Grand Canyon Majesty – 8 hrs

Autumn, Favourite Hiking Tours, Full Day Hiking Tour, Full Day Tour (7 to 9 hours), Grose Valley, Healthy & Fit Adults, Practice Trip, Public Tour, Public Transport, Spring, Summer, Winter

Tour Title: Grand Canyon Majesty Tour Code: HK-GCM Tour Type: Full Day Guided Hiking Tour Tour Price: $200 pp Tour Times: Start at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba 7:30am.  Return to Katoomba 3:30pm approx.  Tour Duration: 8 hours approx. Transport: Our tour leader is a qualified coach captain driving our tour vehicle ‘Excalibur’ – our luxury P38 Range Rover HSE. […]

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Wilderness Experience 2- 4 hrs

Favourite Hiking Tours

We offer visitors the Blue Mountains a rare opportunity to venture into the true wilderness of the Blue Mountains – wild and remotely away from the beaten tracks of mass tourism. Not for the faint-hearted, nor for those fearful of cliff heights, you don’t need to be an ultra-fit adventurer to enable us to showcase the real wildness of the […]

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Blue Mountains Private Tours in Autumn 2018

2018, Autumn, Friends of Nature Trail, Practice Trip

Nature Trail Programme for 2018 Autumn We are pleased to offer our Nature Trail Programme for the 2018 Autumn season below, exploring an eclectic mix of hiking tours as well as special interest tours – formal gardens, village heritage and local cultural experiences. Trip_Version Trip_ID Tour Code ……………Tour_Title……………… Day ….Date…. Recce 26  LVI Lithgow Tour Suite Tue 6-Mar-18 Recce 27 […]

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Australian Walking Track Grading System

Hiking Best Practice

Throughout Australia, national parks walking (bushwalking) tracks vary in grade of difficulty based upon a range of factors.  These tracks are graded using a safety standard classification termed the Australian Walking Track Grading System (AWTGS) based on the Australian Standard for walking track construction (AS 2156). It was funded and developed by a Victorian Government initiative, in partnership government agencies […]

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Falls & Forest to Scenic 3hrs

Short Tour (about 3 hours)

Tour Title: Falls & Forest to Scenic Tour Code: SK-LCS Tour Type: Short 3 Hour Guided Hiking Tour Tour Price: $70 pp Tour Times: Start at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba 7:30am.  Return to Katoomba 3:30pm approx.  Tour Duration: 8 hours approx. Transport: Our tour leader is a qualified coach captain driving our tour vehicle ‘Excalibur’ – our luxury P38 […]

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(BOOK) Wayfaring in Wollemi – stories of people in wilderness

Blue Mountains Books, Bush Stories, Wollemi National Park

by Andy Macqueen, 2017 Andy Macqueen is an engineer, hydrologist, conservationist, bushwalker and an accomplished writer of Blue Mountains history. This is his fifth book. Wayfaring in Wollemi celebrates the human side of wilderness. It presents the stories of 28 people: colonial explorers and surveyors, wanderers, cattlemen, would-be developers, adventurers and conservationists. For one reason or another they each spent a part […]

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Blue Mountains Private Tours in Summer 2017

2017, Friends of Nature Trail, Practice Trip, Summer

Nature Trail Programme for 2017 Summer We are pleased to offer our Nature Trail Programme for 2017 Summer below, exploring an eclectic mix of bushwalking tours particular to the cooler Upper Blue Mountains through Summer. Tour_Status Sequence Tour Code ……….Tour_Title…………………… Day ….Date…. Practice Trip 10 JEC Jamison Escarpment and Cascades Sat 2-Dec-17 Practice Trip 11 GCM Grand Canyon Majesty Sat […]

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Mount Victoria eclectic – high panorama, cool rainforest, village heritage

2017, Friends of Nature Trail, Mount Victoria, Tour Yarns

Some 120km west of Sydney and at 1052 metres above sea level, Mount Victoria on the western escarpment is the highest and last village of the Central Blue Mountains before the road heads down the pass into the verdant valleys beyond. It is a charming Victorian village with heritage architecture dating back to the 1840s.   It’s One Tree Hill at […]

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Mayfield Garden practically to ourselves

Beyond the Blue Mountains, Friends of Nature Trail, Gardens & Nurseries Tour, Oberon District, Tour Yarns

From time to time as the seasons entice, Nature Trail ventures beyond the Blue Mountains west into the pastoral and historic Central West Region of New South Wales, like on this occasion. We arrive in spring and high altitude Oberon’s fickle weather is luckily sunny for us today.  Mayfield Garden is 13 km outside the old logging town of Oberon, […]

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Secrets of the Megalong and beyond

2017, Friends of Nature Trail, Megalong, Shipley Plateau, Tour Yarns, Wild Dog Mountains, Wilderness Experience

Grand tour this one, so we get an early start at 7am.  We explore what Shipley Plateau has to offer west of Blackheath, plus the entire length of the Megalong. ‘Megalong’ is Aboriginal for ‘valley under the cliff’ – Narrowneck’s ancient and magisterial sandstone escarpment. Locals have long balked at the tautology of ‘Megalong Valley‘ – translated to be ‘Valley […]

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A cloud soaked Grose Gorge delivers a surprise of wildflowers

2017, Blackheath, Friends of Nature Trail, Grose Valley, Tour Yarns

Keen on an early start especially in the damp mist, determination paid off for us.  Our small group of three drove out to one of the more remote parts of the Grose Gorge. Crawling along in the fog, our driver slowly rounded the corner to Eastern Grey Kangaroos happily grazing wild by the track.  The dark grey male must have […]

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