Lockleys Pylon to Acacia Camp Return.

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Lockleys Pylon to Acacia Camp Return.

The Blue Mountains is such great place which is so accessible to Sydney, I’m very fortunate that I can drive up here in a short time and it seems like you are alot further or remote once you get off the Great Western Highway.

A great example is this is in one of the pictures looking back east towards Sydney. This was on a nice clear day as I started the walk at Lockleys Pylon trail head, I could actually see Sydney, I could make out Parramatta , Liverpool, CBD and Chatswood skyscrapers..

The Grose Valley is full of lots of great walks, some of which I have done, but many I have not yet. I do wish though there was more camping options (also in the Blue Mountains in general), the two campsites in the Valley , Acacia and Burra Korain are great, lots of space and also with decent toilets a great credit to NPWS. It would be nice to see some more sites up high, I did actually consider camping near Lockleys pylon , there is some nice flat spots up there with views that would be epic at sunrise or sunset.

This walk is really great it covers some really diverse scenery from typical bush to open savannah style to cliff top and of course the cliff descent and also Blue gum river scenes , all which is a feast for any outdoor loving person… not so much for my knees tho, especially going down hill 🙁

This is just a dump of alot of photos from the couple of days on the walk and the camp site, lots of panos.

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Acacia Campground

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Acacia Campground

Whilst I do like a good mountain top campsite, this one is pretty speccy with the river next to it, nothing better than being able to cool down in this clear water.

The ridge you can see up top is Fortress Ridge, the next one on teh left behind the trees is Lockleys Pylon from where I walked.

Minnehaha Falls

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Minnehaha Falls

nothing funny about these falls – especially on this wet and raining day, the path down is about 1km I suppose, which becomes not a path when it rains, it morphs like predator from a path into a full blown creek which destined to end any dryness in ones shoes.

To make it worse, I could not even get to the base of the falls since it was flowing so much, not to mention the thought of the effluent overflow as warned by the signs 🙂 really curtailed any further desire.

without any haha i sloshed my all the way back. maybe a visit for another day when there is a little less rain 🙂

Shortridge.

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Shortridge.

Its not short.. it is a ridge tho and it is brutal going down, less brutal going up. Whilst a very spectacular part of the walk it was made a little less enjoyable by the 34 degree heat 🙂

Here is a diptych of the ridge to give some perspective, the shot on the left is about a 1/3rd of the way up the ridge – I called this part the slow burn 🙂 The picture on the right is about 10 minutes from the top, which is via a channel/slot between some peaks.

The most daunting part of this part is the ability to see the path and knowing what is in store, the path way down the bottom a pencil thin line snaking over the ridge down to the river, which was certainly a welcome relief after many stops to rest the poor knees and thigh muscles.