Lindeman Pass is one of those iconic walks in the Blue Mountains that no one knows; which was probably more true before Jim Smith published his excellent book The Blue Mountains mystery track : Lindeman Pass, but thankfully these days receives a substantial number of walkers. The previous entry in Dash's Cave was a week ago.
The purpose of doing this walk, apart from wanting to do it for some time, was it's on Day One of my planned walk to Melbourne It Started as a Dream, and I wanted to check it was going to fit into the first day.
The walk is about 12km long and has about 800m ascent and descent along its route, and took us about 6.5 hours. We were extremely surprised with the track… all over the web are people's track notes that detail (often with photos and videos) the difficulties they encountered. We discovered none of that – there were lots of slow stretches and a few scrambles, but no navigational difficulties or walking dramas. Just beautiful Blue Mountains forest and waterfalls.
Lindeman Pass Photos
Some of my favourite photos…
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We are always surprised by Empress Falls, they just appear around the corner — and are so beautiful! It wasn't that long ago that we had to climb out this way through knee deep raging water water a freak weather event over Wentworth Falls lake, which left us stranded on National Pass for a few hours — now that was an adventure! Today though, it was quite tame in comparison. |
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The track takes you around many 'points', so there are many times you emerge from a deep gully onto the expansive Southern view to Mt Solitary and beyond. |
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We were prepared for many blockages to the track, and there were still a few places where we had to go around, or over, but generally the walking was straight forward and pretty easy (if not a bit up and down). |
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The landslides were well marked and easy to traverse. |
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Leura Falls – this is the first time we'd walked into the bottom of the falls, and made us wonder why on earth we hadn't done it before? They really were a revelation. |
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The End/Start of Lindeman Pass at the Federal Pass junction: no hints of the walk beyond… |
