diverse challenges posed by more remote.
Blue mountains guides is a locally owned and operated company offering exclusive, tailor made, personalised tours and adventures. There are options to undertake private canyoning trips in the blue mountains where the guides will tailor your day with your skill levels, give you private abseil training if needed and take you to. It was a big weekend so thank you to all participants, companies, guides, committee members, supporters and stakeholders for helping to make this a successful event. Moderate level of fitness, good general health, comfortable in water. One hundred kilometres west of sydney lies one of natures most magnificent creations, the world heritage area of the blue mountains.
Sydney 5th edition is the ultimate canyoning guide book for the area and gives you all the information for popular canyons in the blue mountains and beyond. Rick also uses his own basic rating of canyon difficulty, which while useful for popular canyons, generally fails to address the diverse challenges posed by more remote canyons. Canyoning in the blue mountains gives you the opportunity to get in to a part of nature few get to see. This is my personal site, so youll only find my personal canyoning stuff here. We can take you abseiling and canyoning in the blue mountains, canyoning in the southern highlands, and kayaking to the sydney opera house or to the royal national park. I would like to give my gratitude to all who took part in adventure aid and helped us to raise money for some of the wild places within the blue mountains world heritage area. It provides a brief introduction to canyoning in the blue mountains, the history of canyon exploration, some safety advice, and information on. Abseil down gushing, white waterfalls, where the pressure carves smooth bowls out of the rock face. Millions of years in the making, the canyons of the blue mountains are some of the most breath taking and majestic in the world. All full day adventures include a delicious lunch and snacks, and all adventures include modern and top of the line equipment to ensure that you have the best possible.
This tour is perfect for those of all skill levels, whether youre a beginner or an experienced climber, your private guide will help you throughout the day. Book a hiking, abseiling or climbing trip with adventure aid and help return the blue mountains to its former prebushfire glory. The blue mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in new south wales, australia. With dramatic vistas, soaring forests and deep gorges, the blue mountains was built for wild adventure. Introduction to canyoning the blue mountains words and. Follow the water as it rushes on into deep plunge pools. Empress canyon is a beginnerfriendly slot canyon that offers opportunities for rock jumps, a waterfall abseil, and short swims, all with the assistance of a guide.
Canyoning in the blue mountains is a must for those wanting to experience true adventure in a relatively untouched part of the country, surrounded by rainforest and rocky outcroppings. Apr 18, 2012 it provides a brief introduction to canyoning in the blue mountains, the history of canyon exploration, some safety advice, and information on equipment and basic technique. Canyon canyoning canyoneering blue mountains canyoning adventures. Scenery and adrenaline combine on these epic canyoning tours in the blue mountains, nsw offering some breathtaking and challenging abseiling experiences. The most popular is rick jamiesons canyons near sydney isbn 0646410768 now in its 4th edition 2001. Canyoning tour, half day empress canyon, blue mountains. Experience australias best canyoning, abseiling, rock climbing and bush survival adventures with high and wild, the leading blue mountains adventure tour provider since 1989. Optional extra obstacles also make this canyon rewarding for keen individuals. Youll see a different side of the blue mountains national park as you swim, wade, abseil, bushwalk and more. Also includes technical info such as knots, descenders and rope tips. Researching a blue mountains canyoning tour for beginners. Australians have canyons, so we go canyoning, a hybrid form of madness thats halfway. We start our day from mt wilson and descend down to the wollangambe river.