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I'm feeling in a better mood this month so you won't have to put up with a tirade about lack of walks on the programme, not enough articles for the mag. etc etc. (I'm saving this for next month.) | I'm feeling in a better mood this month so you won't have to put up with a tirade about lack of walks on the programme, not enough articles for the mag. etc etc. (I'm saving this for next month.) | ||
- | August looks an interesting month from where I sit. Apart from visiting my Mother-in-law, | + | August looks an interesting month from where I sit. Apart from visiting my Mother-in-law, |
On top of all this, you lucky people, there are two attractive evenings arranged - Malc. McGregor' | On top of all this, you lucky people, there are two attractive evenings arranged - Malc. McGregor' | ||
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Apart from the regular fab. features, this month we have the second of a trilogy from Jim Brown on " | Apart from the regular fab. features, this month we have the second of a trilogy from Jim Brown on " | ||
- | We also have one of Kath NbKay's captivating efforts - the big day in the life of Ben the goat. You'll read it several times just as I have. | + | We also have one of Kath McKay's captivating efforts - the big day in the life of Ben the goat. You'll read it several times just as I have. |
As well, there is a short burst on a very worthwhile organisation - the Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, which, apart from offering you some interesting activities, affords you the opportunity of doing something active in the struggle going on to preserve our fast-dwindling bushland and wild-life from axe, gun and dozer. | As well, there is a short burst on a very worthwhile organisation - the Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, which, apart from offering you some interesting activities, affords you the opportunity of doing something active in the struggle going on to preserve our fast-dwindling bushland and wild-life from axe, gun and dozer. | ||
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Rachel Askew in June. | Rachel Askew in June. | ||
- | Also cdngratulations | + | Also congratulations |
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Alex. Colley | Alex. Colley | ||
- | The meeting commenced with a welcome from the Presdent | + | The meeting commenced with a welcome from the President |
Advertising material received included literature on safe boating - no doubt word of the Rudolph Cup has reached the publishers - also a moral hot from the advertising agency - "Every woman has to hoodwink her man sometime." | Advertising material received included literature on safe boating - no doubt word of the Rudolph Cup has reached the publishers - also a moral hot from the advertising agency - "Every woman has to hoodwink her man sometime." | ||
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(i) "In camp that evening the carriers warned us that we might meet hostile natives the next day and the guns were unpacked and assembled." | (i) "In camp that evening the carriers warned us that we might meet hostile natives the next day and the guns were unpacked and assembled." | ||
- | (ii)" | + | (ii)" |
- | uans', and were only driven out of arrow range by firing in their general direction." | + | |
The only inference that I can draw from these statements is that a member of this Club planned an expedition to climb mountains in New Guinea, and that included in the plans of that expedition was the intention that, under certain circumstances, | The only inference that I can draw from these statements is that a member of this Club planned an expedition to climb mountains in New Guinea, and that included in the plans of that expedition was the intention that, under certain circumstances, | ||
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Then, looking desperately through the window, she heard the clonk of a bell and saw - Ben. Quietly she went to the door and called: "Come here, my love!" | Then, looking desperately through the window, she heard the clonk of a bell and saw - Ben. Quietly she went to the door and called: "Come here, my love!" | ||
- | Greatly wondering, Ben advanced. Was he actually being invited into the house? Memories of doors shut in his face, of windows hastily closed while hands frenziedly beat the air to ward off the pungent goat-smell: these rose before | + | Greatly wondering, Ben advanced. Was he actually being invited into the house? Memories of doors shut in his face, of windows hastily closed while hands frenziedly beat the air to ward off the pungent goat-smell: these rose before |
- | The stange | + | The strange |
" | " | ||
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I started off as a freelance walker and never had any fog trouble worth mentioning. But I'd only been about three months with the Walkers when I first ran into it. That doesn' | I started off as a freelance walker and never had any fog trouble worth mentioning. But I'd only been about three months with the Walkers when I first ran into it. That doesn' | ||
- | " | + | " |
"We knew flex Creek was about north, so we dropped off the summit on that side and an hour later we were tossing aside fallen trees and uprooting vegetation to clear space for a tent. It wasn't Dex Creek, of course, but it would have to do. | "We knew flex Creek was about north, so we dropped off the summit on that side and an hour later we were tossing aside fallen trees and uprooting vegetation to clear space for a tent. It wasn't Dex Creek, of course, but it would have to do. | ||
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"Next morning was still murky, but we climbed over a low stony ridge to the east, and came out on the clearing along Dex Creek. This all seemed extra grouse until we discovered two of the party were astray, We halloo' | "Next morning was still murky, but we climbed over a low stony ridge to the east, and came out on the clearing along Dex Creek. This all seemed extra grouse until we discovered two of the party were astray, We halloo' | ||
- | " | + | " |
"All in all it was about an hour before we were all assembled again, and almost immediately the cloud began to blow away. | "All in all it was about an hour before we were all assembled again, and almost immediately the cloud began to blow away. | ||
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"The view from Cloudmaker was exactly the same as at Easter '47, but warned by that occasion, I led off slightly east of north - and almost ran the party into Ti-Willa Canyon. Finally, after some groping around in wet scrub we got on to the Dex Creek clearings in the last glimmers of daylight. | "The view from Cloudmaker was exactly the same as at Easter '47, but warned by that occasion, I led off slightly east of north - and almost ran the party into Ti-Willa Canyon. Finally, after some groping around in wet scrub we got on to the Dex Creek clearings in the last glimmers of daylight. | ||
- | " | + | " |
"I can still remember the crawling clouds, the damp chill air, the occasional glimpses of straggly trees lining the edge of Kanangra Creek Valley. The highest ground (and so the most obvious) led away just a shade east of north. A compass sight on to some vaguely seen trees something west of north gave me fresh heart and I looked around - to see our runaways, already almost out of recall, bettling off on the NE ridge. | "I can still remember the crawling clouds, the damp chill air, the occasional glimpses of straggly trees lining the edge of Kanangra Creek Valley. The highest ground (and so the most obvious) led away just a shade east of north. A compass sight on to some vaguely seen trees something west of north gave me fresh heart and I looked around - to see our runaways, already almost out of recall, bettling off on the NE ridge. | ||
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"You know, Paddy Pallin once went to Mount Talaterang coming in from Milton and reported 'The view from Talaterang should not be mist. I wouldn' | "You know, Paddy Pallin once went to Mount Talaterang coming in from Milton and reported 'The view from Talaterang should not be mist. I wouldn' | ||
- | "About four hours from the Sassafras Rd, and maybe 2½ - 3 hours short of Talaterang I was groping along with the SE wind on my left shoulder blade, a scraggy forest line on my right. Visibility 50 yards - I walked right around the north and then the west slope of Mount Bushwalker without seeing it. Finally, at 4 p.m. I sas at Gadara Point - l½ miles north of Talaterang, with a connecting saddle. | + | "About four hours from the Sassafras Rd, and maybe 2½ - 3 hours short of Talaterang I was groping along with the SE wind on my left shoulder blade, a scraggy forest line on my right. Visibility 50 yards - I walked right around the north and then the west slope of Mount Bushwalker without seeing it. Finally, at 4 p.m. I was at Gadara Point - l½ miles north of Talaterang, with a connecting saddle. |
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"All the while it rained - sometimes heavily, and once I stood on a soaked hillside, watching the clouds eddy past; and-yelled at the top of my voice, "Huey you ..... turn it off". The profanity helped my spirits, but Huey took no heed. | "All the while it rained - sometimes heavily, and once I stood on a soaked hillside, watching the clouds eddy past; and-yelled at the top of my voice, "Huey you ..... turn it off". The profanity helped my spirits, but Huey took no heed. | ||
- | The last leg of my holiday trip - five days later - was a day jaunt up to Currockbilly from the Mongarlowe Rd. I just managed | + | The last leg of my holiday trip - five days later - was a day jaunt up to Currockbilly from the Mongarlowe Rd. I just managed |
"Just to have the satisfaction, | "Just to have the satisfaction, | ||
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Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is £7. | Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is £7. | ||
- | This group adtively | + | This group actively |
The Society' | The Society' | ||
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Leader Colin Putt. | Leader Colin Putt. | ||
- | As this route up the North wall has only been seen and not actually traversed, a future expedition approaching from the North should hold its carriers at Lake Discovery, while making sure of this route, (there | + | As this route up the North wall has only been seen and not actually traversed, a future expedition approaching from the North should hold its carriers at Lake Discovery, while making sure of this route, (there |
- | Cratford | + | Crawford |
- | On June 25, Cooper and Barfoot had set off down the left bank of the basecamp stream and followed it down to its junction with the Komaboe. They followed the left bank of the Kemaboe here already a large river, for two miles, before it began to cut into a gorge of increasing depth, while the shelf above the gorge began to support thick scrub. They therefore sought easier going on the rolling ridges South of the Kemaboe, and camped the first night at a native hunting bivouac on one of the ridges just beyond the stream which drains Lake Discovery. On the 26th they crossed the ridge to the North-West of Lake Discovery, and dropped into the large valley below the middle of the North wall. From this point to the end of the ice-cap at the West end of the wall, the North-South ridges running out from the wall are comparatively low. Cooper and Barfoot walked along below the full length of the North wall, less than a mile from the cliffs, although very steep and continuous the actual cliff is here only a thousand feet high at the most. At the West end of the wall, they found their way into the Bakopa valley blocked by the ridge on its South-East side, this is, near the wall, a very steep, high, jagged rock ridge; to cross it it would be necessary to move several miles to the North-East to where it loses height and severity - this would involve travelling through thick scrub/ After taking photographs, | + | On June 25, Cooper and Barfoot had set off down the left bank of the basecamp stream and followed it down to its junction with the Komaboe. They followed the left bank of the Kemaboe here already a large river, for two miles, before it began to cut into a gorge of increasing depth, while the shelf above the gorge began to support thick scrub. They therefore sought easier going on the rolling ridges South of the Kemaboe, and camped the first night at a native hunting bivouac on one of the ridges just beyond the stream which drains Lake Discovery. On the 26th they crossed the ridge to the North-West of Lake Discovery, and dropped into the large valley below the middle of the North wall. From this point to the end of the ice-cap at the West end of the wall, the North-South ridges running out from the wall are comparatively low. Cooper and Barfoot walked along below the full length of the North wall, less than a mile from the cliffs, although very steep and continuous the actual cliff is here only a thousand feet high at the most. At the West end of the wall, they found their way into the Bakopa valley blocked by the ridge on its South-East side, this is, near the wall, a very steep, high, jagged rock ridge; to cross it it would be necessary to move several miles to the North-East to where it loses height and severity - this would involve travelling through thick scrub/ After taking photographs, |
At the base camp, three bonfires of fern fronds were prepared and thatched over to keep them dry. Tuesday, the 27th, the day on which De Kroonduif would probably try to airdrop, began with rain,.but this stopped at 8 a.m. and the sky cleared except for some scattered cloud and a cloud cap on the snow mountains. | At the base camp, three bonfires of fern fronds were prepared and thatched over to keep them dry. Tuesday, the 27th, the day on which De Kroonduif would probably try to airdrop, began with rain,.but this stopped at 8 a.m. and the sky cleared except for some scattered cloud and a cloud cap on the snow mountains. | ||
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During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poor diet and because our clothes and sleeping bags were by now saturated. However, the party arrived at Ilaga Mission at 4 p.m. on Sunday, 2nd July in good shape and just in time to contact the Mission Aviation Fellowship by radio and arrange to fly out to Wamena the next day as Back loading for planes which would be bringing Mission staff in to Ilaga. | During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poor diet and because our clothes and sleeping bags were by now saturated. However, the party arrived at Ilaga Mission at 4 p.m. on Sunday, 2nd July in good shape and just in time to contact the Mission Aviation Fellowship by radio and arrange to fly out to Wamena the next day as Back loading for planes which would be bringing Mission staff in to Ilaga. | ||
- | Mr. Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' | + | Mr. Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' |
On the De Kroonduif flight from Wamena to Hollandia on the 4th July, we were able to discuss the airdrop attempt in detail with the Chief Pilot, Captain J. Vintges. | On the De Kroonduif flight from Wamena to Hollandia on the 4th July, we were able to discuss the airdrop attempt in detail with the Chief Pilot, Captain J. Vintges. | ||
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- | SCIENCE NATURALLY. Torch Batteries | + | ===== Science Naturally. ===== |
- | " | + | |
- | subscription)' | + | === Torch Batteries. === |
- | 10 Continuous discharge with 2.5 V Lamp, | + | |
- | 2. On hour a day 5 days per week, (This represents more typical domestic use and is actually the British Standards-Test)., | + | " |
- | Life of the 5 types under these two tests mere as follows -- | + | |
- | Eveready 950. (1) 2.8 hours, (2) 131 hours, Cost per hour 2.4d. Eveready D50 (1) 4.0 hours. (2) 20 hours. Cost per hour 1.8 Eveready 1050 (1) 7.2 hours.- (2) 25i hours. Cost per hour 1.65 d. Winchester 1511 (1) 5;27.,hours (2) 17 hours. Cost per hour 2.2 d. Lamina (1) 502 hours (2) 17- hours. Cost per hour 2.2 d. | + | 1. Continuous discharge with 2.5 V Lamp. |
- | The Eveready 1050 despite its initial higher cost, represents best value for money. Note the amazing increase in life due to intermittent rather than amntinuous | + | |
- | Smaller torch batteries are muchemere | + | 2. On ½ hour a day 5 days per week. (This represents more typical domestic use and is actually the British Standards Test). |
- | We can't leave this absorbing topic without pointing out that your home electricity costs about *per Kilowatt hour, The equivalent amount of power from a torch battery would cost E13 if you use 1050's and up to E150 if you use the baby Eveready 927s. So next tims3 you get your electricity bill, pleaSe! don't complain, | + | |
- | Ferns' | + | Life of the 5 types under these two tests were as follows - |
- | There is a three letter word that, by tradition does not appear in the SIN magazine. | + | |
- | On the back of the leaves appear rusty spots in neat rows. These are ' | + | |Eveready 950|(1) 2.8 hours|(2) 13½ hours|Cost per hour 2.4 d.| |
- | by fine hair-'-like roots. On the underside of the prothallus, male and female cells are produced, The male cells are released and move through the water to unite with the stationary female cells. They grow into a young fern plant. Next time | + | |Eveready D50|(1) 4.0 hours|(2) 20 hours|Cost per hour 1.8 d.| |
- | I | + | |Eveready 1050|(1) 7.2 hours|(2) 25½ hours|Cost per hour 1.65 d.| |
- | ugust 1962 The Sydney B ushwalker '19 | + | |Winchester 1511|(1) 5.0 hours|(2) 17½ hours|Cost per hour 2.2 d.| |
- | you see a clump of ferns, growing near a creek, have a poke around and you will probably-see the sori, | + | |Lamina|(1) 5.2 hours|(2) 17½ hours|Cost per hour 2.2 d.| |
- | The whole of the stem of. most ferns plants is on or under the ground, | + | |
+ | The Eveready 1050 despite its initial higher cost, represents best value for money. Note the amazing increase in life due to intermittent rather than continuous | ||
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+ | Smaller torch batteries are much more expensive to run costing about 1/- per hour on intermittent use. The Eveready 1050 was even cheaper to run than the cycle lamp size battery. (Eveready 701) and " | ||
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+ | We can't leave this absorbing topic without pointing out that your home electricity costs about 2½d per Kilowatt hour. The equivalent amount of power from a torch battery would cost £13 if you use 1050's and up to £150 if you use the baby Eveready 927s. So next time you get your electricity bill, please! don't complain! | ||
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+ | ===== Ferns' | ||
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+ | There is a three letter word that, by tradition, does not appear in the SBW magazine. | ||
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+ | On the back of the leaves appear rusty spots in neat rows. These are actually pockets | ||
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+ | The whole of the stem of most ferns plants is on or under the ground, | ||
Where conditions are too dry for the spores to grow into prothalli, the fern can multiply by the stem growing sideways through the soil, sending up new leaves as it goes along. Bracken is a good example of this. | Where conditions are too dry for the spores to grow into prothalli, the fern can multiply by the stem growing sideways through the soil, sending up new leaves as it goes along. Bracken is a good example of this. | ||
- | THE PEOPLE'S CAR | + | |
- | Xmas was still a long way off, and so Snow Drown was both surprised and pleased when he found a large package waiting for him at SBW clubrooms. | + | ---- |
- | A few minutes later, he was still surprised, but not pleased, | + | |
- | If you ever get an eyeful | + | ===== The People's Car. ===== |
- | Of a fella with a rifle, | + | |
- | And a bloodhound panting by his side, You can put your last pound down, That its none but our Boy Brown, | + | Xmas was still a long way off, and so Snow Brown was both surprised and pleased when he found a large package waiting for him at SBW clubrooms. |
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+ | A few minutes later, he was still surprised, but not pleased. | ||
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+ | If you ever get an eyeful\\ | ||
+ | Of a fella with a rifle,\\ | ||
+ | And a bloodhound panting by his side,\\ | ||
+ | You can put your last pound down,\\ | ||
+ | That its none but our Boy Brown,\\ | ||
As vengeance he is seeking, far and wide. | As vengeance he is seeking, far and wide. | ||
- | Where is the hapless youth. - With manners so uncouth? | + | |
- | Who left the parcel, brown and square, | + | Where is the hapless youth\\ |
- | Simply labelled "David Brown, Clubrooms, Sydney Town",. | + | With manners so uncouth,\\ |
+ | Who left the parcel, brown and square,\\ | ||
+ | Simply labelled "David Brown,\\ | ||
+ | C/- Clubrooms, Sydney Town",\\ | ||
Just as though the wee folk put it there? | Just as though the wee folk put it there? | ||
- | With shrieks of great delight, Urged on by all in sight, | + | |
- | The mystery pack was very quickly peeled., | + | With shrieks of great delight,\\ |
- | But a battered, broken vessel, That 'neath the bed should nestle, Was all the opened lid revealed. | + | Urged on by all in sight,\\ |
- | But the cruellest blow of all Was very soon to fail | + | The mystery pack was very quickly peeled.\\ |
- | As Boy Brown quickly scanned the message through. | + | But a battered, broken vessel,\\ |
- | " | + | That 'neath the bed should nestle,\\ |
- | Au,n)i st 1962 | + | Was all the opened lid revealed. |
- | po | + | |
- | The Sydney B ushWalker FEDERATION REPORT | + | But the cruellest blow of all\\ |
- | * | + | Was very soon to fall\\ |
- | Lands Department, | + | As Boy Brown quickly scanned the message through.\\ |
- | Annual Ball. All Clubs have not beencircularised | + | " |
- | Bushwalker. Annual. Owing to the pressure of business, Geoff. Wagg has had to resign as Editor, but will continue on the Publications Committee. Mrs. D. B utler was elected in this stead. | + | If you can only step in it,\\ |
- | Canberra Walkin | + | Then it must be that grey V.W." |
- | Search E..nd Rescue | + | |
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- | National | + | |
- | ..160.1a4.V.+11.410.1.. | + | ===== Federation Report |
- | Creek area | + | |
- | Lots | + | __Lands Department__. |
- | the Lands Department supporting the proposal to add these blocks to the Garrawarra Primitive Area | + | |
- | in Roads. Board. | + | __Annual Ball__. All Clubs have not been circularised |
- | proposal to put a bitumen surface on the fire trail from King's Tableland to Warragamba Dam, | + | |
- | Boyd Rack. Thanks were extended to the party who recently marked this route which is now easily followed. It affords access to the Colong Caves area. | + | __Bushwalker Annual__. Owing to the pressure of business, Geoff. Wagg has had to resign as Editor, but will continue on the Publications Committee. Mrs. D. Butler |
- | WANTED | + | |
- | .M3M.1 | + | __Canberra Walking |
- | February 1950, | + | |
- | August 1962 The Sydney B ushwalker 21 | + | __Search and Rescue__ |
- | MAX GENTLE | + | |
- | On 14th July 1962, Max Gentle passed away suddenly at his home in Oatley at the age of 51. Max joined the Club in April 1929. He was essentially a solitary walker; he did many trips on his own and, in fact, it was not until he met Gordon. Stith - doing several trips with him - that he decided to join the Sydney Bushwalkers. Even then he very often walked many miles on his own, and cycled huge distances in this State and others. | + | __S & R Demonstration Week-end__, is set down for October 19-21 to be held on the same site as last year on the Colo River, if permission can be obtained. |
- | As a bushman, a better man was hard to find and many were the successful Club and private walks conducted under his leadership;. After his return from interesting and usually unfrequented country, Max would | + | |
- | sit down and write an article for "The Sydney Bushwalker", | + | __National |
- | years, the information would be available to members wishing to traverse the area, a practice which could well be followed with advantage by present leaders. | + | |
- | Max made no secret of the fact that he did not like rock climbing in high places, and yet he spent many hours on his own exploring the Kanangra and Gangerang areas, his name being perpetuated in GentLe's | + | __Lots 8-9, Parish |
- | Sheerdown and Gentle' | + | |
- | Of all our bushwalking country the Colo River was his favourite, and | + | __Main |
- | in 1931, in company with Gordon Smith, walked the length of the Colo River, with a 2 day side trip to Mt. Uraterer, the first and then fastest recorded trip by Bushwalkers in that area, Another feat of his was -walking from Blackheath to Richmond down the Grose River in one day:- on his own. | + | |
- | During the last couple of years, Max made infrequent visits to the Club, but was always assured of a warm welcome by his walking mates over so many years. He was also a member of the Bush Club and was to have led one of their walks on July 22. | + | __Boyd Range Track__. Thanks were extended to the party who recently marked this route which is now easily followed. It affords access to the Colong Caves area. |
- | Representatives from this Club and the B ush nub attended the burial service at the Methodist Section of the Woronora Cemetery. | + | |
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- | agINT BQKER | + | |
- | t - | + | __Wanted__ |
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+ | ===== Max Gentle. ===== | ||
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+ | On 14th July 1962, Max Gentle passed away suddenly at his home in Oatley at the age of 51. Max joined the Club in April 1929. He was essentially a solitary walker; he did many trips on his own and, in fact, it was not until he met Gordon | ||
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+ | As a bushman, a better man was hard to find and many were the successful Club and private walks conducted under his leadership. After his return from interesting and usually unfrequented country, Max would sit down and write an article for "The Sydney Bushwalker", | ||
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+ | Max made no secret of the fact that he did not like rock climbing in high places, and yet he spent many hours on his own exploring the Kanangra and Gangerang areas, his name being perpetuated in Gentle's Sheerdown and Gentle' | ||
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+ | Of all our bushwalking country the Colo River was his favourite, and in 1931, in company with Gordon Smith, walked the length of the Colo River, with a 2 day side trip to Mt. Uraterer, the first and then fastest recorded trip by Bushwalkers in that area. Another feat of his was walking from Blackheath to Richmond down the Grose River in one day - on his own. | ||
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+ | During the last couple of years, Max made infrequent visits to the Club, but was always assured of a warm welcome by his walking mates over so many years. He was also a member of the Bush Club and was to have led one of their walks on July 22. | ||
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+ | Representatives from this Club and the Bush Club attended the burial service at the Methodist Section of the Woronora Cemetery. | ||
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+ | ===== Ron Baker. ===== | ||
Old hands will learn with regret the passing on of Ron Baker a few weeks ago, at the early age of 39. | Old hands will learn with regret the passing on of Ron Baker a few weeks ago, at the early age of 39. | ||
- | Ron joined the club about 1942 after much solo walking, mainly in the | ||
- | Ku-Ring-gal Chase, his old home being on the-Chase fringe, at Wahroonga, where | ||
- | 22 The Sydney Bushmalker August 1962 | ||
- | the back fen was the boundary. He knew all the good camping caves so never carried. a "bent. | ||
- | In his, | ||
- | Tiwilla-Clear Hill walk with Alan Wilson, about 1957..' | ||
- | activities tap6red Off as his home: | ||
- | recent indifferentchealth.Trevented.Ronfrom walking trips but nevertheless he enjoyed many car-camping outings with his family and other so-Situated. | ||
- | club members and the N.PtA4 | ||
- | " PATTERN :MALES. | ||
- | At recent meetings,, the qUestioh, | ||
- | . . . , | ||
- | members minds, and at the last meeting it was reSoIve-O*PUblish tbi: | ||
- | of walks, which were selected may back in 145 as tieing' | ||
- | of this list, so rather than 'go through all again, here. it is, 17 years: old, but sti.14.aPplicable. | ||
- | Week-end walks (li days) | ||
- | 1, Bundeena, N.hrley, Wattamolla, Garie, Burning Palms f Bola ' | ||
- | 2. ' | ||
- | Meek-end walks (2 days). . | ||
- | 1. ": | ||
- | One Day Walks. | ||
- | 1. KUring-Gai, Crosslands, Beromra Creek, Fish Ponds, Hornsby. | ||
- | 2. Waterfall, Mt. Westmacott, Myuna Creek, Heathcote Creek, Scouters Mountain, Wbronora River, Sabigal Crossing, Engadine. | ||
- | 3. Waterfall, The Mill, Island Track, Palona Creek, Garie Trig, Era, Lilyvale, | ||
- | 4. Gordon, Roclw Creek, Middle Harbour Creek Cowan Creek, track to Sphinx, Cockle Creek, Wahroonga. | ||
- | Despite a heavy casualty list, the reunion is npt classed as a test walk. | ||
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+ | Ron joined the club about 1942 after much solo walking, mainly in the Ku-Ring-gal Chase, his old home being on the Chase fringe, at Wahroonga, where the back fence was the boundary. He knew all the good camping caves so never carried a tent. | ||
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+ | In his earlier club activities he joined in many heavy walking trips and did a share of canoeing. His last big trip was an Easter Gangerang - Tiwilla - Clear Hill walk with Alan Wilson, about 1957. His marriage Betty was another club romance and his two daughters are keenly appreciative of the bush. As with most family club men, his walking activities tapered off as his home responsibilities increased. More recent indifferent health prevented Ron from walking trips but nevertheless he enjoyed many car-camping outings with his family and other so-situated club members and the N.P.A. We extend our sincere sympathy to Betty, and his girls - Rhondda and Robyn. | ||
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+ | ===== Pattern Walks. ===== | ||
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+ | At recent meetings, the question of test walks has exercised some members minds, and at the last meeting it was resolved to publish this list of walks, which were selected way back in '45 as being representative test walks. One can imagine the argument and heartburning that went into the preparation of this list, so rather than go through all again, here it is, 17 years old, but still applicable. | ||
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+ | __Week-end walks__ (1½ days) | ||
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+ | 1. Bundeena, Marley, Wattamolla, Garie, Burning Palms, Bola Height, Wilson' | ||
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+ | 2. Blackheath, Govett' | ||
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+ | 3. Campbelltown, | ||
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+ | __Week-end walks__ (2 days). | ||
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+ | 1. Katoomba, Six Ft. Track, Gibralter Creek, Cox River, Tin Pot Hill, Carlons, Katoomba. | ||
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+ | __One Day Walks__. | ||
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+ | 1. Kuring-Gai, Crosslands, Berowra Creek, Fish Ponds, Hornsby. | ||
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+ | 2. Waterfall, Mt. Westacott, Myuna Creek, Heathcote Creek, Scouters Mountain, Woronora River, Sabigal Crossing, Engadine. | ||
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+ | 3. Waterfall, The Mill, Island Track, Palona Creek, Garie Trig, Era, Lilyvale. | ||
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+ | 4. Gordon, Rocky Creek, Middle Harbour Creek, Cowan Creek, track to Sphinx, Cockle Creek, Wahroonga. | ||
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+ | Despite a heavy casualty list, the reunion is not classed as a test walk. | ||
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