What is Canyoning?

This sport is really only played around Sydney as nowhere else in the world has this sort of special sandstone rock, especially a belt of “canyon country” running up the west edge of the Blue Mountain and Wollemi NP. Canyoning is kind of sport which involves abseiling down narrow slots in the ground in darkness into freezing cold water, sometimes even abseiling under waterfalls, swimming in narrow bottomless pools of freezing water in dark slots and then climbing up a steep hill with a pack full of wet gear.

This sport is quite dangerous and beginners are strongly advised to go with experienced canyoners while they learn.

What is the best way of learning?

• Go with an experienced bushwalking club
  Here is one of them, http://www.bushwalking.org.au