01/06/2019 - photos

Participants: Andrew "Smiffy" Smith, Sue Bucknell, Toni Bachvarova, Vivien de Remy de Courcelles

Early start out to the Walls

View from the Tops

Kanangra Tops

Classic lookout views

Smiffy looks out on the broken cliffs of Kanangra Deep

The ridge leading to Thurat Spires

Kanangra Creek

Thurat Spires and Spire Head

Sue and Toni at Gordon Smiths Pass

Sue and Toni descending off Kilpatrick Causeway

The lower steep section of the Spires ridge

Higher up it becomes more rocky...

...and narrows to a knife-edge

Sue looking for a way up at the bottom of the Eastern Spire

Vivien finds the way up and Smiffy follows

Sue climbing

Scrambling higher - Vivien and Sue

Smiffy on the steep ridge below

Toni and Smiffy near the top of the scrambling on the Eastern Spire

Vivien on the Eastern Spire, looking across to the Western Spire and Spire Head

Sue descending to the saddle

Smiffy on a short downclimb

Smiffy crossing the knife-edge saddle between the Eastern and Western Spires

Toni on the saddle, with the Pooken Hole down to the left

Sue and Vivien checking out a steep looking section

A way up presents itself just around to the left - Toni climbing

Toni lowering the rope for the first of three abseils, though Vivien and Smiffy climb down this one

Sue on the abseil

Sue on the second abseil

Smiffy at the top of the third abseil

Climbing up Spire Head

Smiffy and the Western Spire

Wedge-tailed eagles on top of the Western Spire

Sue climbing Spire Head

Obligatory selfie to get the Insta crowd here!

Group selfie with everyone (hard to do with P&S camera!) - but what are you doing Smiffy!!

Thurat Spires from Spire Head

Near the top of Spire Head

Kanangra Walls

Sunbeams on the Boyd Plateau