Bells Folly
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| Best season: | Oct-Apr (avg for this region)
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Introduction[edit]
Discovered by mistake by the Catholic Bushwalking club in 1979, thinking they were in Tiger Snake Canyon. The canyon location was first published in 1979.
Approach[edit]
The grid reference is published in the Catholic Bushwalker Club magazine, The Waysider, No 156, Mar/Apr 1979. You can find the newsletter and article in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
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Trip reports and media[edit]
The quest to find The Folly:
Adventures with M : In Search of The Folly #1- Adventures with M : Deanes Creek & Searching for The Folly #2
- Adventures with M : In Search of The Folly #3
- YouTube.com : OzCanyons - Beyond the Guidebook - Bell's Folly Canyon
Background[edit]
On 3 Feb 1979, Laurie Bell led a Catholic Bushwalking Club trip (walk number 4501) to Tiger Snake canyon. There wasn't a track back then, so it was easy to get confused around the pagodas. The group ended-up in the wrong creek, which did roughly what they were expecting, but they eventually realised they were in the wrong creek when the spectacular lower section failed to materialise and they were confronted with a final large abseil off a cliff. The creek and canyon has been named Bell's Folly in honour of the fearless leader.