18-21/04/2014 - photos

Participants: Tom Brennan, Rachel Grindlay, Caoimhin Ardren, Richard Pattison, Melissa Thomas, Ruby Gamble

Day 1

Almost packed and ready to go... but there's still breakfast to eat

Rich & Mel's heartwarming message

Canyon 1

Rachel on the first abseil of our first canyon

No anchors, so we tie another rope on and keep going

Ruby on the next part of the drop

Ruby on the following abseil, off a rather springy log (with me sitting on it!)

Rachel on the same abseil, without the benefit of a fat person weighting the log!

Rachel at the top of the next drop, our third

Cut log? Perhaps it had fallen across the nearby road, and chainsawed and rolled into the canyon?

Caoimhin on the third abseil

Crossing the ferny clearing, a front for nettles and raspberry

Ruby in the pretty gorge below the clearing

Lunch at a creek junction

Canyon 2

Caoimhin checking out a canyon in a side creek

Deeper in the side canyon. I climb out and around this section into a higher section, but it looks like it peters out shortly after

Canyon 3

Rachel at the bottom of another canyon

Rachel in the canyon

Looking up the canyon - possibly it opens out above here?

Caoimhin "bridging"

Glum look? This basalt hillside that we need to descend is covered with nettles and prickly bushes

Canyon 4

Another surprise canyon - the light is deceiving as it is almost dark (hurray for high ISO cameras!)

Rachel on the abseil - we probably could have climbed down the left but it was dark

Finally we make it into camp where Rich and Mel have been for some time