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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
Approach[edit]
Descent[edit]
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The below track notes are an excerpt from Canyons Near Sydney 5th edition guidebook by Rick Jamieson which is no longer in print.
Grade: 4 (moderate to difficult). Time: 1 day. 7 abseils, some a bit tricky due to slippery overhangs at the top. One 50 m rope (or two 30 m ropes) needed. Some deep wades (one quite deep). A great canyon, fairly easy to get into and out of. Take some slings for anchors. The canyon is notable for its profusion of Rock Orchids (Liparis re-flexa).
From the campsite at the end of the road (Little Capertee Creek) walk 1.5 km downstream on the left bank. Turn left up the Glen Davis pipeline track. Walk up the hill to a lookout. Now continue along the track towards the watershed until you can walk down to the right into the gully (the gully that runs parallel to the track), at about GR 448270 (Mt. Morgan map).
Walk around the first drop (or abseil), then abseil the next in two sections, from a tree.
Then there is another short abseil just before a creek junction. Next is a 10 m abseil from logs jammed across the canyon, then a 6 m abseil from a sling tied around the top of a sloping log - you can slide down the log with your feet around it.
After a magnificent flat section of canyon there is a 20 m abseil in two sections - use a sling around a big tree for an anchor, with a stick to keep the sling about 1 m above the ground. Now there is a little abseil from a sling around a chockstone, and finally a 15 m abseil down a waterfall from a small tree (difficult start), walk right (west) under the cliff for 20 minutes (good views), to the bottom of the gully on the pipeline track.
Another good way into this canyon is via the gully to the north, at GR 450275 (Drainpipe Canyon).
Trip reports and media[edit]
- Sleep When We are Dead, Pipeline canyon Jan 2016 (Note I always knew PipeLine as the full canyon from the upper section and the side canyon in the short cut entry as Drain Pipe)
- Sleep When we are dead Pipeline canyon Oct 2017