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Climber hit by Lightning - Pierces Pass 6-Jan-2011 At 2:49:45 PM wombly

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>I was rebolting Hot Cal yesterday and the river was roaring, I wondered if you could cross >it in those conditions to get to the track at the valley floor?

When we walked directly down the ridge from the mirrorball pinnacle, we popped out at the river pretty close to where the track comes down (1-200m), so you wouldn't really need to.

>Wombly, I haven't been to the junction of Pierces and the Grose for quite a while. Is where >the creek hits the river obvious? or is it a campsite type thing people should look for?

If you mean the creek that comes down to the river directly east of the track, then it is reasonably obvious now that I think about it. We didn't have a topo map with us (i.e. like the one in the 2007/2010 guides), hadn't been down that far down the track previously, so it wasn't clear at the time. The campsite is a small (30 m wide) patch of flat floodplain next to the Grose.