Walks Around Penrith and The Blue Mountains

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.”

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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