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- | "THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER" | + | ======THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER====== |
- | A Journal devoted to matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton St., Sydney, N.S.N. | + | A Journal devoted to matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton St., Sydney, N.S.W. |
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No. 31. SEPTEMBER 1936. | No. 31. SEPTEMBER 1936. | ||
- | PUBLISHING COMMITTEE | + | |
- | Miss Marie B. Byles (ditor) | + | PUBLISHING COMMITTEE\\ |
- | Miss Dinah Hearfield (Sub-Editor) | + | Miss Marie B. Byles (Editor)\\ |
- | Miss Doris Allden (Editorial), | + | Miss Dinah Hearfield (Sub-Editor)\\ |
- | Misses Ada Frost and Dot English (Selling & Editorial) | + | Miss Doris Allden (Editorial), |
- | Mr. Ian Malcolm (Advertising | + | Misses Ada Frost and Dot English (Selling & Editorial)\\ |
- | OONTENTS | + | Mr. Ian Malcolm (Advertising)\\ |
- | PAGE | + | |
- | Editorial 1 | + | =====CONTENTS===== |
- | The Roots Uproot Again 2 | + | ||PAGE| |
- | Wiff's Quest After Old Sol by W.W. Knight a | + | |Editorial|1| |
- | Questions Answeredi by our Bushwalking expert " | + | |The Roots Uproot Again |2| |
- | Reviews 6 | + | |Wiff's Quest After Old Sol by W.W. Knight|3| |
- | The Tonalli Peaks by Marie B. Byles 7 | + | |Questions Answeredi by our Bushwalking expert " |
- | " | + | |Reviews|6| |
- | Club Gossip 10 | + | |The Tonalli Peaks by Marie B. Byles|7| |
- | EDITORIA L. | + | |" |
- | This is a very thin edition of "The Sydney Bushwalker" | + | |Club Gossip|10| |
- | However, perhaps it is just as well that this issue is small, because "The Sydney Bushwalker Annual" | + | |
- | If you would like a full edition of the bi-monthly to appear in December let us | + | =====EDITORIAL===== |
- | have your articles as soon as possible. If you are too modest to hand them in your | + | This is a very thin edition of "The Sydney Bushwalker" |
- | put them in the letter-rack addressed to the Editor. Remember -"The Sydney Bushwalker" | + | |
- | THE ROOTS UPROOT AGAIN | + | However, perhaps it is just as well that this issue is small, because "The Sydney Bushwalker Annual" |
- | Sin eva the publication of last issue we have said "go/odbye" to Wal and Phil Roots. There are many members who give long and faithful | + | |
- | It would be invidious to say the Club awes more to Wal and to Phil than to others; but that it awes them more than will ever be fully appreciated, | + | If you would like a full edition of the bi-monthly to appear in December let us have your articles as soon as possible. If you are too modest to hand them in your put them in the letter-rack addressed to the Editor. Remember -"The Sydney Bushwalker" |
- | Wal joined the Club early in 1930 and Phil a few months later. The same year they became secretaries and faithfully carried on the ever-increasing duties of the job until 1934, Mal in between times studying for accountancy exams, and Phil attending to an increasing family. One has to be on the Committee to appreciate the enormous amount of correspondence which fell onto their shoulders, especially in the days before the formation of the Federation relieved them of some of the Club's public activities. | + | |
- | Perhaps the most pleasing memory we have of them is not their public work, but the fact that despite the three babes who put in an appearance one after another during those years, their parents still managed to go bushwalking together, with or without the babes, Many of us will regret that we never took that photo of Phil with a pack on her back, a baby in a sling in front, and leading another child by the hand, till she met Wel with a rucksack, three times the normal size, containing all the necessary extras | + | =====THE ROOTS UPROOT AGAIN ===== |
+ | Since the publication of last issue we have said "goodbye" to Wal and Phil Roots. There are many members who give long and faithful | ||
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+ | It would be invidious to say the Club owes more to Wal and to Phil than to others; but that it owes them more than will ever be fully appreciated, | ||
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+ | Wal joined the Club early in 1930 and Phil a few months later. The same year they became secretaries and faithfully carried on the ever-increasing duties of the job until 1934, Wal in between times studying for accountancy exams, and Phil attending to an increasing family. One has to be on the Committee to appreciate the enormous amount of correspondence which fell onto their shoulders, especially in the days before the formation of the Federation relieved them of some of the Club's public activities. | ||
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+ | Perhaps the most pleasing memory we have of them is not their public work, but the fact that despite the three babes who put in an appearance one after another during those years, their parents still managed to go bushwalking together, with or without the babes. Many of us will regret that we never took that photo of Phil with a pack on her back, a baby in a sling in front, and leading another child by the hand, till she met Wal with a rucksack, three times the normal size, containing all the necessary extras | ||
In 1935 Wal and Phil resigned from the duties of the secretaryship and took a well-earned year's holiday from the Committee; but Wal filled in the interval as President of the Federation and Trustee of Garawarra Park, which positions he occupied from 1934, | In 1935 Wal and Phil resigned from the duties of the secretaryship and took a well-earned year's holiday from the Committee; but Wal filled in the interval as President of the Federation and Trustee of Garawarra Park, which positions he occupied from 1934, | ||
- | In 1936 they both took up the reips of office again, | + | |
+ | In 1936 they both took up the reins of office again, | ||
We wish them both the best of happiness in their new life, and envy whichever Brisbane Club will from now on have the benefit of their services. | We wish them both the best of happiness in their new life, and envy whichever Brisbane Club will from now on have the benefit of their services. | ||
- | IN MEMORIAM | + | |
- | We regret to record the death of Beryl Whiddon, the wife of Frank Whiddon and a prospective member of the Club. They had been married only a very short while and seemed ideally happy. It is particularly tragic that the first death in our ranks should be that of such a bright, lovely girl and promising | + | =====IN MEMORIAM===== |
- | 1 | + | We regret to record the death of Beryl Whiddon, the wife of Frank Whiddon and a prospective member of the Club. They had been married only a very short while and seemed ideally happy. It is particularly tragic that the first death in our ranks should be that of such a bright, lovely girl and promising |
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- | WIFF'S QUEST AFTER OLD SOL | + | =====WIFF'S QUEST AFTER OLD SOL===== |
- | Being a Letter from LW. Knight. | + | Being a Letter from W.W. Knight. |
Dear Bush Walkers, | Dear Bush Walkers, | ||
- | In the first place I left Sydney to find out where Old Sol went in the winter time. I found him hot and strong for two days at Kuranda; then he disappeared behind the clouds and I think he has gone further north. So I intend to follow him as far as the income tax men will let me. I wuld have gone further, over to New Guinea, but I was told I would have to get a clearance from Sydney, and that would take about three weeks or a month, so I won't bother them. I have booked a passage for wife and self up to the top of Australia and down in the Gulf as far as | + | In the first place I left Sydney to find out where Old Sol went in the winter time. I found him hot and strong for two days at Kuranda; then he disappeared behind the clouds and I think he has gone further north. So I intend to follow him as far as the income tax men will let me. I would have gone further, over to New Guinea, but I was told I would have to get a clearance from Sydney, and that would take about three weeks or a month, so I won't bother them. I have booked a passage for wife and self up to the top of Australia and down in the Gulf as far as Normanton. I leave on the 7th. July for that chase of Old Sol. |
- | Normanton. I leave on the 7th. July for that chase of Old Sol. | + | |
In Brisbane we purchased two tram tickets for a shilling each and these entitled us to ride that day everywhere a tram went. We rode nearly everywhere - till three o' | In Brisbane we purchased two tram tickets for a shilling each and these entitled us to ride that day everywhere a tram went. We rode nearly everywhere - till three o' | ||
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Leaving Brisbane in a rough sea, but a splendid boat, we never felt like being sea-sick, and it was a glorious trip. | Leaving Brisbane in a rough sea, but a splendid boat, we never felt like being sea-sick, and it was a glorious trip. | ||
- | From TOWnsville | + | |
- | our scenery in N.S.W. - first through rich cane fields, and paw paw farms at Red Lynch, then the climb like leaving Emu Plains. The gullies and their tropical | + | From Townsville |
- | vegetation make bush walking almost impossible. I say " | + | vegetation make bush walking almost impossible. I say " |
- | Club members do it. They leave Saturday afternoon in a lorry or car for their objective, get out and camp until the first sign of daylight, then set off fully clothed - no shorts here, but old clothes - the lawyer vines would tear your bare legs and bare head to pieces - scrub knives to cut their way through, and only little haversacks with tucker for the day - they could not carry our big packs. They scale the ridges and walk for miles along and are picked up at the other end | + | |
- | at night, at about 8 ololock, and so back to town. Sleeping bags and ground sheets are no good here. The ground is a bog and could not be slept on. The Lawyers are different to-those in N.SX.; the tops have great feelers, about ten feet long, with saw spikes all along, which enable the cane to catch on to trees, and they climb | + | |
- | right up to the top of the tallest trees in the jungle. I am told that they are | + | |
100 or 200 feet long. Fancy telling a school boy that the canes I got when a boy grew that long. I would have wished they were only six inches long! | 100 or 200 feet long. Fancy telling a school boy that the canes I got when a boy grew that long. I would have wished they were only six inches long! | ||
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Arriving at Stony Creek Falls, we all got out of the train and walked over the bridge to view them. I must say, after seeing Queensland' | Arriving at Stony Creek Falls, we all got out of the train and walked over the bridge to view them. I must say, after seeing Queensland' | ||
in the wet season spray all over it. | in the wet season spray all over it. | ||
- | Arriving at-Kuranda, 21 miles from Cairns, we parked at Fitzgerald' | + | |
- | bridge past the station, about a quarter of a mile up, grassy and high above the river. The ground here never dries. The roads are bogs, and a steep road is most | + | Arriving at Kuranda, 21 miles from Cairns, we parked at Fitzgerald' |
- | difficult to climb. All cars have chains, and I wanted spikes on my shoes in some places, and something like snow-shoes in others to get through the mud, so don't be hard on me for not walking too far. | + | |
- | I put my small tent up as it was fine and hot. The big tent and fly I put on the ground to make a bed. The river was warm to swim in, but running very fast, so I could not take risks with the rocks and snags. We had two fine days and two wet ones. I tried to buy fruit, paw-paws and bananas, but could not, so had to be content with mandarines. I found an abandoned place with halE a dozen big trees with mandarines on thee. We had our fill of these every day. Provisions were hard to get, except bread and meat which we did not want. There was no milk as the milk-man did not have enough for his regular customers. Food goes mouldy in a very short time up here; bacon, dates and even bread won't keep. | + | I put my small tent up as it was fine and hot. The big tent and fly I put on the ground to make a bed. The river was warm to swim in, but running very fast, so I could not take risks with the rocks and snags. We had two fine days and two wet ones. I tried to buy fruit, paw-paws and bananas, but could not, so had to be content with mandarines. I found an abandoned place with half a dozen big trees with mandarines on thee. We had our fill of these every day. Provisions were hard to get, except bread and meat which we did not want. There was no milk as the milk-man did not have enough for his regular customers. Food goes mouldy in a very short time up here; bacon, dates and even bread won't keep. |
- | The Maze and Fairyland Jungles are wonderful. Every valuable wood you can think of grows in them. One firm paid 1,148 for one tree in the bush. I saw Kauri trees with 30 feet girth, 70 feet to the first branch, 140 feet high, 1,150 years old, 27,000 super feet in the trunk and valued at E125. These measurements were at the foot of one tree at Lake Barrine. There was also maple, and all kinds of oak, mustard wood and atinkwood | + | |
+ | The Maze and Fairyland Jungles are wonderful. Every valuable wood you can think of grows in them. One firm paid 1,148 for one tree in the bush. I saw Kauri trees with 30 feet girth, 70 feet to the first branch, 140 feet high, 1,150 years old, 27,000 super feet in the trunk and valued at 125 pounds. These measurements were at the foot of one tree at Lake Barrine. There was also maple, and all kinds of oak, mustard wood and stinkwood | ||
We caught a train, or something that was out of date 50 years ago, with side-seats, so that you sat on your feet to look out of the window, or got a pain in the neck straining round to admire the scenery. | We caught a train, or something that was out of date 50 years ago, with side-seats, so that you sat on your feet to look out of the window, or got a pain in the neck straining round to admire the scenery. | ||
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Wareeba was the next call, a tobacco-growing area, but the locals will not smoke their tobacco at any price - rather smoke gum leaves, they told me. So I suppose they palm it off on to you down there who don't know any difference. | Wareeba was the next call, a tobacco-growing area, but the locals will not smoke their tobacco at any price - rather smoke gum leaves, they told me. So I suppose they palm it off on to you down there who don't know any difference. | ||
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We got into a motor train and set off, on a straight line I could sot see the end of, for Ravenshoe, whence we went through various places to Lake Barrine where we stayed a day. The lake is about a mile wide by two miles long. had a couple of Mit% and a raw on the lake, and saw a blackfellow climb or run up a tree. It was done with a lawyer-cane round the tree held in both hands, a jerk up, | We got into a motor train and set off, on a straight line I could sot see the end of, for Ravenshoe, whence we went through various places to Lake Barrine where we stayed a day. The lake is about a mile wide by two miles long. had a couple of Mit% and a raw on the lake, and saw a blackfellow climb or run up a tree. It was done with a lawyer-cane round the tree held in both hands, a jerk up, | ||
and then a step up. He went so quickly, I doubt if I could have run as fast along | and then a step up. He went so quickly, I doubt if I could have run as fast along | ||
the trunk of the tree had it been lying on the ground. I believe he could have done 100 feet in ten seconds, but he went only about 30 feet up and down again. We gave him 5/- for the stunt and offered him another 5/- if he would climb another tree, but he would not. I could see that he had had a enough, and that it had taken a lot out of him. | the trunk of the tree had it been lying on the ground. I believe he could have done 100 feet in ten seconds, but he went only about 30 feet up and down again. We gave him 5/- for the stunt and offered him another 5/- if he would climb another tree, but he would not. I could see that he had had a enough, and that it had taken a lot out of him. | ||
- | The day after we got back to Cairns I was walking along the street, when Mr. White, of the Alpine Club, came up, introduced himself and took me along to the local paper for an interview. So I got a write-up as somebody of importance visiting this place! He also invited me to tackle Bartle | + | |
+ | The day after we got back to Cairns I was walking along the street, when Mr. White, of the Alpine Club, came up, introduced himself and took me along to the local paper for an interview. So I got a write-up as somebody of importance visiting this place! He also invited me to tackle Bartle | ||
I have now been two weeks on Green Island fishing. Old Sol has deserted me. It rained from Sunday afternoon to Thursday at dinner time, and then it started the Sunday after and rained until to-day, Thursday, with breaks between, but it has never stopped blowing a gale all the time. | I have now been two weeks on Green Island fishing. Old Sol has deserted me. It rained from Sunday afternoon to Thursday at dinner time, and then it started the Sunday after and rained until to-day, Thursday, with breaks between, but it has never stopped blowing a gale all the time. | ||
Your Clubmate, | Your Clubmate, | ||
Wiff. | Wiff. | ||
- | QUESTIONS ANSWERED | + | |
+ | =====QUESTIONS ANSWERED===== | ||
By Our Bushwalking Expert " | By Our Bushwalking Expert " | ||
- | Q. Who is the best " | + | |
- | A. Ernie Austen wields a good axe, but he is not much chop. Q. What is the greatest art in bushwalking technique? A. Food: | + | Q. Who is the best " |
- | Q. Do the men usually carry razors on camping trips? | + | A. Ernie Austen wields a good axe, but he is not much chop. |
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+ | Q. What is the greatest art in bushwalking technique?\\ | ||
+ | A. Food: | ||
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+ | Q. Do the men usually carry razors on camping trips?\\ | ||
A. Not as a rule,but nevertheless they manage to have some close shaves. | A. Not as a rule,but nevertheless they manage to have some close shaves. | ||
- | Q. What do you recommend as the best emergency ration to take away on a trip? A. Dog biscuits, because then you can always sit dawn to a good square meal. | + | |
- | Q. What part of the Cox has the most extensive view? A. Seymour' | + | Q. What do you recommend as the best emergency ration to take away on a trip?\\ |
- | Q. I mm to lead a party of 144 persons. Where would be the best place to take them? | + | A. Dog biscuits, because then you can always sit dawn to a good square meal. |
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+ | Q. What part of the Cox has the most extensive view?\\ | ||
+ | A. Seymour' | ||
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+ | Q. I mm to lead a party of 144 persons. Where would be the best place to take them?\\ | ||
A. To the Grose Valley. | A. To the Grose Valley. | ||
- | Q. My dearest bush-walking friend has gone away and I feel that the light of my life has gone out. Mist can I do about it? | + | |
+ | Q. My dearest bush-walking friend has gone away and I feel that the light of my life has gone out. Mist can I do about it?\\ | ||
A. Strike another match. | A. Strike another match. | ||
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- | REVIEWS | + | =====REVIEWS===== |
- | Cookery | + | __Cookery |
Americans seem to be especially proficient at preparing handy, comprehensive lists of literature on a particular subject This little booklet covers, not only literature dealing with camp cookery, but also lists of firms which supply camp foods, camp utensils and the like, and lists of foods themselves. It is interesting to compare the food lists with those compiled by ourselves from time to time. Most of the items mentioned can be obtained in Sydney, but egg powder is Pomething we might willingly add to our lists if it could be purchased. We shall pass the booklet on to Paddy, so perhaps in due course egg powder will be added to his already well-stocked shop. | Americans seem to be especially proficient at preparing handy, comprehensive lists of literature on a particular subject This little booklet covers, not only literature dealing with camp cookery, but also lists of firms which supply camp foods, camp utensils and the like, and lists of foods themselves. It is interesting to compare the food lists with those compiled by ourselves from time to time. Most of the items mentioned can be obtained in Sydney, but egg powder is Pomething we might willingly add to our lists if it could be purchased. We shall pass the booklet on to Paddy, so perhaps in due course egg powder will be added to his already well-stocked shop. | ||
- | Six Sunday Walks, Book 1: by E.Caines-Phillips, | + | |
- | Book.-sellers inform us that there is an increasing demand in Sydney for suggestions for " | + | __Six Sunday Walks, Book 1__: by E.Caines-Phillips, |
- | use a compass, and we suggest that, if a second series of "Six Sunday Walks" is published as promised, it should contain an advertisement for compasses. The only complaint we, have to make about the book is that its author has evidently not studied those excellent articles of A.P. Herbert in recent issues of " | + | |
- | how to write clear English. If he had he would not confuse the reader by using | + | Book-sellers inform us that there is an increasing demand in Sydney for suggestions for " |
- | objectionable words like " | + | |
It is essential in a book of this nature that the wording should be kept as simple and easy as possible, and that unusual words should not be used at all, certainly not used in an incorrect sense. It is perhaps unkind to object to details like this in an otherwise excellent publication, | It is essential in a book of this nature that the wording should be kept as simple and easy as possible, and that unusual words should not be used at all, certainly not used in an incorrect sense. It is perhaps unkind to object to details like this in an otherwise excellent publication, | ||
- | like that to be even more admirable than the present instalment. In the meantime we consider every member of the Club should obtain a copy of what has been published so fb.r. | + | like that to be even more admirable than the present instalment. In the meantime we consider every member of the Club should obtain a copy of what has been published so far. |
- | Journal of the New Zealand Alpine Club, | + | |
- | That the members of this Club are particularly active is clear from the records in this Journal, but perhaps the most intereating | + | =====Journal of the New Zealand Alpine Club,1936.===== |
- | THE TONALLI PEAKS | + | That the members of this Club are particularly active is clear from the records in this Journal, but perhaps the most interesting |
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+ | =====THE TONALLI PEAKS ===== | ||
By Marie B. Byles. | By Marie B. Byles. | ||
- | We did not really intend to go as far as Yerranderie, | + | |
- | "Burn and bury all your rubbish and your tins, | + | We did not really intend to go as far as Yerranderie, |
- | And hide your bottles as you would your sine," | + | |
+ | //"Burn and bury all your rubbish and your tins, | ||
+ | And hide your bottles as you would your sine,"// | ||
also that Maria looks like Black Maria, and probably is, but Kath has a strange complex against going to jail, so the " | also that Maria looks like Black Maria, and probably is, but Kath has a strange complex against going to jail, so the " | ||
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Having reached Yerranderie we parked Maria, gave a large tip to a little lad to see no one drove off with her, and get out into the bush where we found a suitable spot - not far from the Tonalli River -'and made camp. By the way, Tonalli should be pronounced with a whining sound on the middle syllable. According to Kath, who is a student of Italian, this means that you are pronouncing the double " | Having reached Yerranderie we parked Maria, gave a large tip to a little lad to see no one drove off with her, and get out into the bush where we found a suitable spot - not far from the Tonalli River -'and made camp. By the way, Tonalli should be pronounced with a whining sound on the middle syllable. According to Kath, who is a student of Italian, this means that you are pronouncing the double " | ||
- | Having come to an unintended place we had no special objective, but the little rooky peaks of the Tonalli Range were a lodestar to me, and Kath, who is the sweetest and most adaptable of persons, at once agreed. They certainly present landmarks ouffioient to attract anyone whose soul is not quite dead to the call of the high places. Why these peaks should be, was a matter which puzzled me all the week-end, and which apparently puzzles the geologists also. The rocks which form their cliffs are not composed of the Hawkesbury sandstone of the Blue Mountains Plateau, but of older, Upper Palaeozoic rocks, the same as you find forming the cliffs south of Newcaetle where there is ooalmmining and where the sea has hollowed them out into huge caverns. The same cavernous effect is found in the Tonalli cliffs and gives them a gigantic honeycomb appearance when seen from afar. | ||
- | But why should these particular cliffs have weathered away to form peaky hills? The other ranges around Yerranderie are composed of precisely the same rooks, and | ||
- | so are the Dog Ranges, with which we are all familiar, yet none of them has weathered away into peaks like those of the Tonalli Range, 1000 feet above the valley and 2000 feet above the Burragorang; | ||
- | There was no difficulty in reaching the Tonalli Range. We simply took the main Kowmung Track, neglected the fascinating ' | ||
- | to top the final rooks. Kath limbed the first rocky top. I didn' | ||
+ | Having come to an unintended place we had no special objective, but the little rocky peaks of the Tonalli Range were a lodestar to me, and Kath, who is the sweetest and most adaptable of persons, at once agreed. They certainly present landmarks sufficient to attract anyone whose soul is not quite dead to the call of the high places. Why these peaks should be, was a matter which puzzled me all the week-end, and which apparently puzzles the geologists also. The rocks which form their cliffs are not composed of the Hawkesbury sandstone of the Blue Mountains Plateau, but of older, Upper Palaeozoic rocks, the same as you find forming the cliffs south of Newcastle where there is coal mining and where the sea has hollowed them out into huge caverns. The same cavernous effect is found in the Tonalli cliffs and gives them a gigantic honeycomb appearance when seen from afar. | ||
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+ | But why should these particular cliffs have weathered away to form peaky hills? The other ranges around Yerranderie are composed of precisely the same rooks, and so are the Dog Ranges, with which we are all familiar, yet none of them has weathered away into peaks like those of the Tonalli Range, 1000 feet above the valley and 2000 feet above the Burragorang; | ||
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+ | There was no difficulty in reaching the Tonalli Range. We simply took the main Kowmung Track, neglected the fascinating ' | ||
+ | to top the final rooks. Kath limbed the first rocky top. I didn' |
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