UTS - Outdoor Adventure Club

Back to Back Sarcophagus

Because we're not easily influenced (we are) two UTSOAC parties decided to undertake sarcophagus over the Easter long weekend, one after the other.

Both parties experienced what dry canyons feel like when they're not so dry, enjoying wet pants, wet shoes & leeches.
They also enjoyed the view too, there were some benefits to the suffering.

Thanks to the trip leaders that organised both trips!

Trad skills!
The next generation of Trad dads & mums learning how to place bomber gear that won't get "zippered" by your inattentive belayer.
(those are the correct buzzwords right?)

Thanks to Pat & Sean for running this skills trip!

Bells Creek Canyon & Clean up Australia day

A very rainy but beautiful descent of Bells Creek Canyon, followed by a huge effort cleaning up all the rubbish hidden on the side of Bells Line of Road, in total they picked up around 1000kg of rubbish! that's 1.5 trailer loads!
Unfortunately most of the rubbish was likely thrown from passing vehicles, although they came across two dumping sites & found 8 car tires.

We highly recommended bringing a rubbish bag or two on your next canyon trip so we can all slowly clean up the areas we enjoy.

Shoutout to Sean, Zen, Henry, Charlie, Lachlan, Max, Marta, Aminah & Toby for cleaning up!

It's time for another pubgaine!!!!

For those unfamiliar with the concept, PUB-GAINE is a combination of ‘Pub-crawl’ and ‘Rogaine’. In the former, lots of drinks are had. In the latter teams of 3-5 race around to collect Control Points with the aid of a map and compass. Combining these activities makes for more than a good time!

We'll meet at Victoria Park on the 20th of Feb, the exact location will be posted via our story on the day!

Please sign up via our website if you'd like a sausages
(UTSOAC participants) link in bio!

tldr
get drunk get points 👍👍

See you on the course!!!

Your 2026 utsoac committee!!!! 🗣️📢

We've got some exciting things planned for this year and we look forward to sharing them with you all!

Last weekend, 6 - 7th of December (+ other nights for some) we hosted our annual Megafest weekend in the gorgeous blue mountains. A weekend enjoyed by all, with more photos to come.

On the 6th, some of our wonderful trip leaders ran a canyoning trip through Gobsmacker, a cracking canyon for a cracking day out. You couldn't ask for much better.

Whilst back at camp a total fire ban ensued, Hammy (our event organizer extraordinaire) organized a festive meal for the UTSOAC crew. Whilst I was not able to attend (silly car breakdown), I was told it was a lovely meal and an even better evening.

Stay tuned folks! There is more to come soon as more photos from the weekend arrive in my inbox.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

On Sunday the 16th, 7 of our trip leaders went on a special canyoning trip to help train and prepare our trip leaders for this years canyoning season.

The party descended through Jugglers, a beautiful canyon located in the gorgeous blue mountains and practiced the key skills required for safe canyoning.

In addition to the trip being a great success, it was a beautiful day out - perfect weather for proving gravity isn't real!

Thank you to the trip leaders for organizing this trip, we can't wait to see the participants' skills in action this season!

Canyoning season here we come!

Members of our multipitch skills progression program making the most of a sunny day at Sublime Point

Heaps of FOCK'n fun this weekend with .kv

Thank you for the photos!

A few pictures from this year's minifest! Thank you to all those who came, it was great to catch up and share some laughs. Thank you to all of the trip leaders that made this happen, and a special thanks to Arthur who organised and cooked dinner for us all!!

A recent trip to Fordham Canyon! A recently re-bolted dry canyon down in Bungonia.

A few of us had a great day out with former president Brendon Flanagan for Learn 2 Lead / RS3. First lead climb for many!