Heart Attack Canyon
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| | Difficulty:4A IV (v4a1 IV) Raps:2-6, max ↨121ft
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-33.2383, 150.3029
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Introduction[edit]
The front cover of the Rick Jamieson 5th edition guidebook. The canyon has an amazing long abseil entrance. Distance, 22km with 480 meter ascent. The walk can be shortened if you drop closer to the canyon. There is a few pools.
Quality
- The canyon is rated 7 out of 10 on the Brennan Quality Scale.
- David Noble rates the canyon 3 out of 5 for quality and Medium for difficulty.
Approach[edit]
Depending where you enter the creek you will need to abseil. We had a 10m drop another party did a 43m abseil.
Descent[edit]
R1: 37m from tree. R2: 10m from log. R3: 5m There is a few tricky clime downs.
Exit[edit]
Exit up the river coming in from the left at -33.23357, 150.30092
Red tape[edit]
Beta sites[edit]
OzUltimate.com : Heart Attack canyon
Trip reports and media[edit]
- OzUltimate.com : Tom Brennan, 2004 report with link to photos
- OzUltimate.com : Tom Brennan, photos 2017
Background[edit]
David Noble says: named after an incident on the Friday night of a trip. The first recorded descent was 3 Jan 1976, the party consisted of C Cosgrove, T Willams, R Bradstock, B Allen, J Lucas - SUBW and Kameruka B.C. The original leader Dave Noble was unable to attend due to an injury. The party were camped on the steps of the then Bell Cafe because of a transport rendezvous mix up. They were awoken very early by a local wanting to use the public phone to call for assistance for a local heart attack victim. (Kameruka Magazine Vol 15 No 1 - Sept 77).
The canyon had earlier been pointed out to Dave Noble, Tom Williams and others by Ted Daniels on the NPA trip of 1-3 Nov 1974, from the ridge between this creek and Rocky Ck. Dave Noble and Keith Maxwell went down the canyon on 28 Feb 76 and went out via the now usual exit gully.
Photos of the second descent (Feb 1976) can be seen here: https://www.david-noble.net/canyoning/wolgan/wolgancanyons.html