Check out our upcoming adventures. You will need to be a member (or trial member). Trial membership is $35.00 and allows you to participate on MSS trips for 12 months. Go to the How to Join page to find out more and email membership@mssadventure.org.au for an application form.
MSS leaders collect trip fees (either before or after the activity). Please make sure you have the money with you on the day. If you book into an activity with another club, you will be asked to pay the trip fees for that club OR MSS trip fees:
Recurring Trips:
| Dates | Grade | Location | Activities | |
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Easy-Hard | St Leonards | Climbing anyone? Tim Grimes is restarting the MSS Indoor Climbing group (@ Artarmon/St Leonards Climbfit, 4/12 Frederick Street). Every Tuesday, starting around 6:30pm (if you plan on going, message Tim or hop onto the MSS FB page on Tuesday to post your interest for attending on that night). Wear your MSS t-shirt for club publicity. Membership of MSS is not required and no trip fees apply, however, if you're not a member of MSS, we'd love you to join! COVID regulations apply, full vaccination and mask wearing when belaying. |
| Dates | Grade | Location | Activities | |
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| 12/02/2026 - 12/02/2026 |
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Social | Zoom | Our quarterly meeting held via Zoom. Everyone welcome, send your suggestions for trips to be put on the calendar to membership@mssadventure.org.au. The link for the Zoom meeting will be distributed in the week before the meeting. |
| 14/02/2026 - 15/02/2026 |
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Medium | Wombeyan | Car Camping at the Wombeyan Reserve (bookings essential), this will be both a familiarisation trip for leader(s) and an opportunity for those new to caving to be guided through some horizontal caves. Helmet, and head torch required, overalls if you have them and day pack to carry lunch. We will also be visiting Mares Forest Creek canyon, the stunning crystal clear blue water is a must see, swim upstream to the waterfall, and explore a small tunnel (with eflux from a cave), a great cool off after a day's caving (the water is cold so wet suit recommended if you feel the cold). Concurrently, some members will be cleaning some flowstone in one of the old tourist caves, all participants will be required to carry some water up to the cave to be cleaned, but that will be the limit of their involvement. Bookings for camping in the Wombeyan Reserve must be made ASAP. Limited to 8 cavers/leaders. |
| 28/02/2026 - 01/03/2026 |
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Medium | Newnes Plateau | Saturday: Day trip to do the best bit of Dumbano Nth Branch Canyon, followed by a camp nearby off the Wollangambe Fire Trail. We will look for some alleged camp caves as well as a cave mentioned in Dunkley's book. Suitable for experienced canyoners but the pace will be slow and exploratory. Sunday: easy day with a walk down to Suboir Canyon and if it's not too hot we could look for the hand stencil at Goochs Crater Cave. |
| 13/03/2026 - 15/03/2026 |
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Medium | Glenrock | Glenrock Station exploration weekend: Arriving at the station on Friday afternoon, we are looking for some lost caves. It's possible there will be some digging involved. Recreational caving will depend on how many leaders attend. |
| 14/03/2026 - 15/03/2026 |
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Medium | Budawangs | Plan is to camp 1 or 2 nights and explore the area around the Corang Arch area. Currently researching different approaches to the walk, and hopefully a good camp cave to set up in. There should be great views, creeks, cascades, and roaring campfire. Likely on and off track. Check out the trip here https://bushwalkingnsw.com/walk.php?nid=817 |
| 21/03/2026 - 22/03/2026 |
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Medium | Newnes Plateau | Saturday - 3 easy but fun canyons in one day, Stuntman 1 & 2 exiting via River Caves. Sunday exploratory trip to explore side canyon off Deep Blue via Dickinsonia Pass. Both are relatively easy trips, car camping at Barco Swamp. |
| 03/04/2026 - 06/04/2026 |
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Medium | Wolli | This is an inter club trip (MSS, Illawarra & Orange speleo clubs). There are around 40 caves in the Walli area some of which we will explore. There will both horizontal and vertical caves on offer (subject to a qualified rigger attending). We wil be camping locally (exact location TBC) and we'll be having a campfire each evening. One of of the nights we'll be holding a Jaffle Cook Off - so bring your Jaffle Iron and your favourite filling and we'll judge how it measures up to the co-ordinators' favourites. |
| 19/04/2026 - 01/05/2026 |
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Medium - Hard | Mt Etna | Re-surveying the hard to access Johannsens Cave (4J-1). A complex cave with onver 1k of passage with a multiple levels and entrance holes. There will be opportunities for recreational caving, but the focus for the trip will be surveying. Accommodation in the Lammermoor area. Numbners limited. |
| 09/05/2026 - 10/05/2026 |
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Easy - Medium | Jaunter | The primary goal of the trip is to push (dig) a new cave, there's already more than we first thought! There's options for other caving and/or cave surveying. Car camping with all the mod cons. |
| 30/05/2026 - 31/05/2026 |
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Medium | Wellington | A cave area that has never been visited by MSS as a club group. Accommodation is close to the Tourist Caves and has options for camping or cabin accommodation. We may also visit another nearby caving area on the return trip. Some participants may travel to Wellington on the Friday. |
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