Welcome to the New Site

Hi all and welcome to the Club’s new website.  We’ve changed to a blog engine so check the syndication options to keep up with the latest posts.

Over the next while we’ll be moving all the old pages and trip reports over to the new site so stay tuned!

UTS Tower Abseil

As part of the 20th Anniversary celebrations for UTS, we were asked to abseil down the western face of the UTS Tower builind (building 1).

For years we’ve all looked up at what has been called the Ugliest Tower in Sydney and dreamed of what it would be like to abseil off it. Now was our chance!

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Wee Jasper Beginners Trip (5-6 April 2008)

Last weekend was the annual first semester beginners trip. Numbers were looking like a huge weekend with 16 people committed at seven days out. But like all the best laid plans as the execution due closer there were a number of drop outs which left us with only eight people arriving at Wee Jasper:

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Claustral Canyon (Dec 2007)

Baker, Stu, Tessa and I planned on going canyoning yesterday and were originally going to head up to Whungee Whengee at Mt Wilson. However, on the drive up, with the large volume of water on the road we decided that Whungee might be a bit too dangerous - so I’m soft and don’t like swimming multiple sumps in tunnel swims - and we decided to go for Claustral instead. Besides, Tess had not been through there before.

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Thurat Rift & Spires

An epic trip 21 hour trip down Thurat Rift, and exiting over the famous Thurat Spires… Peter tells the story.

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