Upcoming Trips: October 2018
Trips Program
Some of the trips on this program are open to Visitors. You may contact the leader of a 'visitors welcome' trip by clicking on the leaders name. This link is only available for trips commencing within the next two months.
We invite prospective members to take the oportunity to experience our activities and meet our members before joining our club. Due to insurance restrictions we can only allow prospective members to participate in a maximum of two trips. To participate in additional trips you must join our club.
All persons participating in our trips must be aged 18 years or older.
Before contacting the trip leader you should read our Guidelines and Acknowlegment of Risk pages. Our guidelines page should answer many of your questions on how our trips are organised.
- Area:
- South of Sydney
- Maps:
This is a very new National Park that it is sort of on the Picton road Still have to work out where we will go - but let?s explore somewhere new. Maybe off track..... maybe not
Visitors Welcome
Visitors are welcome on this trip. Please
contact the trip leader
for more information.
- Area:
- Lower North Shore
- Maps:
If anyone wants to get some abseiling training then I am planning to have a session to teach people the basics. Plan is to use one of the parks on the lower North Shore that has some small to medium cliffs which I have used previously to teach the fundamentals of abseiling. It will also be good opportunity for those Spanners that perhaps have not abseiled for a few years and just want to freshen up their skills. Span loan gear is available - so harness, figure-8, carabiner, helmet and we will use Span ropes. As with all Span activities, participants will have to sign the standard Span Risk Waiver form. Spots will be limited and plan is to run the session for 2 or 3 hours depending on numbers and experience of people signing up. I will run another session in November as well if people can't make this day.
Visitors Welcome
Visitors are welcome on this trip. Please
contact the trip leader
for more information.
Other: Hawkesbury Canoe Classic / Paddle or Checkpoint
- Visitors Welcome
- Duration:
- 2 days
- Leader:
- John
- Contact Leader
- Area:
- Maps:
Paddle the 111km race or come and help on a checkpoint. Feed hundreds of paddlers from midnight to dawn. An even better atmosphere for volunteers than the Sydney Olympics. I think it is a full moon this year. General information at http://www.canoeclassic.asn.au, contact me to help on the checkpoint.
Visitors Welcome
Visitors are welcome on this trip. Please
contact the trip leader
for more information.
- Area:
- Nattai NP
- Maps:
A great walk from Hilltop in the Southern Highalnds down Starlights Track to the Nattai River and return. Chance of a swim if weather is good.
Visitors Welcome
Visitors are welcome on this trip. Please
contact the trip leader
for more information.
- Area:
- Glenbrook
- Maps:
- Penrith 1: 25000
Jack Evans was a labourer who worked on Warragamba Dam. He must?ve also been adventurous and as agile as mountain goat around Glenbrook.
So, we?ll walk down the fairly well groomed Jack Evans track to Erskine Creek. Then there?s a short walk along the creek followed by an almost vertical scramble up about 200m (many contours) of sand stone cliff to the barely visible / can we find it continuation of the Jack Evans track. If we?re successful this may lead us to Erskine Knoll Rd (fire trail) and onwards to a possible lookout that is marked on the map. Party limit applies. Trip is exploratory. Must be okay with exposure and climbing up and down cliff lines. Map - Penrith 1:25 000
Cycle - Road: Nowra Cycling Long Weekend
- Visitors Welcome
- Grade:
- Easy / Medium
- Duration:
- 5 days
- Leader:
- John
- Contact Leader
- Area:
- Shoalhaven
- Maps:
Come and stay in Nowra on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. We will go for an easy ride on Thursday afternoon. And do longer rides on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings. We will stay in budget accommodation, near the River. Easy access to Nowra by train if desired. Come for the duration or a shorter stay if you wish.
Visitors Welcome
Visitors are welcome on this trip. Please
contact the trip leader
for more information.
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Suggested programs are shown to the left. Trips which are open to visitors are highlighted in green.
Use the calendar to view trips available on a particular date. You may view details of an individual trip, and obtain contact information for the trip leader, by clicking on the trip title.
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