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 September 2004
-The Great Grose Trek
+**The Great Grose Trek**
-It is Sunday afternoon and the sound of hail is
+It is Sunday afternoon and the sound of hail is loud enough to drown out the sound of the trumpet and organ recital in the Great Hall of Sydney University and North Sydney looks like the snowfields with hail causing traffic jam, with vehicles unable to get traction. It has been raining all day in the Blue Mountains and I have a three-day walk starting tomorrow!
-loud enough to drown out the sound of the
-trumpet and organ recital in the Great Hall of
-Sydney University and North Sydney looks like
-the snowfields with hail causing traffic jams
-. with vehicles unable to get traction. It has been
-raining all day in the Blue Mountains and I have
-a three-day walk starting tomorrow!
-However the weather forecasters are
+However the weather forecasters are predicting Monday and Tuesday will be fine and warm with a change on Wednesday that may bring some rain  so the walk is on.
-predicting Monday and Tuesday will be fine and
-warm with a change on Wednesday that may
-bring some rain  so the walk is on.
-Monday, true to forecast, is fine and warm
+Monday, true to forecast, is fine and warm with a light nor-westerly, a quite delightful day at Mount Hay to begin the walk. We begin a little late due to a train holdup but our small party of three moves along at a catch-up pace. Up and over Mt Hay, to the steep down through the escarpment and across to Boorong Crags. Very soon we are at Andy Macqueens Lookout for lunch. The descent though Shaws Gully to Byles Pass goes without incident apart from Rick noting, it is strange to be perspiring so much on a descent. We complete the descent without incident and on reaching the Grose, proceed upstream to a point opposite Garrad Gulch. The plan is to cross the Grose at this point and camp in the hope that there will be
-with a light nor-westerly, a quite delightful day
+water flowing in the creek and that there is a campsite. All is well with a plentiful supply of
-at Mount Hay to begin the walk. We begin a
-little late due to a train holdup but our small
-party of three moves along at a catch-up pace.
-Up and over Mt Hay, to the steep down through
-the escarpment and across to Boorong Crags.
-Very soon we are at Andy Macqueens Lookout
-for lunch. The descent though Shaws Gully to
-Byles Pass goes without incident apart from
-Rick noting, It is strange to be perspiring so
-much on a descent. We complete the descent
-without incident and on reaching the Grose,
-proceed upstream to a point opposite Garrad
-Gulch. The plan is to cross the Grose at this
-point and camp in the hope that there will be
-water flowing in the creek and that there is a
-campsite. All is well with a plentiful supply of
 water and a reasonable campsite.
-Tuesday dawns overcast but otherwise fine.
+Tuesday dawns overcast but otherwise fine. On moving off we find the Garrad Gourmet Campsite only 200M further on. - Next time.
-On moving off we find the Garrad Gourmet
-Campsite only 200M further on. - Next time.
-Travel on this northern side of the Grose is
+Travel on this northern side of the Grose is all-new and with no remnants of the Engineers track to help, the walking is reasonable if slow for most of the time. We somehow manage to miss the lake shown at 612792 even though we had had a good look at it yesterday from above. We did however find the remains of the prospectors camp at Zobels Gully with a good flow of water in the creek, and so we lunched at the Zobel Mine Visitors Canteen. During lunch Paul spotted a small mouse size creature climbing a tree nearby. We were unable to identify it further as it was a distance off. It could have been a glider or marsupial mouse.
-all-new and with no remnants of the Engineers
-track to help, the walking is reasonable if slow
-for most of the time. We somehow manage to
-miss the lake shown at 612792 even though we
-had had a good look at it yesterday from above.
-We did however find the remains of the
-Jim Percy.
+Across the Grose after lunch, now assisted by parts of the Engineers Track we moved on quite quickly to Rocky Points Creek to camp at Rocky Points Park. RPC is flowing nicely as expected and the camp is first class. Rain had been threatening since lunch but had held off until after dinner, then it rained quite steadily well into the night.
-prospectors camp at Zobels Gully with a good
+Wednesday brings another fine day and leaves nothing more to do but make our way through two delightful forests to Du Faurs Buttress and climb out. The trees of these forests are smaller than Blue Gums E. deanii but the area is as large or larger. In the first of the forests, the larger of the two, a
-flow of water in the creek, and so we lunched at
+miniature Blue Gum, what do we find but two horses?
-the Zobel Mine Visitors Canteen. During lunch
-Paul spotted a small mouse size creature
-climbing a tree nearby. We were unable to
-identify it further as it was a distance off. It
-could have been a glider or marsupial mouse.
-Across the Grose after lunch, now assisted by
-parts of the Engineers Track we moved on quite
-quickly to Rocky Points Creek to camp at Rocky
-Points Park. RPC is flowing nicely as expected
-and the camp is first class. Rain had been
-threatening since lunch but had held off until
-after dinner, then it rained quite steadily well
-into the night.
-Wednesday brings another fine day and leaves
+A big surprise! These horses are in very good condition and they do not look as if they have spent the winter here. I will report them to the NPWS but will NPWS have the resources to do anything?
-nothing more to do but make our way through two
-delightful forests to Du Faurs Buttress and climb
-out. The trees of these forests are smaller than Blue
-Gums E. deanii but the area is as large or larger.
-In the first of the forests, the larger of the two, a
-miniature Blue Gum, what do we find but two
-horses?
-A big surprise! These horses are in very good
+The climb up Du Faurs buttress is taken slowly with lots of rest stops and we arrive at the top in
-condition and they do not look as if they have
+good tume for lunch at the Yardley Family Cave and Caf. The car pickup at the Mt Hay Fire Trail
-spent the winter here. I will report them to the
-NPWS but will NPWS have the resources to do
-anything?
-The climb up Du Faurs buttress is taken slowly
-with lots of rest stops and we arrive at the top in
-good tume for lunch at the Yardley Family Cave
-and Caf. The car pickup at the Mt Hay Fire Trail
 completes the walk and concludes a great trip.
-The Engineers Track was installed in the early
+The Engineers Track was installed in the early 1860s as a survey track when the decision was still to be made as to where to run the railway across the Blue Mountains. If the decision had been made to run the railway along the Grose Valley it would have been one of the great railway trips of the world! You can still walk this great trip!
-s as a survey track when the decision was
-still to be made as to where to run the railway
-across the Blue Mountains. If the decision had
-been made to run the railway along the Grose
-Valley it would have been one of the great railway
-trips of the world! You can still walk this great
-trip!
-Thanks to Rick and Paul for an enjoyable 3
+Thanks to Rick and Paul for an enjoyable 3 days.
-days.
-The walk was Mt Hay to the Pinnacles via
+The walk was Mt Hay to the Pinnacles via the Grose River. Monday to Wednesday, September 6 to 8 and was a two day weekend walk turned into a three day trip. It was intended primarily for the midweek walkers, but of course anyone can be a midweek walker.
-the Grose River. Monday to Wednesday,
-September 6 to 8 and was a two day weekend
-walk turned into a three day trip. It was intended
-primarily for the midweek walkers, but of course
-anyone can be a midweek walker.
-The more leisurely pace allowed exploring
+The more leisurely pace allowed exploring and a better appreciation of the wonderful Grose
-and a better appreciation of the wonderful Grose
 Valley.
-Trip members were Paul McCann, Rick
+Trip members were Paul McCann, Rick Angel and Jim Percy.
-Angel and Jim Percy.
-The Sydney Bushwalker
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