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+ | We can still remember the evening, back in September, 1946, when a letter was received at the S.B.W. General Meeting from Frank Freeguard, reporting that he had seen billets of wood, cut as for baker' | ||
- | We can still remember the evening, back in September, 1946, when a lettei, was received at the S.B.W. General Meeting from Frank Freeguard, reporting that he had seen billets of wood, out as for bakerrs wood, stacked in National Park. The letter was referred to the Federation, which decided not to approach the Trust until it (the Federation) had decided now it thought the Park should be administered. Yr. Whiddon, Chairman of the Park Trust, was invited to address the Federation Council, and after this a special meeting was held to decide Federation policy. A policy was drawn up by the meeting and referred to the club 6 (which means, in practice, the S.B.W. - and perhaps one or two other c1u7bs). The clubs approved and the policy was adopted by the Federation. That was to be done next? Council | ||
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- | else had refused. This report come to light in August last year. It was little more than a re-hash of the one already adopted in December 1946. Now we hear that another report is on the way..., This too should be essentially the sane as the one approved by the Club in December 19463 as our Club has not discussed any alterations since then, | ||
Thus while time flies conservation hibernates; and everyone is bored stiff with National Park. | Thus while time flies conservation hibernates; and everyone is bored stiff with National Park. | ||
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- | AT OUR JANUARY MEETING. | + | ---- |
- | The President was in the Chair, and about 70 members were present, | + | |
- | The Secretary of the Wild Life Preservation Society has written to our Club stating that it is unlikely that their constitution will permit them to subscribe to the purchase of a private park, i.e. the Era lands. Our Cormittee | + | =====At Our January Meeting.===== |
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+ | The President was in the Chair, and about 70 members were present. | ||
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+ | The Secretary of the Wild Life Preservation Society has written to our Club stating that it is unlikely that their constitution will permit them to subscribe to the purchase of a private park, i.e. the Era lands. Our Committee | ||
It was decided that the S.B.W. should undertake to purchase 40 copies of Miss Jocelyn Henderson' | It was decided that the S.B.W. should undertake to purchase 40 copies of Miss Jocelyn Henderson' | ||
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The Greater Blue Mountains CITY now has the matter of the Greater Blue Mountains National Park under its notice. | The Greater Blue Mountains CITY now has the matter of the Greater Blue Mountains National Park under its notice. | ||
- | While returning from the Taxation Dept., where he had done his best to keep the grasping hand of the Commissioner from our Christmas Party funds, our Treasurer fell foul of the law. Be was app rehended | + | |
- | The response towards funds for a Bushwalker Memorial on Splendour Rock has so far been disappointing and members were asked to subscribe towards this. A Memorial Service is to be held there on Anzac Day iv' | + | While returning from the Taxation Dept., where he had done his best to keep the grasping hand of the Commissioner from our Christmas Party funds, our Treasurer fell foul of the law. He was apprehended |
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- | Dorothy Lawry pointed | + | The response towards funds for a Bushwalker Memorial on Splendour Rock has so far been disappointing and members were asked to subscribe towards this. A Memorial Service is to be held there on Anzac Day weekend. On a show of hands about 17 members stated their intention of attending to represent our Club. |
- | Ken Yeadowes | + | |
- | The Club has become the possessor of a fine Notice | + | Dorothy Lawry pointed |
- | It was reported that at Christmas there were between 100 and 200 members of Federation Clubs at Kosciusko, and complaints were made by the Manager that articles were Isouvenired! | + | |
- | Colour films of a canoe trip down the Snowy River will be | + | Ken Meadowes |
- | shown by Gordon Ballard at 8 10.1114p on 11th and 12th March (Thursday and Friday). Tickets (from Gordon) are 3/- each. | + | |
- | Bob Younger and Christa Calnan were thanked for their work of conducting the Children' | + | The Club has become the possessor of a fine Notice Board. The upper third is a blackboard for chalked notices, the lower part soft caneite, for the pinning up of papers. |
- | is to be sent to Yr. and Yrs. Younger for transporting | + | |
- | The meeting closed at 9.15 p.n. | + | It was reported that at Christmas there were between 100 and 200 members of Federation Clubs at Kosciusko, and complaints were made by the Manager that articles were ' |
- | If this sort of thing keeps up we will have to start a social column. We have to report three births, one marriage, two engagements. The births: To Bert and Evelyn | + | |
- | To the Bush Walkers concerned in these happy events we entend | + | Colour films of a canoe trip down the Snowy River will be shown by Gordon Ballard at 8 p.m. on 11th and 12th March (Thursday and Friday). Tickets (from Gordon) are 3/- each. |
- | REUNION CAMPSITE! | + | |
- | . .1Y-ei-,-V.bor' | + | Bob Younger and Christa Calnan were thanked for their work of conducting the Children' |
- | 4. | + | |
- | SOCIAL NOTnS FOR FEBRUARY. | + | The meeting closed at 9.15 p.m. |
- | On Friday the 20th brains will be notched | + | |
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+ | If this sort of thing keeps up we will have to start a social column. We have to report three births, one marriage, two engagements. The births: To Bert and Evelyn | ||
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+ | To the Bush Walkers concerned in these happy events we extend | ||
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+ | __Reunion Campsite__: | ||
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+ | =====Social Notes For February.===== | ||
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+ | On Friday the 20th brains will be matched | ||
The ' | The ' | ||
- | TO ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS. In the New Year (not the Chinese New Yeai: | + | |
- | be the.salt of the earth. | + | __To All Photographers__. In the New Year (not the Chinese New Year or the Jewish New Year but the S.B.W. New Year) there may be great happenings in the photographic world. Therefore dust the cobwebs off your photos and take new ones for you may be the salt of the earth. |
- | MORE NEWS FROY NEW ZEALAND. Ron Knightley writes on 8th January: | + | |
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- | 'Our most recant adventure has been in the Yatukituki | + | |
+ | =====More News From New Zealand.===== | ||
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+ | Ron Knightley writes on 8th January: | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | "Our most recant adventure has been in the Matukituki | ||
"On a holiday such as this time passes almost unheeded, days and dates are meaningless, | "On a holiday such as this time passes almost unheeded, days and dates are meaningless, | ||
- | At 7.30 a.m.' | ||
- | lawn on which we slept the night, to cross tho Yatukituki en route for French Ridge Bivouac, about 0,500' aboe the river. The-N.Z. rivers are swift and notoriously dangerous, claiming more lives than any other mountain hazard. The deepest part found the water racing round our thighs, feet slipping on the stones, toes frozen and tongues mouthing involuntary curses at each new slip. Manlike, Les and I went straight for the further bank, and just as | ||
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- | we reached it a succession of womanly screams brought me scurrying back into the water (dropping my pack first, of courseI) Kath was up to her neck in the racin(1. stream - spitting and spluttering. She was back on her feet before | ||
- | reached her and galloped for the bank like a trained charger. But, alas, her ice axe had been torn from her grasp! This puts us in a quandary somewhat - but not for long | ||
- | ! | ||
- | With fiendish relish, an ice axe is purposely dropped. And what happens? Nothing. A ship's anchor could be no more effective. Kath's axe is forthwith recovered, and we still our shivers as we trudge upstream upon the further bank. | ||
- | We stop at the foot of French Ridge. Above us rises fifteen hundred feet of timber, topped by some five hundred feet of breast high bush, and than a thousand feet of slippery snow grass rising to the bare crags and the eternal snows. Above and around French Ridge are the 8,000' summits of Joffre and Bevan - rock and ice, snowfield and glacier - whilst across the river lie other snowy domes, fcy peaks and craggy pinnacles. | ||
- | "We pioneered a new route up French Ridge - quite unintentionally, | ||
- | "Sheer cliffs rose above us, but from the talus slope below it, we could see that we were just above the tinber line. A. gully full of talus and bush rah up to snow grass at the head - sheer cliffs rose across the gully, but we felt that the gully must run .clear to the top. It 'did. After another hour of weaving our way through boulders and bush, we saw that our way to the top of the ridge was clear. Sometimes, the bushes were so -thick and matted that we .could walk over them at ease; at others we pushed_ wearily through their clawing branches. Two stags, with antlers still in velvet, started up about 25 yards in front, stared at us for a moment, and then went racing down to the timber. Higher up, two stood in arrogance, to watch our | ||
- | snail-like progress for an ihstant before they too took fright and went bounding away for the timber. Ohl for the feet of a deer! | ||
- | Ah, the grass at last2 A thousand feet of steep grass slppe, and we found the bivvy - two low rock wq-lls,' | ||
- | Then came thc keas-winged curses of the snowline. Large olive green parrots about the size of a big Oockatoo,' | ||
- | ironediately digestible - Snow glasses, cups, | ||
- | pouches and the like - is whisked away to some unattainable crag, to the accompaniment of hurled rocks and loud cursas from the victim, and a defiantly screamed Kea1!" | ||
- | . his hands - again, the keas had done a neat job of unpicking -stitches! Thus, | ||
- | Next day, again in sunshine and in calm, we wandered up rocks and snow, to a loftier crest above. Faint but clear across the snow there came suddenly a long drawn " | ||
- | sleeping ... sleeping sleeping. | ||
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- | That night' | ||
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- | 'Sunup found us trudging across the Bonar Glacier, and now the Chill of dawn gave -way to the searing heat of the glacier sun. Dark glasses now shielded our eyes - thick white zinp cream guarded our faces.' | ||
- | "Soon we were right behind Mt. French - it must be attaglged from the rear. We could see that the easy slope of the glaaer ended under 800A of sheer wall - this to be our final climb! Glasses off, and sweating furiously, we breasted the cliffs upwards and =yards on crumbling shelves, in tight chimneys, alternately belaying the rope from the man below, or clinging like a fly to the wall of a house, with only thin air and boot nails between us and the glacier ice, hundreds of feet below, Time flew - completely absorbed in the intricate problem Or scaling this rotten wall we had been moving for four hours witbnat rest before we remembered that we had little time to spare. | ||
- | "Two hundred feet bolow the summit we turned back. We should already be hours late in our return to Kath, and had to return to the river that same day. Before starting the climb down, we tarried for a delis ious half-hour on a lofty ledge. Ah, that scene with sun upon it! Way out to northwest, the blue sea; all around us the glaciers and snowfields; the sharpness of nearer peaks and the allure of white pinnacles in blue distance; the blinding whiteness of the glacier below, and thrilling curve of Mt. Aspiring' | ||
- | "Time had beaten us, and robbed us of a conquest. And yet, for those exhilarating hours of .toil shall again upstand before the Chilly dawn; for that enchantment of the heights, for that | ||
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- | glorious peace and silence that..comes with height and majesty - ah, who would not drive, his spirltito the limit for just a taste of this? We came down beatem, but we came down happy. | ||
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- | 'Down at our awn tent we found Kath all ready packed, and ID lunged off once more for the river - this time, to find the track: Down and down and down we walked and stumbled, perspiring in the noonday heat, gazing longingly at the river far down in the valley. Then at last we trod it banks, waded its racing strear, and wended our way back dawn the miles of grass flat and beech-forest to the Alpine Club camp. There did Kath cook up the most wonderful stew, fry the moSt delicious bacon, boil the most delectable soup, cook the most palatable stewed fruit and custard - food, food for males who had eten only scroggin and biscuits for 16 hours, who had been in constant motion for 15 - ah, food for hungry throatsi | ||
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- | THE. NATIONAL PARK - TASMANIA. | ||
- | By J. Kirkby, | ||
- | Fifty miles to the north west of Hobart lies a reserve of 40,000 acres which enbnces the 7t. Field range, the highest point being 4,7211. Travelling from Hobart up the Derwent River valley there are excellent views of the orchards and hop fields which are protected by lanes of poplars and through which the river winds very beautifully. The Gast houses contribute a quaint effect to the scene. In the background there is the Wellington range high and graceful, and protecting this :peaceful and lovely valley. | ||
- | The train bounced cheerily along the line and the friendly fruit trees poked their branches right into the carriage. Riding in this train is a fairly adventurous undertaking, | ||
- | From National Park station we started up the nine rile road walk to Lake Dobson. At Lake Fenton (3,4501), two riles from our destination, | ||
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- | serene | + | "At 7.30 a.m. one morning Les Fitzgerald of the Melbourne Walking Club, Kath Hardy and myself bid farewell to the green lawn on which we slept the night, to cross the Matukituki en route for French Ridge Bivouac, about 3,500' above the river. The N.Z. rivers are swift and notoriously dangerous, claiming more lives than any other mountain hazard. The deepest part found the water racing round our thighs, feet slipping on the stones, toes frozen and tongues mouthing involuntary curses at each new slip. Man-like, Les and I went straight for the further bank, and just as we reached it a succession of womanly screams brought me scurrying back into the water (dropping my pack first, of course!). Kath was up to her neck in the racing stream - spitting and spluttering. She was back on her feet before I reached her and galloped for the bank like a trained charger. But, alas, her ice axe had been torn from her grasp! This puts us in a quandary somewhat - but not for long! With fiendish relish, an ice axe is purposely dropped. And what happens? Nothing. A ship's anchor could be no more effective. Kath's axe is forthwith recovered, and we still our shivers as we trudge upstream upon the further bank. |
- | However that was no consplation | + | |
- | to rt. Mawson, and is set in amongst King Billy pines and pandanni. As Ray had been a member of the Club we were offered its use and very grateful we were for its shelter and comfort. The Walking Club own-two other huts, one at Mt. Rufus in the Reserve, and one on Mt. Wellington. | + | "We stop at the foot of French Ridge. Above us rises fifteen hundred feet of timber, topped by some five hundred feet of breast high bush, and then a thousand feet of slippery snow grass rising to the bare crags and the eternal snows. Above and around French Ridge are the 8,000' summits of Joffre and Bevan - rock and ice, snowfield and glacier - whilst across the river lie other snowy domes, icy peaks and craggy pinnacles. |
- | Our first day was only half a day, as we had sleptin | + | |
- | indicating some of the ruggedness of the country, but the mists came down very suddenly and gave us a little lesson in how easy it is to get lost in such circumstances. We reached the hut wet and cold. During the night it snowed lightly and the next morning was cold and crisp. Once again we climbed Mt. Mawson and set off for PA. Field West about five mile' | + | "We pioneered a new route up French Ridge - quite unintentionally, |
- | We set off in a snow storm. All the little pools were encrusted in ice and there was not a dry spot to be seen. The pineapple grass was a welcome stepping stone. We crossed some snow drifts which were hanging on the side of the mountain. Cracks in the drifts were showing blue, indicating some future avalanche. The big Lake Seal spread itself below the ixountain | + | |
- | From the peak at the end of the plateau there was a magnificent panorama of all the ranges to the south, west and north. The peaks of the Reserve stood 'out and could have been clearly seen on a fine day. Most of the ranges looked fierce and sharp toothed, and the whole scene was wild in the extreme. | + | "Sheer cliffs rose above us, but from the talus slope below it, we could see that we were just above the timber line. A gully full of talus and bush ran up to snow grass at the head - sheer cliffs rose across the gully, but we felt that the gully __must__ run clear to the top. It did. After another hour of weaving our way through boulders and bush, we saw that our way to the top of the ridge was clear. Sometimes, the bushes were so thick and matted that we could walk over them at ease; at others we pushed wearily through their clawing branches. Two stags, with antlers still in velvet, started up about 25 yards in front, stared at us for a moment, and then went racing down to the timber. Higher up, two stood in arrogance, to watch our snail-like progress for an instant before they too took fright and went bounding away for the timber. Oh! for the feet of a deer! |
- | $ | + | |
- | In the afternoon we explored a place called the Tarn Shelf. | + | "Ah, the grass at last! A thousand feet of steep grass slope, and we found the bivvy - two low rock walls, built on the windward side, with flat ground in the lee. In the calm cool of evening we pitched the tent, anchoring it with many heavy boulders, whilst Kath started to stew the dehydrateds. |
- | -up of cirques (natural amphitheatres). | + | |
- | During the remainder of our stay in the Park we explored some of the lakes from the ground floor and looked up to the rugged grandeur of the rock fornation | + | "Then came the keas-winged curses of the snowline. Large olive green parrots about the size of a big cockatoo, they come strutting up to our camp, completely tame and unafraid, pottering around under our very hands and feet, quite unashamed of the curses their breed has wrung from unfortunate climbers. Scavengers of the cold heights, their sharp beaks are eternally picking at everything within their reach, and anything not immediately digestible - snow glasses, cups, spoons, tobacco pouches and the like - is whisked away to some unattainable crag, to the accompaniment of hurled rocks and loud curses from the victim, and a defiantly screamed "Kea!! Kea!!" from the vanishing marauder. Long and woeful are the tales of their ravages. A girl we met at Homer tunnel told us how she had once left her boots out at night. In the morning she found, to her utter devastation, |
- | away on the skyline. This was possibly correct for at Frenchman' | + | |
- | returned to Hobart envying those 1 cky people who could reach these mountains so easily (at least by car) and who could be thrilled once more by a trip to t. Field West. | + | "Next day, again in sunshine and in calm, we wandered up rocks and snow, to a loftier crest above. Faint but clear across the snow there came suddenly a long drawn " |
- | TIE FIELD WEEK-END at Marley was most enjoyable. The idea of | + | |
- | T.PreT67171reek | + | "That night Les and I bivouacked with the mountaineers, |
- | It was r. (7)od to see Ill ienley | + | |
- | 'ore. ' | + | " |
- | FISHING MEMOIRS | + | |
+ | "Sunup found us trudging across the Bonar Glacier, and now the chill of dawn gave way to the searing heat of the glacier sun. Dark glasses now shielded our eyes - thick white zinc cream guarded our faces. Especially did we smear the under sides of our chins, the hollow beneath the bottom lip, and the under sides of the nostrils - these parts especially are prone to burn from the rays reflected from ice underfoot. | ||
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+ | "Soon we were right behind Mt. French - it must be attacked from the rear. We could see that the easy slope of the glacier ended under 800' of sheer wall - this to be our final climb! Glasses off, and sweating furiously, we breasted the cliffs upwards and upwards on crumbling shelves, in tight chimneys, alternately belaying the rope from the man below, or clinging like a fly to the wall of a house, with only thin air and boot nails between us and the glacier ice, hundreds of feet below. Time flew - completely absorbed in the intricate problem of scaling this rotten wall we had been moving for four hours without rest before we remembered that we had little time to spare. | ||
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+ | "Two hundred feet below the summit we turned back. We should already be hours late in our return to Kath, and had to return to the river that same day. Before starting the climb down, we tarried for a delicious half-hour on a lofty ledge. Ah, that scene with sun upon it! Way out to northwest, the blue sea; all around us the glaciers and snowfields; the sharpness of nearer peaks and the allure of white pinnacles in blue distance; the blinding whiteness of the glacier below, and thrilling curve of Mt. Aspiring' | ||
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+ | "Time had beaten us, and robbed us of a conquest. | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | "Down at our own tent we found Kath all ready packed, and plunged off once more for the river - this time, to find the track! Down and down and down we walked and stumbled, perspiring in the noonday heat, gazing longingly at the river far down in the valley. Then at last we trod its banks, waded its racing stream, and wended our way back down the miles of grass flat and beech forest to the Alpine Club camp. There did Kath cook up the most wonderful stew, fry the most delicious bacon, boil the most delectable soup, cook the most palatable stewed fruit and custard - food, food for males who had eaten only scroggin and biscuits for 16 hours, who had been in constant motion for 15 - ah, food for hungry throats! | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | =====The National Park - Tasmania.===== | ||
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+ | By J. Kirkby | ||
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+ | Fifty miles to the north west of Hobart lies a reserve of 40,000 acres which embraces the Mt. Field range, the highest point being 4, | ||
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+ | The train bounced cheerily along the line and the friendly fruit trees poked their branches right into the carriage. Riding in this train is a fairly adventurous undertaking, | ||
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+ | From National Park station we started up the nine mile road walk to Lake Dobson. At Lake Fenton (3, | ||
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+ | However that was no consolation | ||
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+ | Our first day was only half a day, as we had slept in fairly late. We climbed Mt. Mawson and saw some interesting views indicating some of the ruggedness of the country, but the mists came down very suddenly and gave us a little lesson in how easy it is to get lost in such circumstances. We reached the hut wet and cold. During the night it snowed lightly and the next morning was cold and crisp. Once again we climbed Mt. Mawson and set off for Mt. Field West about five miles distant. The route is marked out in snow poles and cairns. This is a favourite run for the skier. Ray himself had skied here some years ago but, (he said) was so engrossed in not slipping down the mountain sides, that the views were new to him also. | ||
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+ | We set off in a snow storm. All the little pools were encrusted in ice and there was not a dry spot to be seen. The pineapple grass was a welcome stepping stone. We crossed some snow drifts which were hanging on the side of the mountain. Cracks in the drifts were showing blue, indicating some future avalanche. The big Lake Seal spread itself below the mountain | ||
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+ | From the peak at the end of the plateau there was a magnificent panorama of all the ranges to the south, west and north. The peaks of the Reserve stood out and could have been clearly seen on a fine day. Most of the ranges looked fierce and sharp toothed, and the whole scene was wild in the extreme. | ||
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+ | In the afternoon we explored a place called the Tarn Shelf. | ||
+ | |||
+ | During the remainder of our stay in the Park we explored some of the lakes from the ground floor and looked up to the rugged grandeur of the rock formation | ||
+ | |||
+ | We returned to Hobart envying those lucky people who could reach these mountains so easily (at least by car) and who could be thrilled once more by a trip to Mt. Field West. | ||
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+ | __The Field Week-end__ at Marley was most enjoyable. The idea of converting Field Week ends into ordinary easy walks mixed with instruction has proved popular both with prospectives and with members (there were as many members as prospectives | ||
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+ | It was good to see Bill Henley | ||
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+ | =====Fishing Memoirs.===== | ||
by "Rex | by "Rex | ||
- | It all started three years ago when we went South for Christmas. We sat dangling our legs over the edge of a 50 ft. pier at Red Head on a hot afternoon, and watched fish of all sizes and desCriptions | + | |
- | The following year fishing at Pebbly Beach is renenbered | + | It all started three years ago when we went South for Christmas. We sat dangling our legs over the edge of a 50 ft. pier at Red Head on a hot afternoon, and watched fish of all sizes and descriptions |
- | Christmas 1947 we had high hopes of fish supplementing the feed list, but they were warned of our approach and were not biting. On Christmas day Eric conmenced | + | |
- | ingly at it while it nosed about in an exquisite rock pool, when suddenly a turbulent wave in a blind eddy crashed over the rocks and our breakfast returned to the ocean once more. | + | The following year fishing at Pebbly Beach is remembered |
- | That afternoon, using fbr bait sone-dehydrated | + | |
- | a shame for he would have made a lovely worm to entice the big ones with. Soon after a groper (many arms long) arose to the sufface an sneered at us passing by. Alex threw in a worm on the end of | + | Christmas 1947 we had high hopes of fish supplementing the feed list, but they were warned of our approach and were not biting. On Christmas day Eric commenced |
- | his line, but the groper only laughed and disappeared into the weeds.. | + | |
- | The next day, still undaunted and spurred on with false hopes, | + | That afternoon, using for bait some dehydrated |
- | and then through the tall Spotted Gums of the forest, silent sentinels to our camp. soon the billy was boiling and Alex and Norma were not long in following me. Eric persevered | + | |
- | . 4Breaking | + | The next day, still undaunted and spurred on with false hopes, |
- | CIMISTMAsi- | + | |
+ | Breaking | ||
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+ | =====Christmas, | ||
By Edna Garrad. | By Edna Garrad. | ||
- | _Christmas | + | |
- | The weather was far from: the hot summer' | + | Christmas |
- | I kept my head out and was rewarded with visions of lovely hillsides covered with Sorrell in all shades of red, clover sprinkled with buttercups, and a short mauve-flowered plant that I cuuld not identify. | + | |
- | After some hours we cane to a very marshy creek new McLean' | + | The weather was far from the hot summer' |
- | Whilst we ate our lunch the snow car-renced | + | |
- | .1 was not impressed with the ,look of the hut'or the thought of Spending | + | After some hours we came to a very marshy creek near McLean' |
- | . We had had little sleep on the train journey to Coma and by this time were very tired. However as we strode back to YcLean's for some reason we seemed to get new life. On our arrival the | + | |
- | 7 | + | Whilst we ate our lunch the snow commenced |
- | 13. | + | |
- | group which had been left there fed us with lots of warm food and once we were in dry clothing life took on a different complexion. | + | We had had little sleep on the train journey to Coma and by this time were very tired. However as we strode back to McLean's for some reason we seemed to get new life. On our arrival the group which had been left there fed us with lots of warm food and once we were in dry clothing life took on a different complexion. |
As we stretched out on the floor in our sleeping bags (with corn sacks for a mattress), with the cheerful light of the fire flickering around the room, I was too comfortable, | As we stretched out on the floor in our sleeping bags (with corn sacks for a mattress), with the cheerful light of the fire flickering around the room, I was too comfortable, | ||
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- | A GENTLE TRIP... | + | ---- |
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+ | =====A Gentle Trip.===== | ||
By Jaybee. | By Jaybee. | ||
- | On the night of 21st September last I fell (or was pushed) out of a truck near Parramatta Station, slapped much dirt out of my rucksack and clothes and said to the dust-ghosted figure nearest "This is a moral for a story in the nagazinel" Yet somehow - despite the overwhelming literary talent | + | |
- | If I have any complaint about the reporting it is that Max (for who else would be M.G.?) writes with the fine disdain of the man of action for human anguish, just as Julius Caesar wrote nothing of the suffering or labour into the accounts of his campaigns in Gaul. So, in the abs once of a better furnished | + | On the night of 21st September last I fell (or was pushed) out of a truck near Parramatta Station, slapped much dirt out of my rucksack and clothes and said to the dust-ghosted figure nearest "This is a moral for a story in the magazine!" Yet somehow - despite the overwhelming literary talent |
- | The party, as I remember, numbered fourteen, including three lasses, and the start on Friday night was quite unalarming. Electric train to Granville, local steam train to Windsor and ott along the strategic highway to a spot eight miles beyond the Colo at Yoranls | + | |
- | The truck set us down some 5.8 miles (correct, M.G.?) beyond Parr's Brush and with-a minimum of delay we were pressing on into desolate upland scrub, relieved at that season by the reds and yellows of countless pea-type wildflowers. We intersected a timber-getterfs | + | If I have any complaint about the reporting it is that Max (for who else would be M.G.?) writes with the fine disdain of the man of action for human anguish, just as Julius Caesar wrote nothing of the suffering or labour into the accounts of his campaigns in Gaul. So, in the absence |
- | bed until we encountered our trail of almost two hours earlier. After some dithering around at this point - identifiable | + | |
- | at our several returns by a turibledown | + | The party, as I remember, numbered fourteen, including three lasses, and the start on Friday night was quite unalarming. Electric train to Granville, local steam train to Windsor and out along the strategic highway to a spot eight miles beyond the Colo at Moran' |
- | Now, those who have walked. with tax know that this sort of thing just doesnt | + | |
- | Being anything but good at rock-hopping I spent the afternoon well down near the tail of the party as we plunged down into the spectacular sandstone gorge of Angorawa. One regretted walking against the clock - there was so mudh in ihe way of sunlit, orange-hued and honeycombed cliff faces to adnire. It was a reasonably strenuous piece of walking and we were luxuriating in the thought of a wonderful, restful, early night camp when we energed | + | The truck set us down some 5.8 miles (correct, M.G.?) beyond Parr's Brush and with a minimum of delay we were pressing on into desolate upland scrub, relieved at that season by the reds and yellows of countless pea-type wildflowers. We intersected a timber-getter' |
- | the | + | |
- | Now, there' | + | Now, those who have walked with Max know that this sort of thing just doesn' |
- | Somewhere along this via dolorosa Ken Meadowe' | + | |
- | Had Max quoted the ehurchilian | + | Being anything but good at rock-hopping I spent the afternoon well down near the tail of the party as we plunged down into the spectacular sandstone gorge of Angorawa. One regretted walking against the clock - there was so much in the way of sunlit, orange-hued and honeycombed cliff faces to admire. It was a reasonably strenuous piece of walking and we were luxuriating in the thought of a wonderful, restful, early night camp when we emerged |
- | 15. contemplating her dirty, bale feet and sjnr; | + | |
- | about a dog that stole a sausage and his merited fate. The male members would not acknowledge their weariness so readily. Max, of course, had nothing to admit, and probably a couple of the others then in training for a marathon | + | Now, there' |
- | The crackling of maxis fire was sufficient to rouse the whole party. Seldom have I seen walkers display such alactity | + | |
- | Then it was down to the river again, and across and along | + | Somewhere along this via dolorosa Ken Meadowe' |
- | and across once more to Lunch No.2 at Hungryway Creek about 3 p.m. So far I was surprised to see how well the party was faring and wondering whether their leg muscles were becoming as acutely aware of the undulations in the ground as rine,. The answer was evident in the trailing feet as we breasted the last spur. One of the veterans of the party observed that it was one of the severest official trips in a long while:, and he was glad Max was the leader. With all of which I concurred. | + | |
- | So it was down to ' | + | Had Max quoted the Churchilian |
- | "Going to Uraterer Max and Roleyis | + | |
- | 15- | + | The crackling of Max' |
- | - SONNET TO NORTH ER,/-1 | + | |
- | , | + | Then it was down to the river again, and across and along and across once more to Lunch No.2 at Hungryway Creek about 3 p.m. So far I was surprised to see how well the party was faring and wondering whether their leg muscles were becoming as acutely aware of the undulations in the ground as mine. The answer was evident in the trailing feet as we breasted the last spur. One of the veterans of the party observed that it was one of the severest official trips in a long while, and he was glad Max was the leader. With all of which I concurred. |
+ | |||
+ | So it was down to the Colo again, and out to Armstrong' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Going to Uraterer | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Sonnet To North Era.===== | ||
by Allan Hardie | by Allan Hardie | ||
- | 0 Era. North, | + | |
- | To keep. thy- .nativo | + | 0 Era North, they weary fight is on,\\ |
- | As shackS | + | To keep thy native |
- | FroraSydne'yis tireless | + | From man's accursed |
- | 'OterfronOed | + | As shacks |
- | Our costuries | + | What still remains |
- | -1:ear-urban, | + | From Sydney's tireless din we hie to thee,\\ |
- | Dost keep, unspoiled by .1-c.a.nts | + | O'er fronded |
- | Oh may thy sun-kissed dunes and verdant hills | + | And 'neath thy cabbage-palms encamped, we don\\ |
- | Escape for aye iconoclastic wills! | + | Our costumes |
- | FEDERATION NOTES | + | Alone of Illawarra' |
+ | Near-urban, | ||
+ | Dost keep, unspoiled by man' | ||
+ | Oh may thy sun-kissed dunes and verdant hills\\ | ||
+ | Escape for aye iconoclastic wills! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Federation Notes.===== | ||
by Brian Harvey | by Brian Harvey | ||
- | Rifles:;..Through | + | |
- | Kurnell-; | + | __Rifles__: Through |
- | Cuanbe, | + | |
- | 1948 "Bitshviralker'' | + | __Kurnell Peninsula__: Reservation was supported with recommendation for action to prevent encroachment by sandhills. |
- | . Capitation _lea of 6d proposed to supplement dwindling Federation | + | |
- | Bushwalker | + | __Cumberland County Council__: Representative to address Federation |
- | *ldiiIibronze | + | |
- | arrangements will be made for a fitting Ceremony. Let Brian | + | __1948 " |
- | . Harvey know if you intend to be present.. Donations of 6d. gratefully received towards cost. | + | |
- | "SAFE. CLI7BINGT1 is the title of a booklet prepared by the Tararua Club, It should be very valua.bl, | + | __Capitulation levy__ |
- | "TH.E IITELBOURNE.W.ALKER | + | |
- | in country | + | __Bushwalker |
- | across the Murray from Kosciusk6, also round Mt. Howitt, Bogong | + | |
- | and other places | + | ---- |
- | C.APING FEE IN NATIONAL PARK: 2/6 per tent was charged at the Mar- 1671.79: | + | |
- | . - | + | ===Safe Climbing: |
- | .a | + | |
- | THE QUIZZERS QUIZZED: At the Conclusion of the Grand Quiz ra-ir7riday, one of the audience, Dot Butler, turned | + | Is the title of a booklet prepared by the Tararua Club. It should be very valuable |
- | However Eric thought up some really aggravating.questions - the sort that everyone knows they know, but just can't recall at the moment - e.g. what'won the Caulfield Cup last year and what won the Melbourne Cup? WO designed Princess Elizabeth' | + | |
- | The result was no indication of the ability of the opposing | + | ---- |
- | DEArril FROM SNAKEBITE. | + | |
+ | ===The Melbourne Walker | ||
+ | |||
+ | Is to hand. Main interest to S.B.W. | ||
+ | across the Murray from Kosciusko, also round Mt. Howitt, Bogong and other places of interest. "__Wayfaring__" | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Camping fee in National Park:=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2/6 per tent was charged at the Marley Field week-end. Alleged | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====The Quizzers Quizzed:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | At the Conclusion of the Grand Quiz last Friday, one of the audience, Dot Butler, turned on the Quiz Masters | ||
+ | |||
+ | However Eric thought up some really aggravating questions - the sort that everyone knows they know, but just can't recall at the moment - e.g. what won the Caulfield Cup last year and what won the Melbourne Cup? Who designed Princess Elizabeth' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The result was no indication of the ability of the opposing | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Death From Snakebite.===== | ||
We extend sympathy to the relatives and Clubmates of Dorothy Vera Townson, a member of the Rucksack Club, who died from snakebite on the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair track on January 8th. | We extend sympathy to the relatives and Clubmates of Dorothy Vera Townson, a member of the Rucksack Club, who died from snakebite on the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair track on January 8th. | ||
- | According to the report in the Tasmanian " | + | |
- | Three members of the Tasmanian Police Force, aided by tourists, carried the body about 24 miles in 16 hours. Because of the nature of the track only two bearers could handle the stretcher at a time. At times the bearers sank to their knees in mud, and in the arduous mountain climbing covered less than a rile an hour. | + | According to the report in the Tasmanian " |
- | Yr. F. Smithies, a member of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park Board, said that rany walkers visiting Tasmania from the Mainland were not suitably attired. Brief shorts and light shoes right be suitable for hiking in Mainland districts but in the Tasmanian bush walkers should wear boots and slacks as a protection against weather, scrub and snakes. | + | |
- | 18 . | + | Three members of the Tasmanian Police Force, aided by tourists, carried the body about 24 miles in 16 hours. Because of the nature of the track only two bearers could handle the stretcher at a time. At times the bearers sank to their knees in mud, and in the arduous mountain climbing covered less than a mile an hour. |
- | 17,SH CORNER | + | |
- | Rain! Rainl rain whtlt a sunner | + | Mr. F. Smithies, a member of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park Board, said that many walkers visiting Tasmania from the Mainland were not suitably attired. Brief shorts and light shoes might be suitable for hiking in Mainland districts but in the Tasmanian bush walkers should wear boots and slacks as a protection against weather, scrub and snakes. |
- | The only casualties were a woody pear seedling which " | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Bush Corner.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rain! Rain! Rain! what a summer | ||
+ | |||
+ | The only casualties were a woody pear seedling which " | ||
Its a wonderful season! | Its a wonderful season! | ||
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