Rookery Nook Sunday 13th Oct 2024
- Date:
- 13-Oct-2024
- Category:
- Day Walk
- Days:
- 1
- Grade:
- 4
- Description
- Rookery Nook is a pleasant 4-5 hr walk. It starts at the Fortress Ridge car park along Mount Hay Road. We head due west for about 1km along the ridge and turn north for a few hundred metres to a lookout up the Grose Valley. We retrace our steps south and follow an unnamed creek towards Katoomba Creek. We join a ledge north about halfway up the cliff line and continue to an old camping spot with logbook and some interesting photocopies of newspaper articles about nearby Arethusa Falls. Then we make a short, tape assisted descent to a lower ledge. Exposure is very limited. We follow the ledge for a couple of hundred metres. It gradually thins out and there is a bit of exposure along the last 20 metres, but that does not have to be walked. From here there is a stunning view backwards to Arethusa Falls and forwards up the Grose Valley. Then we retrace our steps to the car park
- Map:
- Katoomba
- Participants:
- 8
- Type:
- Short Notice