Greenup Canyon

[Aegist]

Does anyone know the history of this Canyon? Where it got its name from?

The Jamieson Canyons Near Sydney guidebook lists it as a canyon in the Northern Wollemi region but has no details for it.

Curious for obvious reasons.


Shane Greenup

[Aegist]

http://www.netspeed.com.au/bendelin/destinations.htm
mentions the canyon name as "GreenUp" implying that it may simply be a reference to there being green up above (a common feature of most canyons).

[JV]

Wish I had a canyon named after me... lucky bastard! 

Have you been there, Aegist?

JV

[Aegist]

Not yet. Hope to visit it before this summer is out.

I asked in the OzCanyons group about it too, and David Noble said they had always called it "Short Canyon" rather than Greenup Canyon. But aside from that, no one really knew why it is called Greenup Canyon in Jamiesons guidebook.

[jlb]

I did Greenup a few years back. It is a small and not exactly memorable canyon. We had more fun going up Midwinter on the way out than going down Greenup. Slippery Log is a good canyon - plenty of back-to-back pitches in that.