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- | DOWN 'ROUND COOKBUNDCON | + | =====Down |
by Jim Brown. | by Jim Brown. | ||
- | In December' | + | |
- | a walk along a short stage of the Middle Wollondilly, | + | In December' |
- | It seems that on an early expleratory | + | |
- | Bundanoon area. On return they asked the base camp lackeys if they had done anything about inspecting the western (Wollondilly) flank of the ridge. " | + | It seems that on an early exploratory |
- | Anyway, June saw me having another fling and hopeful of covering | + | |
- | the whole leg of the river from The Hammocks, where I'd pulled out before, | + | Anyway, June saw me having another fling and hopeful of covering the whole leg of the river from The Hammocks, where I'd pulled out before, down to the Wingecarribee Junction about 12-13 miles in all. Well, I got nowhere near doing it - and here's why - |
- | down to the Wingecarribee Junction about 12-13 miles in all. Well, I got nowhere near doing it and here's why. | + | |
- | On Saturday morning I drove out along the Tugalong Road, and about four miles from the Canyonleigh Road Junction turned left on to the Nandi Road. Within a couple of miles this deteriorated and became very scoured | + | On Saturday morning I drove out along the Tugalong Road, and about four miles from the Canyonleigh Road Junction turned left on to the Nandi Road. Within a couple of miles this deteriorated and became very scoured out on a moderate grade, so I parked and set out on foot to enter the Wollondilly valley somewhere near "The Hammocks" |
- | out on a moderate grade, so I parked and set out on foot to enter the | + | |
- | Wollondilly valley somewhere near "The Hammocks" | + | The going downstream was fair for perhaps a mile: the flats were very rocky and footing nowhere smooth as it is on, say, the Cox. However the river then swung into a short, quite impressive granite gorge a couple of hundred feet deep. I got through practically at river level, first on the west bank, switching to the east side for the last couple of hundred yards. |
- | right down to the river, only half a mile or so below- my previous point of exit. | + | |
- | The going downstream was fair for perhaps a mile: the flats were | + | Then quite pleasant going, but mostly rockhopping, |
- | very rocky and footing nowhere smooth as it is on, say, the Cox. However | + | |
- | the river then swung into a short, quite impressive granite gorge a couple of hundred feet deep. I got through practically at river level, first on | + | Here it is the Wollondilly |
- | the west bank, switching to the east side for the last couple of hundred yards. | + | |
- | Then quite pleasant going, but mostly rockhopping, | + | Anyway the light was failing when I came to the first campable places near the creek junction at map reference Mittagong 063440, so I called it a day, with barely |
- | Junction. There were a couple of quite pleasant grassed flats along this stage and once even a fence up on the steep hillside above. The last | + | |
- | mile to Cookbundoon Junction was rocky and rather slow and took most of an | + | |
- | hour, and it was almost four o' | + | |
- | Here it is the tiollondilly | + | |
- | Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSITIALKER SepteMber, 1973. | + | |
- | the granite bars. Suffice to say, the next mile swallowed up almost an hour: I was on the east bank, and I fancy the other side would. have been easier, but don't take that as a certainty if you go there. | + | |
- | Anyway the light was failing when I came to the first campable places near the creek junction at map reference Mittagong 063440, so I called it a day, with barely | + | |
Next morning, also, I decided to climb out of the valley. Although the going seemed to be getting a bit easier, I was getting further away from the car and every side creek from the east meant another gully to be headed up on the ridge top. There was also a smell of rain in the too mild wind out of the north west, while it was abundantly clear that it would take more time than I had to get down to the Wingecarribee Junction. | Next morning, also, I decided to climb out of the valley. Although the going seemed to be getting a bit easier, I was getting further away from the car and every side creek from the east meant another gully to be headed up on the ridge top. There was also a smell of rain in the too mild wind out of the north west, while it was abundantly clear that it would take more time than I had to get down to the Wingecarribee Junction. | ||
- | Having once scaled the ridge it proved easy walking across paddocks to the car, and in fact I was back to it by 11.0 a m. En route I noticed that a power transmission line has been carried right across the %lion,- dilly valley slung from steel towers situated about 1,000 foot above tho river, just a little downstream from my point of exit. | + | |
- | This loaves | + | Having once scaled the ridge it proved easy walking across paddocks to the car, and in fact I was back to it by 11.0 a.m. En route I noticed that a power transmission line has been carried right across the Wollondilly |
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+ | This leaves | ||
Meanwhile, I' | Meanwhile, I' | ||
- | * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | SOCIU SECRETARYS NCJTES. by Elaine Brown, | + | ---- |
- | On the 26th September two very intere-sting | + | |
- | On the 17th October, Mouldy Harrison is to give his slide showing on " | + | =====Social Secretary' |
- | The Slide Competition between members | + | |
- | Page 5 THE SYDNEY EUSHWALKER SepteMber, 1973. | + | by Elaine Brown. |
- | A QUICK EXIT FROM TEE MACDONNELL RANGES PART 20 | + | |
+ | On the 26th September two very interesting | ||
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+ | On the 17th October, Mouldy Harrison is to give his slide showing on " | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Slide Competition between members | ||
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+ | |||
+ | =====A Quick Exit From The MacDonnell Ranges, Part 2.===== | ||
by Frank Rigby. | by Frank Rigby. | ||
- | (Readers may remember how we finished up last month in the predawn gloom at Stuart Pass in the Chewings Range: "At 6.15 a m., a mere thirty minutes after I had been up myself, Don woke us suddenly. There was no mistaking the note of alarm in his voice 'The river' | + | (Readers may remember how we finished up last month in the predawn gloom at Stuart Pass in the Chewings Range: "At 6.15 a.m., a mere thirty minutes after I had been up myself, Don woke us suddenly. There was no mistaking the note of alarm in his voice - 'The river' |
- | Even in such panic situations, when one awakens from deep sleep, it takes a minute or two to sort out the dreams and the reality. When my mind first began to grasp the idea that this was no dream, I could still hardly-believe it. But then, I knew that Don doesn' | + | |
- | remeMber | + | Even in such panic situations, when one awakens from deep sleep, it takes a minute or two to sort out the dreams and the reality. When my mind first began to grasp the idea that this was no dream, I could still hardly believe it. But then, I knew that Don doesn' |
- | edge. Later we found that Joan and I were wearing one of the other' | + | |
- | - So there we stood, just after 6.30 in the first light of that drizzly dawn, seven miserable figures looking quite sorry for themselves. The joys of bushwalking! | + | So there we stood, just after 6.30 in the first light of that drizzly dawn, seven miserable figures looking quite sorry for themselves. The joys of bushwalking! |
- | 'That's the quickest way out to Alice Springs?" | + | |
- | shivery voice. I smiled inwardly but couldn' | + | "What's the quickest way out to Alice Springs?" |
- | I had to quickly formulate a plan before we all froze on the spot. We | + | |
- | had been duo at Standley Chasm, and then The Alice, on the following day, but what was the point in hanging around the mountains in this sort of weather? As it haPVnod | + | I put this plan to the others. I think any plan which got us moving, preferably in the direction of some form of civilisation, |
- | now a raging | + | |
- | Were we really in Central Australia, I mused? Fortunately, | + | Naturally, my 5.45 a.m. report on the trickle of water in the river bed became highly suspect in the light of what had followed; |
- | a relatively low level route from the Standby | + | |
- | Settlement where we just might, with luck, got transport for the 25 miles | + | Our crude shelter was no place to linger; already we were chilling off. I was worried. Could we find the way out of this mountain maze in this hellish weather? Alternatively, |
- | back into town no use heading for the Chasm as it would -be deserted in this weather and in any case was sure to have a raging torrent of its own. | + | |
- | I put this plan to the others. I think any -elan which got us moving, | + | |
- | Page 6 | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSIMALKER | + | |
- | S opt emb 1973. | + | |
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- | Page 7 THE SYDNEY BUSHTAIKER September , 1973 | + | |
- | preferably in the direction of some form of civilisation, | + | |
- | Naturally, my 5.45 a m. report on the trickle of water in the river bed became highly suspect in the light of what had followod5 | + | |
- | Our crude shelter was no place to linger already we were chilling off. I was worried. Could we find the way out of this mountain maze in | + | |
- | this hellish weather? Alternatively, | + | |
- | of natural shelter? I didn't know the answers. The day had ' | + | |
(To be continued) | (To be continued) | ||
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AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND A=ther letter from Alan Pike. | AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND A=ther letter from Alan Pike. | ||
Zermatt 13/6/73. Dear Everyone, | Zermatt 13/6/73. Dear Everyone, |
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