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+ | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | ||
+ | A monthly bulletin of metters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, C/- Ingersoll Hall, 256 Crown St., Sydney. Box No.4476 G.P.O. Sydney. ' | ||
+ | No. 261 AUGUST, 1956. Price 9d. | ||
+ | Editor: Dot Butler, Boundary Rd., Sales & Subs.: Jess Martin | ||
+ | Wahroonga (JW2208) Typed by Dot Butler Martin | ||
+ | Business Manager: Jack Gentle Production: Jess Page | ||
+ | CONTENTS | ||
+ | |||
+ | At our July Meeting - Alex Colley 1 | ||
+ | Leica Photo Service (Advt.) 3 | ||
+ | Paralyser, 1956 - Jim Brown 3 | ||
+ | Hattswell' | ||
+ | The Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advt.) 7 | ||
+ | SiedleckyTs Taxi & Tourist Service (Advt.) 9 | ||
+ | Club Membership - Letter to the Editor - A.Colley 10 | ||
+ | Federation Report - Annual Meeting & July Meeting 12 | ||
+ | Walks Report for June. 13 | ||
+ | The S.B,W. Light Opera Co. (Notice) 14 | ||
+ | Achtung Aqualungers: | ||
+ | Attention Lady Members (Easter Tour Programme, | ||
+ | Sink or Swim with the Admiral - Dot Butler 16 | ||
+ | Ghastly Impressions - Dawn nskew 21 | ||
+ | Who'd be a Prospective - Vivienne ming 22 | ||
+ | 1=-MADE ITALIAN BOOTS (Paddy' | ||
+ | AT OUR, MONTHLY MEETING2 JULY. - A.G. Colley | ||
+ | The meeting opened at 8.30 with the President in the Chair and about 40 members present. The first business of the evening was the welcoming of two new members - John Scott and Frank Barlow. | ||
+ | Miscellaneous item revealed by correspondence were:- | ||
+ | That the Canoe Club plans a celebration on the Nepean downstream from Penrith on Oct. 20th and 21st. That the Youth Hostels | ||
+ | ' Association plan a hostel at Kiandra with shares at :0,5 each. That our rent has increased from 25/- to 2 a week. That Tom Kennyroyal has resigned as Federation Delegate, and Jean Wilson has resigned from the S.B.W. Committee. That the Epping group of Boy Scouts would like a bushwalker to volunteer as Scout Master - previous experience not essential. That Boonerang Hangover Tablets are Safe and Effective- | ||
+ | In reply to a question, the Treasurer said that 55% of subscrip- | ||
+ | tions were now paid - a little better than last year, but not as good as it should be - and that he did not think, on his recollec- | ||
+ | tion of last year's figures, that any immediate action was necessitate by the rise in rent. | ||
+ | 2. | ||
+ | The President drew attention to the Annual Magazine of the Tasmanian Walkers - " | ||
+ | be acknowledged in a practical manner by support of the magazine. | ||
+ | The Social Secretary reported that the Annual black and white | ||
+ | Photographic Exhibition had been a success with 105 exhibits - | ||
+ | better than last year. | ||
+ | Frank Rigby, in a verbal report from the Club's publicity panel, 0 said that the panel was seeking publicity in the A.B.C. the week-end press, magazines such as " | ||
+ | would consider =vie films and colour slides. A letter was being written to the A.B.C. proposing a series of short weekly talks on the bushland and walking activities. Negotiations were in progress with | ||
+ | the Daily Telegraph and Sydney Morning Herald. An article was being | ||
+ | drafted for " | ||
+ | fTlierdtry', | ||
+ | Malcolm McGregor announced that the "Walks Directory" | ||
+ | NEW MEMBERS and | ||
+ | REINSTATEMENTS TO CLUB MEMBERSHIP | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Mr, Frank Barlow 38 Moruben Rd., Mosman. XM.4252, | ||
+ | Mr. Garth Coulter | ||
+ | Mr. Bernard Hall 6 Billong Av., Vaucluse FU.1882 XBO41 | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Mr. John Scott 44 King St., Manly Vale XJ.5137 | ||
+ | Dr. Bob Binks 385a Millers Rd., Cammeray | ||
+ | Miss Valmai Brady 17 Frederick St., Killara | ||
+ | Mr. Ron Knightley C/- 0.T.C., G.P.O.Box 7,000 | ||
+ | Change of address Sydney.' | ||
+ | Mr. Kevin Af.dill C/- "Pine Trees", | ||
+ | Mr. Frank Young 25 Cuba St., Randgate. LW2284 | ||
+ | FOR SALE: 14 pair of Paddy' | ||
+ | - Hanna Lemburg. (Apply to Dot Butler) | ||
+ | 3. | ||
+ | PARALYSER, 1956. | ||
+ | - Jim Brown | ||
+ | In "South Col" the writer, Wilfred-Noyce, | ||
+ | I dareaay we should have realised it was going. to be lone of them trip' | ||
+ | carelessly knocked off an overhead bridge and did in its right semi- | ||
+ | -lunar cartilage. The second engine made valiant bids to lift back the crippled ' | ||
+ | showering sparks md cinder-charged smoke, and we settled down to | ||
+ | wait almost two hours for succour. | ||
+ | LEICA | ||
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+ | 31 Macquarie Place | ||
+ | SYDNEY N.S.W. | ||
+ | Finegrain | ||
+ | 1 Developing | ||
+ | Spariaing | ||
+ | Prints | ||
+ | Perfect | ||
+ | Enlargements | ||
+ | Your | ||
+ | Rollfilms | ||
+ | or | ||
+ | Leica films | ||
+ | deserve the | ||
+ | best SERVICE | ||
+ | The Admiral and the others, to a total of six who had gone forward in the Madden car, were still sitting or sleeping in our tourist | ||
+ | 4. | ||
+ | bus outside Katoomba station, where we dragged in at 11.45 p.m., 5i hours out of Central and pursued by sundry Mails - almost as though our hussy of a train were Marelyn Munroe. | ||
+ | The coach trip out to Morong Creek was, PS you must know, singularly uneventful. Some dozed fitfully and a nearly full moon silvere-, | ||
+ | the frosty landscape, and the head-lamps wheeled ahead on a succession | ||
+ | of white posts and avenues of quivering foliage. Up the hill past Jenolan we began to see patches of snow, and at the Oberon Road junction it was lying thickly in sheltered places. A quarter to | ||
+ | three it was when we shuffled out into the tingling air at Morong Crk. | ||
+ | and I had just enough time to pitch my tent hastily before my fingers | ||
+ | became quite helpless. The pain of circulation returning after I was | ||
+ | in my sleeping bag kept me awake Jung enough to hear the leader' | ||
+ | Of course we didn' | ||
+ | To think our lovely moonlit night had degenerated into this At least it was fairly mild, and once the i' | ||
+ | h d his party moving, they managed to be on the road at 8.30. | ||
+ | The formula was 1.7 miles back along the road, then rorth-east on to the ridge and then east. There was plenty of icy, crystalline snow | ||
+ | in places - as though a giant had carelessly spripkled the landscape with his salt-shaker - and when we left the road and took to the scrub I soon found my sneakers were icing up. | ||
+ | For about a mile the terrain was fairly flat, and so damnably | ||
+ | featureless. The admiral dashed around out in front, wending a | ||
+ | compass and curbing those who were persistently swinging away to the north. Knowing there were a few others who had " | ||
+ | previous years I thought they were being tough on the Admiral And withholding counsel. Only later I realised that the 1954 and 1955 Faralyser expeditions had also found a measure of strife in picking up the spur - so probably no one knew anyway. Half an hour off the road came the crucial moment. Ahead our " | ||
+ | small' | ||
+ | north-east; to the right another gully deepened to the south. | ||
+ | "Dann the torpedoes!" | ||
+ | There' | ||
+ | saddles to within a couple of miles of Cyclops. We scurried along it | ||
+ | with only one brief halt. As the Admiral said, it was too cold to | ||
+ | stop now we were out on the exposed spur, with a chilly draught from | ||
+ | the south:-east breathing through the mists. Despite the lack of scenery - the lack of promise in the weather - we were all fsirly | ||
+ | jubilant. Here we were well on our way - might even be at Paralyser before noon. A pity we'd see nothing, of course! | ||
+ | Well, we weren' | ||
+ | 5. | ||
+ | all assembled on a high point, said to be Paralyser by some. It was Cyclops, of course, and it took just over half an hour to negotiate the-bushy saddle which separates the two tops. Paralyser is surrounded by scrub some fifteen or twenty feet high, so there' | ||
+ | To this point everything was going blissfully and with the big drop down to Kanangra River before us it looked as though the trip was in the bag. It was the same big drop down which almost ruined everything 4 First there was a bit of ridge-hopping, | ||
+ | ' further than we were before." | ||
+ | Whilst all this halloo-ing and moving about went on between Snow and the Admiral I had time to ponder the effect on the two girls who were beginning to weaken after the lively morning' | ||
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+ | WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE OTHER TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES ON APPLICATION | ||
+ | 6. | ||
+ | Mercury I descended from the Olympian heights to intercept the others supping their nectar by the Kanangra River at about 3 p.m. | ||
+ | It was going on for four when the lest three cnne down, with Brian toting two packs, looking rather wan, and quite resolved to make camp for the rearguard right there. It was determined that Stan, on arrival back at Katoomba on Sunday afternoon, would bring his car out as far towards Carlon' | ||
+ | be deputy leader with the advance party and - " | ||
+ | Admiral, " | ||
+ | It now appeared that Ernie had gone an ahead up on the Buttress He hadn't come down to us, so where? Well, he must have emerged higher up the creek and would follow down later. We wouldn' | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | That one was easy. Jack Perry had finished lunch and walked on slowly down towards Konangaroo. The Admiral gulped with relief. "Why do these things always happen on my- trips?" | ||
+ | We left the Admiral to his grief and his rearguard and hastened down to the Cox to link up with Jack and camp in the failing light of a cloudy evening. Yet a snug, comfortable evening it was in the agreeable pastures at Konangaroo, with generous log fires, 21d | ||
+ | afterwards a discussion on the best way out. After the subject had been bashed back and forth it was virtually agreed that the quickest | ||
+ | and easiest route would be upriver to Breakfast Creek, thence Carlonss, | ||
+ | Megalong Valley and Devil' | ||
+ | have resolved us to stick to ridge tops. Instead we agreed on the river and Breakfast Creek, and then bedded down while the rain increased. | ||
+ | Dot Butler says it was one of the few nights she had spent in a tent in t'en years or some such absurd time. In the absence of caves that was as well for it rained with gentle persistence all night so that in the morning we blessed Jack Perry who had risen early and | ||
+ | passed on to us a huge, cheerful fire which served us all. Jack, | ||
+ | with visions of an early train: off as we crawled from our | ||
+ | bags. How we all kidded ourselves - Jack and his early train - | ||
+ | Stan and his rescue return to MegalonglI | ||
+ | Being ready a little before the others, and having a slightly | ||
+ | disabled left foot which was going to impede me on rocky sections, I followed Jack's example and bowed out just ahead of the main party. | ||
+ | Two miles up the Cox I made a decided bloomer - ignored a perfectly good knee-deep crossing and tried to force a ford higher up. It cost | ||
+ | me twenty minutes, wet me to the waist, and finally I had to retreat | ||
+ | 7. | ||
+ | and cross just behind the others. I learned that Dot and Garth had gone back to aid the Admiral bring in the weary ones,.and then saw the others gradually draw away from MB - Stan and Bob Duncan, Dot Barr and Geoff Broadhead, and Snow and Heather and George Grey. Actually that sequence in not correct, Snow had forgotten to bring shorts, and after walking in slacks all Saturday had decided to emulate the feat of the Admiral of a year before, and keep his " | ||
+ | We remained on the east (or' | ||
+ | Breakfast Creek was a shock. You know how it's usually a trickle of clear water over a bed of lovely smooth pebbles of many colours? Well, here it was, bashing and boiling along, almost waist | ||
+ | deep at some of the crossings, discoloured and with wite respectable pressure waves. I honestly believe I'd have abandoned it and pushed | ||
+ | 9.1.0.1. | ||
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+ | 8. | ||
+ | on up the Cox to Tinpot Ridge if I hadn't come up with Dorothy Barr and Geoff Broadhead here. As it was, we forced a passage as a trio, | ||
+ | linking arms to negotiate the worst crossings and cutting down the | ||
+ | 57 fords to about 11. That meant, of course, clambering along Some very slender pads, often going high, and sometimes wading around the | ||
+ | foot of projecting ridges, At about 3 o' | ||
+ | boulders while the rain rattled on our capes; that is, it rattled on | ||
+ | theirs, and on the tattered remains of mine. | ||
+ | We came to Carlon' | ||
+ | to remove some of the rubbish which had entered his boots. I knew if I stayed during this operation I'd probably freeze vp entirely. | ||
+ | Also I had some notion that, if the racehorses ahead hqd made a | ||
+ | proper luuch halt, I may chance to overtake, and could give a progress report on the movements of at least two of the party, plus a negative on the Admiral and his team who must be having a shocking journey. | ||
+ | At all events, I parted from Dot and Geoff and strode out, still trying to walk some warmth into my shivering carcase. | ||
+ | I Passed Carlon' | ||
+ | The next couple of hours merge into a strange dreamlike kind of | ||
+ | march. Rain was still falling, and everywhere water was cascading, running, flowing. The night was full of the sounds - the thousand soft and angry, gentle and fierce, soothing and disturbing sounds that water can make0 my feet splashed and swished through a success- | ||
+ | ion of pools and gutters and creeks. By now my spasm of energy was spent; I was dragging, and my pack getting wetter and heavier. | ||
+ | If I had seen any shelter, any place tolerably dry, in Megalong, I | ||
+ | believe I'd have stopped then and there. I didn't - the whole landscape was awash. I traced the approach to Devil' | ||
+ | In a dazed, numb kind of way I made the climb, and finally came to the overhan: just below the Hole itself. There I stopped abruptly. From the darkness ahead came a frightening sound of a great volume of tumbling water. It occurred to me that it might be dangerous to try the Hole itself solo, and with a failing torch it was not the time to take chances, Here was refuge of a kind - the gravel at the back of the overhang was almost dry. | ||
+ | The decision made, I lost no time. Off with my wettest clothesp on with the drXest in my pack, and into my rather moist sleeping bag. Asny hands became warm I realised that " | ||
+ | that came from my sodden pack. Yet in a short while I was comfortably warm in a humid sort of way, and I fished out some fragments of food, For the first time I looked at my watch' and found it was just after 9 p.m. I assumed I had reached my funk-hole about 8,30, after almost 12 hours literally on my feet. (I sat down for 2 or 3 minutes only twice all day), LA.1 that to make some 22 miles or so: | ||
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+ | At all events, I wolfed down some chocolate' | ||
+ | was feverishly thirsty, and recalled that I hadn't absorbed any fluid (orally anyway) since breakfast. It was quite absurd, but I crept out of my sleeping bag and set a pannikin to catch drips at the edge of the overhang. The next time I looked at my watch was two hours later. Amazing - I'd been asleep. I collected my mug of water and gulped it down - and then noticed my chocolate had vanished. I was puzzled by this, but after I'd crept back into my beg I felt the patter of tiny feet over me. I was camping with a bush rat or a possum or maybe a large night bird - I never found which. | ||
+ | I slept again, and at two o' | ||
+ | 10. | ||
+ | that damned creature - suppose they had dropped from my mouth and it had collected them l It was going to be really bon-oh if I had to track the animal to its lair in the morning. Oh well - I slept again, | ||
+ | Next awake fPur o' | ||
+ | So you sleep till seven, and then push all the wet things into a wet pack and pull on a wet windjacket, because it's raining very lightly, and you climb up Devil' | ||
+ | LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dear Sir, | ||
+ | CLUB MEMBERSHIP | ||
+ | In all the discussions we have had in meetings about maintaining or increasing Club membership, we have discussed only the means of attracting new members. Even if we had unlimited resources for publicity we would be up against it to sell bushwalking to a public | ||
+ | which prefers to leave exertion to horses, dogs and top-line sportsmen and only walks when forced to do so by parking restrictions. Carryinc, | ||
+ | a pack up and down mountains through the bush in heat, cold or wet, | ||
+ | and camping in a little tent on the ground just doesn' | ||
+ | public that can absorbe' | ||
+ | In our discussions the fact has been overlooked that we do, nevertheless, | ||
+ | walkers, and one in a hundred take a lifelong interest in the Club. | ||
+ | All we need do, then, is to reduce our turnover, of both prospectives and members, and our numbers will be adequate. | ||
+ | How is this to be done? Quite simply, I believe, and in such a way that all members can enjoy participating. First let us look at the problems of a prospective. | ||
+ | He (and this includes she, only more so) may never have carried a pack. It takes some time to get used to carrying one. He may be badly out of condition, and even if he is in good nick, he may not be | ||
+ | used to walking. He doesn' | ||
+ | let along in the dark. He doesn' | ||
+ | what to take, how to light a fire in the wet. ,P,nd more important thayall, he doesn' | ||
+ | Unless there is a good walks programme, with plenty of day and | ||
+ | 11. | ||
+ | easy week-end walks, it is hard to break into walking at all. If there is a good programme, sympathetic leadership is necessary, or the prospective may be dragged over hard country with inadequate gear long before he is fit and experienced enough to take it. But leaders often can't give much of their time to the prospectives once the walk starts - they have too much else to think about. This is where the other members can help - by going out of their way to be friendly 5nd helpful. Nor need the efforts of members be confined to official walks; the one thing that is likely to make a prospective feel there is a place for him in the Club is to invite him on a private walk. | ||
+ | In the Club room ;too, much can be done to make the prospective feel welcome. Trues you never get to know people well in the Clubrooms, but.it' | ||
+ | believe that the building up of membership is s job, not for a committee, or a booklet, but for every Club member whether an active walker or not. Here are four ways of attracting members - arranged to suit all present members according to their activity: | ||
+ | 1. For those who seldom come near the Club or go on walks, but read the magazine:- When you meet anyone interested in walking, suggest that they drop into the Clubroom and see the membership secretary - preferably daring a slide night. (The slide nights are the best advertisement I know for bushwalking). | ||
+ | 2. For those who come ins but seldom walk:- Lead a Sunday walk. There is hardly a member who is so tied up with family or work that he can't be spared for an occasional Sunday. | ||
+ | 3. For those who don't walk regularly, but get out sometimes:- Lead an easy week-end walk. | ||
+ | 4. | ||
+ | For those who like hard walks: new members who are capable of are a kind of challenge to new way of getting to know members | ||
+ | - Encourage the prospectives and them to joinin. These walks memoers, and there is no better than to go on them. | ||
+ | If everybody does what they can towards helping the prospecttves and making them feel welcome, I don't think we need worry about keeping up our numbers. | ||
+ | Yours sincerely, | ||
+ | Alex Colley. | ||
+ | Jim Brown, camped eight miles from Blackheath, Went to sleep on his set of false teeth. He awoke with a start, | ||
+ | "Why Lord Bless my Heart.: | ||
+ | I've bitten myself from beneath:" | ||
+ | Ed. | ||
+ | 12, | ||
+ | FEDERATION REPORT - ANNUAL MEETING | ||
+ | At the N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs' Annual Meeting | ||
+ | the following officers were elected:- | ||
+ | Pre sident Vice-Presidents Hon. Sec. Assistant Sec. Minutes Sec. Hon. Treasurer | ||
+ | - Norman Allen | ||
+ | Paul Barnes, Allen Strom. | ||
+ | - Ken Stewart | ||
+ | (Miss) J. Meaker | ||
+ | - (Mrs.) T. Matthews | ||
+ | - (Mrs.) M.L. Fox | ||
+ | AFFILIATION FEES: 9d. per. member based on the membership nn June | ||
+ | 30th, 1956, with a mimimum rate of 10/-. Interstate clubs to pay | ||
+ | 7/6 per hundred members with a Maximum.of 15/- JULY MEETING | ||
+ | THE ROYAL NATIONAL PARK: Messrs. Barnes and Cottier.took part in a | ||
+ | deputation to see the Member for Bulli regarding a proposal to alienate a mile wide strip from the National Park between Loftus and Helensburg. The land would be used for homes.and industrial purposes. Assurances were given that the Member would rppose all such mves. The matter was handed over to the Conservation Bureau for further action. | ||
+ | Mr. Pallin presented an INTERIM REPORT ON THE DECLINE IN CLUB MEMBERSHIP. Amongst the salient points were these:- | ||
+ | 1 The Federation should aim to increase interest in bushwalking and therefrom give a lead to increase membership of Clubs. | ||
+ | 2. Prospectives should be given more attention on their initial | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | !'- | ||
+ | 3. The National Fitness Council should be drawn upon for children interested in bushwalking. These children should be given special attention from a new organisation set up by Federation, | ||
+ | 4. Publicity could be sought by:- | ||
+ | (a) Notice in the 'phone book. | ||
+ | (b) Sessions on the radio. | ||
+ | (c) Articles in magazines. | ||
+ | (d) Publishing a book of easy bushwalks (b) Federation undertaking the organisation of a special activity, such as an expedition to New Guinea, | ||
+ | (f) Window displays. | ||
+ | (g) Public showing of slides. | ||
+ | 5. Federation should undertake the organisation of trail making in various areas and request the erection of entrance noticessietc, | ||
+ | 6. The establishment of a National Parks Assn, | ||
+ | 7. The making of maps for walkers by walkers. | ||
+ | 13. It is apparent that the scheme requires the efforts of a good | ||
+ | working group and the co-operation of all Clubs. The report will be circulated to all clubs so that a debate may take place at the | ||
+ | September Meeting of Federation. | ||
+ | The Federation' | ||
+ | walks and talks to migrants. | ||
+ | The Federation will investigate the possibility of cutting a | ||
+ | .track over BUSHWALKERS HILL ON TIE NARROW NECK PENINSULA, thus avoiding the necessity of dropping down into Glenraphael. | ||
+ | Allen A. Strom, DELEGATE | ||
+ | WALKS REPORT FOR JUNE, 1956. | ||
+ | Some shocking weather upset some of the programme walks this month, but in spite of the rain some other members went walking. | ||
+ | The June holiday week-end in the Capertee area was led by Geof | ||
+ | Wagg with 7 members and one prospective. The weather was fairly good with excellent views of the Capertee valley from Crown Mt. The | ||
+ | descent of the mountain proved interesting but not difficult. | ||
+ | The alternative trip for the snow country drew no starters. | ||
+ | For the following week-end a combined trip with the N.T.C. and U.B.W. was planned. The venue was changed to Maitland Bay but rain made itself felt early in the week and the leaders were not called by anyone. | ||
+ | On Sunday 10th the walk from Waterfall drew 2 prospectives and | ||
+ | 2 members, Jean Wilson substituting for Alan as leader. Handy having a spare leader in the kitchen. | ||
+ | Bob Duncan led his team of seven (1 prospective) as per programme. The weather was good and the trip enjoyable, even if Jack Perry did start breaking sticks at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning waking the rest of the party up. Bob reported that a long road bash can be avoided by walking around the side of Mt. Shipley; | ||
+ | The President led the Signday walk in the Roach Trig-Terry Hills area. It was a bit early for flowers but the attendance of eleven members and three prospectives made a very pleasant day out. | ||
+ | Now wtt come to the trip ("I deny it," said the Admiral.) | ||
+ | Friday night, good weather and 15 starters, including one prospective. A slight variation te the trip was made in that Breakfast Creek would be the exit route. Another variation was that less than half the party returned hone on time. To give you some of the atmosphere I | ||
+ | 14. | ||
+ | quote from the trip report: "From Kanangra Rd. at Morong Crk0 to the | ||
+ | Cox River on Saturday no views were possible due to thick fog and mist. Sunday was different, no views were possible due to continuous rain md low clouds." | ||
+ | As mentioned, Sunday was vile, but John White was not allowed a day of rest. Two prospectives dragged him up Glenbrook and made him run around in the rain as the programme dictated. Our monthly award of one inch of salami goes to John for leading his test walk. | ||
+ | At the end of the month the weather came good for the field week-end. A total of 32 attended, 19 members, 13 prospectives and | ||
+ | 2 poetTrospectives. | ||
+ | The monthb balance sheet is as follows: 61 members and 23 | ||
+ | prospectives attended programme walks. | ||
+ | wlIMIIMIINI . | ||
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+ | ACHTUNG AQUALUNGERS! | ||
+ | Several fatal accidents have been reported in the past few years | ||
+ | due to air embolism as a result of using aqualung outfits. | ||
+ | Air embolism is a condition in which air enters the vascular | ||
+ | system - veins and arteries - and may cause a variety of symptom-, and signs depending on where it settles. | ||
+ | The mechanism of entry of air into the circulacion is as follow | ||
+ | Whilst underwater, air breathed from the aqualung is at the same pressure as the surrounding water, and this pressure increases one atmosphere for every 33 ft. below the surface. At 20 ft. down the | ||
+ | pressure exerted is 10 lbs. per sq0 inch above the normal atmospheric pressure. Whilst remaining submerged and breathing, even at much greater depths, the diver is quite safe, but should he surface without exhaling, or at least keeping a free airway between lungs and open mouth, the air in his lungs will expand as the external | ||
+ | pressure diminishes. This expanding air can rupture the thin alveolar wall which separates air and blood, and access to the circulation | ||
+ | 15. | ||
+ | is achieved. A pressure of 10 lb. is more than enough to rupture | ||
+ | Once in the bloodstream, | ||
+ | The warning signs, which should not be ignored, are nausea, vomiting, dizziness, pain in. the chest, headache, faintness and the coughing up of blood. These can lead to cyanosis, convulsions, | ||
+ | The treatment is absolute rest, warmth and hospitalisation as Soon as possible where oxygen, morphia, etc. are available. Recompression has no place as the condition has no relationship to " | ||
+ | The ideal is prevention, so don't put your periscope up without exhaling. | ||
+ | GOSSIP | ||
+ | The Madden baby has arrived. Stan would like you to know it is just an alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other, but Jenny thinks it's sweet and just like it's grandfather. Just in case you're wondering, it's a boy and it' | ||
+ | ATTENTION LADY MEMBERS | ||
+ | (Extracted from EASTER TOUR PROGRAMME, 1928) | ||
+ | Ladies intending to join the party are advised to respect these three rules for ladies:- | ||
+ | 1. Heels must not exceed tit clear height. | ||
+ | 2. Ladies must carry their own full packs. | ||
+ | 3. Ladies' | ||
+ | These rules have been dictated by sad experience. | ||
+ | The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. | ||
+ | 16. | ||
+ | SINK OR SWIM WITH Tilt ADMIRAL | ||
+ | - Dot Butler IT WAS ALL THE ADMIRAL' | ||
+ | The gods who shape the course of4man sat together on Mt. OlYmpus locking down on the 15 unsuspecting individuals who had embarked on the Admiral' | ||
+ | The Admiral was very cocky right from the start; Garth was on time at the Hyde Post Office, I was on time at Hyde station with the down train, Brian was on time with the up train. Despite a last- minute dash of packing Stan was not late to pick us up and we drove an towards Parramatta collecting a waiting Dawn, aad Vivian was on time at Parramatta station. "This is faatastic," | ||
+ | in their seats. "Not yet," they smirked - Not yetl") | ||
+ | We made good time and reached Katoomba by 9 , and there was our hired bus waiting to take us on to Kanangra just as soon as the train should arrive with the rest of the party. The Admiral glowed visibly (and audibly) at this further sign of his good management. Stan shot off down Lurline St. and parked his car at Snow's parents' | ||
+ | The Admiral' | ||
+ | Nothing for it but to get into our sleeping bags and, lying down on the long seats of the bus, try to get some sleep. | ||
+ | ("So far so good," grinned the gods. "Now that else?" | ||
+ | ,out midnight the others arrived. We made room for them and the reluctant driver moved off on the long journey to -Morong Creek which we reached about 3 a.m. " | ||
+ | abashed by this joke as snow is really very pleasant stuff. Some of us threw some bark under a bush and crept in, and some put up tents, and we had 4 or 5 hours sleep. | ||
+ | Breakfast and away by 8.30. Whether by good luck or good management I can't say, but by use of maps and compasses and a half-conscious | ||
+ | 17. | ||
+ | awareness of where the sun was through the mist we got successfully on to Paralyser ridge. We trailed along in the blurring mist. | ||
+ | "I like this," remarked Garth to anyone Who was there to hear, " - the mist opening up on a little world and closing behind it...", | ||
+ | We found the bulldozed track where they brought out the crashed plane and followed it, aad then continued on without eventualities to Cyclops. At this stage we were all together, but going slowly as | ||
+ | Dawn and her friend Vivian were beginning to tire. We pieced together the story of Vivian' | ||
+ | judgement flies out the door." | ||
+ | turned out that the only other trip theI,-or lass had ever done was | ||
+ | from IfiEJ22, | ||
+ | At Paralyser trig we all assembled about mid-day. Here my fatal optimism got the better of me and to cheer Vivian up I told her all her troubles were nearly over - indeed we were almost there (with a little stretch of the imagination on our part); all we had to do now was to drop down a spur to the Kanangra Creek/River junction for lunch, then amble down creek a couple of miles in the afternoon to Kanangra Clearing where we would camp fcr the night. Then next day a delightful loaf up the Cox to Breakfast Creek and home the easy way via Devil' | ||
+ | With the Junction in sight, half the party bashed ahead to get a lunch fire.going, leaving the leader to follow at a slower pace with the others. The vanguard were just shooting off on the wrong spur when Garth recognised the right one and we called the Madden crowd back. But no TO retrace their steps a hundred yards would be too great an effort - they would go down their spur. The result was Garth and I were down at the junction at 1.30 and it was well over half an hour before the Madden group showed up after a mile or so extra along the ridge and fighting their way down the overgrown creek. | ||
+ | By 3 o' | ||
+ | ERNIE? He had been with the Admiral ten minutes bacon the ridge, | ||
+ | 18. | ||
+ | but now? Odearodearodearl (So IT WAS ALL ERNIE' | ||
+ | he was and collect Ernie, then come on and join us at Kanangra Clearing by 8 o' | ||
+ | No sign of the rear party by 8, so off pushed Jack Perry who had been up and warbling round the breakfast fire since crack of dawn. No sign by 9. At 9.15 action seemed to be called for. Stan and Snow would burn through to Katoomba and bring Stan's car back to Masalong Post Office for the Admiral' | ||
+ | "Did you meet up with the Admiral," | ||
+ | You know, when you pound along the banks behind steam-engines like say Putt and Stitt and Wagc and Arnie the distance between Breakfast Creek and Kanangra River is a mere nothing - it hardly registers. But when yau_ glance behind and see someone crawling on hands and knees over the boulders it comes as a tremendous shock. But no complaining from Vivian - poor little game little wench - just a timid request, "Would you mind not going too fast in front, Dot, I want to sec where you put your feet." (II!) | ||
+ | The rain, though not particularly heavy, had been steady and continuous, and as the already saturated ground could hold no more, the river gradually rose. However we crossed the Cox without undue qualms. On the level cowpads the Admiral stopped to rest the girls and we others kept moving, and at 1.30 behold Breakfast Creek. Garth dumped his hea'vy pack and promptly went back to take the girls' while Ernie and I, with dry wood from the inside of a fallen tree, plus Ernie' | ||
+ | 19. | ||
+ | Mt. Olympus roared with laughter. "What a long time it takes for some people to wake upl" they Chortled.) | ||
+ | When at length Garth showed up with Dawn's pack, the girls behind him mad a worried Admiral whipper-in, it was after 2, and by the time lunch had been consumed and bandages and sticking-plaster applied it was twenty to 4 before we started. ( For the first time I began to suspect that that low rumbling in the sky wasn't thunder but laughter.) | ||
+ | The 34 crossings (or whatever it is) of Breakfast Creek got' hairier and hairier as we proceeded. Rain continued to fall and the steep escarpments either side of the creek poured down their hundred and one contributing watercourses till eventually we found we could not make the crossings singly. So Garth organised us into a line and with arms linked New Zealand fashion we made all subsequent crossings, Garth breaking the force of the water upstream and the rest of ,us | ||
+ | sheltering in his wake with the Admiral as backstop. When he was in to his Waist we knew that the flood was up to Dawn's shoulders, and | ||
+ | Oh Dean i Don't even think of the sodden packs end clothes and sleeping bags: | ||
+ | Instead of getting shallower, as we-got higher up the crossings got deeper. Garth would test them first, and when he found them above his waist he would pronounce them too dangerous without a rope so we would make heroic sidles Up the.side.....aad Time laughed up his sleeve as the hours slid swiftly by. We had only just passed apple Tree Flat and here it was a quarter to fiVe. Less than half an hour. of daylight gad many more miles yet to go. Ernie' | ||
+ | The low-lying part of the flatwas seVeral inches under water. We went up to higher ground and the two tents up and lit a fire and Spent about 4 hours In the rain dr7ing out cl.-Ithes and sleeping bags, and cooking up half a billy of rice and dried apples and sultanaE which luckily our provident leader still had left in his food tins. Our hydrologist went down to the creek and stuck up a measuring Stick in the bank, then we crawled into our limited quarters and slept while the flood roared and the rain tapped a staccato on the tent roof mad its walls got wetter and wetter and More eager to transfer their burden of water to our sleeping bags. | ||
+ | Next morning we crawled out and cooked up half a cup of oatmeal and put on it the last of our milk powder and sugar, than packed our wet tents and off again to the flood. Why harrow you with the rest of it? Garth' | ||
+ | 1 pm,It appeared Jim Brown, Dot Barr and.Geof Broadhead had got to Canon' | ||
+ | 20. | ||
+ | there at 4 and after a cup of tea had pushed off via Devil' | ||
+ | | ||
+ | We had a cup of tea with the Canons and fed the tame finchet, then off along the road to Megalong Post OfftcH. The-Admiral bee.! lined for the telephone nnd sent throlIgh half a dozen messages to all and sundry reporting our safe arrival, including one for our Search & Rescue contact mall* Hooper, designed to curb his enthusiasm. We had heard that 1a*a4fgone 'north with Pete Stitt. to Kempsey to photograph forty ..stran-e4-. whales, and we rather hoped he would be stranded among _4s-s, | ||
+ | , | ||
+ | Garth and Ernie made a, fire t-2nd cooked up our lunch...one (1) packet' | ||
+ | 5 o.' clock. We filled in the ne-xt hbur t the It; | ||
+ | the train out at 6.5 p m. - Six ' | ||
+ | fhe hamburgers end Ernie for the " | ||
+ | to | ||
+ | So into town by 9 p.m. Then", as I r: | ||
+ | straight to the Wentworth Hotel, , sctedea, | ||
+ | impregnated jumper and all, so, | ||
+ | of mountain air, but I must_ _sti.7, I felt._ tlit, _conspicuous | ||
+ | _ | ||
+ | Sims bedrofem -where we sat -c3ti-it: | ||
+ | aa.4: | ||
+ | the still-crowded lounge' | ||
+ | "Let her go," yawned the gods on their mountain height, "The joke 's over." | ||
+ | ......1 | ||
+ | ,ce | ||
+ | Into the sleeping cemp | ||
+ | Glideth late or soon | ||
+ | That gentle companion, | ||
+ | The lovely spL:echless moon. | ||
+ | Soft as a (3.6wdrop, | ||
+ | Cool ss a willow, | ||
+ | She layeth her bright head Beside mine on the pillow. | ||
+ | 21. | ||
+ | GHASTLY ITTRESSIONS | ||
+ | or - Dawn Askew. | ||
+ | NEVER WALK WITH AN ADIVIIan | ||
+ | UNLESS BE IS ADMIRABLE. | ||
+ | and early and set the ridge leading aptly named. Sonieho, reading, the ridge wVat- | ||
+ | began to descerid to Kanan ra. 4,5,,yr,4, came Snow's superb stroke of genius: white-7.41-1, | ||
+ | convinced ol8 dity,$cs right. Just as we gained the ridge inSicaed bj-P.bilia-t' | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | Snow ga=ing' | ||
+ | zsv rg:Utation, as well as many new names. ISWever we soon t,aus-k of all thmishaps: the | ||
+ | ra. - | ||
+ | Dalai LaMa had blessed 1. -0 rorgdt to bless the party. | ||
+ | Nevertheless the p6rty-. ',Ards stain -United after successfully negot- | ||
+ | iating 1-bl*t terriOlnescent, | ||
+ | s_ | ||
+ | very tiral-bodie' | ||
+ | set out early for Caxion' | ||
+ | Saturday night nnd Sunday brought a change from Saturday' | ||
+ | a slow but uneventful journey until we eventually reached Breakfast Creek which was, by this time, running a banquet. Nevertheless, | ||
+ | gutter atop us from getting home tonight," | ||
+ | As darkness descended more and more apt betathe the phrase 'Moan, groan, gloom, despair', | ||
+ | with only a handful of rice and apples to sustain us. Never was food | ||
+ | Some say tit was all Snow's fault,' | ||
+ | 23rd June expressly to lead astray the Admiral ada. crew. 03r_ | ||
+ | Actually 'it all began' when Dot threw her emptied 031-bottle out of Madden' | ||
+ | group waited trough half of eternity at XataoMba Station before it could be unitecT,Ith the train-travellg peasants of the second group. EventualItr the complete party reacheg Morong Creek and settle-d down to endure a" three hour freezing sleep midst snow and ice. | ||
+ | , | ||
+ | To the amazemen: of all and sun1ry, all the bods arose bright (?) | ||
+ | _ron a. 1arge-sc4e treasure hunt, the prie being , | ||
+ | 22. | ||
+ | more delicious. | ||
+ | On Monday the creek was sidled quite successfully and the tired bodies dragged themselves over land Pn d water to Carlon' | ||
+ | And so to Sydney, where we foand frantic families, frustrated bosses and jeering, hillarious, but very sympathetic work-mates. After all, this, only 24 hours overduel | ||
+ | On recalYing this trip four serious questions never cease to haunt me | ||
+ | .1 | ||
+ | do people really give up warm, soft, dry beds and good food for bushwalking? | ||
+ | 2.. Why do we all quite honestly say it was 'a mighty trip' ? | ||
+ | 3. Why are our feet not webbed? | ||
+ | 4. Why are Snow and the Admiral still alive? | ||
+ | r. | ||
+ | C. 4- | ||
+ | WHO'D BE A PROSFECCItEl | ||
+ | Vivienne Willis | ||
+ | Everyone was late, and "it was all :Snovi! _ Of course | ||
+ | I don't know Snow, and it certainly wcsn:Spow who made the bridge fall down because he was asleep--fn the hat-,rack, nor was it Show who made the weather, first bitterly 6-old -arrld, then torrential r,ain. 'But - it was all Snow Is fault. - | ||
+ | My family is quit P normaW an, | ||
+ | My ardour was not daunted by queer looks or laughs as I made my | ||
+ | way to the corner of Parrathattals Grace Bros.., nor was it daunted by | ||
+ | the cold as we stepped into Katoomba' | ||
+ | to wear thin when, in the allotted four hours sleep in the snow at Morong Creek my feet bacame colder and colder. | ||
+ | Breakfast over and it began. How long can a nightmare last? "Moan, groan, gloom, despair." | ||
+ | And then twelve hours peace in the spot to which all prospective, | ||
+ | 23. | ||
+ | soon we were on the march again, this time a new hazard - Rain/ The smallest creeks were changing and were soon to become raging torrents. Our consolation was that by seven that night we'd be back in safety. And so somehow we became slower and slower, and the rain became harder and harder. But there were our three guardian angels, and how heaven was thanked for them: | ||
+ | Can anyone in their right minds honestly find joy in sleeping in the wet? But would I do it again? Of course ll But now we were late: moan, groan, gloom, despair! | ||
+ | Monday dawned, and as if to encourage us there waa-no rain. Just lank and limp dripping shrubs, lurking nettles and slippery rocks. up a mountain, down the same, gained about twenty feet,, But the angels assured us when the fork was reached it would be " | ||
+ | And then we were there. Everything, for the time being, was forgotten. But we still wBren' | ||
+ | We rode out of the valley in luxurious style warmed by the last luscious pint of soup. And sorpback to near-frantic p9rents and not quite sure of my own sanity, but.; | ||
+ | Yes, I'd be a prouecqve, but don't ask the reason. Probably because it was all SnowAaultX r. | ||
+ | " | ||
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+ | Water taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody. | ||
+ | ****** | ||
+ | GLOOMY THOUGHTS on th part of the Leader who has ordered a 7 a.m., start: | ||
+ | The mob is about to get gatag,... That is, they are all set to start To plan to prepare to get ready To begin to commence to depart. | ||
+ | |||
+ | AU REVOIR: This month we say good-bye to two members who will ba greatly missed in the Club; Ross to England for two years, and Garth home to New Zealand for who knows how long. | ||
+ | """'' | ||
+ | 5 | ||
+ | HAND MADE ITALIAN BOOTS | ||
+ | Paddy has secured a shipment of medium weight rubber-soled | ||
+ | MOUNTAIN BOOTS. | ||
+ | They are hand made and come from Italy. These boots were shipped in error and Paddy, has bought them cheap. | ||
+ | They would normally sell at ,E,10. | ||
+ | p_y_can sell them for 7. | ||
+ | Sizes available: 6- - 10 THEY' | ||
+ | Phone: | ||
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+ | THE CALCOLA CLUB 00000..E7ounded 1945J... | ||
+ | The Spring Tnur (1956) of the Caloola Club goes to ...... THE WYpERFELD NATIOrAL PARK and THE GRAMPIAN MOUFTAINS. | ||
+ | Leaving Sydney on Sunday Morning, August 26th for about twelve days. Final details will be furnished to all members of party daring the week prior to departure. | ||
+ | Wvoerfeld National Park is Victoria' | ||
+ | 138.000 acres) and is situated in the Wlmmera District. It consists of a series of old, dry lakes, the oriinal course of the Wimmera River before changing conditions of geography terminated the river in Lake Hindmarsh and Lake Albercutya. ,,round the green lake beds stretching like wide plains, are River Re2d Gums, Here abound many Kangaroos and Emus, and in the mallee of the sandy regions, the Mallee Fowl. With the wide rains of the | ||
+ | . past m.,nths, a good show of brilliant wild flowers of the " | ||
+ | And speaking of wildflowers naturally turns the attention to the | ||
+ | . | ||
+ | her cnief point of interest in the trip ..... The Grampian Mountains | ||
+ | the home of many exciting natives of the flower kingdom: | ||
+ | Thryptomene, | ||
+ | Epacris impressa and others. You'll see them all. ii.here are fascinating rock formations of tilted and eroded e.andstones, | ||
+ | The trip will travel via Central Western and Southern New South Wales and return along the Murray Valley to Albury. From here a visit is proposed for the Hume Weir, Tumbarumba, Tumut and Weejasper. As many interesting points as possible will be visited. | ||
+ | COST: Ten Pounds (plus 2/6d affiliation for nonmembers), | ||
+ | Farther details and general enquiries from the Booking Clerk or the Leader, Allan M. Fox, 92 Yathong Road, Caringbah, LB 7304. | ||
+ | [See map of route overleaf.... | ||
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