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WTB or borrow: Warrumbungles topo

robbio

27-Apr-2019
6:19:33 AM

I'm planning a trip to the bungles, i contacted the visitor center and it appears that the CMA Warrumbungles national park tourist map is no longer available as it is been out of print and discontinued.

I am able to purchase a Tooraweenah 8635 (1:50 000) topo online, it covers most of the climbing areas, but I would ideally like to get the CMA map, more detail and the Sydney Rockcliming guide refers to it with grid references etc.

Anyone willing to part with one? I am in Katoomba.

Please PM me if interested.

Cheers,
Rob

IdratherbeclimbingM9

27-Apr-2019
8:17:29 AM

I’ve got one (though I’m keeping it), and can photograph it in as much detail as you want (subsections?), and sms same to you if that helps?

ET

27-Apr-2019
11:34:25 AM

You can download a print the maps you know.

A couple of options include using any of the following websites, selecting the right layer, screen shot and stiching together your own custom map
https://geo.seed.nsw.gov.au/Public_Viewer/index.html?viewer=Public_Viewer&locale=en-AU
https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/
https://maps.ozultimate.com/?lat=-31.31&lng=148.96&zoom=10

You can use the in built tool for the older version of ozulimate's maps to export higher quality maps without too much faffing around.
http://maps.ozultimate.com/archive/08_print/#

Or you can download straight from the source all these map websites use and get vectorized maps... in your case the relevant files are
http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo/geopdf/50k/8635-N%20TENANDRA.pdf
http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo/geopdf/50k/8735-N%20BUGALDIE.pdf
http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo/geopdf/50k/8635-S%20TOORAWEENAH.pdf
http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo/geopdf/50k/8735-S%20COONABARABRAN.pdf
(The Warrumbungles are annoyingly in the corner of four separate maps)

robbio

28-Apr-2019
6:52:37 AM

On 27-Apr-2019 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>I’ve got one (though I’m keeping it), and can photograph it in as much
>detail as you want (subsections?), and sms same to you if that helps?

Thanks that would be great! Perhaps if it's not too much of a pain a photo of the entire map, and also of each quarter (5 photos all up). It is probably overkill for climbing but i'll be sorted should i do any off track/overnight bushwalks in the future.

I'll PM you my number.

Cheers

robbio

28-Apr-2019
7:02:33 AM

On 27-Apr-2019 ET wrote:
>You can download a print the maps you know.

Thanks, i thought you could but was never too sure of how to do it etc. Thanks for giving me the run down. I will definitely consider this next time i do a big walk.

Cheers

IdratherbeclimbingM9

28-Apr-2019
12:23:04 PM

@ robbio - done.

@ ET - that's magic info, thanks for that as I'm likely to use it for other trip planning purposes!

duploboy

22-May-2019
3:22:03 PM

Get the Avenza App on your phone and you can import any of those NSW sixmaps pdfs perfectly calibrated with GPS

robbio

22-May-2019
6:16:31 PM

On 22-May-2019 duploboy wrote:
>Get the Avenza App on your phone and you can import any of those NSW sixmaps
>pdfs perfectly calibrated with GPS

Whats GPS? Thanks i'll look into Avenza. Time to get with the times and go digital methinks...

widewetandslippery

24-May-2019
1:11:43 PM

Unless you are really exploring you don't need a real map. Once on route be fully prepared to be off route, or think you’re off route and actually on it.
Have fun. Bluff mountain must be up there on best crag in the country.

Damien Gildea

1-Jun-2019
1:17:28 PM

I was in Alpsport on Victoria Rd in Ryde yesterday and pretty sure they had a couple of copies of that tourist Warrumbungles map.

It's pretty big scale though and only gives you a very basic idea of the peaks and approaches. Personally I wouldn't bother with it.

E. Wells

8-Jun-2019
4:22:55 PM

Can anyone confirm if the old guides and photocopies are still in the hut?

gfdonc

9-Jun-2019
2:34:42 PM

You mean Balour hut that burnt down a few years ago?

E. Wells

9-Jun-2019
4:23:51 PM

Yes I mean Balor Hut. No , it didnt burn down. Nevermind.

Damien Gildea

10-Jun-2019
11:05:02 AM

It's three years since I was there in Balor Hut but I don't remember seeing any guidebook/photocopies.

jrc

11-Jun-2019
12:16:18 PM

There were some scungy remnants of guides in the hut on one of the bunks last time we were there (April 2018). Not really what you would want to depend upon.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

12-Jun-2019
4:39:06 PM

On 8-Jun-2019 E. Wells wrote:
>Can anyone confirm if the old guides and photocopies are still in the hut?

jrc replied:
>There were some scungy remnants of guides in the hut on one of the bunks last time we were there (April 2018). Not really what you would want to depend upon.

The NPWS office at Camp Blackman used to have copies of the original guides for perusal ...

I agree with jrc though, because there’s a degree of inaccurate information in them that requires a user degree of self reliance and respect!
Personally I don’t mind that when it comes to the ‘bungles, because it maintains the adventure component, and in my experience, for the most part they don’t need to accurately depict every hand and foothold, as the routes are often climbable by still being ‘online’ within a broad brush swath!

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