Walks Around Penrith and The Blue Mountains

13/07/2025

Great initiative 🙌

07/07/2025

Such an amazing fun filled time at our regular contributors sunrise photo session on Saturday morning.

This month we did sunrise at Wentworth Falls lake, then off to a special Christmas In July breakfast at restaurant at Katoomba.

Then after breakfast we had a super special treat of a private viewing of the Edge Blue Mountains documentary at

The last time I saw it was in 2011 (I was the only one in the cinema
) & it was stopped being shown not long afterwards.

Information supplied by Ask Roz:

“This was the movie that the ‘Edge iMAX’ cinema was created for. Shot on 70mm large-format film with a 15-perforation frame width (IMAX), the movie premiered in Katoomba on the brand new IMAX screen on January 1, 1997.

Given its 30-year age, the film’s content has aged exceptionally well, and while the quality is not up to 2025 standards, it is very entertaining and we HIGHLY RECOMMEND it.

United Cinemas The Edge are happy to take group bookings for the movie. It has a run time of about 36 minutes, and it’s suitable for all ages. For booking details, give them a call on 4782 8900.

BACKSTORY: “Discover an ancient wilderness with exotic creatures, a labyrinth of lost worlds and magical places, beautiful and treacherous waterfalls, canyons and underground rivers, carved by streams that lead back into the world as it was ninety million years ago, a lost world where the ancient “Wollemi Pine” was no-longer-extinct.

Written, directed and produced by international award winning filmmaker and IMAX veteran John Weiley “Wild Australia - THE EDGE” tells the story of discovering and coming to terms with the ancient and fragile world we live in”

19/05/2025

Track closure

HEADS UP: NPWS advise that the following areas in Wentworth Falls will be closed due to maintenance from Wednesday, 21 May to Monday, 30 June 2025:

•⁠ ⁠Valley of the Waters below Nature Track junction
•⁠ ⁠Empress Canyon

ALERTS: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/blue-mountains-national-park/local-alerts
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16/05/2025

Unbelievable, my friend Annie from Wentworth Tiles started running yesterday morning at 5am and ran 100miles/160Km all around the upper mountains.

Starting at Blackheath the course goes down the Grand Canyon and back up, then from Evan’s Lookout out along the cliffs to Perry’s Look down then down into the Grose Valley and back up Fortress Ridge then back across to Medlow Bath via Bruce’s Walk then down the 6 foot track and back up via Narrow neck and to into Katoomba then along the cliff tops then down into the Jamison and back up via Kedumba Valley to the Kings Tableland then back along the cliffs to finally finish at Scenic World at Katoomba where Annie finished at 7:24 this morning 🤯

See Annie’s run with map/stats here https://live.utmb.world/uta/2025/runners/18

And after all this she’s still smiling 🙌

12/05/2025

Out and about on Saturday for sunrise at Elyisan Rock Lookout at Leura (5mins drive from home) with the contributors, then breakfast at 🙌

27/04/2025

HEADS UP: NPWS advise: The following walking tracks will be closed for a helicopter operation on Monday 28 April, weather permitting:

• Giant Stairs closed beyond Oreades Lookout
• Golden Stairs
• Federal Pass between Scenic World and Golden Stairs
• Federal Pass between the base of Furber Steps and Leura Forest
• Dardanelles Pass

Mount Solitary will be accessible from the Kedumba Valley – return by the same route.

NPWS closures: nswparks.info/alerts-bluemtns
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01/04/2025

Congratulations to Chappo and the team from Blue Mountains Day Tours for being on Sydney Weekender on Sunday 🙌

19/12/2024

Be sure to listen in to Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 tomorrow morning… Sue from Mountains Tales and Graham from Blue Mountains Day Tours / Memories of Penrith and surrounding suburbs 👍

HEADS UP ~ ON FRIDAY on the Blue Mountains Tourism Show on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 between 8:30am - 10am, "Catchy", Robyn Catchlove will be chatting with;

8:40am: Sue Collins - Mountains Tales - Christmas in the Mountains over the years.
9:20am: Graham Chapman - Blue Mountains Day Tours - Winners of GOLD in the NSW Tourism Awards

Listen on 89.1FM or online at: www.rbm.org.au

PODCAST: If you miss the show it will be available as a podcast.
Listen here: www.askroz.news/ARBM_Podcast
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Radio Blue Mountains
8:30am - 10am Fridays
Presented by Catchy (Robyn Catchlove)
Listen here: www.rbm.org.au 89.1FM

14/12/2024

Last Ask Roz Blue Mountains sunrise meet up of the year… bring on 2025 🙌

TODAY it was time for a regular catchup with some of our amazing contributors. We are so lucky to have such talented contributors. We hope you enjoy their work as much as we do.

We had a great morning capturing the best sunrise around Govetts Leap Blackheath and then onto Mount York. Then we enjoyed breakfast at the Victoria and Albert Guesthouse Mount Victora. There are so many wonderful photos, we'll be sharing over a couple of days.

In no particular order, we have Michael Connolly, Rob Moore, Ian Smith, Despina Caruana, Logan Spice, Edna Frougas, Brett Greenhalgh, Troy Hovenden, Jenet Scott, Karen Edwards, Philip Johnson, Elaine Yeoh, Annie Hand, Brenda Hill, Les Anthes, Emma Gabriel, and Robyn Catchlove.

To those who couldn't make it, you missed a great morning.

Congratulations to Melissa Ellison who won our "2024 Contributor of the Year" award.

SPECIAL THANKS to Shane, Nic and the team at the Victoria and Albert Guesthouse for taking care of us so well once again

Be sure to follow Brett on Instagram: www.instagram.com/green.halghphotography
Be sure to follow Logan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Loganspicephotography
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Be sure to follow Michael on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mountainswalks
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Be sure to follow Karen on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KarenEdwardsphotographyhartle
Be sure to follow Janet on Facebook: Janet K Scott and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/janetkscott
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Be sure to follow Despina on Instagram: www.instagram.com/despina_caruana
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07/12/2024

Went to the Glenbrook Tunnel preview opening today, it’s been many years to get to this point and campaigning by Open Glenbrook Tunnel with still more work to go, they need to add lighting as well as other projects but it’s good to see it finally taking shape as I used to walk past it back when I worked at Penrith and used to visit the area on my lunch break.

The last couple of pictures show what it was like, the overgrown cutting and Eastern approach is from 2013 and another from 2022 as well as the Western side in 2015 the last picture.

It’s quite a long tunnel at 634M and it was quite foggy inside 😶‍🌫️

More information:

“The Glenbrook Tunnel is a heritage-listed single-track former railway tunnel and mustard gas storage facility and previously a mushroom farm located on the former Main Western Line (since deviated) at the Great Western Highway, Glenbrook, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The Department of Railways designed the tunnel and built it from 1891 to 1892. It is also known as Lapstone Hill tunnel and Former Glenbrook Railway and World War II Mustard Gas Storage Tunnel. The property is owned by Blue Mountains City Council and Land and Property Management Authority, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 August 2011.[3] The railway tunnel was originally part of the Glenbrook 1892 single-track deviation, which bypassed the Lapstone Zig Zag across the Blue Mountains. It is 634 metres; 693 yards (31.5 chains) long and is constructed in an 'S' shape with a gradient of 1:33”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenbrook_Tunnel_(1892)

06/12/2024

In light of Glenbrook Tunnel having its opening ceremony and preview tomorrow, here’s photos I took back in 2015 just after it had been abandoned by the mushroom growers and even though the tunnel itself was not able to be accessed the sheds and other areas outside were open to people who could walk through and it was very messy.

Open Glenbrook Tunnel Ask Roz Blue Mountains Memories of Penrith and surrounding suburbs Memories of Blue Mountains and surrounding suburbs

03/12/2024

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