Banks Canyon JAN 2018 - MSS Trip - Emerald Images

Banks Canyon JAN 2018 - MSS Trip

A trip through the beautiful Banks Canyon near Waratah Ridge in the Blue Mountains of NSW. A couple of wrong turns on the way in made the day slightly longer than it should have been... It also would have helped to have carried 2 x 40m ropes, or 1 x 40m and 1 x 30m, instead of the 1 x 40m and 2 x 20m that we had with us.

Anna coming down the Hole in the Wall exit track, which is the entry point to the canyons on the other side of Dingo Creek (North Bungleboori).
Rod Smith wondering if we would let him relax on the rock for a few hours while the rest of us went off to do the canyon...
Michael watching Anna climb up a tricky little rockfall that we probably didn't need to climb...
Michael Sliwka looking back toward the point where Hole in the Wall canyon enters Dingo Creek. By this time we knew we had missed the usual entry track to Banks Canyon, and needed to do some bush bashing.
Looking east toward Banks Canyon.

Anna on the first of the abseils in the canyon itself.

The landing point below one abseil was in the pitch dark. Rod finally emerges from the gloom, carrying the end of the rope. The water was so cold that even he wasn't going to sit around in the pool at the bottom of the abseil and coil it up.