High Sierra Topix

Thursday, 2 July 2009 (day 1 of 4)
Harbour Bridge Climb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Harbour Bridge, Sydney


Climbed to the top


Cockatoo at the park


Gray Headed Flying Fox


A few of them waking up


Wrestling cockatoos

Friday, 3 July 2009 (day 2 of 4)
Sydney to Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

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Short hike near the Mount Tomah Lodge


Really windy, crawled to the edge to look down


Mt Victoria Post Office, at one time this town was named "One Tree Hill" on a map dating back to 1834


Quick stop at Govett's Leap (really cold)


Last stop before turning back, Echo Point, Three Sisters to the left, Mount Solitary on the horizon (tomorrow's hike)


Then back to the lodge where our hosts Bill and Gail served a 3 course meal and everything was perfect!

Saturday, 4 July 2009 (day 3 of 4)
Mount Solitary from Golden Staircase - Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

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We started down the Golden Stairs, about 1000' descent


Mount Solitary


Walked thru a rainforest


Fun climb to Mt Solitary


Ruined Castle is the pointy hill, top of Golden Stairs is behind on the high ridge

Close-up


Summit shot


Steep descent, Ruined Castle is the pointy peak down there


Three sisters from the rainforest area, before the Golden Stairs

Snow Nymph wrote:Wrestling cockatoos

Is that what that's called?

maybe they were doing something else?

I forgot to post this
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this kid got lost the day before we hiked it and got lost . . . for 12 days! Totally unprepared. We couldn't figure out HOW he could have gotten lost. We didn't go up to Ruined Castle, we decided to go for Mount Solitary and catch Ruined Castle on the way back, but ran out of time (3 course meal was on the agenda for that night). I hope he donated the money he got from the interview.