Rik and myself went on a quick trip through the beautiful Dalpura Canyon. The canyon was nice as usual but the real purpose of our visit was to see the wildflowers on the ridge out. October is a good month for this.
Instead of climbing out the regular way – via the ridge to the west of the creek – we chose to climb out onto Dalpura Head to the east of the creek. This was a good choice. The ridge is very spectacular and the way out was about as easy as the other more common exit ridge.
This exit also gave us a chance to walk around the massive Dalpura Cliffs and to see from above the Lost Pillar – an amazing and very spectacular detached pinnacle that is naturally of interest to rock climbers.
The Lost Pillar has a climb up one of its aretes called “Wafer Thin Fin” (23) – you can see pictures of climbers on the route here and here.
This pillar is one of 4 detached pinnacles in the greater Grose Valley – the others being the Mirrorball, The Liversidge Pinnacle and Pulpit Rock
And the wildflowers – good, but perhaps not as good as we were hoping. It looks like we were too late. An early season perhaps due to the very warm winter and spring.
And probably now this whole area has been burnt out.
More photos on my website here.