The world's largest.....

Echo · 15 Apr 2015, 4:57 pm

This place looks pretty cool and it's in Australia.

And then of course if you do it you can tell everyone that you have personally used the world's largest glory hole! No I'm not kidding, Wikipedia never lies.

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 5:07 pm

Yeah I saw some pictures of this a while back. The thread can be seen here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1899
It's an awesome place, they had a skateboarding competition there too

Echo · 15 Apr 2015, 5:09 pm

phytrix wrote:Yeah I saw some pictures of this a while back. The thread can be seen here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1899
It's an awesome place, they had a skateboarding competition there too

Yeah looks cool as, took like 10mins to find the location on the internet.

sini · 15 Apr 2015, 7:08 pm

I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season

Crispex · 15 Apr 2015, 7:14 pm

It amuses me that locations under the 'uber secret' category can easily be found with a simple google search.

Echo · 15 Apr 2015, 7:23 pm

sini wrote:I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season

It's not exactly hard to find. I know exactly where it is. But God it is so far away from Melbourne... 8 hours or so and that'd be if I had a car.
Of course you're in Sydney, dunno how far but it'd still be a while. Would make a pretty cool trip assuming you have rope gear and the proper experience to do it because if you f*** up you're in the middle of basically nowhere.

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 7:27 pm

sini wrote:I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season

I'm down, assuming I can get a week or so notice. I'm sure we can get a decent sized group together

Echo · 15 Apr 2015, 7:29 pm

phytrix wrote:
sini wrote:I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season
I'm down, assuming I can get a week or so notice. I'm sure we can get a decent sized group together

You're in ACT aren't you? Its basically on your doorstep.

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 7:30 pm

Echo wrote:
phytrix wrote:
sini wrote:I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season
I'm down, assuming I can get a week or so notice. I'm sure we can get a decent sized group together
You're in ACT aren't you? Its basically on your doorstep.

Yeah it's pretty close for me, which is a nice change :p

Crispex · 15 Apr 2015, 7:31 pm

Drove to ACT last ANZAC weekend, the long way. Was a very nice drive, got the lil holden up past 170.

Echo · 15 Apr 2015, 7:32 pm

phytrix wrote:
Echo wrote:You're in ACT aren't you? Its basically on your doorstep.
Yeah it's pretty close for me, which is a nice change :p

It actually would be a wicked trip. You could climb Mt Kosciusko as well just for fun as it's very close to the dam.

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 7:40 pm

Echo wrote:
phytrix wrote:
Echo wrote:You're in ACT aren't you? Its basically on your doorstep.
Yeah it's pretty close for me, which is a nice change :p
It actually would be a wicked trip. You could climb Mt Kosciusko as well just for fun as it's very close to the dam.

For sure, we should organise it

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 9:58 pm

sini wrote:I'm soooo fkucn keen to do this!!!!
I have a fairly good idea where it is! Lets make a weekend out of it. Anyone keen for a camping trip before the wet season

It's a 9 hour drive from where you are btw, but if you're still keen, so am I

Jaffs · 15 Apr 2015, 10:04 pm

Mmm, Tunnels. Long ones too.

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 10:05 pm

Jaffs wrote:Mmm, Tunnels. Long ones too.

Are these tunnels accessible? If so, might be worth checking out

Jaffs · 15 Apr 2015, 10:07 pm

Check out the photo on the right at that link. That's a dude standing in there. Doubt mere randoms could access them, but what do you think the glory hold leads to?

phytrix · 15 Apr 2015, 10:13 pm

Jaffs wrote:Check out the photo on the right at that link. That's a dude standing in there. Doubt mere randoms could access them, but what do you think the glory hold leads to?

Unfortunately nothing, from the sounds of it

Still looks like a great explore regardless
http://urbantwilight.net/thefunnel.php

sini · 16 Apr 2015, 6:22 am

I don't mind driving 9 hours if its planned, ive seen somewhere that access is not good , though that was years ago it could be better or worse! I have a 4wd that sits 6, and can meet people on the drive up. was thinking of doing this years ago before I was on uega but didn't want to solo, I would like to see if anyone is legit keenand we'll organize it!

phytrix · 16 Apr 2015, 8:01 am

sini wrote:I don't mind driving 9 hours if its planned, ive seen somewhere that access is not good , though that was years ago it could be better or worse! I have a 4wd that sits 6, and can meet people on the drive up. was thinking of doing this years ago before I was on uega but didn't want to solo, I would like to see if anyone is legit keenand we'll organize it!

If you wanted to pick me up that'd be cool

I would find my own way there, but you'll have to pass close to Canberra regardless, right?
We should set a date and see how it goes, from the sounds of it we'll have at least 5, probably a couple more too. PM me in regards to details (what weekend would best suit you, etc.) and we can solidify the deets

Nick · 16 Apr 2015, 10:47 am

If I may rain (or snow) on your parade,
Without wanting to further give hints as to it's location (but let's face it, you've all worked it out all ready), this place is freaking far.
Come this time of year, they close the roads, I'd love to see it in snow, but I don't like my chances.

I've been twice, the first time was just after they'd re-opened the road, but re-opened simply meant they'd unlocked the gate, a giant tree across the road meant we had to drive to the nearest town (4 hour return) to buy a saw to remove said tree after many hours of sawing. It's also about a half hour of dirt road off the main road. We went a few weeks after that and got 12 cars down (mostly 4WDs) without too much issue.

Anyway, if you lot are keen for a trip up (come summer, we did it in Oct/Nov) I'll happily bring the rope, and slackline, and motorbikes, and rollerblades, and inflatable boat (Something really awesome in the middle of the dam only accessible via small inflatable vessel (Some say it has to be leaking and you have to be drunk to truly find it)), and fishing gear with gummy worms.

phytrix · 16 Apr 2015, 12:49 pm

Nick wrote:-

Have they closed the roads already? Sini and I were discussing setting up a trip in the next few weeks as it's the last chance before winter comes, is there any reason why this wouldn't be suitable?

Echo · 16 Apr 2015, 2:07 pm

phytrix wrote:
Nick wrote:-
Have they closed the roads already? Sini and I were discussing setting up a trip in the next few weeks as it's the last chance before winter comes, is there any reason why this wouldn't be suitable?

But if we wait until Summer then Nick will happily come along and bring his plethora of knowledge as well as material goods with him.

Midget · 16 Apr 2015, 2:50 pm

I'd be keen, so please don't go between end of June and late July, because I'm overseas. :/

Echo · 16 Apr 2015, 3:44 pm

Midget wrote:I'd be keen, so please don't go between end of June and late July, because I'm overseas. :/

I think we're talking about waiting until Summer. I couldn't go anytime before that anyway. But if the others wanted to go sometime soon I guess they could.

Nick · 16 Apr 2015, 4:03 pm

phytrix wrote: Have they closed the roads already? Sini and I were discussing setting up a trip in the next few weeks as it's the last chance before winter comes, is there any reason why this wouldn't be suitable?

No real reason, you can phone and ask what the road conditions are like, but theses roads don't get used very often, when we went we had the place entirely to ourselves.
Bring a chainsaw and a fairly capable car (or bike) and do the drive, but I wouldn't go organizing all the good folk here to drive 16 hours return without some form of guarantee of something good to see.