Breakfast Creek Canyon

24/11/2013

Party: Neil, Michelle, Caleb, Ian & Steph

Grade:  Medium- 3 abseils, wesuit needed

Track notes:
Dad and I left Sydney very early to get to the start of the track by 8am, where we had planned to meet the Canberra mob who had come up the night before. We had planned to do Heart Attack canyon this day but the forboding weather and thunder in the distance made us think a shorter canyon was a much better option.

Breakfast creek canyon starts along the same road you use to get to Rocky Creek Canyon, but before it. I remember this canyon being a absolutely beautiful with 3 short abseils. My uncle Ian did not wear his wetsuit however it is greatly advisable to do so because it is a deep and dark canyon with very little sunlight.

The bottom of the canyon leads into Rocky Creek where you can then swim/walk upstream and do Rocky Creek Canyon backwards. However due to the high waters it would have been impossible for us to make it.

A great day and a beautiful canyon.

Michelle on the second abseil

In the canyon

Caleb on the 3rd abseil

Walking along rocky creek

The little beach at the exit

Square Top, Round & Fosters Mountain Walk

5/10/13

Party: Neil & Steph

Grade:  Mostly difficult off track overgrown scrub bashing.

Track notes:
As we were quite disorganised Dad and I didn't leave until the Saturday morning. On the drive down south to the Budwangs we realised that we had forgotten all the dry food and had to stop at Woolies on the way.

At about 10am after this set back we were finally on foot- the plan was meant to be to climb 5 mountains of about 300m height. However after we had climbed our first mountain- Square Top- we quickly came to realise this would be too ambitious. The scrub on this mountain was very thick and to top it all off we didn't even get the reward if a great view from the top because it was overgrown.

We then climbed Round Mountain and it was the same story. By this time it was getting dark so we decided to set up camp on the side of a fire trail as we didn't think we would make the camp cave off of Fosters mountain, and also weren't sure there would be any drinking water on the top of it.

The next day we climbed Fosters mountain and then headed through some swamps back to the car. All in all it was a bit of a disappointing weekend as we didn't get any good views and the walking off track was quite difficult.

Square Top Mountain

Round Mountain

Square Top Mountain