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- | t \ I | + | ======The Sydney Bushwalker====== |
- | C ONTENT S. | + | |
- | Commentator 2. | + | ===May 1969.=== |
- | Observer 3. | + | |
- | The Gross Gut Saw Pat Harrison 6. | + | =====Contents.===== |
- | Pay's Ad. 11. | + | |
- | Colo by Lilo Dorothy Noble 12. | + | | | |Page| |
- | Mountain Equi-oment Ad. 15. | + | |Commentator| | 2| |
- | gmi | + | |Observer| | 3| |
- | nAnnual | + | |The Cross Cut Saw|Pat Harrison| 6| |
- | A monthly | + | |Colo by Lilo|Dorothy Noble|12| |
- | Postal Address: Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney. | + | |The March Annual Meeting and the April General Meeting|Jim Brown|16| |
- | EDITOR: Bill Gillam, 19 oia Bush Rd. Engadine 2233 BUSINESS MANAGER: | + | |
- | TYPIST: | + | =====Advertisements.===== |
- | 2. ThB Sydney Bushwalker. May, | + | |
- | COMMENTATOR. | + | | |Page| |
- | The enormity of the problem of a long term conservation policy | + | |Paddy' |
- | is well illustrated by the current disquiet with the Sim Committee on coastal mining. The sad heritage of colonial emphasis on exploitative | + | |Mountain Equipment|15| |
- | use of the land has never been so apparent as in the over-riding Mining Act legislation which can deny for ever legitimate scientific interest | + | |
- | in an area. | + | A monthly |
- | Pressure for mining rutile is intense in that the industry is | + | |
- | geared for complete extraction of all possible areas within thirty to forty years at the outside. It is a unique, " | + | |**Editor**|Bill Gillam, 19 Old Bush Road, Engadine, 2233| |
- | as in other mining operations, new resources. Despite clever publicity the predominant companies are overseas owned, and practically all of its end products are exported. Virtually the whole of the beach coastline will disappear for the accident of 0.1% of the sand. That the end use, at the moment is decorative and thus competing with changing technology - a need for dazzling whiter than white - means that the foreseeable demand for rutile may be overtaken by change | + | |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, |
- | " | + | |**Typist**|Christa Younger, 71 Yarran Road, Oatley, 2223| |
- | Titanium, the metal element of rutile,_is at the threshold of | + | |
- | possibilities of enormous consequence. From a national resource point of view those possibilities would seem to outweigh the immediate, "this | + | ---- |
- | generation", | + | |
- | There is an implication in the Sim Committee that beoause | + | =====Commentator.===== |
- | was presented by-conservationists other conservationists should not now complain. | + | |
- | that the committee should not regard itself as a body of export | + | The enormity of the problem of a long term conservation policy is well illustrated by the current disquiet with the Sim Committee on coastal mining. The sad heritage of colonial emphasis on exploitative use of the land has never been so apparent as in the over-riding Mining Act legislation which can deny for ever legitimate scientific interest in an area. |
- | Unlike the large scale mining of iron ore in Vest Australiai | + | |
- | The Sydney Bushwalkor. May, | + | Pressure for mining rutile is intense in that the industry is geared for complete extraction of all possible areas within thirty to forty years at the outside. It is a unique, " |
+ | |||
+ | Titanium, the metal element of rutile, | ||
+ | |||
+ | There is an implication in the Sim Committee that because | ||
+ | |||
+ | Unlike the large scale mining of iron ore in West Australia, | ||
Whether a National policy would be effective does not alter the tragedy or its urgency. It merely highlights the irony of having at the one time a conservation minded Prime Minister and Minister for Lands. | Whether a National policy would be effective does not alter the tragedy or its urgency. It merely highlights the irony of having at the one time a conservation minded Prime Minister and Minister for Lands. | ||
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- | OBSERVER. | + | ---- |
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+ | =====Observor.===== | ||
A little old lady once said to a famous author - | A little old lady once said to a famous author - | ||
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- None of your stories have a wow at the end of them. | - None of your stories have a wow at the end of them. | ||
- | -Ala, madam, he replied, It is many years since I found it pepossary to have a wow at the end. Or words to that effect. | ||
- | A contemporary, | ||
- | He was having an acute fit of nostalcia for, train trips in the days when the slogan "The railway is the safe way" still had a certain pristine beautprrand truth. Nowadays tension is taken out of travel with trains/at a suitable distance from Sydney one's tired eyes begin to droop as a luminous billboard extols the elan and savoir-faire of an owl. Ho's wise he flies. Tension to modern life is as salt to peanuts and there are othe irds than the owl. | ||
- | Well,thy contemporary won't like this story even if I put the split by-pass and the blown head gasket first. One has to show a mystical regard for names; "pouri out there is not an adequate description. And no wow at the end. | ||
- | There were four seats painted in the four primary colours. Very Primary primary colours. In a perfect square with a regular path of white gravel leashed in by very downtrodden bricks. The very green grass ran to another leashed in path then t wall of field stone granite, well made with a rail of galvanised pipe bisecting the flat to of the wail, In the very dry climate every bottom that had tried to sit on the flat top of the wall had added lustre to the rail. We added our lustre. Ten foot from the | ||
- | list of prohibitions an obelisk to a trooper killed at Laagorsdoorp | ||
- | or Potgieters Roost, some kraal on the veldt. In another country. A real trooper in those days in country that would be | ||
- | brown and red, | ||
- | skyline and the Boer was in long grass or behind a kopje when he | ||
- | sniped the trooper. Slim Janie Smuts or Davie Craven' | ||
- | The- Sydney Bushwalker. May, | ||
- | The seats would have to be in the story to describe the tree. | ||
- | A dead tree flanked by scats in primary colours. The tree dead perhaps as long as the trooper but kept as its own memorial swathed by wisteria. Whoever planted the park had simple tastes. MAGNOLIA, | ||
- | signwriten then in a less archaitl type after the trees had struggled to bloom in a different land, verified, identified, serially as magnoflora, portwine. But no doubt the tree was already dying then unverified, unidentified, | ||
- | There seems to be a stasis now. The vine growing stronger as the wood decays. Someday there would be a reckoning and the rotten wood | ||
- | would spill out from the clutches of the vine and the vine would leap | ||
- | across the four seats in primary colours, then across the lawn onto the wall of fieldstone and then tenaciously, | ||
- | If you lay on your back on a park seat, a folded jumper under | ||
- | your head, a wonderful Easter trip completed and about to be contem- | ||
- | plated, you don't mind what colour the seat is painted. That ridge will have to go in a passion for direct descents is as dangerous as strolling off" after lunch. Talking should be done in the conservative field of physics-energy expended going uphill should be regained coming downhill - it should be that much of an agony go get down. And | ||
- | the trout water. Trout water and whisky. Trout water and coffee. Trout water and warm bodies. Howqua water. Macalister Springs water and namatodes. The dry lunch and the water found ten minutes later. The pagan arrangement of meals so that one had neck chops, which crisp well in foil, on Good Friday and an immense meal of curried prawns and rice on Sunday. The food taken and not eaten (bushwalking as a function of ingestion), the warm clothing carried and not worn | ||
- | (bushwalking as a function of discomfort averted). The strange | ||
- | effects of altitude so that certain people were even less inclined to | ||
- | go for w. tor or carry the tent. The strange encounter at the Bluff Hut with the members of the Melbourne WOMEN' | ||
- | was truly in another country. | ||
- | The fascinating landforms. People feel bettor being breathless on an unique geological feature. Or a Classic Mountain Formation. Buller and Buffalo are granite batholiths, deep domed shapes formed initially under a tremendous load of horizontal sedimentary strata. As | ||
- | the reservoir of granite is fed tlIte dame pushes up the strata, a;ters it shales and slates and quatzite' | ||
- | and the strata covering the dome are easily eroded. That is left is | ||
- | step like cliffs facXing the dome and steeply inclined quartzite away from the dame with ragged skylines-Yhrtr the cracks occurred. If the | ||
- | dame is small and the strata doesn' | ||
- | almost antithecal theory on granite formation. It pays to keep options. | ||
- | o | ||
- | 5 The Sydney | + | - Ah, madam, he replied, It is many years since I found it necessary to have a wow at the end. Or words to that effect. |
- | The Geomorphology of the Dividing Range in the Howqua Delatite | + | |
- | Macalister Watershed. The emergence of a batholith and its relationship to Anglo-Saxon | + | A contemporary, |
- | Jim has a green seat which he forsakes for some needed exercise. On his return, | + | |
- | like the numerous snakes, on a warm rock on the Bluff. The last flowers I saw on a manuka were various dry flies loft by trouters. The smell of cattle and the cut-over country with new growth like pastures among the tall trees. Four black cockatoos. And driving very fast at dusk when the twin peaks behind Mansfield hold a cauldroning swirl of sunset which Ross caught with the last light on the last frame. And the magpie, exercising his territorial imperative, singing sweetly from an | + | He was having an acute fit of nostalgia for, train trips in the days when the slogan "The railway is the safe way" still had a certain pristine beauty and truth. Nowadays tension is taken out of travel with trains and at a suitable distance from Sydney |
- | obelisk in another town while lessor | + | |
- | hatched in the warm autumn under the fluorescent light. The fat cattle | + | Well, my contemporary won't like this story even if I put the split by-pass and the blown head gasket first. One has to show a mystical regard for names; " |
- | on green winter feed, and ploughed earth and new pasture and the lakes and the dams. The new names; Meerijig, Swanpool, Glenrowan. | + | |
- | Jim is terrible restless. Two hours. Comfortable. Sleeping. | + | There were four seats painted in the four primary colours. Very primary primary colours. In a perfect square with a regular path of white gravel leashed in by very downtrodden bricks. The very green grass ran to another leashed in path then t wall of field stone granite, well made with a rail of galvanised pipe bisecting the flat top of the wall. In the very dry climate every bottom that had tried to sit on the flat top of the wall had added lustre to the rail. We added our lustre. Ten feet from the list of prohibitions an obelisk to a trooper killed at Laagorsdoorp or Potgieters Roost, some kraal on the veldt. In another country. A real trooper in those days in country that would be brown and red-earthed feed, with a thousand very blue hills on the skyline and the Boer was in long grass or behind a kopje when he sniped the trooper. Slim Janie Smuts or Davie Craven' |
- | The head is not cracked. Mobility. And the thick ham sandwiches. | + | |
- | And the fresh country towns. And the illusion when you are driving very fast and watching the road far ahead that the road begins to move or that you are flying. And the glow of the country in a good season and | + | The seats would have to be in the story to describe the tree. A dead tree flanked by seats in primary colours. The tree dead perhaps as long as the trooper but kept as its own memorial swathed by wisteria. Whoever planted the park had simple tastes. MAGNOLIA, signwriten then in a less archaic type after the trees had struggled to bloom in a different land, verified, identified, serially as magnoflora, portwine. But no doubt the tree was already dying then unverified, unidentified, |
- | its immonsit. | + | |
- | 6ya1ey | + | If you lay on your back on a park seat, a folded jumper under your head, a wonderful Easter trip completed and about to be contemplated, |
- | Paris to Warsaw and back. | + | |
- | New York to somewhere in Kansas. | + | The fascinating landforms. People feel better being breathless on an unique geological feature. Or a Classic Mountain Formation. Buller and Buffalo are granite batholiths, deep domed shapes formed initially under a tremendous load of horizontal sedimentary strata. As the reservoir of granite is fed the dome pushes up the strata, alters it shales and slates and quatzite the strata cracks, releases tension and the strata covering the dome are easily eroded. What is left is step like cliffs facing the dome and steeply inclined quartzite away from the dome with ragged skylines where the cracks occurred. If the dome is small and the strata doesn' |
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+ | The Geomorphology of the Dividing Range in the Howqua Delatite Macalister Watershed. The emergence of a batholith and its relationship to Anglo-Saxon | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jim has a green seat which he forsakes for some needed exercise. On his return, Dmitrios rowed with Jason, he says the mechanic has a small mountain of spanners and can't find the metric ones. There should be conservation in it too. The astonishing news, imparted from driver to driver on a tight mountain road that there were deer up there and people with money flew to shoot the deer and flew out with the venison. Someone was firing so.... If deer shooters could shoot red shirted men riding bicycles Ross's orange pack was sure to be riddled. The alpine flowers. The incredibly bright boronia at 5,000' brighter than native rose. And the three flowers of manuka ti-tree espaliered, like the numerous snakes, on a warm rock on the Bluff. The last flowers I saw on a manuka were various dry flies left by trouters. The smell of cattle and the cut-over country with new growth like pastures among the tall trees. Four black cockatoos. And driving very fast at dusk when the twin peaks behind Mansfield hold a cauldroning swirl of sunset which Ross caught with the last light on the last frame. And the magpie, exercising his territorial imperative, singing sweetly from an obelisk in another town while lesser | ||
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+ | Jim is terrible restless. Two hours. Comfortable. Sleeping. The head is not cracked. Mobility. And the thick ham sandwiches. And the fresh country towns. And the illusion when you are driving very fast and watching the road far ahead that the road begins to move or that you are flying. And the glow of the country in a good season and its immensity. | ||
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+ | Sydney | ||
+ | Paris to Warsaw and back.\\ | ||
+ | New York to somewhere in Kansas.\\ | ||
Sydney to Buggery. | Sydney to Buggery. | ||
- | (The line "So much horror in the clear Australian Sunlight" | + | |
- | Douglas.Stowart's play Nod Kelly.) | + | (The line "So much horror in the clear Australian Sunlight" |
- | WANTED: Ty2istes | + | |
- | 6. The Sydney Bushwalker. May, | + | ---- |
- | THE CROSS CUT SAW. | + | |
+ | ===Wanted:=== | ||
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+ | Typistes | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | =====The Cross Cut Saw.===== | ||
Pat Harrison. | Pat Harrison. | ||
- | '/And isthis | + | |
- | fancy cherished, | + | "And is this Yarrow? THIS the Stream of which my\\ |
+ | fancy cherished,\\ | ||
So faithfully, a walking dream?" | So faithfully, a walking dream?" | ||
- | The poet Wordsworth wrote these lines after ho had firt seen Yarrow in Scotland; but there had been other times when he had failed to get to that beautiful place, and on one of those occasions he wrote the following lines:- | ||
- | "If, care with freezing years should come, And wandering seem but folly, - | ||
- | Should we be loth to stir from home, And yet be melancholy; | ||
- | Should life be dull, and spirits low, | ||
- | 'Twill soothe us in, sorrow, | ||
- | That earth hath something yet to show, The bonny holms of Yarrow!" | ||
- | The Crosscut Saw is one of a couple of places that have stood in the same relation to inc. Once upon a time I invited a chap to came there on a walking tour, but he mucked the proposal up before it got | ||
- | started and I ' | ||
- | landfall at the Paragon Cafe at Goulburn at 10 p.m. on Easter Thursday | ||
- | and our next one at Holbrook at 3.20 a.m. on Good Friday. The petrol stations wore still open and were doing a roaring trade. | ||
- | After a couple of hours in our bags we drove as far as Table Top | ||
- | near Albury where we pulled off the road and boiled the billies for breakfast. The morning was clear and sunny, everyone was in good | ||
- | spirits, and other carloads of bushwalkors tooted us as they headed north. There was also a gorging of fruit and tomatoes - far better | ||
- | for these things to be inside your tummy than inside the Fruit Inspector' | ||
- | The next landfalls were to be Benalla and Mirimbah, but because of a combination of events we did not see Bill's Toyota at either of these places although we waited at both of them. Ray's car had been | ||
- | in front but had pulled in for petrol while Bill was stuck behind a semi-trailer and consequently Bill thought we were still ahead of him. | ||
- | We spent two hours in the sun at Mirimbah, having lunch and waiting for Bill, and then learnt from some camper' | ||
- | asked directions to "The Springs" | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalker. May, | ||
- | Springs where we were all going, so-we throw our gear into the car and set off for the How4ua River, which would be as far as we could drive; but no Toyota had been on the Howqua, either at | ||
- | Bindaree Hut or elsewhere, so we parked Ray's car at the foot of | ||
- | the Howitt Spur after leaving messages for a white Toyota, with campers scattered along the river. | ||
- | We had driven about. 525 miles since we left Sydney, all of it on very good roads. The 25 miles from MirriMbah to the Howque were dirt and were up and ovpr a mountain range, but it is as good a road as you could wish -for, being wider and with far better grades (for example) than the roaa in and out of Jonolan Caves. There are bushfire dugouts at the Howqua Gap (or Woolly- Butt Saddle as it is called on the map), which is on the divide | ||
- | between the Delatite and Howqua Rivers, and there are also dug- | ||
- | outs 19 miles from Mirimbah at a place where the road changes direction to descend to the Howqua. As we drove along from Howalua Gap to the 19 mile dugouts we got tantalising glimpses of the titled sandstone escarpment of the Bluff Divide across the | ||
- | Howqua Valley, and these glimpses whetted our appetites no end for | ||
- | to-morrow' | ||
- | different from any of ours such as the Snowy Mountains, the | ||
- | Brindabellas, | ||
- | drove along the road between Mansfield and Mirimbah. | ||
- | We set up camp at the foot of the Howitt Spur and we were finishing off our meal with a pot of tea when a lone-handAwalker Barry Woods, drove up ana camped with us and helped to yarn the hours away. Barry gave us good information about our proposed route and he also gave us spare maps which we concealed under Ray's car for Bill's use. (I was sure that Bill would turn up eventually, although some opinions were that he had either gone skiing or trout fishing). You can imagine how soundly we slept that night. The four of us slept side by side. You all know how Roger Gowing snores, yet no one heard anything all night. Best sleep I ever had. | ||
- | On the morrow, we left maps and a note with detailed description ofoeur-route, | ||
- | connect Mt. Speculation with the Mt. Howitt plateau. The Crosscut Saw is part of the Great Dividing Range and it is a razorback | ||
- | ridge, parts of it being only 4 or 5 feet wide. Somewhere near | ||
- | 8. The Sydney Bushwalker. May, | ||
- | where the Alpine Ash gave way to the Snow Gums we said goodbye to Barry who was off on a solo trip around the Crosscut Saw- The Viking.- The Devil' | ||
- | A few hundred feet below the summit the Snow Gums ceased | ||
- | and the track zig-sagged up the rocks past odd bushes of | ||
- | flowering Boronia and finally emerged on the grassy plateau which is Mount Hewitt (59715 feet). Mt. Howitt is named after Alfred | ||
- | William Hewitt (1830-1908) who was an explorer (he searched for and found the sole survivor of the Burke and Tills expedition), | ||
- | the far-distant Bogong and Feathertop, Darling overlooking the 7onnangatta Valley, Snowy Plains, Clear, and back to The Bluff | ||
- | but the most impressive sight of all was The Crosscut Saw lying at our feet and presenting a series of ups and downs of a few hundred feet, over which as we watched we could see a party of walkers | ||
- | threading their. way. | ||
- | We followed the cairns and snow poles across the flowery | ||
- | top of Howitt through masses of golden Everlastings splashed with | ||
- | purple daisies, to tho edge of the plateau overlooking the Terrible | ||
- | Hollow. On the far wide of the Hollow the Razor and The Viking stood up in the tilted pose characteristic of the area. Mile | ||
- | Frank was busy with his camera the rest of us lolled about having | ||
- | an early lunch, and finally at 11 a.m. set out for a traverse | ||
- | of The Crosscut Saw as far as Mount Buggery. | ||
- | Having been consigned to this well-known locality on | ||
- | numerous occasions, we arrived there about 90 minutes later to find it occupied by members of the Molbourn Women' | ||
- | the next street: On the way back along the narrow crest there was a most effective scene with The Terrible Hollow in bright sun- | ||
- | shine while the Howqua side was gloomy with cloud looming up from Buller. For a half an hour it seemed as if it would snow, but it quickly passed away and bright sunshine returned. | ||
- | It was about 3.30 p.m. when we got back to Howitt, and | ||
- | whom do you think we saw emerging from that horrible-looking gully between Hewitt and the Crosscut? Correct! It was Bill, | ||
- | Ross and Jim who had blithely ignored our note, our directions, | ||
- | our maps, and had pioneered a new route up to Hewitt, a route which we others considered could appropriately be called | ||
- | 9. The Sydney Bushwalk_or. May, | ||
- | Retribution Route. However, after we had a look down into the gully, we reckoned that the Penance they had performed had cleared away all their. sins. . | ||
- | Anyway, we were all together in a good camp at McAlister. Springs, which is about 11. miles east of Hewitt and connected to it | ||
- | by a narrow saddle. A spring gushes out of the Mountainside here and forms the beginnings of the McAlister River. The water must be boiled because of the chane of becoming infected with parasitic worms which emanate from the cattle which are brought up to the high plains in summer. To a Now South Welshman, used to pure water and unchurned stream banks in our National Parks, the water supply here is not prisiine and this condition is directly attributable to cattle grazing which ought to be stopped at once and the whole magnificent area from here to Kosciusko converted to a National Park forthwith. | ||
- | , Sunday' | + | The poet Wordsworth wrote these lines after he had first seen Yarrow in Scotland; but there had been other times when he had failed to get to that beautiful place, and on one of those occasions he wrote the following lines:- |
- | Bluff. | + | |
- | From Magdala we dropPed | + | "If, care with freezing years should come,\\ |
- | ridge and up about 600 feet to the jeep track near No 1 Divide, | + | And wandering seem but folly, -\\ |
- | where we left the Great Dividing Range and walked south - westward | + | Should we be loth to stir from home,\\ |
- | . A steep climb over Mt. Lovick and we were at the Bluff Hut (another good one with bunks and a tank and another murky dam) at 4 p.m. 73 camped among the Snow Gums, but after tea adjourned to the but to drink coffee with another group of the Melbourne Women' | + | And yet be melancholy; |
- | On the last morning we set out packless for The Bluff at 7.30 a.m. - that is, all excepting Frank who was dawdling behind in his own inimitable way, compiling a pictorial record of odd botanical and zoological specimens. At the Bluff, we had completed a most magnificent ridge walk since reaching | + | Should life be dull, and spirits low,\\ |
- | 10. The Sydney Bashwalker. May, | + | 'Twill soothe us in sorrow,\\ |
- | Most of the rock in the area ws traversed is sandstone with a decided tilt, said to have been caused by the movement of the granite mass of Mt. Buffalo. | + | That earth hath something yet to show,\\ |
- | Back to Bluff Hut by 10 a.m. to spend an hour lying in the sun before Frank sauntered back, then off on the jeep track dom. the 16 . | + | The bonny holms of Yarrow!" |
- | Spur which for steepness would be hard to beat. Lace your footwear up tightly coming down here, otherwise you will wear the ends off your toes as .a couple of our party:Aid. :The track Apes' | + | |
- | way and everyone was amazed at the strength of cow's legs in relation to their small size and the great weight they carry. | + | The Crosscut Saw is one of a couple of places that have stood in the same relation to me. Once upon a time I invited a chap to come there on a walking tour, but he mucked the proposal up before it got started and I abandoned it. However, the Sydney Bush Walkers are a different proposition and can be relied upon to stick fast to a plan; consequently seven of us (Ray Hookway, Frank Talker, Roger Gowing, Bill Gillam, Ross Hughes, Jim Vatiliotis and myself) made our first landfall at the Paragon Cafe at Goulburn at 10 p.m. on Easter Thursday and our next one at Holbrook at 3.20 a.m. on Good Friday. The petrol stations were still open and were doing a roaring trade. |
- | back part of the way. wards | + | |
+ | After a couple of hours in our bags we drove as far as Table Top near Albury where we pulled off the road and boiled the billies for breakfast. The morning was clear and sunny, everyone was in good spirits, and other carloads of bushwalkers tooted us as they headed north. There was also a gorging of fruit and tomatoes - far better for these things to be inside your tummy than inside the Fruit Inspector' | ||
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+ | The next landfalls were to be Benalla and Mirimbah, but because of a combination of events we did not see Bill's Toyota at either of these places although we waited at both of them. Ray's car had been in front but had pulled in for petrol while Bill was stuck behind a semi-trailer and consequently Bill thought we were still ahead of him. | ||
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+ | We spent two hours in the sun at Mirimbah, having lunch and waiting for Bill, and then learnt from some camper' | ||
+ | |||
+ | We had driven about 525 miles since we left Sydney, all of it on very good roads. The 25 miles from Mirrimbah to the Howque were dirt and were up and over a mountain range, but it is as good a road as you could wish for, being wider and with far better grades (for example) than the road in and out of Jenolan Caves. There are bushfire dugouts at the Howqua Gap (or Woolly-Butt Saddle as it is called on the map), which is on the divide between the Delatite and Howqua Rivers, and there are also dugouts 19 miles from Mirimbah at a place where the road changes direction to descend to the Howqua. As we drove along from Howqua Gap to the 19 mile dugouts we got tantalising glimpses of the titled sandstone escarpment of the Bluff Divide across the Howqua Valley, and these glimpses whetted our appetites no end for tomorrow' | ||
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+ | We set up camp at the foot of the Howitt Spur and we were finishing off our meal with a pot of tea when a lone-hand walker Barry Woods, drove up and camped with us and helped to yarn the hours away. Barry gave us good information about our proposed route and he also gave us spare maps which we concealed under Ray's car for Bill's use. (I was sure that Bill would turn up eventually, although some opinions were that he had either gone skiing or trout fishing). You can imagine how soundly we slept that night. The four of us slept side by side. You all know how Roger Gowing snores, yet no one heard anything all night. Best sleep I ever had. | ||
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+ | On the morrow, we left maps and a note with detailed description of our route, then we all set off with Barry up the Howitt Spur on a very good track which gradually unfolded wonderful views of Mt. Magdala and its Hell's Window (formed by a cleft at the edge of the mountain) on one side while the other gave us our first glimpse of the magical land of the Crosscut Saw, a jagged and spectacular series of bare alpine peaks about 5 miles long which connect Mt. Speculation with the Mt. Howitt plateau. The Crosscut Saw is part of the Great Dividing Range and it is a razorback ridge, parts of it being only 4 or 5 feet wide. Somewhere near where the Alpine Ash gave way to the Snow Gums we said goodbye to Barry who was off on a solo trip around the Crosscut Saw - The Viking - The Devil' | ||
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+ | A few hundred feet below the summit the Snow Gums ceased and the track zig-sagged up the rocks past odd bushes of flowering Boronia and finally emerged on the grassy plateau which is Mount Howitt (5,715 feet). Mt. Howitt is named after Alfred William Howitt (1830-1908) who was an explorer (he searched for and found the sole survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition), | ||
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+ | We followed the cairns and snow poles across the flowery top of Howitt through masses of golden Everlastings splashed with purple daisies, to the edge of the plateau overlooking the Terrible Hollow. On the far side of the Hollow the Razor and The Viking stood up in the tilted pose characteristic of the area. While Frank was busy with his camera the rest of us lolled about having an early lunch, and finally at 11 a.m. set out for a traverse of The Crosscut Saw as far as Mount Buggery. | ||
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+ | Having been consigned to this well-known locality on numerous occasions, we arrived there about 90 minutes later to find it occupied by members of the Melbourne Women' | ||
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+ | It was about 3.30 p.m. when we got back to Howitt, and whom do you think we saw emerging from that horrible-looking gully between Howitt and the Crosscut? Correct! It was Bill, Ross and Jim who had blithely ignored our note, our directions, our maps, and had pioneered a new route up to Howitt, a route which we others considered could appropriately be called Retribution Route. However, after we had a look down into the gully, we reckoned that the penance they had performed had cleared away all their sins. | ||
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+ | Anyway, we were all together in a good camp at McAlister Springs, which is about 1 1/2 miles east of Howitt and connected to it by a narrow saddle. A spring gushes out of the Mountainside here and forms the beginnings of the McAlister River. The water must be boiled because of the chance of becoming infected with parasitic worms which emanate from the cattle which are brought up to the high plains in summer. To a New South Welshman, used to pure water and unchurned stream banks in our National Parks, the water supply here is not pristine and this condition is directly attributable to cattle grazing which ought to be stopped at once and the whole magnificent area from here to Kosciusko converted to a National Park forthwith. | ||
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+ | Sunday' | ||
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+ | From Magdala we dropped | ||
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+ | A steep climb over Mt. Lovick and we were at the Bluff Hut (another good one with bunks and a tank and another murky dam) at 4 p.m. We camped among the Snow Gums, but after tea adjourned to the hut to drink coffee with another group of the Melbourne Women' | ||
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+ | On the last morning we set out packless for The Bluff at 7.30 a.m. - that is, all excepting Frank who was dawdling behind in his own inimitable way, compiling a pictorial record of odd botanical and zoological specimens. At the Bluff, we had completed a most magnificent ridge walk since reaching | ||
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+ | Most of the rock in the area was traversed is sandstone with a decided tilt, said to have been caused by the movement of the granite mass of Mt. Buffalo. | ||
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+ | Back to Bluff Hut by 10 a.m. to spend an hour lying in the sun before Frank sauntered back, then off on the jeep track down the 16 Mile Spur which for steepness would be hard to beat. Lace your footwear up tightly coming down here, otherwise you will wear the ends off your toes as a couple of our party did. The track goes down for a couple of thousand feet without any levelling out whatsoever. It is almost as steep as the Gasper Buttress on Mt. Jenolan, with a road thrown in for good measure. There were half a dozen cows ahead of us for some of the way and everyone was amazed at the strength of cow's legs in relation to their small size and the great weight they carry. | ||
The 16 mile Creek near its junction with the Howqua runs over smooth granite bars, and you should have seen the fisherman' | The 16 mile Creek near its junction with the Howqua runs over smooth granite bars, and you should have seen the fisherman' | ||
- | It was a beautiful afternoon at Bindaree, just as all the other days had been, and four of us set out at once without packs on the 3i- | ||
- | mi/e road bash to bring the cars back from the foot of the Hewitt Spur. | ||
- | Back at Bindaree for a wash in the icy Howqua, then Bill's Toyota set out for home and we followed soon afterwards. Bill's car blew a head gasket near Holbrook and he finally got home at 7 p.m. next day. | ||
- | Our car only intended to get out of the Howqua this night and we therefore camped on the Delatite at Mirithbah where the trees were undergoing a most glorio:us colour change. | ||
- | After sleeping like a top all other nights I lay awake all this | ||
- | night because of the noisy river and the whine of the timber jinkers which apparently were making the most of the good weather. You haven' | ||
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- | 12. The Sydney Bushwalker. May, | + | |
- | Colo | + | __Leader__: Joan Rigby. |
- | Dorothy Noble. Loader: Joan Rigby. | + | |
- | It was a good start - rather unusual in fact, as all the | + | It was a good start - rather unusual in fact, as all the party (six of us) had assembled at the remains of the Melba by the appointed time of 7.30 p.m. |
- | party (six of us) had assembled at the remains of the Mblba by the appointed time of 7.30 p.m. | + | |
- | We set off and within a couple of hours had found the right fire trail off the Putty road. We settled down for the night after a cup of tea and a discussion (argument) about the cause of ,a small red light. Was it miles away or only a few feet away through the trees? Was it moving or was it not? The dispute was not settled until morning, when we were awakened by a distinctly un-sunny day, and the leader went and had a look. It turned out to be the burning trunk of a tree showering sparks | + | We set off and within a couple of hours had found the right fire trail off the Putty road. We settled down for the night after a cup of tea and a discussion (argument) about the cause of a small red light. Was it miles away or only a few feet away through the trees? Was it moving or was it not? The dispute was not settled until morning, when we were awakened by a distinctly un-sunny day, and the leader went and had a look. It turned out to be the burning trunk of a tree showering sparks |
- | weather since the November bushfires. | + | |
- | After breakfast we debated the pros and cons of taking our | + | After breakfast we debated the pros and cons of taking our lilos with us. Doubts about the weather were countered by Phil Butt's assurance that we were in a rain shadow area and so it couldn' |
- | lilos with us. Doubts about the weather were countered by Phil | + | |
- | Butt's assurance that we were in a rain shadow area and so it couldnIt | + | |
We all took our lilos. | We all took our lilos. | ||
- | After driving as far as practicable in Bob Younger 's almost | ||
- | battery-less station wagon, we walked along the road for a couple | ||
- | of miles before turning off along a ridge to find the right place | ||
- | to descend into Angorawa Creek. With the help of the deputy navigator (the leader) we found the creek which to our.Isurprise contained a good deal of water and so we partook of morning tea. Phil's effort, however, appeared more in the nature of a banquet as loaves of bread, spreads, | ||
- | from one large opening in order to disappear down another. | ||
- | . As we walked and rock-hopped down the creek it was sad to note that not even the most sheltered areas had escaped the fires, an observation which Fas unchallenged during the weekend. No . | ||
- | ground was ,.pared. There are still large areas of sterile grey | ||
- | sand and bare sandstone cliffs peeling and cracked by the heat | ||
- | and scattered with rain-washed charcoal debris. The new green spikes of the native grasses and the green and red proliforations dotting the blackened trees have given at least a superficial | ||
- | ly;. The Sydney Bushmaker. May, | ||
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- | appearance of reCovery. . | ||
- | Shortly after .passing some fishermen on the way down the-creek, we came to a waterfall. Balancing Precariously above it I. hdld.on to a likely branch, only to have it come away in my hand, | ||
- | Te arrived at the Colo in time for lunch, and after much puffing into, and mending of lilos and waterproofing of gear we ventured into the.water, having been encouraged at lunchtime by a cOuple.:of five ' | ||
- | his floating pack while Bob and the two New Zealanders paddled their bibs in the conventional manner, heads down, arms across and packs on their backs. Meanwhile Joan and I travelled (we thought) in,a vastly .superior manner sitting down and leaning back comfortably oti our packs, a position which allowed us to admire the passing scenery with ease. The only trouble was that when it came to riding the rapids, tho extra balance required made it considerably more hazardous. | ||
- | The river was sufficiently. flooded to make it muddy and full of debris but not fast enough to prevent us being blown upstream if the wind_ blew when we stopped. paddling. The water became very churned up after travelling over the rapids and. -this | ||
- | provided the surface of the .water with swirls of creamy film that one's drifting- lilo urged into all sorts of fascinating shapes | ||
- | before it, leaving a transient wake behind. it! The numerous sticks an limps of charcoal offered slightly.more resistance to the | ||
- | craft as they bumped. and. bobbed around the peribieter like jostling hens pecking at grain. | ||
- | After some hours of this leisurely progression we | ||
- | came upon a suitable campsite beside a small creek and. so we drew our lilos up to the bank and quickly rushed_ around to get | ||
- | a fire started,. having suddenly realised. how cold we wore, as it had. alternately sprinkled. 6,nd coldbreezed most of the afternoon. | ||
- | Tea was nearly finished when we hea,rd some unaccounted. for clumpings through the, undergroWth and. Joan informed us that it was ' | ||
- | Conjecture as to who the friend, might be was brought to a halt as Roger Gowing' | ||
- | later by Mike' | ||
- | 14. The Sydney. Bushwalker. May, | ||
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- | 'Pb. react morning again oast doubts upan Phil's rosin shadow | ||
- | theory but we nevertheless embarked enthusiastically upon our ii)os, blatantly ignoring the fishermen on the bank who warned us about the dangerous rapids just ahead. Sure enough, no sooner had we started off than we were brought to a sudden stop, being confronted with a large drop filled with a great confusion of rocks and flying water. Certainly it was not worth contemplating liloing down, except perhaps for Roger who spent about ten minutes hum-ing and ha-ing at it before remorSefully abandoning it to follow the rest of us around the edge, | ||
- | It was a passable morning with even a few Patches of sunshine to warm us as we paddled, at slightly less than scrambling-round, | ||
- | Hungryway Creek was appropriately arrived at for lunch and after a feed and a general drying out, we started up the creek, leaving Mike and. Roger to start later and take a slightly different route because their car was at a different Place on the road. Differences of opinion between our navigators gave us a very useful supply of rests on the way up Hungryway Creek. The subsequent ridge took us to a point on the road only a short walk from the car. | ||
- | To our surprise the car started on the first cranking and away we went. Alas, before long, on one of our many detours to | ||
- | avoid fallen trees, lira dislodged our muffler and considerable time was spent on removing it altogether. Meanwhile Mike and Roger rolled up behind us and we all waited in the failing light until the liuffler was finally secured like some conquered animal to the roof of the oar. Making noises liko the sound effects in a war film we bounded along the track and eventually made it to the main road and on to Windsor whore our' | ||
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- | 16. The Sydney Bushwalker. May, | ||
- | The APTI-1 L=LEEPI1nE Jim Brown. | ||
- | Actually this opened with the adjourned portion of the Annual Mooting: it was exceedingly brief. Don Finch, occupying the chair for his first General Meeting, outlined how, as the Annual Meeting was being adjourned, George Gray had Questioned how the prices for the various blobks' | ||
- | seemed to be no further discussion, so at that the Annual General Mooting Part II closed and the normal meeting commenced | ||
- | ------as usual with a welcome to new member Tony Denham: another newcomer, Ross Howard, was not present for the investiture. | ||
- | The minutes of the Annual Mooting were road and during their confirmation there was a suggestion that Part II be treated as " | ||
- | as a correct record." | ||
- | note book, and rith recollections of bush lawyers he has heard, Don declined to be drawn and that section will be confirmed in May. | ||
- | However, we were still unable to fill vacancies for a Lady | ||
- | Committee Member and a Magazine Sales and Subscriptions vendor, still outstanding from March while Phil Hall rose to say he could not be representative to the ' | ||
- | Correspondence contained a copy of the Nature Conservation Council' | ||
- | from Kevin Dean, transfer to non-active status for Jean and. Brian | ||
- | Harvey. Arising from a suggestion in correspondence Phil Hall moved a vote of thanks to Shirley Dean for the vast amount of work dor6;,. for the magazine and other Club publications over some years. | ||
- | Unfortunately the Treasury report was inaudible but from subsequent gleaning from the official record it seems the closing balance for March was $556 on the current accounts. There followed a Walks | ||
- | Report covering two months' | ||
- | had set out as programmed and attendances on the whole were moderate, | ||
- | ranging from three or four to a number of trips with twelves, | ||
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- | Federation R.ap.orts,-..inaluded | + | After driving as far as practicable in Bob Younger' |
- | .PaTived | + | |
- | some of the meeting affairs practically inaudible. It was suggested | + | As we walked and rock-hopped down the creek it was sad to note that not even the most sheltered areas had escaped the fires, an observation which was unchallenged during the weekend. No ground was spared. There are still large areas of sterile grey sand and bare sandstone cliffs peeling and cracked by the heat and scattered with rain-washed charcoal debris. The new green spikes of the native grasses and the green and red proliforations dotting the blackened trees have given at least a superficial appearance of recovery. |
- | that members who remained outside during business meetings denied the Club the benefit of their participation. Don observed that they | + | |
- | bould scarcely be compelled to enter the meeting, but if the noise | + | Shortly after passing some fishermen on the way down the creek, we came to a waterfall. Balancing precariously above it I held on to a likely branch, only to have it come away in my hand, enabling me to knight the leader who was below me. Although not seeming to appreciate my generous action, she was glad to be spared the doubtful alternative which was to accompany me in a rapid descent to the rocks sixty feet below. |
- | Droved | + | |
- | Wilf ' | + | Te arrived at the Colo in time for lunch, and after much puffing into, and mending |
- | ing mention that the Blue Mountains and. Burragorang Tourist map. Was | + | |
- | being repyliducea, this time in colour and with contours: also .a new edition of the PQrt Habking. | + | The river was sufficiently flooded to make it muddy and full of debris but not fast enough to prevent us being blown upstream if the wind blew when we stopped paddling. The water became very churned up after travelling over the rapids and this provided the surface of the water with swirls of creamy film that one's drifting lilo urged into all sorts of fascinating shapes before it, leaving a transient wake behind it. The numerous sticks and lumps of charcoal offered slightly more resistance to the craft as they bumped and bobbed around the perimeter like jostling hens pecking at grain. |
- | Dot; | + | |
- | two blocks.--vras | + | After some hours of this leisurely progression we came upon a suitable campsite beside a small creek and so we drew our lilos up to the bank and quickly rushed around to get a fire started, having suddenly realised how cold we were, as it had alternately sprinkled and cold-breezed most of the afternoon. |
- | There was a suggestion of.reafforestation in some parts | + | |
- | Don Finch said he had. spoken to the Club's S & H Contacts, who agreed a third contact was desirable. On a cautionary note Phil Butt suggested parties arriving back at cars late on the last day of a trip should_ | + | Tea was nearly finished when we heard some unaccounted.for clumpings through the undergrowth and Joan informed us that it was probably Mike Short who had rung her up to say that he might meet us on Saturday night accompanied by an (unspecified) friend. Conjecture as to who the friend might be was brought to a halt as Roger Gowing's face suddenly appeared in the firelight, followed later by Mike's. And so another tent and a couple more meals later we were all ready for bed. |
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+ | The next morning again cast doubts upon Phil's rain shadow theory but we nevertheless embarked enthusiastically upon our lilos, blatantly ignoring the fishermen on the bank who warned us about the dangerous rapids just ahead. Sure enough, no sooner had we started off than we were brought to a sudden stop, being confronted with a large drop filled with a great confusion of rocks and flying water. Certainly it was not worth contemplating liloing down, except perhaps for Roger who spent about ten minutes hum-ing and ha-ing at it before remorsefully abandoning it to follow the rest of us around the edge. | ||
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+ | It was a passable morning with even a few patches of sunshine to warm us as we paddled, at slightly less than scrambling-round-the edge pace, down the river. This rate was conveniently guaged by using a Phil Buttometer, an instrument invaluable for comparison work at the few points when it could be discerned from the surrounding cliffs and scrub. | ||
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+ | Hungryway Creek was appropriately arrived at for lunch and after a feed and a general drying out, we started up the creek, leaving Mike and Roger to start later and take a slightly different route because their car was at a different place on the road. Differences of opinion between our navigators gave us a very useful supply of rests on the way up Hungryway Creek. The subsequent ridge took us to a point on the road only a short walk from the car. | ||
+ | |||
+ | To our surprise the car started on the first cranking and away we went. Alas, before long, on one of our many detours to avoid fallen trees, we dislodged our muffler and considerable time was spent on removing it altogether. Meanwhile Mike and Roger rolled up behind us and we all waited | ||
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+ | Those blank spaces in last month's magazine were caused by leaders of day walks, indeed of any walks or junkets not taking advantage of free advertising. It pays to advertise. Last month' | ||
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+ | |||
+ | =====The April General Meeting.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jim Brown. | ||
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+ | Actually this opened with the adjourned portion of the Annual Meeting: it was exceedingly brief. Don Finch, occupying the chair for his first General Meeting, outlined how, as the Annual Meeting was being adjourned, George Gray had questioned how the prices for the various blocks of the Kangaroo Valley land had been computed. Well, said Don, some areas were cleared grazing land which commanded a higher price: however, the final figure was not yet fixed - it would be a matter for negotiation with the Club's co-purchasers. Dot Butler should shortly be able to clarify the whole matter. There seemed to be no further discussion, so at that the Annual General Meeting Part II closed and the normal meeting commenced... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ...as usual with a welcome to new member Tony Denham: another newcomer, Ross Howard, was not present for the investiture. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The minutes of the Annual Meeting were read and during their confirmation there was a suggestion that Part II be treated as " | ||
+ | |||
+ | However, we were still unable to fill vacancies for a Lady Committee Member and a Magazine Sales and Subscriptions vendor, still outstanding from March while Phil Hall rose to say he could not be representative to the Nature Conservation Council, as he already spoke for Federation there. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Correspondence contained a copy of the Nature Conservation Council' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Unfortunately the Treasury report was inaudible but from subsequent gleaning from the official record it seems the closing balance for March was $556 on the current accounts. There followed a Walks Report covering two months' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Federation Reports included a S & R request that advice of overdue parties be given on Monday, preferably in the morning, so that the call-up machinery | ||
+ | |||
+ | Arrived | ||
+ | |||
+ | Wilf Hilder | ||
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+ | Dot Butler reported | ||
+ | |||
+ | Don Finch said he had spoken to the Club's S & R Contacts, who agreed a third contact was desirable. On a cautionary note Phil Butt suggested parties arriving back at cars late on the last day of a trip should | ||
And the April meeting wound up at the quite early hour of 8.45 p.m. | And the April meeting wound up at the quite early hour of 8.45 p.m. | ||
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