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Space on board Antarctic Peninsula trip FEB2-Mar2 24-Jan-2013 At 10:45:26 AM Wollemi

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On 23/01/2013 widewetandslippery wrote:
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>Doing a colo food dump/recce this weekend and newnes to colo the week
>after next.
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I don't think that the 'bit of rain in the next couple of days' will allow you to shoot King Rapid at all.
As you would have seen from BoM; from Mudgee to Richmond, it is 'a few showers' daily until Wednesday.
Grose Vale guage shows interesting heights at the moment - the other guy on the Packraft forum might be right.

The Colo is typically a 200m wonderful drift, in a packraft, then 50+m of portaging. Repeat and repeat.
I would not expect more than say, 10km per day, pack-rafting the Colo River. Even Ms. L. Shepherd appeared to find this fatiguing, between Canoe Creek and Bob Turners Tk, yet the beauty of the gorge is worth it.

In case you didn't know, don't sit on rucksack in packraft and bounce over that half-metre length of water-over-rock to get to next pool. I am now an expert at repairing Packraft bases.

The packraft will get absolutely no use at all on the Wolgan.

Don't walk upstream too far on the Capertee with a full pack, a significant rainstorm event c.Dec 2010(?) knocked down much vegetation. Even in shallow water without vegetation aiming towards you, this is tiring; each lift of one foot forward sees the other sink in sand. It is OK to walk downstream on the Capertee.

WWS - have emailed you some photos of continuous ankle-deep water on the Wolgan, taken on a 6-day weeding trip for NPWS/Friends of the Colo. My suspicions were confirmed through three other week-long walks W to E across Wollemi in 2011.