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- | At Easter I made a pilgrimage to Chamonix which is 80 miles by road from Grenoble I hitchhiked | + | At Easter I made a pilgrimage to Chamonix which is 80 miles by road from Grenoble I hitch-hiked - left late Saturday and arrived 10 a m. Easter Sunday. Chamonix was crowded with skiers |
- | Easter Sunday. Chamonix was crowded with Skiers | + | |
- | there was a light dusting on the trees right down to the valley floor, but there | + | |
- | was no snow in Chamonix itself, There is often a metre of snow in the streets | + | Having neither |
- | at Easter, but this is one of the feeblest winters in living memory. Mont Blanc was a vast gleaming mass of ice, hazy and indistinct. The sun blazed down on the great areas of white above Chamonix and one was quite dazzled looking up one really needed to wear goggles in town | + | frequent |
- | Having neither | + | |
- | track which minds up through fine pine forest. There was deep snow in the | + | |
- | forest from about 500 ft. above Chamonix but fortunately people walking down | + | Montenvers is a hotel-restaurant |
- | from the Montenvers had plugged a good trail. It was very pretty; one got | + | |
- | frequent | + | |
- | Montenvers is a hotelrestaurant | + | The view is, Charmoz to the right, Grand Jorasses straight ahead (some distance away) and the Dru to the left, very close and very high. I did nothing, just looked for an hour or two. I was even treated to a fine red sunset. After sunset the sky clouded over and landscape lost all colour. In greys and blacks it looked very inhospitable, |
- | arrived the last train went down, and since the hotel is closed in wintery | + | on those crags I'd have been terrified. Presumably it's less scary in summer. In the last light I raw a party of skiers far out on the Mer de Glace, working down through the nearly invisible crevasses, and I felt very sorry for them; it would not have been nice out there, racing the darkness. |
- | The view is, Charmoz to the right, Grand Jorasses straight ahead (2ome | + | |
- | distance away) and the Dru to the left, very close and very high. I did | + | |
- | nothing, just looked for an hour or two I was even treated to a fine red | + | I spent the night in the cellar of the Montenvers |
- | sunset. After sunset the sky clouded over and landscape lost all colour. | + | |
- | In greys and blacks it looked very inhospitable, | + | |
- | crests are incredibly jagged, the walls of rock streaked with grey verglas, the vast fields of deep snow over all the lower slopes and over the Mer de Glace | + | The morning weather was bad so I descended to Chamonix and hitch-hiked |
- | made things look very desolate. The continual rattle and crash of falling rock echoing around the walls and the frostiness in the air helped the mood. It was so cold I couldn' | + | |
- | on those crage I'dhave been terrified. Presumably it's less scary in summer. | + | The following weekend Fred Mitchell of the M.U.M.C., well known for his exceptionally fast times on New Zealand peaks, came to visit me. He's been bumming around Europe all winter, having given his architect' |
- | In the last light I raw a party of skiers far out on the Mer de Glace, working down through the nearly invisible crevasses, and I felt very sorry for them; it | + | |
- | would not have been nice out there, racing the darkness. | + | |
- | I spent the night in the cellar of the Mont envers | + | The Sunday he was here we made an attempt on Taillefer, a magnificent, |
- | for tuitously | + | |
- | (3) | + | |
- | July, 1965 The Sydney Bushwalker 9. | + | This trip convinced me - everyone has to learn for himself |
- | The morning weather was bad so I descended to Chamonix and hitchhiked | + | |
- | The following weekend Fred Mitchell of the M.U.M.C., well known for his exceptionally fast times on New Zealand peaks, came to visit me. He's been bumming around Europe all winter, having given his architect' | + | |
- | The Sunday he was here we made an attempt on Taillefer, a magnificent, | + | ====ALPINE |
- | This trip convinced me everyone has to learn for himself that the only way to climb in winter or spring is on skis. So I started skiing at nearby | + | |
- | 161....+: | + | |
- | ALPINE | + | The first woman has climbed the Eigerwand; |
- | The first woman has climbed the Eigerwand; | + | |
- | 10 The Sydney Bushwalker July, 1965 | + | |
- | Bonnatti is reported to have said that the route is so frightening that, to rest his eyes, he used to look across at the Walker Spur. They were on the face 'four days. | + | The other big Alpine news of the season, very bad news, was the Aiguille Verte disaster. The inquiring commission has just released its report. The fourteen climbers were climbing in line astern up the 40 degree summit cap of the Aiguille Verte about 11.30 a m., having negotiated the long intricate Grands Montets ridge. The surface snow came away with them; it was a windslab. They went 3,000 feet down the north (Argentieres) face - no survivors. There were some very good men amongst them, which is rather frightening as it shows it could happen to anyone. Apparently a windslab can be quite undetectable. There were 9 apprentice guides almost fully qualified and three instructors from the Ecole Nationale de Ski et Alpinisme at Chamonix, plus two others who'd joined the ascent, one of whom was a world ski champion. They were climbing in 7 ropes of two strung out over 100 feet. The entire surface underneath the 7 ropes broke off at once. Counting this accident, there have been between 50 and 60 deaths at Chamonix this season. I'd say the percentage death rate is considerably lower than in New Zealand. The numbers that climb at Chamonix are enormous. In mid-July a trip up the Mar de Glace to the Couvercle hut reminds you of one of those expedition photos showing 600 porters strung out up the Baltoro Glacier. You see great numbers of people going up and coming down to the half dozen huts to which the route lies over the Mar de Glace. |
- | The other big Alpine news of the season, very bad news, was the Aiguille Verte disaster. The inquiring commission has just released its report. The fourteen climbers were climbing in line astern up the 40 degree summit cap of | + | |
- | the Aiguille Verte about 11.30 a m., having negotiated the 7: | + | ====A WEEK IN THE VALLEYS OF KATHMANDU==== |
- | off at once. Counting this accident, there have been between 50 and 60 deaths at Chamonix this season. I'd say the percentage death rate is considerably lower than in New Zealand. The numbers that climb at Chamonix are enormous. In mid-July a trip up the Mar de Glace to the Couvercle hut reminds you of one of tbose expedition photos showing 600 porters strung out up the Baltoro Glacier. You see great numbers of people going up and coming down to the half dozen huts to which the route lies over the Mar de Glace. | + | |
- | ARE YOU CONSIDERING A NE"' | + | |
- | SLEEPING BAGS ARE OUR BUSINESS, AND OUR BUSINESS IS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY BUYER OF A FAIRY DOT IS ANOTHER FAIRY D07N ENTHUSIAST, AND THEY ARE: | + | Dot Butler |
- | MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT COMPANY 12 Ortona Road, | + | |
- | Lindfield. 461440. 923172. | + | |
- | (Evenings and ' | + | We left Moscow on a bracing Autumn |
- | ? | + | |
- | july, 1965 | + | |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker 11G | + | We flew over the incredibly vast lands of the U.S.S.R. - mountains, plains and deserts where one could wander for years and see something new every day, and then over the equally |
- | A 7EEK IN THE VALLEYS OF KAT;IANDU. | + | |
- | Dot Butler. | + | |
- | Te left Moscow on a bracin. Autmn day, with the wind blowing in strong and virile off the steppes- At the Airport was Mr. Krusche? | + | The next few weeks were a kaliediscope of sights, all astonishingly |
- | We flew over the incredibly vast lands of the U.S.S.R. - mountains, plains and deserts where one could wander for yeas and see something new | + | |
- | every day, and then over the equally | + | |
- | sacred cows ambling down the streets - rickshaws and huge banyan-type | + | The climate of Nepal is 4 months |
- | trees. Early next morning, amidst a babble of native noise and a loading | + | 4 months Hot (Feb, Mch, April, May). October to January is the best time for tourists |
- | of rice, our plane soared northward to Nepal, | + | |
- | The next few weeks WUTO a kaliediscope of sights, all astcngishingly | + | |
- | The climate of Nepal is 4 months | + | There is very little motor transport in Nepal. Apart from a few government jeeps and 4-wheel-drive |
- | 4 months Dry (Oet.,Nov.,Dec.,Jan.) | + | |
- | 4 months Hot (Feb.,Mch., | + | |
- | 12. The Sydney Bushwalker July, 1965 | + | The place is a photographer' |
- | There is very little motor transport in Nepal. Apart from a few government jeeps and 4wheeldrive | + | |
- | taxis beloved by Ed. Hillary, most of the getting around the place is done on font. The horse is a rarity. | + | |
- | The place is a photographer' | + | The Nepalese are small, agile, incredibly strong and hardy people. Natural selection has been at work for centuries and only the extremely hardy survive the dirt and unhygenic conditions everywhere. Mortality rate in the first year of life is very high. The hardy little kids who successfully get through their first year are practically |
- | would mice the ardent gardener | + | |
- | floating waterlillies "Ohm mane pad= hum" " | + | |
- | the Lotus" | + | |
- | where the monkey is as important as the monk. | + | |
- | The Nepalese are small, agile, incredibly strong and hardy people. Natural selection has been at work for centuries and only the extremely hardy survive the dirt and unhygenic conditions everywhere. Mortality rate in the first year of life is very high. The hardy little | + | |
- | kids who successfully get through their first year are practically | + | |
- | "stand on their own legs." i e. be workers. Everyone carries loads; tiny girls (4 or 5) carry the baby brother on their hip; little boys ' | + | |
- | (6 or 8) all working carrying bundles of wood, baskets of clay (for bricks) or soil as much as woull fit in a kerosene tin, quite heavy. Aided by a headstrap, women carry big baskets on their backs, filled with | + | |
- | produce. The men, too, carry huge loads on their backs. In wet weather | + | |
they also carry a woven reed hood, like a sack slit down one side, which fits over the head and back. | they also carry a woven reed hood, like a sack slit down one side, which fits over the head and back. | ||
- | The people are very friendly, | + | |
- | curiosity. They are all eager for new things. Little boys offer to take you around and show you interesting things, then very tactfully ask how much a transistor radio would cost in your beautiful country, and how they won't accept any money but how they would like to own a transistor radio. One bright little rogue of 12 or 14 who attached himself to us goes systematically through all the tourists "I speak five languages, | + | |
+ | The people are very friendly, | ||
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TO BE CONTINUED NEXT MONTH. | TO BE CONTINUED NEXT MONTH. | ||
- | July, 1965 The Sydney Bushwalker 13. | + | |
- | NATURAL HISTORY SOME FUNNY THINGS HAPPEN BEFORE YOU | + | |
- | CAN APRES SKI. | + | ====NATURAL HISTORY |
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B.Gillam. | B.Gillam. | ||
- | There is a type of undulant fever which flares up about May, rages until October and leaves its victims exhausted and panting on the summer beaches, waiting for the first sign of foul weather. To these victims foul weather means the chance of early snow and the heightening of the fever. Really rabid feverees hurry the wasted summer months | + | |
- | with their exercises; deep knee bends, push up, chin ups, even the 5 BX. They chivvy their wives onto a skipping rope. " | + | |
- | The least expensive way to ski is to camp, drive up to the snow | + | There is a type of undulant fever which flares up about May, rages until October and leaves its victims exhausted and panting on the summer beaches, waiting for the first sign of foul weather. To these victims foul weather means the chance of early snow and the heightening of the fever. Really rabid feverees hurry the wasted summer months with their exercises; deep knee bends, push up, chin ups, even the 5 BX. They chivvy their wives onto a skipping rope. Waking |
- | each day and get into your sleeping bag (lilo and hot water bag) straight after tea. There are many advantages in this method. | + | |
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+ | The least expensive way to ski is to camp, drive up to the snow each day and get into your sleeping bag (lilo and hot water bag) straight after tea. There are many advantages in this method. | ||
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1. Transport in a car load is less expensive than the return fare to Blackheath. You can take an immense amount of food. | 1. Transport in a car load is less expensive than the return fare to Blackheath. You can take an immense amount of food. | ||
- | 2. Camping is to an extent | + | |
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+ | 2. Camping is to an extent | ||
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3. The organising of a weekend is far easier. The car owner will, for his own protection provide all the food and check it into the car. This leaves your pack to be filled with extra clothing. And some spare food. | 3. The organising of a weekend is far easier. The car owner will, for his own protection provide all the food and check it into the car. This leaves your pack to be filled with extra clothing. And some spare food. | ||
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The technique of skiing is easily understood but less easily applied. There are only four laws but they are as immutable as any of Newton' | The technique of skiing is easily understood but less easily applied. There are only four laws but they are as immutable as any of Newton' | ||
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1. The seriousness of gravity. This is easily and early demonstrated. | 1. The seriousness of gravity. This is easily and early demonstrated. | ||
- | 2. Skis are, on average, seven feet long and cannot be jumped off, stood upon or ignored with impunity. If you feel that it is necessary to ease the frustration by taking them off, undo the binding and not the laces. The person who comes home with a ski on his shoulders and a parka on his font buys drinks all round. | + | |
- | 14. The Sydney Bushwalker July, 1965 | + | |
+ | 2. Skis are, on average, seven feet long and cannot be jumped off, stood upon or ignored with impunity. If you feel that it is necessary to ease the frustration by taking them off, undo the binding and not the laces. The person who comes home with a ski on his shoulders and a parka on his foot buys drinks all round. | ||
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3. Snow, and this is only a generality, is more yielding than trees or rocks. | 3. Snow, and this is only a generality, is more yielding than trees or rocks. | ||
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4. Your left foot is designed to bend properly only when it is on the left hand side of your body and your right foot when it is on its home territory. Anatomy and skiing are not necessarily contradictory but this is your left side and this is your right side. | 4. Your left foot is designed to bend properly only when it is on the left hand side of your body and your right foot when it is on its home territory. Anatomy and skiing are not necessarily contradictory but this is your left side and this is your right side. | ||
- | The week before the lifts started I was to go with three mates. One thought he might break a leg and wouldn' | + | |
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+ | The week before the lifts started I was to go with three mates. One thought he might break a leg and wouldn' | ||
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Later, at Smiggins, we watched a pro. giving, in body English, a lesson to his class. On the white asphalt the pupils could neither stand, etc. My pupils hilariously recognised their own faults and the dire results. | Later, at Smiggins, we watched a pro. giving, in body English, a lesson to his class. On the white asphalt the pupils could neither stand, etc. My pupils hilariously recognised their own faults and the dire results. | ||
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"His track is too wide. Oh, oh, oh. I thought he would split." | "His track is too wide. Oh, oh, oh. I thought he would split." | ||
"You don't snow plough like that. He is bowing. Knees closer. His edges won't grip. He won't stop. He can't stop. He ca.... He fell downhill to make it worse." | "You don't snow plough like that. He is bowing. Knees closer. His edges won't grip. He won't stop. He can't stop. He ca.... He fell downhill to make it worse." | ||
- | "Thera is your style, Les. The constipated crouch. That's a beautiful parka. Oops, too far forward. Wow. Too far badk. No control at all." | + | "There is your style, Les. The constipated crouch. That's a beautiful parka. Oops, too far forward. Wow. Too far badk. No control at all." |
- | The bonoculars were passed from hand to hand. At arms length the | + | |
- | tired faces grimaced, the jangled limbs shook. Effortlessly the pro. kick- turned and demonstrated again. The pupils crossed their skis. The pro. called it a day. Tired pupils trooped past the car on their way to the sauna baths, the plates of hors-d' | + | |
- | Te drove down the mountain to our own apres ski such as it was. And the long drive home. | + | The bonoculars were passed from hand to hand. At arms length the tired faces grimaced, the jangled limbs shook. Effortlessly the pro. kick- turned and demonstrated again. The pupils crossed their skis. The pro. called it a day. Tired pupils trooped past the car on their way to the sauna baths, the plates of hors-d' |
- | July, 1965 The Sydney Bushwalker 15. | + | |
- | ,Imm..m dmwml wmmwylminmwr..---..mmww..mrmmmmmrr, | + | |
- | FEDERATION | + | We drove down the mountain to our own apres ski such as it was. And the long drive home. |
- | "The Bushwalker Annual" | + | |
- | Annual had been printed and was ready for distribution. This has been done and sales are brisk. | + | |
- | Search and Rescue Practice. 16th-18th | + | ====FEDERATION |
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+ | =="The Bushwalker Annual" | ||
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+ | At the date of the Federation Meeting, the Annual had been printed and was ready for distribution. This has been done and sales are brisk. | ||
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+ | ==Search and Rescue Practice== | ||
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+ | 16th-18th | ||
the top of the hill above the camp site. At least 6 parties are to be rescued. | the top of the hill above the camp site. At least 6 parties are to be rescued. | ||
- | Queensland Federation of Bushwalking Clubs. As there are now 7 walking clubs in Queensland, a Federation is being formed. | + | |
- | Tracks and Sassafras, open. The marked. A Falls Crk. | + | |
- | Access. | + | ==Queensland Federation of Bushwalking Clubs== |
- | The track down the Middle Blue Dog Range has been marked. | + | |
- | Conservation. Reserve No. R52670 known as Linden Park comprising | + | As there are now 7 walking clubs in Queensland, a Federation is being formed. |
- | 50 acres has been added to the Blue Mountains National Park. It is | + | |
- | located at the Northern side of the restern | + | |
- | An area of 66,000 acres in the Tallangambie | + | ==Tracks and Access== |
- | will be added to the Park. The Erskine Crk. State Forest is to be added, also. The Park Trust to mark the junction of Linden | + | |
- | starts from the Grose, by signposts. Another sign is proposed for Blue Gum Forest to read " | + | The track from the new Sawmill, 9 miles South from Sassafras, |
- | The propossd | + | |
- | Fencing and Burning Off on Crown Leases Near Corang Trig. As instructed | + | |
- | by the June General Meeting, this matter was placed before Federation. | + | ==Conservation== |
- | During discussion, it was stated that a number of Crown Land Leases had been granted in the area during the past 3 years. The lessee | + | |
- | suggested that this Club should conduct any investigation it felt | + | Reserve No. R52670 known as Linden Park comprising 50 acres has been added to the Blue Mountains National Park. It is located at the Northern side of the Western |
- | was necessary and report to Federation, which could not undertake the | + | starts from the Grose, by signposts. Another sign is proposed for Blue Gum Forest to read " |
- | inquiry owing to the pressure of work on the depleted executive. | + | |
- | 16. The Sydney Bushwalker July, 1965 | + | |
- | DAY 7ALKS. | + | ==Fencing and Burning Off on Crown Leases Near Corang Trig== |
- | JULY 18. Engadine Red Bluff Garie Trig Wilson' | + | |
- | A rather long walk through the centre of the Royal National Park, with plenty of ups and downs. Some of the Garie Trig. area is bushfire | + | As instructed by the June General Meeting, this matter was placed before Federation. During discussion, it was stated that a number of Crown Land Leases had been granted in the area during the past 3 years. The lessee |
- | Train: 7.50 a m. Cronulla Train from Central Electric | + | was necessary and report to Federation, which could not undertake the inquiry owing to the pressure of work on the depleted executive. |
- | Station. CHANGE AT SUTHERLAND for rail motor to Engadine. Tickets: Helensburgh return @ 8/. | + | |
- | Map: Port Hacking Tourist. | + | ====DAY WALKS==== |
- | Leader: Jim Calloway. Note new phone no. B0961 xtn. 3367 (B) | + | |
- | JULY 25. Terry Hills Cowan Creek Bobbin Head Mt. Kuringai Stn. 11 miles. | + | |
- | A pleasant walk through part of Kuringai Chase. Some scrambling is necessary soon after leaving Terry Hills, otherwise, it is mainly track walking. | + | ==JULY 18== |
- | Train: 7.55 aem. Lindfield train via Bridge from Central Electric Stn to Chatswood. | + | |
- | 8.20 a m. bus Chatswood Terry Hills (the only one) | + | Engadine |
- | 2/6 bus fare. | + | |
- | Map: Broken | + | |
- | AUG.1. Waterfall | + | A rather long walk through the centre of the Royal National Park, with plenty of ups and downs. Some of the Garie Trig. area is bushfire |
- | Tickets: Waterfall return @ 6/ | + | |
- | Map: Port Hacking Tourist or Port Hacking Military. | + | |
- | Leader: Betty Farquhar. | + | ==JULY 25== |
- | AUG.8. | + | |
- | Pymble bus to St. Ives (Douglas St.) Middle Harbour Crk. Bungaroo | + | Terry Hills - Cowan Creek - Bobbin Head - Mt. Kuringai Stn. 11 miles. |
- | This walk does not appear on the programme, but the lsader | + | |
- | Train: 9.10 a m. Hornsby train via Bridge from Central Electric Station to Pymble. | + | |
- | 9.46 a m. bus Pymble to St. Ives (the last for the morning). Tickets: Pymble return via Bridge @ 4/6 plus 1/3 bus fare. | + | A pleasant walk through part of Kuringai Chase. Some scrambling is necessary soon after leaving Terry Hills, otherwise, it is mainly track walking. Train: 7.55 am. Lindfield train via Bridge from Central Electric Stn to Chatswood. 8.20 a m. bus Chatswood |
- | Map: Sydney Military or any up to date Sydney Street Directory. | + | |
- | Leader: Gladys Roberts. | + | |
- | July; 1965 The Sydney Bushwalker 17. | + | ==AUG.1== |
- | DETAILS OF SEARCH AND RESCUE PRACTICE SEARCH. JULY 16, 17 and 18, 1965. | + | |
- | Reference Maps, Lands Department Topo Jamison 2 inches to 1 mile. | + | Waterfall |
- | tt tt Blue Labyrinth 2 inches to 1 mile. | + | |
- | Rendezvous Friday night Ingar Picnic Ground Jamison Sheet Ref.4552740 | + | A look at a portion of the Western area of the Royal National Park. Can be recommended as a first walk with the club. Train : 8.50 a m. Cronulla train from Central Electric Station. CHANGE AT SUTHERLAND for rail motor to waterfall. Tickets: Waterfall return @ 6/-. Map: Port Hacking Tourist or Port Hacking Military. Leader: Betty Farquhar. |
- | How to get there Great western | + | |
- | Signpost says "To Ingar" | + | |
- | for about 1 mile whore another signpost indicates, Turn Left "To Ingar" | + | ==AUG.8== |
- | good dirt road' | + | |
- | Lost Parties About six lost parties of no less than three persons | + | |
- | including a competent leader are required. We would like those who | + | Pymble |
- | volunteer, to see the S & R Field Officer (N. Melville) no later than a week before July 17. These people will be required to go into their | + | |
- | lost positions on Friday night and lacking instructions to the contrary should first report to S & R Field Officer at Ingar on Friday night. Lost parties are not to indulge in "hide and seek" tactics. | + | This walk does not appear on the programme, but the leader |
- | Location of Search The Search Area will be bounded by the northern | + | |
- | boundary of Jamison Map The top of Kedumba Valley Escarpment Red Ridge Bedford and Erskine creeks. | + | |
+ | ====DETAILS OF SEARCH AND RESCUE PRACTICE SEARCH. JULY 16, 17 and 18, 1965==== | ||
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+ | ==Reference Maps== | ||
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+ | Lands Department Topo - Jamison | ||
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+ | ==Rendezvous== | ||
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+ | Friday night - Ingar Picnic Ground | ||
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+ | ==How to get there== | ||
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+ | Great Western | ||
+ | good dirt road - Murphys Trail - (a little stony at first) leads 6 miles to Ingar Picnic Ground. | ||
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+ | ==Lost Parties== | ||
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+ | About six lost parties of no less than three persons including a competent leader are required. We would like those who volunteer, to see the S & R Field Officer (N. Melville) no later than a week before July 17. These people will be required to go into their lost positions on Friday night and lacking instructions to the contrary should first report to S & R Field Officer at Ingar on Friday night. Lost parties are not to indulge in "hide and seek" tactics. | ||
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+ | ==Location of Search== | ||
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+ | The Search Area will be bounded by the northern boundary of Jamison Map - The top of Kedumba Valley Escarpment | ||
ALL BIG CLIFFS, ROUGH CREEK BOTTOMS & VERY DENSE GOING ARE EXLUDED. | ALL BIG CLIFFS, ROUGH CREEK BOTTOMS & VERY DENSE GOING ARE EXLUDED. | ||
- | Search Parties | + | |
- | area on Saturday morning. No party is to comprise of less than three | + | ==Search Parties== |
- | With a competent leader. Searchers are requested to be at Ingar no later than breakfast time Saturday. | + | |
- | At 3.30y m. All parties will cease searching and being lost and return to Ingar. The Rock Rescue team will be in ressrve at Ingar to deal with anything that may turn up. | + | Will be given their instructions and a map of their area on Saturday morning. No party is to comprise of less than three with a competent leader. Searchers are requested to be at Ingar no later than breakfast time Saturday. |
- | Camp Fire and Sing Son will be held at Ingar Saturday Night. | + | |
- | Sunday: There will be further operations including a Rock Rescue Act up al, 7aterfall. (Clear view to all spectators). | + | ==At 3.30pm== |
- | Note: For walkers. The shortest route is from Woodford Station. | + | |
- | =1IMMIMMAM. | + | All parties will cease searching and being lost and return to Ingar. The Rock Rescue team will be in ressrve at Ingar to deal with anything that may turn up. |
- | For Friday night 6.08 p m. Train. | + | |
- | 4 | + | ==Camp Fire and Sing Song== |
- | 18.-- The Sydney Bushwalker July, 1965 | + | |
- | Letter from Ken Lewis. - Hermitage Hotel, Mt. Cook, New Zealand. Hullo Bushies | + | Will be held at Ingar Saturday Night. |
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+ | ==Sunday== | ||
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+ | There will be further operations including a Rock Rescue Act up at Waterfall. (Clear view to all spectators.) | ||
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+ | ==Note== | ||
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+ | For walkers. The shortest route is from Woodford Station. For Friday night 6.08 p m. Train. | ||
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+ | ====Letter from Ken Lewis==== | ||
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+ | Hermitage Hotel, Mt. Cook, New Zealand. | ||
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+ | Hullo Bushies, | ||
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Bet you didn't expect a letter from me, but I thought I would take you by surprise. | Bet you didn't expect a letter from me, but I thought I would take you by surprise. | ||
- | I have been at Mt. Cook now for 8 months; fact is, as | + | |
- | soon as I came back from Antartica (I worked as a weather observer on the N.Z. ship 'Hatheburni),. I started up here. I work - as a. steward-cum-weather-observer (on land). Just the shot for me as I get sea sick. . | + | |
- | This would be the best job I have ever had. I drive a bus now - got my licence and drive two days a week. I drive up to Ball Hut and act as a temporary guide on the glacier - haven' | + | I have been at Mt. Cook now for 8 months; fact is, as soon as I came back from Antartica (I worked as a weather observer on the N.Z. ship 'Homeburn' |
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+ | This would be the best job I have ever had. I drive a bus now - got my licence and drive two days a week. I drive up to Ball Hut and act as a temporary guide on the glacier - haven' | ||
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The other three days I am second steward which, in actual fact, means I'm the working boss. The Head steward is an ardent out-doors man so we get on well. Fact is, you might say the place runs how I want it to now. | The other three days I am second steward which, in actual fact, means I'm the working boss. The Head steward is an ardent out-doors man so we get on well. Fact is, you might say the place runs how I want it to now. | ||
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Eric Saxby, one of the S.R.C. is now on the staff so we have a bit of fun. Graham Bishop comes through quite regularly. Have got to know him quite well. | Eric Saxby, one of the S.R.C. is now on the staff so we have a bit of fun. Graham Bishop comes through quite regularly. Have got to know him quite well. | ||
- | Didn't do much climbing myself this last season; these mountains | + | |
- | of the ski-planes and have been to the Plateau hut and over to the west Coast, etc | + | |
- | I came to N.Z. with the intention of staying 6 months then going | + | Didn't do much climbing myself this last season; these mountains |
- | to South America on my cobber' | + | of the ski-planes and have been to the Plateau hut and over to the West Coast, etc. |
- | If you want to buy New Zealand, or hear of anyone wanting to buy it, send me ward. Tell them I can prove it isn't stolen property. | + | |
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+ | I came to N.Z. with the intention of staying 6 months then going to South America on my cobber' | ||
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+ | If you want to buy New Zealand, or hear of anyone wanting to buy it, send me word. Tell them I can prove it isn't stolen property. | ||
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Your old Mate, | Your old Mate, | ||
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Ken Lewis. | Ken Lewis. | ||
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