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 About 2.00 a.m. on Saturday morning we reached Rendezvous Creek and found a green Renault on the side of the road. We pulled up and went across and began calling out above the roar of the boisterous creek. No answer. We then inspected the car as well as we could without torches in the inky darkness and came to the conclusion that the vehicle was an abandoned one - doors missing (or so it seemed in the dark), and no answer to our repeated calls. We therefore went on to About 2.00 a.m. on Saturday morning we reached Rendezvous Creek and found a green Renault on the side of the road. We pulled up and went across and began calling out above the roar of the boisterous creek. No answer. We then inspected the car as well as we could without torches in the inky darkness and came to the conclusion that the vehicle was an abandoned one - doors missing (or so it seemed in the dark), and no answer to our repeated calls. We therefore went on to
  
-**//PAGE 12 IS MISSING//**+Gudgenby Gate, and after abdulling the tent and having a cup of hot. 
 +soupy, were glad to get into our bags and away from the cold. 
 + 
 +At 7.00 asm. Doone Wyborn came up from Rendezvous Creek with the 
 +rest of the party (John Kitchener, Dick Glen, Lesley Wood, Bronwyn 
 +Seccombe, and Lindsay Gilroy) and the mystery of the "abandonod" Renault 
 +was solved. It seoms that our calls were heard but they were so well. 
 +ensconced in their sleeping bags that we had gone on by the time they 
 +had got their zippers undone! 
 + 
 +It was a fine crisp morning when we set out at 8,30 a.m. across 
 +the three miles of cleared country to the foot of the spur at 964871. 
 +On the way across the paddocks we had a good sight of Sentry Box Hill 
 +up the valley of the Gudgenby. 
 + 
 +We had an hour and a half for lunch after we cencountcred the first 
 +snow. One thing is certains tea made from melted snow tastes worse 
 +than the water we've been getting in Sydney lately. The sandshoe brigade 
 +changed over to boots and we continued on to the crest of the 5,700 ft. 
 +feature (Ref.919898). It was delightful trudging up through a cover of 
 +snow, but granitc boulders and mallee~likc Snow Gums are not conducive 
 +to rapid movement, and overy immersion of bare flesh in the snow was 
 +followed by a few minutes of torture. The southern slope of this peak 
 +(and of all tho others nearby) certainly looked wintry with its plaster 
 +of snow as we approached it, 
 + 
 +Having sampled the view from the top, the increasing chill in the 
 +air (although the sky was calm and bluc) accelcrated our desire for a 
 +good camp site. We picked out a grassy spot on thc far side of the 
 +creek to the south and then ploughed our way down through a basin of 
 +virgin snow with the aid of improvised alpenstocks, and by about 4.30 pm, 
 +we had a big fire going and tents were up (with bark on the floor) and 
 +hot food was cooking. This is the time when tent owners reap their 
 +just reward. Having carried up and down the scungy ridge, you now invoke 
 +your unalienable right to sleep in the middle, and in this position, with 
 +the help of two pullovers, three pairs of Paddy's sox, gloves, balaclava, 
 +inner sheet, Everest sleeping bag, pyjamas, all your ordinary clothing, 
 +plus several copies of Saturday's Herald, ensuresthat you have e warm 
 +night. 
 + 
 +The water buckets began to crackle when thoy were used, the fire 
 +was built up to monstrous heights, the song books were taken out, and 
 +I lay back and listoncd and toasted myself while the young ‘uns sang 
 +the night away. 
 + 
 +Desert boots are not the best footwear to use in snow conditions, 
 +and it was for this reason that’ one membor of the party did not climb 
 +Kelly on the Sunday morning. Another member stayed behind, but for 
 +some other reason -— sleeping, I think.
  
 It was another glorious day, warm and sunny among the snow gums on a little snowplain, and during the leisurely lunch time was taken to sun our gear. The homeward route was down the creek all the way, with a bit of sidling on the right bank where it begins, to drop. We of course wanted to do a round trip, but the better route would have been to drop off our ascent spur into this creek around Ref. 930883, both going and coming. It was another glorious day, warm and sunny among the snow gums on a little snowplain, and during the leisurely lunch time was taken to sun our gear. The homeward route was down the creek all the way, with a bit of sidling on the right bank where it begins, to drop. We of course wanted to do a round trip, but the better route would have been to drop off our ascent spur into this creek around Ref. 930883, both going and coming.
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