Walks In The Blue Mountains & Beyond

27/10/2025

What an absolutely amazing weekend I had away with a great group of friends .hand08 / .frougas / & Jess & Sam (our camp leader/organiser) from at the Warrumbungles…. We camped at a powered site near the NPWS visitor centre from Friday and explored the area.
We took in the views from various places and checked out Hickeys Falls just outside the park.
But the penultimate adventure was walking up the Grand High Top Walk above the Breadknife at 4:30am to be there in time for the sunrise 🙌

18/10/2025

Fridays aftter work bushwalk & swim down the Jack Evan’s track to Erskine Creek… temp was about 35C, so was very refreshing to have a dip in the creek, haven’t been here for a few years but I used to frequent this area as a teenager & ride my pushbike up from Penrith on a day trip and sometimes camp overnight.

Walking back up the track it was very hot & sweaty, then it rained and was so nice to walk in the rain 😎

Then I went to nearby Nepean Lookout to check it out.

23/09/2025

HEADS UP: NPWS advises of the following walking track closures for Wednesday, 24 September, for a helicopter operation in the Grand Canyon at Blackheath.

There will be no access to:

- Grand Canyon track
- Point Pilcher trail and lookout

https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/blue-mountains-national-park/local-alerts
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19/09/2025

On this day 2024, Waratah in bloom, Tablelands Road Wentworth Falls near McMahons lookout 🙌

08/09/2025

What a big day on Saturday!… Out for our monthly “At Large”contributor’s group for a sunrise photo expedition to Blackheath at the Anvil Rock area and I went up to Hen & Chicken Rock.

Then we met up for breakfast at the at Mount Victoria.

Then after that we headed down into the Megalong Valley and some of us stopped at Coachwood Glen to take photos of fungi and trees.

Then it was off to winery for a long relaxing lunch with friends 🙌

03/09/2025

A fantastic write up of our weekend with a group of Ask Roz Blue Mountains contributors by Hike Your Story 🙌

An epic hike across Mount Solitary via Golden Stairs, Ruined Castle, and the Korowal Knife Edge, finishing with camping in the Kedumba Valley.

27/07/2025

Absolutely amazing effort 🙌

Great news! James completed his trek through the Grose Valley around 8:15pm last night after emerging from the dark at Yarramundi. He was greeted by family and friends, including Donna Anderson, wife of the late Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson, who was tragically killed on duty in the Hawkesbury in 2012.

Here is a recap of the walk; James left Mt Victoria in the Blue Mountains at 4am on Friday morning. He walked solo through the Grose Valley, stopping for sleep just before 8pm. Rising after around four hours rest, James powered on and completed approximately 75 kilometres to reach his finish at Yarramundi.

In addition to a personal challenge, James undertook this challenge to raise awareness and funds for NSW Police Legacy, the charity that supported Donna Anderson and her family when they lost Bryson. NSW Police Legacy has supported children, youth and older Legatees since 1987 and since then has supported over 1,500 Legatees.

Please consider supporting this wonderful charity by making a donation to the page set up by James for his walk. The page remains open for a few days on this link:

https://portal.policelegacynsw.org.au/campaign/110/the-great-grose-river-walk-2025

22/07/2025

What an epic solo walk I had on Sunday, I went out to Kedumba Valley campground (18km 4hr return up/down a VERY steep mountain firetrail) and checked out Maxwell’s Hut which is a well preserved example of a pioneer hut.

From www.bushwalkingnsw.org.au

“Background
The upper Kedumba Valley within Blue Mountains National Park was first settled in the 1860s.
Itinerate cattleman from the Burragorang Valley took up partially improved bush holdings, moving
stock in and out of the valley for the first 30 years. These holdings were sufficiently “improved and
demonstrated permanent occupancy” that in 1889 the government surveyor granted title to William
Maxwell. William Maxwell was the son of two transported Irish convicts. Williams’s father, Thomas
Maxwell was charged with counterfeiting and transported in 1823. Williams’s mother, Elizabeth
Osbourne, transported 1831 for steeling woollen yarn.
Three generations of the Maxwell family lived and farmed the kedumba Valley from 1860 – 1992.
During this period of Maxwell family occupation, they constructed five timber slab huts and a
number of utility buildings. One of these huts, the one pictured above, built in 1925 is still standing.
In 2001 a report into the huts heritage value and structural condition was commissioned. This
report identified the hut as having state significance and possibly national significance, it also
specified that urgent stabilisation work was required to halt the huts deterioration. These works
were completed in 2004. In 2015 a report into huts condition and possible re-use was commissioned. This report recommended that the best way to preserve the hut, was to fully restore
the hut to the condition and function as per the huts use in 1925.”