Corkscrew Canyon - Full - Upper & Lower - Mount Wilson - Blue Mountains Canyoning - 4K

Corkscrew Canyon seems to be another canyon that people do as part of another trip (South Bowen's Creek Upper) and just walk a ways up from the bottom, perhaps only as far as the first little waterfall. Some also enter Bowen's Creek South Upper via the lower section of Corkscrew.

We wanted to see the whole of Corkscrew, there just had to be some upper canyon sections that were worth the trip, and, we were not disappointed in the least.

We parked the car on the side of Mount Wilson Rd, and walked a short distance down Red Hill fire trail, then, turned right, and plunged into the scrub to find our way into a number of feeder creeks before finally arriving at the creek that flows through Corkscrew Canyon. Not a single sign of a track or foot pad to be seen.

There are some stunning, green, dark, narrow and wet canyon sections along the upper reaches, nothing challenging, just beautiful sections of canyon, with the odd short swim thrown in.

Eventually we came to a large area that looked to have been underwater during recent flood events, and, right there, we believe we saw the feature that gives this canyon its name - The Corkscrew.

The creek flowed down the middle of this area, turned 180 degrees, went along a short way, then, descended into a black hole underground. Way downstream, it emerged from under rocks and continued its way through more canyon sections.

We were not expecting to see that, and if this is the feature that gives this canyon its name, it was cool to see as we had read that this was covered.

After a while, the canyon finishes as we met up with Bowens Creek South Upper, the final abseil is just around the corner and it was pumping! Also, the water here was a LOT deeper than it was a couple of weeks prior. Then, we had ankle deep here, today, chest deep in the same places as the sandbank in places was now gone.

It is not too far downstream from the end to where a side creek comes in on the left, this we believe is the creek that flows through Hand Over Hand Canyon, this was our chosen exit route. We had some late lunch (Are they ever on time in a canyon) and then wandered up this creek.

Where the creek takes a sharp left, we were already high up on the left bank, a slight track goes along this bit, then, a short time later, we were out of that creek/canyon and walking up the nose of a ridge. Another scramble up a rocky section, and it was easy, but scrubby ridge walking all the way back to the fire trail and car. It did take some time heading out this way, but was not hard.

We arrived back at the car on dusk.

Highly recommend doing the upper sections, they really are quite beautiful, and easy.

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CHAPTER
00:00 Introduction and the walk in
01:06 Starting the upper creek walking
01:43 The start of the upper canyon sections
04:42 Crayfish
05:27 Starting the lower sections of Corkscrew Canyon
05:55 Bigger Crayfish
06:43 Is this the actual Corkscrew??
08:46 The end of Corkscrew Canyon and the start of Bowens Creek South Upper
09:45 Our exit route - Hand Over Hand Canyon
09:56 Summing up