Honey Comb
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| | Difficulty:3B (v3a2) Raps:4, max ↨33ft
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| Best season: | Oct-Apr (avg for this region)
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Introduction[edit]
A good winter canyon, typically only thigh-waist deep pools, with fairly easy access from the Glow worm tunnel. Please be careful when abseiling into the downstream entrance of the glow worm tunnel, please do not damage a tourist, be polite and smile for photos - if you damage a tourist then the NPWS will be forced to close access to the canyon.
This has been a fairly well-known canyon for many years, having appeared on the internet multiple times, yet, somehow Rick Jamieson missed this in his final 5th edition of the guidebook in 2021.
The highlight of the canyon might be the return walk through the glow worm tunnel.
Approach[edit]
A vague footpad can be followed right to the head of the canyon from the highest point of the Pagoda track.
Descent[edit]
3 abseils less than 10m, although the first abseil requires an extra ~10m of rope from the tree anchor, for which a 40m rope doubled over does reach. The first and 3rd abseil drops into a thigh-waist deep pool. The 2nd and 3rd abseils have bolted anchors.
Exit[edit]
You emerge from the canyon onto a large scrubby ledge, still above tall cliffs. Follow the base of the cliffs left (looking out) and into the glow worn tunnel valley where the cliffs quickly reduce, although you still need another abseil to reach the tourist track. You can follow a footpad for 200-300m from the canyon, then it seems a fair bush bash after the 2020 fires. Some parties choose make a grand entrance by abseiling into the entrance of the glow worm tunnel, others choose a more stealthy location 100m or so down. Then walk through the Glow worm tunnel.
Red tape[edit]
Please do not damage any tourists when abseiling down on to the glow worm tunnel walking track. If you do, the NPWS will be forced to close access to the canyon.
Beta sites[edit]
Bush Explorers : Location and history
Trip reports and media[edit]
- David Noble : 2005, the Saturday canyon
- David Noble : 2008 Pagoda Canyoning
- David Noble : 2009 Wollemi NP canyon
- David Noble : 2012 Birthday Canyons, the Sunday canyon
- OzUltimate.com : 2005 Newnes Canyoning report and photos
- OzUltimate.com : 2006 South Wolgan Canyoning report and photos
- Sleep When We're Dead : 2016 Searching for a pot of honey at the end of the snowfall
- Sleep When We're Dead : 2017 Wandering around the plateau
- Sleep When We're Dead : 2024 Dry Honey Worms
- YouTube.com : Richard Pattison, Honeycomb Canyon movie
Background[edit]
Named by Andrew Valja and Dave Lockwood in 2001.