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 | Meet at 6pm on Monday nights with MSS members to for a night of indoor rock climbing. If you haven't climbed at Climb Fit before, it's recommended to arrive a little earlier than the start time to complete any necessary paperwork. Visit https://www.climbfit.com.au for more info on pricing etc. Located at Unit 4/12 Frederick Street, St Leonards. |
| Dates | Grade | Location | Activities | |
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| 16/05/2021 - 16/05/2021 |
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Easy - Medium | Blaxland | ABSEIL PRACTICE - for beginners and SELF-RESCUE practice. Numbers limited to maintain ratio of beginners:experienced abseilers. |
| 28/05/2021 - 30/05/2021 |
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Easy - Medium | Abercrombie | CAVE SURVEYING: Completion of surveying in one of the caves to complete Abercrombie Book project. Cave Surveyors only. TRIP FULL |
| 29/05/2021 - 30/05/2021 |
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Easy | Blue Mountains | CAR OBSERVATION DRIVE - Get your team together (friends, partners & kids welcome) and join us for an easy, fun social day. 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. Come for one day (the observation drive) or the whole weekend, car camp, campfire & dinner - and maybe an adventure on the Sunday. |
| 19/06/2021 - 20/06/2021 |
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Easy - Medium | TBA | FREEZE FEST is back - it's been around a long time, in one way or another, with different groups promoting it. MSS is going to be a part of it, no matter who organises it, but it wont be us! So, what is it? For the die-hards it's doing a wet canyon (or two) as close to the winter solstice as you can get; for those of us who are chicken-s#@t, it's a dry-ish canyon (or two). On the Saturday night there's a big campfire with shared happy hour and the opportunity to cook up great food (sometimes there's no room for wood, there are so many camp ovens). So, dust off the wetsuit and prepare yourself for a fun weekend and networking with other canyoners from other clubs (should they be so brave as us). |
| 26/06/2021 - 27/06/2021 |
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Easy - Medium | Jaunter | Cave surveying at Jaunter. The caves at Jaunter all need to be surveyed. This is an opportunity to practice our survey skills. You're welcome to come along just for the caving and the weekend away but precedence will be given to anyone wanting to work on the surveying project. Car camp on the property. |
| 10/07/2021 - 11/07/2021 |
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Easy - Medium | Abercrombie | Surface work at Abercrombie. If NPWS let us go underground again, we will apply for a permit, but if that doesn't happen we will still go and continue the various bits of surface work we're doing there. A nice place just to camp and be sociable as well. |
| 31/07/2021 - 31/07/2021 |
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Medium | Thornleigh | July 31 is Part 1 of a five-part series of abseil practice days. By the end of this program, you will have corrected some bad habits that you've picked up over the last canyon season, and have the skills to do most of the DRT (Double Rope Technique) and SRT (Single Rope Technique) canyons on the MSS calendar competently. Our leaders and fellow canyoners will also have greater confidence in your ability as they will know you've undertaken this MSS intensive program. Signing on to Part 1 is a commitment to do all five practice days, plus complete the V7 on-line canyoning course (this is a free course). Numbers limited to 8. |
| 14/08/2021 - 14/08/2021 |
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Medium | TBA | Part 2 of our intensive program of abseil practice and skills development. This day will review self-rescue skills learned in Part 1, focus on difficult starts, correct any bad habits you've acquired and introduce some new skills and scenarios that will challenge you. Only those who have completed Part 1 are eligible to participant in this workshop. |
| 15/08/2021 - 15/08/2021 |
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Blue Mountains | CANYON CARE - Be part of the Australian Canyoning Association's Canyon Care group (in conjunction with NPWS) to clean up Marijuana Canyon. This is an initiative that MSS has spear-headed, filming the garbage etc left behind. Walking in from the top, then finding our way down through the cliff-line to the site of the historical plantation, where remains of the infrastructure will be demolished and walked out. This is your opportunty to give something back to the canyoning community and to network with members of the ACA. | |
| 21/08/2021 - 22/08/2021 |
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Social | Blue Mountains | GAMES NIGHT & ABSEILING - Mark your diaries now for a night of fun and frivolity. We have board games aplenty, or, bring your favourite. we'll supply nibblies and everyone brings a dish (with food in it) to share. Starts at 5pm until you go home or roll out your sleeping bag on the floor. Sunday will be an abseiling trip in the Upper Blue Mountains. |
| 29/08/2021 - 05/09/2021 |
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Medium - Hard | Yarrangobilly | 6 days of caving at Yarrangobilly (subject to COVID restrictions) and we've secured a booking at the East Wing of Caves House. Possible caves (subject to permit approval) to be visited, Eagles Nest, Helectite Hole, Y18 Pot, Bath House, Mutt Mutt, Mooroolbark, Mill Creek Swallet, North Deep Creek, Harry Wood & Castle. Time will be set aside for participants to do voluntary work for NPWS (eg cave cleaning). Cost of accommodation to be shared between the participants - approximately $235pp based on 8 participants. Numbers limited to 8, and preference will be given to those prepared to stay the full period (29 August - 5 September). There is availability on this trip for 2 - 3 adults - all other spots taken, email your expression of interest. |
| 11/09/2021 - 12/09/2021 | Easy - Medium | Hawkesbury River | Berowra Creek paddle with an overnight camp at Twin Beaches (near Bar Island). | |
| 11/09/2021 - 11/09/2021 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Part 3 of our Skills Development Workshop - we will tackle a multi pitch canyon with a prussic exit and by this point you should be working as part of the team and participanting to a higher level than you have in the past. Only those who have completed Parts 1 & 2 are eligible to participate in this workshop. |
| 09/10/2021 - 09/10/2021 |
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Medium - Hard | Southern Highlands | Part 4 of our Skills Development Workshop - introduction to SRT and white water canyonng - must have completed Parts 1 - 3 to participant in this workshop. In the Southern Highlands, we will go through the fundamentals of SRT as we abseil the numerous waterfalls at The Cascades - a full day of theory and practical. With the skills you have practiced in Parts 1 - 3, you will be participating on this trip as part of the team, and not simply participating on a "gruided trip". To participate on this trip you must have completed the V7 on-line canyoning course (this is a free course). |
| 30/10/2021 - 31/10/2021 |
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Medium - Hard | Kanangra Boyd NP | Part 5 of Skills Development Workshop - putting the skills learned in Part 4 into practice as we abseil the wet route of Dione Dell as a team. Must have completed Parts 1 - 4 to participant in this workshop. Possibility of car camp on Saturday night and add-on trip on Sunday if there are enough participants and an appetite for an adventure. |
| 06/11/2021 - 07/11/2021 |
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Social | Hartley Vale | The ultimate social occasion - not to be missed! Camping on private property t Hartley Vale, we'll hold a very brief AGM and revive an old MSS tradition The Annual Dinner! Entertainment for the evening will be a 3D Slide Show of MSS caving/canyoning trips in a theatre-style environment.S |
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Hard | Wyanbene | Wyanbene Cave is a wild cave in the Deua National Park. It is an efflux which is long and quite wet in places. Expect lots of wading and one section of crawling in the river known as the "Wet Stretch". Some vertical sections requiring ropework as well. We will attempt to reach "Frustration Lake" (so named because it has frustrated all attempts at extending the cave). Entry is subject to a NPWS permit being granted. |
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