Newnes to Colo Heights
mack
>
> Hi
>
> Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and if
> so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
It's a walk. I did it 25yrs ago with Dave Noble and it sounded like
a great idea to bring our Lilos. We carried them just about
the whole bloody way except for a nice set of rapids we spent an
hour or two at.
> We are hoping for a little rain late February.
If the river came up deep enough to lilo it would
be fast and dangerous - there's a lot of snaggery etc
in the river. Your lilo wouldn't last 10mins.
It was a really nice walk though. Can't remember where we came out
but we exited early. We hoped to walk through to the plains
but the creek bashing and the meanders of the river mean to don't
go anywhere real fast. I think we lasted 4 or 5 days.
Joe
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Peter and Heather Brown
Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and if
so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
We are hoping for a little rain late February.
We have walked as far as Annie Rowan Creek before but had to turn back due
to an injured party member (she somehow managed to brake her leg and then to
limp back on it).
Thanks
Peter
David Springthorpe
I've not been to the Colo for yonks, but this reminded me of a memorable
lilo trip down the Wollangambe from Mt. Irvine to Upper Colo about 20 years
ago.....
David Springthorpe.
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Bron
>
> Hi
>
> Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and if
> so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
> We are hoping for a little rain late February.
>
about 6 km below that. The next 14 km down to Upper Colo is too shallow
at the moment, about 0.2 m river rise would take care of that, or its a
sand slog.
In my experience liloing is much easier in the upper section, although
probably not much quicker than walking. Allow about 10 -12 km /day when
calculating times along the river.
Bronwyn Davey
Roger Caffin
> Peter and Heather Brown wrote:
> > Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and
if
> > so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
> a great idea to bring our Lilos. We carried them just about
> the whole bloody way except for a nice set of rapids we spent an
> hour or two at.
would be lilo-able. The lower bit gets a bit flat too.
> > We are hoping for a little rain late February.
> be fast and dangerous - there's a lot of snaggery etc
> in the river. Your lilo wouldn't last 10mins.
fast. Then, as Mack said, it gets "interesting". Not really recommended for
safety.
> It was a really nice walk though. Can't remember where we came out
> but we exited early. We hoped to walk through to the plains
> but the creek bashing and the meanders of the river mean to don't
> go anywhere real fast. I think we lasted 4 or 5 days.
too.
Cheers, Roger
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Joseph Mack
>
> mack <ma...@ncifcrf.gov> wrote in article <369BDA27...@ncifcrf.gov>...
> > Peter and Heather Brown wrote:
> > > Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and
> if
> > > so can it be done on an air bed,
> > We carried them just about
> > the whole bloody way except for a nice set of rapids we spent an
> > hour or two at.
> About that for the upper bit. The central bit has lots of long pools and
> would be lilo-able.
They're long and still and you're arms are about to fall off at the end
of
them. Meanwhile you can bash through the scrub on the side at about 3
times
the pace. As well you know that just 400yrds on the other side of the
sandstone wall rising to the sky next to you is the very same piece of
river
flowing in the opposite direction coming back from its meander and that
it's
going to take you most of the day to get there, either by walking or
paddling.
There was a calendar-picture grade wide flat pebbly rapid that we sat at
and
took pictures of for a while, but it wasn't deep enough to float a lilo
on, even with no-one on it. You hope at the end of a long paddle on
a flat still pool to get a run down a rapid, but you don't
> > The lower bit gets a bit flat too.
never made it that far
> > go anywhere real fast. I think we lasted 4 or 5 days.
> Nice country. Not that easy to exit "anywhere" tho'. Bit slow on the banks
you have to pick your exit. We came out on a fire trail to find someone
there in a LandRover. Got a ride to my door in Glebe in about 2hrs.
After
5 days in the bush I was in complete culture shock from the sudden
transition.
That lunch I'd been on the river. I was home before dark and eating
dinner
in daylight.
Joe
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Ray Robinson
> Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and if
> so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
>
Did part of it last Easter, ie 4 days.
Started at Glen Davis rather than Newnes, but the distance
is about the same. Then exited at the Wollemi/Colo junction.
All walking, not much lilo opportunity.
We were 2 groups, met in the middle and swapped car keys.
Good walk. Lotsa quicksand.
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Ray
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Greg Hutchison
Most of the advice you got is preety correct.
I haven't done it for yonks ie 20 years like some of the others.
If you are not used to the central Colo, then make sure you prepare
well.
Its easy going from Newnes to past Annie Rowan to about where the
Totem is.
Still relatively OK to the Wolgan junction. Then you may be best
walking in the river. Same for the Capertee. Just be aware there is
ost of quicksand down to about the Wollemi Junction.
Best exits are the Wollemi then up the Culoul range, but that a 15Km
slof ot the Putty Road. Others are canoe creek or Turner Track, the
easiest. Downstream from the Wollemi junction its lilo time, or very
slow waling along the banks. 10-12Km per day is good going.
The li-loing may also be slow. If there has been any rain be careful
on some of the rapids.
An alternatibe trip might be to have two cars and leav one at the
Culoul range and another at Tuners.
Another good walk (no li-lo) is to go down the Wlogan to the Capertee,
then up to Glen davis and then back over the pipeline track to Newnes.
Greg Hutchison
"Peter and Heather Brown" <hea...@wolf.net.au> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Has anyone out there done this walk/swim down the Wolgan/Colo River and if
>so can it be done on an air bed, and the approx. time it takes.
>We are hoping for a little rain late February.
AGL Pty Ltd
Christmas - New Year period, fabulous trip and very hard work; we did it in
7
days. There were seven of us.
We took a train to Lithgow, then taxi to Newnes. It was lighty snowing in
Lithgow but the weather along the river was hot (sometimes very hot). We
were in Newnes by about 11.30am and walked the first section to Annie Rowan
on the first day. Next
day we walked and Liloed (about half of each) to the junction of the
Capertee. The third day we could lilo more and reached the junction with
the Wollemi.
I would have to check my notes for details of where we camped on the other
nights but I remenber that we camped the last night at the junction of the
Wollangambe. This would have to be one of the best trips I've ever done.
Each morning as you start gliding along through a magnificent
gorge,watching the sun climb down the sides, the birds, lizards and snakes
coming down to drink, the colours of the rocks changing as the light
changes, the transition from the cool of the night to the heat of midday
when it becomes earily quiet. At night watching the stars slide past the
narrow slot of the gorge.
There is quick sand around the Wollemi junction but you quickly learn to
identify where to expect it.
Prior to the trip I had rang the taxi companies in Windsor to see if they
would come
and pick us up at Colo Heights at the end of the trip; to which they
readily agreed.
However when I rang from Colo Heights they refused to come out, so we
talked a
couple of drivers that stopped at the service station into giving us lifts
to Windsor.
There is potential for problems and you need to think about what you
would do if something goes wrong; one of my party ripped his lilo
completely open on the last day and as a result had to walk the last half
day. That was fine but if it had occurred on any other day I doubt we could
have finished; walking is much slower than liloing along much of the Colo
Gorge.
We saw few people except around the junction of the Wollemi and Bob
Turner's track.
A fantastic trip. It was one of those trips where you work hard, you're
constantly on the go, the scenery is always moving you, gee I guess I still
miss "river time" . . .
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Roger Caffin
> Christmas - New Year period, fabulous trip and very hard work; we did it
in
> 7 days. There were seven of us.
> There is quick sand around the Wollemi junction but you quickly learn to
> identify where to expect it.
How???
The only way we found to identify it was to sink in it. Very effective, of
course. :-)
Cheers, Roger (who is wondering what he missed identifying)