by Chris Webber | Jul 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
We are lucky in this country to have sensible gun laws, so we don’t normally have to worry about being shot while in the great outdoors. Well, not normally, I was canoeing on a tributary of the Colo one day when shots rang out accompanied by some unintelligible...
by Chris Webber | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Caro Ryan talks to Joyce, who was bitten by a snake on Mt Solitary. Luckily Joyce was walking with a group and had the Emergency+ app on her phone. That meant she was flying out in a helicopter within an hour. This podcast illustrates why walking in a group, even in...
by Chris Webber | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the themes of “Mountains Mishaps” is that outdoor adventures in the local area are usually quite safe from human interference. I have found only two instances where a female bushwalker was attacked by a person unknown to them. On reviewing...
by Chris Webber | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
You may have heard of the guy who nearly died of renal failure after he was unable to get through the thick vegetation and ran out of water sitting next to the Coxs River on a hot day. He is an extremely experienced, confident and competent bushwalker and didn’t...
by Chris Webber | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Blue Mountains Gazette 2/10/1985 says that there was a train smash at 5am on Monday 30/9/1985 on the Lapstone hill that caused five casualties. A passenger train and a goods train, proceeding in opposite directions, collided in darkness between the Knapsack Gully...
by Chris Webber | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sgt Ern Sanderson was a very important man in our local rescue history, being involved in many, many rescues. I just found his life story in the 1985 Blue Mountains Gazette funeral notice. Arthur Ernest Sanderson joined the police force when he was discharged from the...
