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:
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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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| 21/10/2023 - 22/10/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Bungonia | Future Leaders training program (limited to those enrolled in the FLPP). Topic to be covered: B4/5 (Fossil, Hogans Hole) and Grill cave familiarisation and trainees will "lead" through the cave, practising rigging (trip through cave will be repeated a number of times to allow trainees to "lead". Pre trip assignment to be completed prior to the trip. Those who book in are committed to attending, only excuse acceptable is broken limb or Covid. |
| 28/10/2023 - 28/10/2023 |
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Social | Blue Mountains | Get your team together - optimal team is 1 driver + 1 person to observe (but more are ok - and driver and observer chan change roles, although preferably not whilst driving)! Friends, partners and kids can be on your team, your team members don't have to be MSS members - so bring along your long-suffering partner who has seen you going off and having adventures with us and is wondering who those MSS members are! An observation drive is all about looking around your environment for clues as you drive from location to location. Some clues will involve trivia (or possibly cryptic/trickery/puzzles/puns), others may require you to perform a simple task, others just need you to be observant. Second Breakfast and lunch are provided ($10pp covers trip fee & second breakfast and lunch), you will then drive from location to location and if you wish, at the end you can join us for dinner. This has been a long standing MSS tradition, and this year we'd like to see newer members participate, any questions about it just call. It's a load of fun, Come for one day (the observation drive) or the whole weekend, car camp, campfire and dinner. The "location" is intentionally vague - just book in and closer to the date, we'll let you know the meeting point and time. So, why not give it a go? |
| 29/10/2023 - 29/10/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Season opener for SRT canyoning - for both experienced canyoners and those new to SRT. Participants will either refresh their skills, or learn the fundamentals. It is essential that you can swim, and the focus is on team work. For those with "in-line" devices, you must be able to rig your device for the friction necessary for a single rope. |
| 29/10/2023 - 29/10/2023 |
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Easy - Medium | Lower Blue Mountains | Venue TBC. Canyoning Season Opener! Abseil Practice for canyoning - focussing on beginners but opportunities for self rescue practise also available. Booking in essential, equipment available for abseil practise for those who don't have any, but to participate in canyoning, basic equipment will need to be acquired. |
| 29/10/2023 - 29/10/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Season opener for SRT canyoning - for both experienced canyoners and those new to SRT. Participants will either refresh their skills, or learn the fundamentals. It is essential that you can swim, and the focus is on team work. For those with "in-line" devices, you must be able to rig your device for the friction necessary for a single rope. |
| 04/11/2023 - 05/11/2023 |
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Medium | Popran NP | Two day walks, Saturday exploring the full length of Ironbark Creek, checking out an aboriginal art site. Sunday, exploring Hominy Creek and one of its tributaries. |
| 11/11/2023 - 12/11/2023 |
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Social | TBA | Location to be advised. Will include AGM starting at 3:30pm, concluding by 6:00pm. Pot luck dinner - all who come contribute a dish around a campfire, including stories and outdoor slides. Overnight camping and hopefully we can induce Tim to provide a pop up coffee stall again? Please arrive at the venue no later than 6pm for a harmonious evening. |
| 11/11/2023 - 12/11/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Blaxland | Future Leaders Training, numbers limited. Follow up on Phil's earlier rigging field day for Future Leaders Pre-trip reading material will be provided along with tutorial video. Those who book in are committed to attending, only excuse acceptable is broken limb or Covid. |
| 18/11/2023 - 19/11/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Two days of canyoning with car camp in Blue Mountains. Specific canyons will be determined by the skill level of participants on the day but may include canyons such as Butterbox, or Claustral. All participants must be able to swim, be familiar with SRT canyoning techniques and be prepared to work as part of a team. |
| 18/11/2023 - 19/11/2023 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Two days of canyoning with car camp in Blue Mountains. Specific canyons will be determined by the skill level of participants on the day but may include canyons such as Butterbox, or Claustral. All participants must be able to swim, be familiar with SRT canyoning techniques and be prepared to work as part of a team. |
| 18/11/2023 - 19/11/2023 |
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Easy - Medium | Jaunter | Two days of caving at Jaunter focussing on surveying. You are welcome to attend even if you don't want to do any surveying. Mostly horizontal, but let me know if you specifically want to do any vertical caving. |
| 25/11/2023 - 03/12/2023 |
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Medium | South Coast | South Coast Sea Caves Exploration Trip, documenting sea caves of the south coast - day trips from base camp. Participants can join all or parts of trip. Further details to be advised. |
| 01/02/2024 - 04/02/2024 |
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Hard | New Zealand | Expressions of Interest sought: Makarora Festival (Queenstown/Haast Pass area) - socialising in the evenings, workshops and self-organised canyoning trips. The festival is for competent canyoners who can look after themselves in white-water acquatic canyons (not a place for beginners), no introductory canyons. For more information check out https://nzcanyoningassociation.org/events/makarora-festival-2024/. Shiva would like to co-ordinate an MSS contingent, she will be able to give advice on what additional skills you may need to participate, accommodation (everyone staying at the Lodge would be optimal), and putting those who wish to hire a car together to minimise costs. Participants will need to be proactive and join trips that are on offer, there will be no MSS only trips organised. |
| 21/04/2024 - 06/05/2024 |
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Medium | Tasmania | Two weeks caving in Tasmania. Week 1 will be in the rarely visited Mt Cripps area - approx 100k west of Mole Creek. During the week, we will be assisting the Savage River Caving Club with track maintenance and visiting some of their caves. We will then move down to Mole Creek and assist with some surface trogging in the Herberts Pot and Sassafras Creek areas visiting some of the recently discovered Sassafras Creek area caves. This trip will co-incide with a Cave Rescue exercise undertaken by the Northern Caverneers. We will be able to assist (based on skill level), and observe how they run their extremely successful cave rescue practice days. Numbers will be limited to 7 (due to hire care and accommodation limitations) and preference will be given to those who wish to participate for the full 2 weeks (logistically, picking participants up or dropping them at the airport can be problematic). |
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