Check out our upcoming adventures. You will need to be a member (or trial member). Trial membership is $35.00 and allows you to participate on MSS trips for 12 months. Go to the How to Join page to find out more and email membership@mssadventure.org.au for an application form.
MSS leaders collect trip fees (either before or after the activity). Please make sure you have the money with you on the day. If you book into an activity with another club, you will be asked to pay the trip fees for that club OR MSS trip fees:
Recurring Trips:
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Easy-Hard | St Leonards | Climbing anyone? Tim Grimes is restarting the MSS Indoor Climbing group (@ Artarmon/St Leonards Climbfit, 4/12 Frederick Street). Every Tuesday, starting around 6:30pm (if you plan on going, message Tim or hop onto the MSS FB page on Tuesday to post your interest for attending on that night). Wear your MSS t-shirt for club publicity. Membership of MSS is not required and no trip fees apply, however, if you're not a member of MSS, we'd love you to join! COVID regulations apply, full vaccination and mask wearing when belaying. |
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| 26/10/2025 - 26/10/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Central West | This is a (less than) 1/2 day side trip that you can do AFTER your 60th Anniversary decadent breakfast at a local cafe. Slavens Cave, one of the largest sandstone caves of its type in NSW (possibly Australia, one report apparently claims it’s the 10th biggest in the world!). Definitely worth a visit! |
| 01/11/2025 - 02/11/2025 |
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Social | Blue Mountains | Location at Red Bridge Farm Little Hartley (venue will change if there is too much rain and vehicles cannot access the campsite). AGM will start around 4pm concluding by around 5.30pm. Pot luck dinner - all who come please contribute a dish (a main dish to share and one of - nibbles, salad or dessert), dinner’s usually around a campfire, and always there are loads of stories and maybe some outdoor slides. Overnight camping on the property. Please arrive at the venue no later than 5:30pm (If you are not attending the AGM) to ensure a harmonious evening. Car camping on the property, please your camp equipment, breakfast, chairs and if you have one, please bring a Gazebo. Please RSVP by text or email ASAP so I can tell Rob the numbers to expect. Please advise what dishes you are bringing so we don't get too many of the same thing. I will let you know the address if not already known when you RSVP. |
| 08/11/2025 - 09/11/2025 |
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Medium | Tuena | Visiting The Sounder. These caves are on private property in the Tuena area. The plan is to visit the caves and refamiliarise ourselves with them, also to provide the new property owners within information and history of the caves. If there's enough time we will also consider re-surveying, or just make a plan to do that on a future trip. Other activities (caves or abseiling) may be included. |
| 15/11/2025 - 16/11/2025 |
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Easy - Medium | Glenrock | Glenrock Station exploration weekend: Arriving at the station on Friday afternoon, we are aiming to visit the southeast area of the Glenrock Station karst on Saturday, continuing our mapping of karst boundaries and looking for some lost caves. There is highly likely to be some digging involved. If there are enough people wanting to do some actual caving we can arrange that as well, as long as there are enough experienced leaders willing to supervise. Please contact Cathi for more info. |
| 15/11/2025 - 16/11/2025 |
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Hard | Blue Mountains | A two day through trip, walking and swimming in creeks and canyons on the southern side of Mt Tomah. Offtrack, scrambling and exposure. Participants need to be fit, self sufficient and have a rock climbing style helmet. |
| 22/11/2025 - 23/11/2025 |
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Medium | Borenore | Car camping at Molong Showground - hot showers & camp kitchen faciities available, small charge applicable. This trip will will be divided into two parts (1) introduction to caving for those who haven't given it a go, and finding some known caves that need to be documented and explored. We will also be doing Tunnel cave - a stunning sporty cave, you will get wet! and is only open from November to April, so this is a "must do" trip and (2) We will also be undertaking the "Stal Repair Project" in Cathedral Cave - numbers will be limited and only experienced cavers will be accepted. |
| 29/11/2025 - 29/11/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Serendipity Canyon is a classic Blue Mountains canyon. Not overly long but frequented by commercial groups so it might be busy! 6 abseils - the first 3 are dryish, followed by a walk along the creek till we get to the last 3 abseils which are definitively wet. We will “walk” the ledge and spend some time on a sunny platform overlooking the Gambe and frequented by famished water dragons. A climb up and back on the track and the fire trail. Perfect canyon for beginners or if you have not abseiled for a while and need to get back in the groove. You will need helmet, wetsuit, harness and descender and shoes with a good grip. We will be rappelling on single or double lines (whatever your heart desires). Limit: 6 to 8 depending on the level of experience in the group. Any questions contact Nicole. |
| 30/11/2025 - 30/11/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Yileen Canyon - 4 abseils, up to 45m (the final abseil), an outstanding canyon you'll get wet, so wetsuit advised. Joint trip with BWOC. |
| 06/12/2025 - 07/12/2025 |
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Medium | Newnes Plateau | Saturday - Hole in the Wall Canyon; Sunday - Popeye Canyon. Abseil equipment for both days and we will either carry overnight packs or car camp with a longer walk each day, decision will be made closer to the date. Limited to 8 participants. For information on the canyons goto https://ozultimate.com/canyoning/canyon_track_notes.htm |
| 13/12/2025 - 14/12/2025 |
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Medium - Hard | Newnes Plateau | Banks and Nosedive Canyons. Overnight trip to 2 canyons which are both tributaries of Bungleboori Creek, North Branch. Day 1, Nosedive, end the day at a camp spot near North East canyon (another Bungleboori tributary). Day 2, Banks canyon. Both of these are outstanding canyons. |
| 21/12/2025 - 21/12/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Sunday - A leisurely trip through the classic Grand Canyon at Blackheath. Abseiling equipment and helmets are mandatory. Technique will “throw and go”, so bring your double rope descender (SRT will be tolerated with a heavy sigh). Wetsuits are optional. Numbers limited to 6 (including leader) but if another experienced person participates, numbers can be extended to 8. |
| 26/12/2025 - 26/12/2025 |
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Medium | Blue Mountains | Yes, it's the Boxing Day traditional trip down Wollangambe 1 - Lilos highly recommended, wetsuits essential. A leisurely trip through this classic canyon. Numbers limited so book in early. |
| 27/12/2025 - 27/12/2025 |
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Hard | Blue Mountains | Whungee Wheengee canyon. Classic Wollangambe canyon which has many facets. Tricky climbs,duck-unders in darkness, some tricky abseils all in very cold water, so a good wetsuit recommended. Exit into Wollangambe 2 requiring long swims to exit track. Outstanding canyon. |
| 28/12/2025 - 28/12/2025 |
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Medium - Hard | Blue Mountains | Wollangambe Four refers to a section downstream of the tourist sections Wollangambe 1 and 2 (and yes, there is a Wollangambe Three!). About 3.5 km following the meandering Wollangambe river: towering cliffs, long swim sections, rapids, boulder sections, rainforests, and even a small waterfall! Some stamina is required! Expect scrambling, walking and swimming. And of course, at the end of the day, what went down earlier, must go up (over 300 m difference of elevation) but we will pace ourselves. Unless antifreeze flows in your veins, you will need a wetsuit. A helmet is a must as well as shoes with a good grip! Feel free to bring a lilo or some floatation aid for the swim sections. For those who are not naturally buoyant (that is: tending to sink in the water - we are all cheerful at MSS!), a Personal Floatation Device (PFD) aka life jacket is not a bad idea. This trip is subject to weather conditions, water current and levels. It will be an early start! Limit: 6 to 8 depending on the level of experience in the group. Any questions contact Nicole. |
| 10/01/2026 - 11/01/2026 |
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Medium - Hard | Newnes Plateau | Upper Deane's and Ferny Creek canyons. 2 Rarely visited canyon in the Rocky Creek and My Cameron areas. Both require long walks, car camping at Barco Swamp. |
| 14/02/2026 - 15/02/2026 |
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Medium | Wombeyan | Car Camping at the Wombeyan Reserve (bookings essential), this will be both a familiarisation trip for leader(s) and an opportunity for those new to caving to be guided through some horizontal caves. Helmet, and head torch required, overalls if you have them and day pack to carry lunch. We will also be visiting Mares Forest Creek canyon, the stunning crystal clear blue water is a must see, swim upstream to the waterfall, and explore a small tunnel (with eflux from a cave), a great cool off after a day's caving (the water is cold so wet suit recommended if you feel the cold). Concurrently, some members will be cleaning some flowstone in one of the old tourist caves, all participants will be required to carry some water up to the cave to be cleaned, but that will be the limit of their involvement. Bookings for camping in the Wombeyan Reserve must be made ASAP. Limited to 8 cavers/leaders. |
| 14/03/2026 - 15/03/2026 |
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Medium | Budawangs | Plan is to camp 1 or 2 nights and explore the area around the Corang Arch area. Currently researching different approaches to the walk, and hopefully a good camp cave to set up in. There should be great views, creeks, cascades, and roaring campfire. Likely on and off track. Check out the trip here https://bushwalkingnsw.com/walk.php?nid=817 |
| 03/04/2026 - 06/04/2026 |
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Medium | Wolli | This is an inter club trip (MSS, Illawarra & Orange speleo clubs). There are around 40 caves in the Walli area some of which we will explore. There will both horizontal and vertical caves on offer (subject to a qualified rigger attending). We wil be camping locally (exact location TBC) and we'll be having a campfire each evening. One of of the nights we'll be holding a Jaffle Cook Off - so bring your Jaffle Iron and your favourite filling and we'll judge how it measures up to the co-ordinators' favourites. |
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