Horseshoe
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| | Difficulty:3B (v3a2) Raps:3, max ↨66ft
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| Best season: | Oct-Apr (avg for this region)
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Introduction[edit]
Horseshoe Canyon is a reasonably easy to get to canyon on the other side of the Wollangambie River, it can be done as a canyon on its own, or, some people do it after doing the nearby Geronimo canyon.
A short, but very spectacular canyon with stunning deep, dark slots and amazing green sections.
Approach[edit]
Access is via crossing the Wollangambie at Horseshoe Bend and then up the other side using the Geronimo Canyon track, This part is quite a few scrambles and not a really well defined path, find your way to the top, you can see where others have been before you. Once on top and in the right place, you should see a reasonably well defined track on top, follow along the top of the ridge before dropping into the creek at a point that suits.
Descent[edit]
Depending on how high up in the canyon you dropped in, will dictate how long it takes you to reach the giant boulder / chock stone that blocks the creek, you are about to start the canyon "proper". (You can scramble down with relative ease to enter the creek directly above the boulder, this saves scrub bashing in the creek above. The boulder and access gully to it can be made out on the Satellite image. The Grid ref in the Jamison guide is pointlessly far upstream: Flynny)
There was a sling here, we did not need it as it was an easy scramble down under the boulder. Once out the other side, a short abseil drops you further into the creek, then, it is about to get a lot more spectacular and interesting.
A walk along a tree root, a LONG way above the canyon floor to a tree perched on a chock stone is the first of 3 abseils to get to the bottom of this canyon. The first abseil puts you onto a section of canyon where there is another sling, we had a 50mtr rope, so it reaches to the bottom of the next abseil easily and was easy enough to pull down. This abseil is tight and dark and finishes in a deep, dark pool.
The final abseil is off a bolted anchor right at the start of the abseil, there was ZERO grip on any surface of this waterfall, so, we just slid down until we landed in a large deep pool. Looking up from this pool is just spectacular.
From here, it is just a few minutes and you are back at the Wollangambie River.
Exit[edit]
There are two ways, downstream to one exit on the other bank of the Wollangambie or head upstream to Horseshoe Bend where you descended and crossed the Wollangambie a few hours earlier.
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