Into the walk: The Castle, Mt Solitary, Cedar Creek Valley & view towards Warragamba Dam from Narrow Neck Plateau
The walkers, ready to start - excluding Leader Clive
On the edge of Narrow Neck plateau a tree that makes the walkers feel young again
The view spread out before Don B and Jill and the view from the track
View to Katoomba & Three Sisters, Sublime Point and Kings Tableland from Narrow Neck Plateau lookout
Clive and Barbara know the landmarks .... .... of this view. And the weather is starting to look onimous....
... And the weather comes in
Happy is the retired surveyor who hasn't had to hump his work materials up to the trig.
Don B on the edge, again. David E hangs back a little. Ros G with her back to the view, but away from the edge
Speaking of edges. Clive victorious on another Narrow Neck Plateau rock outcrop, and the same outcrop without Clive
Lunch in a huddle.
On the way back.... 
Flowers: Banksia ericifolia ?-Ed and Mountain devil Lambertia formosa ?-Ed
At right, Elaine E makes it all look very easy.
Leader Celia's 'words':
Our group of 10 from Turramurra arrived at the car park near the locked gate on Narrowneck & were joined by several more car loads of walkers bringing the total number of walkers to 24.
The leaders made the decision to leave out the Redledge Pass section of the walk because it would be too hard for most of the group.
As we set off from the carpark the weather had changed becoming quite cold & windy. The rain which had been forecast for later on Friday arrived at Katoomba early but luckily only amounted to a few
drizzly showers. We walked along the firetrail & explored the lookouts of Castle Head, first to the Hanging Swamp lookout & then Cedar Creek lookout where we were treated to great views over Mt Solitary & the
Burragorang Valley.
It was on to the lookout where we could see the Three Sisters & finally the best one kept until last, Castle Head. It was decided by a majority vote to return to the Three Sisters lookout for lunch. It was more protected here out of the wind.
The bush was very thick & scratchy in many places so the advice to wear long sleeved shirts as well as long trousers was appreciated-thank you Clive.
After lunch it was back the same way to the cars & coffee on the way home @ Springwood. A very enjoyable day & the bonus being back home before 5pm.
For the record, the 24 walkers were: Leaders Clive and Celia followed by Rhondda, Jill, Nick, Wendy C, David E, Barbara, Susan, Mary, Annette, 1st visitor, Lyn, Chris B, Anne R, Ros G, Maurice, John G, John B, Elaine E, Don B, Wendy P, Anne G, 2nd visitor.
Photos by Barbara (1, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17-20 her supplied her own captions); Clive (2), Anne R (3-5, 16); John G (7, 8, 10-12, 15).