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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| 02/08/2025 - 03/08/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Timo | Introuction to Caving - Joint trip with NHVSS. Horizontal caves, no vertical equiment required, ideal for beginners. Accommodation in shearers quarters including hot showers (limited number of beds/rooms but camping also an option), $10 per night per person plus trip fees. This is a GREAT opportunity to go caving, don't miss out! Approx 4 hours drive from Sydney CBD, so car pooling recommended. Overalls or old clothes for in the cave, gloves for in cave and bike helmet is sufficient, head torch if you have one. |
| 09/08/2025 - 10/08/2025 |
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Medium | Darug NP | Gunderman Map. A No Gaps on Map walk. A relatively easy overnight walk, although the majority of the walk will be exploratory. One kilometre on Western Commission fire trail, then 1.5k off track to unnamed side creek of Sugee Bag Creek. We will then follow the side creek downstream (roughly 200m descent) to an old fire trail on Sugee Bag Creek, we will be looking for an aboriginal art site. We'll then go upstream on the overgrown fire trail for 2k to an overhang where we will spend the night. On Sunday we will retrace our steps for 300m and then negotiate our ascent up a spur (very steep) and approach the upper reaches of Greengrove Creek and see if we can find the Group 30 art site, then 1.5k back to Western Commission fire trail. Be prepared for cold night (and big camp fire). |
| 14/08/2025 - 14/08/2025 |
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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 in the week before the meeting. |
| 23/08/2025 - 23/08/2025 |
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Medium | Hawkesbury Crags | SRT practice for caving focusing on beginners and rigging practice. We have gear to lend to 3 participants so MAKE SURE YOU BOOK IN EARLY and ensure that I know you will need gear! For intermediate cavers we will be introducing "crossing a knot" and, if time permits, for more advanced cavers we'll revisit team self rescue. |
| 25/10/2025 - 26/10/2025 |
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Social | Central West | Metropolitan Speleological Society – 60th Anniversary Celebration! Join us for a weekend of memories, mateship, mud (optional), and milestones! This year marks 60 years of MSS — six decades of exploration, adventure, and camaraderie underground and above. We're calling on all current and past members to reconnect and celebrate this remarkable journey. Main Event – Saturday Evening at the O'Connell Hotel, O'Connell NSW, From 5:00pm until midnight Featuring: • Dinner & drinks in the bistro (at own expense) • After-dinner festivities in the private dining room • Guest speaker: Cave diving legend Rod OBrien • Club awards, speeches & a caving-themed trivia challenge Accommodation • Free camping available in the grassy campsite next to the hotel (toilet & shower facilities available) • Limited rooms available in the hotel Saturday & Sunday Daytime Activities Short social and exploratory activities announced elsewhere – light, local, and optional. |
| 25/10/2025 - 25/10/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Newnes Plateau | This is a side trip that you can do as you're heading for our 60th Anniversary Celebration. The Lost City Walking Track - Located within the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area, nature has crafted a masterpiece over the ages, with layers of ironstone nestled between sandstone forming breathtaking geological structures. This is a half-day walk all on track - at the time of writing the track is a "bounce trip" (walking to the end then returning the same way) but hopefully by the actual trip date the northern parking lot will be finished and it will be a through trip with a car shuffle (watch this space). In any event, it's a great opportunity to visit the track on your way to the social evening that David S is planning. |
| 26/10/2025 - 26/10/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Central West | This is a (less than) 1/2 day side trip that you can do AFTER your 60th Anniversary decadent breakfast at a local cafe. Slavens Cave, one of the largest sandstone caves of its type in NSW (possibly Australia, one report apparently claims it’s the 10th biggest in the world!). Definitely worth a visit! |
| 08/11/2025 - 09/11/2025 |
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Medium | Tuena | Visiting The Sounder. These caves are on private property in the Tuena area. The plan is to visit the caves and refamiliarise ourselves with them, also to provide the new property owners within information and history of the caves. If there's enough time we will also consider re-surveying, or just make a plan to do that on a future trip. Other activities (caves or abseiling) may be included. |
| 22/11/2025 - 23/11/2025 |
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Medium | Borenore | Car camping at Molong Showground - hot showers & camp kitchen faciities available, small charge applicable. This trip will will be divided into two parts (1) introduction to caving for those who haven't given it a go, and finding some known caves that need to be documented and explored. We will also be doing Tunnel cave - a stunning sporty cave, you will get wet! and is only open from November to April, so this is a "must do" trip and (2) We will also be undertaking the "Stal Repair Project" in Cathedral Cave - numbers will be limited and only experienced cavers will be accepted. |
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