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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| 06/04/2025 - 06/04/2025 |
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Medium | Hawesbury Crags | SRT practice for caving forcusing on beginners and rigging practice. |
| 11/04/2025 - 13/04/2025 |
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Borenore | An Introuction to Caving trip for new cavers featuring mostly horizontal caves. Tunnel cave is a stunning sporty cave, you will get wet! and is only open from November to April, so this is a "must do" trip. Other caves will be on offer depending on the participants. Some of us will also remove graffiti from Verandah cave. Social activity & accommodation: We have rented the log cabin at Canobolas Mountain Cabins for Friday & Saturday nights (approximately $100 per person for 2 nights) and we'll be doing a group dinner (at least two dishes one of which will be vegetarian) and will have a murder/mystery evening. Partners (non cavers) welcome. Limited to 13 participants due to # of beds in the cabin. | |
| 18/04/2025 - 21/04/2025 |
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Medium | Genrock | Introduction to Caving - Yes, it's Easter so we will have 4 days bush camping in the country, we'll spend the day exploring some of the caves on this private cattle property. There are a few horizontal caves and some small vertical caves andlots of opportunity to find new caves. For the vertical caves we will do some basic ladder and SRT training. Bring all your camping gear, plus a camp oven to use on the camp fire (if you have one). The property is a 1.5hrs drive north of Aberdeen. Car pooling is encouraged. |
| 01/05/2025 - 01/05/2025 |
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Social | Zoom | Who should attend? All members/leaders. What will happen, we'll look at the calendar for the coming months and discuss proposed trips (1) if you're not a leader, you can suggest trips that you'd like to do and hopefully someone will put their hand up to lead the trip for you; (2) Leaders will be able to gauge the appetite for a trip they might have in mind; (3) everyone will have the opportunity to express interest in the trips (and your name will be noted to secure your place). This is not a "sit around and talk about trips and then nothing happens" meeting, have your calendar/diary in place during the meeting and suggest actual dates. Think about your wish list and "save the date" Thursday 1 May - link and a reminder will be sent out prior to meeting. |
| 03/05/2025 - 03/05/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Hawkesbury Crags | SRT practice for caving forcussing on beginners and rigging practice, if time permits and based on weather team self rescue may be practiced. |
| 04/05/2025 - 04/05/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Wheeney Gap Falls & Pool. This trip involves driving to Bilpin and turning North onto Mountain Lagoon road and taking the North Wheeney Gap Trail to the end. This trail can be rough and boggy so a 4WD is most suitable although 2WD can make it at least some of the way. Near the end of this trail is a steep walk down to a stunning waterfall above a deep pool. For those who dare you can go for a swim here but I am told the water is particularly cold. Walking further downstream is another waterfall. We turn around and go back from here. |
| 08/05/2025 - 08/05/2025 |
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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 the week before the meeting. |
| 10/05/2025 - 11/05/2025 |
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Hard | Newnes Plateau | Orifice Canyon and Surefire with a difference. 2 day trip with base camp at a lookout above the Wolgan River. Day 1 - Orifice Canyon which will be exploratory as leader has not done this canyon. Day 2 - walk via the amazing drill hole and follow cliffline on east side of Surefire Creek to an interesting cave that we sighted from the Surefire Exit. Abseil down through a hole in the rock to the Surefire campcave and then traverse a nice bit of the canyon to the upstream exit. Wet feet only and experienced exploratory canyoners only for this one with a party limit of 6. |
| 10/05/2025 - 11/05/2025 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Yes, Sunday is Mother's Day! This exploratory overnight walk joins two Yuri day walks in Gospers Creek in the Mountain Lagood area. We start the walk just off a fire trail and negotiate 100m of off track walking to access the creek. We will walk approx 3k down the creek and then start looking for a camp site. The next day we'll walk approximately the same distance and then walk approximately 500m uphill to where our cars have been parked. All off track, water guaranteed, will be a great adventure. |
| 17/05/2025 - 18/05/2025 |
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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. |
| 07/06/2025 - 08/06/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Postphoned from last year! The 200 m long by 60 m wide and 60-80 m high promontory at the junction of Wentworth Creek and Flat Top Brook demands to be climbed - there is a cairn on the top! This is what this overnight walk is about! Some "bits" are exploratory for the leader. |
| 13/06/2025 - 14/06/2025 |
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Medium | Wombeyan | Introduction to Caving - Pending Permit - NPWS have approved date. Arriving Friday night (where possible) 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. Caves yet to be determined. 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. |
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