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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]
Exit[edit]
On the first recorded descent (5 Dec 1976), David Noble says "we managed to exit the canyon via the Western Branch. There was a long thin log sticking up the final waterfall. Nick attached a prussik sling to the log and climbed up - and then put a rope down for us. We then climbed up to the northern cliffline and soon found a steep, scrambling pass up that and back out along the ridge."
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Trip reports and media[edit]
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Background[edit]
David Noble says: named after an early attempt to visit the creek (9 Jan 76). Tom Williams (Springwood Bushwalking Club) exclaimed when he was being picked up on the Friday night of the trip that he knew of a creek that was a "surefire canyon". The party (Dave Noble, Ian Hickson, Ross Bradstock, C Cosgrove (SUBW) and Tom Williams) were unable to do the canyon then because of heavy rain and the effects of several flagons of Royal Reserve port.
Dave Noble did a solo reconnaissance of the creek on 29 Feb 76 and confirmed the presence of canyon. Tom Williams, Dave Noble together with Tony Haigh (KBC) and Ted Daniels (NPA) finally did the trip down the canyon on 23 October 1976. (Kameruka Magazine Vol 15 No 1 - Sept 77). Ted Daniels recorded the descent on Standard 8 cine film. Later on the same afternoon there was a rare (partial) solar eclipse.
Photos of the first descent can be found here: https://www.david-noble.net/canyoning/wolgan/wolgancanyons.html