Crikey
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| | Difficulty:3B (v3a2) Raps:6, max ↨66ft
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| Best season: | Oct-Apr (avg for this region)
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Introduction[edit]
This canyon is described in limited detail in Canyons Near Sydney by Rick Jamieson. Help the Australian canyoning community by contributing track notes to ropewiki.com
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Trip reports and media[edit]
YouTube.com : Richard Pattison, Crikey Canyon movie
Background[edit]
David Noble says: Named after a comment by Tony Norman (SUBW) early in 1982 when he was looking for a creek in a small valley near the Valley of the Swamps - "crikey, mother of God!" when he saw the creek a long way below down a narrow hole. Bob Sault writes "Ian, Norm, Damien (Michael Dougherty) and I "discovered" Crikey Ck either in late November or early December 1981, and went down it with a larger party in early 1982". Shortly after, the first SUBW party to abseil into the canyon consisted of Ian Wilson, Mike Doherty, Bob Sault, Tony Norman, Anne Gray, Nick Melhuish, Doug Wheen, Russel Looby and Mike Morgan.(VS&M; No 2 - 1983). They saw no signs of any previous party and had to throw logs down the canyon for some of the belay points.
In his guidebook, Rick Jamieson credits the naming and first descent to Peter Treseder (1976, naming the canyon "Anembo").
David Noble responds: "Peter Treseder was unaware of the location of this canyon until I supplied it to him at his request in the mid 80's (he was at that time active in search and rescue and wanted to know where it was in case he was called out to a search there). Several years later, in a phone conversation, he told me that he had done a solo trip in the Wollangambe in the mid-seventies and been down a canyon which may have been Crikey, but he wasn't sure and didn't know exactly where he had been. In light of the information given by the first SUBW party - it seems unlikely that Peter's canyon was Crikey. Signs of even a single solo party down a canyon, in my experience, can be very persistent."
The general consensus of the OzCanyon community, is that SUBW most likely made the first descent. In 2001, Peter Treseder was exposed by Inside Sport to have made many exaggerated or false claims: