Thanks for sharing your adventure. It’s been a long time since I climbed in the Blue Mountains this video reminds me of the video I made on Tom Thumb. I’m subscribing to see more of your adventures.
I was looking at the video and saw a grey jumper I liked the look of, it's an old one of mine that got too small and went to the Blue drum. Don't traverse too far on the halfway ledge as you did, you walked past 3 good rap anchors to then did the death traverse and rapped down the choss of Big Trad Thong. Tow the second rope and haul the pack instead of carrying both!
Thanks for the feedback Mikl. We knew we had gone too far after doing the aptly named death traverse. Decided not to do it again so used the anchor there. I appreciated the jumper whilst we waited for a slower party ahead of us. Still blows me away how cold it can get in summer in the blueys 🥶
Nice video folks. I've been wanting to do a short video showing how to get to the start of bbb, because it can be a bit confusing, I've got lost a few times already lol... Cheers 👍
Thanks Jorge. That was the initial purpose behind wanting to film it. We still got lost on the way in 😣 Hopefully it will be a lesson on both "what to do" and "what NOT to do"
We just did this yesterday and ended up doing that same dodgy crawl to the rap rings you used! Did you ever figure out where the correct rap rings are? I’m guessing we had gone too far down the track?
It was a bit too exciting for the start of the day 😂 So I haven't been back since but I've been told there are a couple of rap stations not too far before the dodgy traverse. It's concerning how many people miss them
Dope video, great climb guys! Hoping to do this soon, any particular guide book etc you can recommend to assist in finding this? What's the best nearby camping?
Cheers Max, the best description for finding the way down is on thecrag.com. There's a few photos and topos on there too. Any blue mountains guidebook from the last 10 years should be pretty accurate too. As for camping the best free campground in the blue mountains is at Mt York but that's about half an hour drive away.
Thanks for sharing your adventure. It’s been a long time since I climbed in the Blue Mountains this video reminds me of the video I made on Tom Thumb. I’m subscribing to see more of your adventures.
I was looking at the video and saw a grey jumper I liked the look of, it's an old one of mine that got too small and went to the Blue drum. Don't traverse too far on the halfway ledge as you did, you walked past 3 good rap anchors to then did the death traverse and rapped down the choss of Big Trad Thong. Tow the second rope and haul the pack instead of carrying both!
Thanks for the feedback Mikl. We knew we had gone too far after doing the aptly named death traverse. Decided not to do it again so used the anchor there.
I appreciated the jumper whilst we waited for a slower party ahead of us. Still blows me away how cold it can get in summer in the blueys 🥶
Nice video folks. I've been wanting to do a short video showing how to get to the start of bbb, because it can be a bit confusing, I've got lost a few times already lol...
Cheers 👍
Thanks Jorge. That was the initial purpose behind wanting to film it. We still got lost on the way in 😣
Hopefully it will be a lesson on both "what to do" and "what NOT to do"
We just did this yesterday and ended up doing that same dodgy crawl to the rap rings you used! Did you ever figure out where the correct rap rings are? I’m guessing we had gone too far down the track?
It was a bit too exciting for the start of the day 😂
So I haven't been back since but I've been told there are a couple of rap stations not too far before the dodgy traverse. It's concerning how many people miss them
Epic!
Dope video, great climb guys! Hoping to do this soon, any particular guide book etc you can recommend to assist in finding this? What's the best nearby camping?
Cheers Max, the best description for finding the way down is on thecrag.com. There's a few photos and topos on there too. Any blue mountains guidebook from the last 10 years should be pretty accurate too.
As for camping the best free campground in the blue mountains is at Mt York but that's about half an hour drive away.