Old Mount Cameron to Mount Barakee route

[luke_explorer]

I like exploring off trail up here. Would like to find where you guys are referring to. where do you have maps of these passes BB pass No.1, BB Pass no. 7?

[rcaffin]

Bob Buck Pass 7 is a rock-climbing route. Creative, but not relevant.
Maps: they exist, but finding one today might be difficult.

Cheers
Roger

[tom_brennan]

The Buck/Daley NPA sketch map (aka Colo Sketch Map) from the 1970s is out of print (edited extract below)

A new version was published by Brian Corlis in 2005. While it is also out of print, it can be downloaded from Fat Canyoners: https://fatcanyoners.org/2011/07/30/col ... nd-routes/

Pass 1 is a bit of a scramble. Pass 7 is an easy walk. You might be thinking of Pass 4 as the rock climb, Roger?

[rcaffin]

The old map is not entirely accurate. It misses out on quite a few quite reasonable routes in the area.
Pass 1 does not go out to the tip of the spur: it goes down the right side into Wollemi Ck. I know it well.
Pass 4 may or may not exist. I have never looked for it.
Pass 7 does not go right to the tip of the spur either: it drops off the left side. I know it well. There are variants as well.
Pass 8, labelled Barakee Pass on the BBmap, is NOT the real Barakee Pass. #8 is a rock climbing route of (imho) no particular value. We did part of it.

To explain: BB had been told by locals of the existence of a good pass in the vicinity but he was given no details. He and his mates were climbers, so they went out to find a route there. They put up a rock climb and called it Barakee Pass, but it is definitely NOT what was known to the locals as a good pass - which it is.

No, I won't give any details on a public forum. Go look for yourself. Take some light rope: there are a lot of big cliffs there.

Also, while various maps show 'Woolshed Ck' nearby, that is not the name which Surveyor Townsend gave it. A mistranscription by Wilf Hildur due to T's mangled script. No matter.

Cheers
Roger

[keithj]

OSM has a few passes marked down to the Colo.
Pass 1 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/- ... /150.52934 .....as well as several downstream.

Also may be of interest - https://coloriver.com.au/history/100_ma ... graphy.pdf (p70-)

And as mentioned above - the Brian Corlis booklet is well worth downloading.