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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Established June 1931 | + | |
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A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), | ||
- | 34 Falcon Street, | + | 34 Falcon Street, |
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- | EDITOR: | + | |Editor |
- | BUSINESS MANAGER: | + | |Business Manager |
- | PRODUCTIONMANkIER: | + | |Production Manager |
- | DUPLICATOR OPERATORS: | + | |Typist |
- | Ainslie Morris, 45 Austin Street, Lane Cove, 2066. Telephone 428-3178. | + | |Duplicator Operators |
- | Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, | + | |
- | Helen Gray. Kath Brown. | + | ==== SEPTEMBER |
- | Phil Butt and Barbara Evans. | + | |
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- | SEFTEKBER, | + | |A Moment of Truth |by Jim Brown |
- | A. Moment of Truth | + | |A New National Park at Port Stephens |
- | A New National Park at Port Stephens Committee Meeting Note | + | |Committee Meeting Note | | 5| |
- | Our Conservation Secretary Awarded O.A.M. No Negotiation of The Daintree | + | |Our Conservation Secretary Awarded O.A.M. |
- | An Extra Walk for the Holiday | + | |No Negotiation of The Daintree |
- | The Desert Survival Problem | + | |An Extra Walk for the Holiday |
- | Carol' | + | |Eastwood Camping Centre Advertisement |
- | Wildlife in the Apsley River Gorge (From " | + | |" |
- | Social Notes for October | + | |The Desert Survival Problem |
- | Decisions - Half-Yearly Meeting | + | |Carol' |
- | Page by Jim Brown 2 | + | |Wildlife in the Apsley River Gorge | | | |
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- | 5 | + | |Good News at Narrow Neck |Bill Gamble |
- | 6 | + | |Social Notes for October |
- | 7 Camp 7 | + | |Decisions - Half-Yearly Meeting |
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- | by Peter Christian 9 | + | ===== A MOMENT OF TRUTH ===== |
- | from Marion Lloyd 10 | + | |
- | by Bill Gamble 11 | + | by Jim Brown |
- | Dot Butler 12 | + | |
- | Bill Gamble 15 | + | I fancy this title comes from the horrendous sport (!) of bullfighting, when the matador stands face to face with a killer bull. For myself, I couldn' |
- | Roger Browne | + | |
- | 16 | + | It was about 10.00 am on Easter Saturday; March 23rd, 1940 and at the southern rim of Kanangra Walls, where the track begins to dip down towards the Coal Seam Cave and the Gingra Range. Not a very startling |
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- | Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | Of course, I had been to the bush quite a few times before. There had been a progression of day walks, gradually growing more ambitious, until about two years earlier there had been an introduction to overnight walking. On that occasion two of us set out on an Australia Day weekend to do the conventional walk from Wentworth Falls via Kedumba Creek, Cox's River, Burragorang Valley and the Nattai River to Picton. OUr trip had not been exactly a resounding success - we became ill on the water of Kedumba Creek flowing from the Leura Sewage Farm; one of my knees packed up; an We finally limped into Central Burragorang and caught a bus out to Camden on the Monday |
- | A MOMENT OF TRUTH. | + | |
- | by Jim Brown. | + | After that I almost "Quit for Life" and probably would have done so, except that Life and the Bush seemed to have become inextricably interwoven. Instead I tried several other overnight trips, all of which ended in disaster of one kind or another, but when I voiced an intention of going to Kanangra and beyond at Easter 1940, my companion of the Kedumba trip opted out. Of course he was the smart one or was he? No, I really think he was plain scared, and maybe with some cause considering the calibre of my navigation at that stage. |
- | I fancy this title comes from the horrendous sport (!) b? buli, -- | + | |
- | fighting, when the matador stands face to face with a killer bull. For | + | At all events at Easter, at the end of Sydney' |
- | myself, I couldn' | + | |
- | rather think of it as that instant in time when one makes a major discovery | + | There were a few other odd-ball types aboard, and I remember some of them dancing bare-foot on the recently hosed-down platform at Penrith about 4.30 am, and singing |
- | of one's life. I dare say many of us can't identify the exact moment, but I feel I can define the very place and time it happened to me. | + | | |" |
- | It was about 10.00 am on Easter Saturday; March 23rd, 19409 and at the southern rim of Kanangra Walls, where the track begins to dip down towards the Coal Seam Cave and the Gingra Range. Not a very startling | + | | |I'd go and jump right into the sea, | |
- | Of course, I had been to the bush quite a few times before. There | + | | |But there' |
- | had been a progression of day walks, gradually growing more ambitious, until about two years earlier there had been an introduction to overnight walking. On that occasion two of us set out on an Australia Day weekend to do the - conventional walk from Wentworth Falls via Kedumba Creek, Cox's River,, | + | | |I'm so sorry for myself." |
- | Burragorang Valley and the Nattai River to Picton. OUr trip had not been | + | |
- | exactly a resounding success - we became ill on the water of Kedumba Creek flowing from the Leura Sewage Farm; one of my knees packed up; an We finally limped into Central Burragorang and caught a bus out to Camden on the Mdnday | + | As the train slugged up the hill to Springwood the first vague light of a March dawn illuminated the paler rocks of the cuttings so that they looked like waste paper, and the pungent engine smoke mingled with the |
- | After that I almost "Quit for Life" and probably would have done so, except that Life and the Bush seemed to have become inextricably interwoven. Instead I tried several other overnight trips, all of which ended in disaster of one kind or another, but when I voiced an intention of going to Kanangra and beyond at Easter 1940, my companion of the Kedumba trip opted out. Of course he was the smart one or was he? No, I really think he was plain scared, and maybe with some cause considering the calibre of my navigation at that stage: | + | smell of cattle in the trucks ahead (I' |
- | At all events at Easter, at the end of Sydney' | + | |
- | There were a few other odd-ball types aboard, and I remember some of them dancing bare-foot on the recently hosed-down platform at Penrith about 4.30 am, and singl,: | + | The bus brought me to Jenolan about 12.30 pm, and I walked up the steep hill to the Kanangra Road Junction. Nearby I found water for a late lunch, then went on to Budthingeroo (Cunninghame' |
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- | I'd go and jump right into the sea, | + | Mist hung in the hollows and a gigantic Easter moon went down like a yellow dollar coin, and about 5.45 am I first saw Kanangra, with the valleys full of blue cloud, and the rising sun throwing a blood-red finger over the hummocky tops of the mist. Only once since have I seen the same miracle of sunrise over cloud-filled ravines at Kanangra |
- | But there' | + | |
- | I'm so sorry for myself." | + | I breakfasted |
- | As the train slugged up the hill to Springwood the first vague light of a March dawn illuminated the paler rocks of the cuttings so that they looked like waste paper, and the pungent engine smoke mingled with the | + | |
- | September, 1984, THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | But my confidence had been shattered into little fragments like the track. I looked south towards Mount Colong' |
- | lie | + | “Good Doctor Jekyll, |
- | smell of cattle in the trucks ahead (I' | + | Day and night, wrong or right,\\ |
- | and warm. I had to wait about four hours to catch a tourist coach to Jeholan Caves, and filled in the time eating biscuits, chocolate and oranges. | + | They' |
- | The bus brought me to Jenolan about 12.30 pm, and I walked up the steep ,hill to the Kanangra Road JUnction. Nearby I found water for a late lunch, then went on to Budthingeroo (Cunninghame' | + | |
- | inadequate sleeping bag made further rest impossible, so I started out over the loose earth of the newly turned road surface towards Kanangra. | + | Mr. Hyde now spoke to me loud and clear. He said, “Turn back. It's too hairy. You're no hero, not even a half-baked bushwalker.” |
- | Mist hung in the hollows and a gigantic Easter moon went down like a yellow dollar coin, and about 5,45 am I first saw Kanangra, with the valleys full of blue cloud, and the rising sun throwing a blood-red finger over the hummocky tops of the mist. Only once since have I seen the same miracle of sunrise over cloud-filled ravines at Kanangral | + | |
- | I beeakfasted | + | Dr. Jekyll replied. |
- | white photographs, | + | |
- | disintegrated into half a dozen threads. Very circumspectly I groped my way through this maze of tracks until I came again to a clear path, which showed signs'of dropping downwards. | + | “Take the easy way out,” counselled Mr. Hyde. “Remember how you suffered on Kedumba Creek and in the lawyer vine below Clear Hill? You can easily get back to Jenolan. No one will ever know.” |
- | But my confidence had been shattered into little fragments like the track. I looked south towards Mount Colong' | + | |
- | above the mist,. but the gorges of Christy' | + | Said Dr. Jekyll. |
- | "Good Doctor Jekyll, | + | |
- | Day and night, wrong or right, | + | “Well,” argued |
- | They' | + | |
- | Mr. Hyde now spoke to me loud and clear. He said, "Turn back. It's | + | Dr. Jekyll: |
- | too hairy. You're no hero, not even a half-baked bushwalker." | + | |
- | Dr. Jekyll replied. | + | Mr. Hyde: “Where do you think you're going? You'll be sorry!!!” |
- | "Take the easy way out," | + | |
- | can easily get back to Jenolan. No one will ever know." | + | Years later, in a magazine article, |
- | Said pr. Jekyll. | + | |
- | -Nell," | + | So I came to Gingra Range, to Hughes Ridge (finding that must have been Mug's Luck), and the Kowmung for lunch. That night, near Gingra Creek junction I met up with some real, fair-dinkum bushwalkers. They may have been S.B.W. - I never found out. They were very kind, and didn't sneer at my queer assortment of gear, and even offered some helpful suggestions. |
- | got here. There will be even better views on the Tops as you go back. Oh, | + | |
- | Page 4 ME MERU MOM: | + | Why agonise over the rest of that awful trip? On the morning of Easter Day the chill drove me on my way before dawn and I reached |
- | ftnd by tn6 way, Ar yoq really sure this is th4 way. td Gingra?" | + | |
- | Mr. Hyde: "Where do you think you're going? You'll be sorri!!!" | + | I was determined not to drink polluted water again, so I waited until I found the Coxs flowing before I filled my aluminium water bottle for the stage up Kedumba. What I didn't notice was the Coxs began to flow where a puny stream came out of a narrow ravine |
- | Years later, in a magazine article, | + | |
- | and we knew we wouldn' | + | I just caught the last train from Wentworth Falls about 8.20 pm, and was glad to have to myself a compartment in a box carriage |
- | time I didn't say anything, but if I had it would have been, "Cheerio, | + | |
- | gents. Have one for me at Caves House, Mr. Hyde." | + | Yes, like the character in the pop song, I was sorry for myself. In fact, I wondered again if I should Quit for Life, except that I no longer had any real choice. At South Kanangra I had passed through an invisible barrier, that sort of Moment of Truth. |
- | So I came to Gingra Range, to Hughes Ridge (finding that must have been Mug's Luck), and the Kowmung for lunch. That night, near Gingra | + | |
- | Creek junction I met up with some real, fair-dinkum bushwalkers. They may have been S.B.W. - I never found out. They were very kind, and didn't | + | Even as I have been writing this, a most disturbing thought has occurred to me. I know that Thomas Carlyle cautions us about speculation on our “might-have-beens” and derides it as a totally futile exercise. |
- | sneer at my queer assortment of gear, and even offered some helpful suggestions. | + | |
- | Why agonise over the rest of that awful trip? On the morning of Easter Day the chill drove me on my way before dawn and I reached | + | If that had happened, I might have failed to do almost all the things that now seem to me to have been most worthwhile, most rewarding. Worst of all, I may never have met most of the people I have come to respect |
- | I was determined not to drink polluted water again, so I waited until I. found the Cox flowing before I filled my aluminium water-bottle for the stage up Kedumba. What I didn't notice was the Cox began to flow where a puny stream came out of a narrow ravine Kedumba Creek. About 3.00 pm, | + | |
- | already bilious from the " | + | It doesn' |
- | I just caught the last train from Wentworth Falls about 8.20 pm, and was glad to have to myself a compartment in a b0 carriages | + | |
- | hoMe about 11.30 pm on Easter Sunday, very sick, sore and sorry for myself. | + | =====A NEW NATIONAL PARK AT PORT STEPHENS - AND IT'S MAGNIFICENT===== |
- | Yes, like the character in the pop song, I was sorry for myself. In | + | |
- | fact, I wondered again if I should Quit for Life, except that I no longer | + | From “The Sydney Morning Herald”, 11th August, |
- | had any real choice. At South Kanangra I had passed through an invisible | + | |
- | barrier, that sort of Moment of Truth. | + | N.S.W. gained a magnificent new coastal headland national park at Port Stephens yesterday, when the Minister for Planning and Environment, |
- | Even as I have been writing this, a most disturbing thought has occurred to me. I know that Thomas Carlyle cautions us about speculation on our | + | |
- | "might-have-beens" | + | |
- | is. But suppose just suppose I had turned back at South Kanangra... Would I have ever gone again to the bush? Could I have ever nerved myself to try to join a Bush Walking Club seven years later and after the War? | + | |
- | If that had happened, I might have failed to do almost all the things that now seem to me to have been most worth-while, most rewarding. Worst of all, I may never have met most of the people I have come to respect | + | |
- | to admire yes, to love It doesn' | + | |
- | ***********, | + | |
- | September, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER. Page 5 | + | |
- | A NEW NATIONAL PARK AT PORT STEPHENS | + | |
- | - AND IT'S MAGNIFICENT. | + | |
- | From."The Sydney Morning Herald", 11th August, | + | |
- | N.S.W. gained a magnificent new coastal headland national park at Port Stephens yesterday, when the Minister for Planning and Environment, | + | |
And it is only 30 minutes' | And it is only 30 minutes' | ||
- | Mr. Sheahan said that since 1976 the length of the N.S.W. coastline. covered by national parks and nature reserves had doubled'from 17 to 34 per cent. The addition of Tomaree Park would preserve the scenic and biolog- | + | |
- | ical features of the area and cater for swimming, surfing, bushwalking, | + | Mr. Sheahan said that since 1976 the length of the N.S.W. coastline covered by national parks and nature reserves had doubled from 17 to 34 per cent. The addition of Tomaree Park would preserve the scenic and biological |
- | The vegetation of Tomaree Park includes open forest, mixed eucalyiars | + | |
- | seabirds on the offshore islands and cliffs. There is also a number of archaeological sites. | + | The vegetation of Tomaree Park includes open forest, mixed eucalypts |
An important part of the park is the Fingal promontory, which for much of the year is an offshore island, but sometimes is connected by a sandy isthmus. | An important part of the park is the Fingal promontory, which for much of the year is an offshore island, but sometimes is connected by a sandy isthmus. | ||
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Mr. Sheahan said negotiations were underway between the State and Federal Governments to transfer the historic lighthouse on Point Stephens to the State for inclusion in the park. | Mr. Sheahan said negotiations were underway between the State and Federal Governments to transfer the historic lighthouse on Point Stephens to the State for inclusion in the park. | ||
- | The N.P.W.S. also hopes that the Crown land on Tomaree Head controlled by the N.S.W. Health. | + | |
- | JOSEPH GLASCOM | + | The N.P.W.S. also hopes that the Crown land on Tomaree Head controlled by the N.S.W. Health. |
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+ | Joseph Glascott | ||
(Perhaps a member would like to lead a walk here? Ed.) | (Perhaps a member would like to lead a walk here? Ed.) | ||
- | COMMITTEE MEETING. | + | |
- | Some information presented to the September Committee Meeting suggested that on a few recent walks lunch-time fires were not extinguished as thoroughly as they might have been. In some cases, apparently, sand had | + | =====COMMITTEE MEETING===== |
- | been scuffed. over the embers. | + | |
- | For bushwalkers there is only one way to put out a fire - DROWN IT COMPLETELY WITH WATER. | + | Some information presented to the September Committee Meeting suggested that on a few recent walks lunch-time fires were not extinguished as thoroughly as they might have been. In some cases, apparently, sand had been scuffed over the embers. |
- | ********** | + | |
- | NEW MEMBER: Please add to your Membership List. | + | For bushwalkers there is only one way to put out a fire - **drown it completely with water**. |
- | OSPREY, Martina - 57 Melaleuca Drive, St. Ives, 2075 Phone 440,8877 (H) | + | |
- | Page 6 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | **New Member: Please add to your Membership List.** |
- | OUR CONSERVATION SECRETARY AWARDED 0.A.. | + | |
- | From "The colon '84. | + | Osprey, Martina - 57 Melaleuca Drive, St. Ives, 2075 Phone 440,8877 (H) |
- | Alex Colley, Honorary Secretary of the Colong Committee for the past eight years, was awarded the Medal of the Order, of Australia in the Queen' | + | |
- | Alex has given sustained and invaluable assistance in a voluntary capacity to conservation in Australia for nearly fifty years. Seldom in | + | =====OUR CONSERVATION SECRETARY AWARDED 0.A.M.===== |
- | the public eye, he has worked tirelessly to ensure that future generations of Australians will be adequately provided with a rich natural heritage in terms of national parks and wilderness. | + | |
- | In his professional career, Alex was, until his retirement, an economist with the N.S.W. State Planning Authority. Thus his life's work | + | From “The Colong Bulletin" |
- | has been concerned with conservation-related matters and public service. He has served not only his employer but a host of public spirited bodies with distinction, | + | |
- | Alex Colley joined The Sydney Bush Walkers Club in 1936. By 1937 he | + | Alex Colley, Honorary Secretary of the Colong Committee for the past eight years, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen' |
- | was filling a position on the Committee, and four years later was elected' | + | |
- | President for 1941-42. He later served as editor of the Club's magazine | + | Alex has given sustained and invaluable assistance in a voluntary capacity to conservation in Australia for nearly fifty years. Seldom in the public eye, he has worked tirelessly to ensure that future generations of Australians will be adequately provided with a rich natural heritage in terms of national parks and wilderness. |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker", and he has played an active part in the N.S.W. | + | |
- | Federation of Bashwalking | + | In his professional career, Alex was, until his retirement, an economist with the N.S.W. State Planning Authority. Thus his life's work has been concerned with conservation-related matters and public service. He has served not only his employer but a host of public spirited bodies with distinction, |
- | Sydney Bush Walkers Club's Conservation Secretary. | + | |
- | In the conservation field, Alex has been closely involved in The Colong Committee, which he joined in 1963, when it became known that limestone deposits at Colong were under threat from mining. | + | Alex Colley joined The Sydney Bush Walkers Club in 1936. By 1937 he was filling a position on the Committee, and four years later was elected President for 1941-42. He later served as editor of the Club's magazine |
- | His contribution to conservation has always been a willingness to take on activities that involve both timeand | + | |
- | Sydney Bushwalker" | + | In the conservation field, Alex has been closely involved in The Colong Committee, which he joined in 1963, when it became known that limestone deposits at Colong were under threat from mining. He has given continuous service to the Committee as Director, editor of “The Colong Bulletin”, and Hon. Secretary since 1976. |
- | In conservation, | + | |
- | the. integrity of the southern Blue Mountains from limestone mining at Colong, and the threat of logging of the Boyd Plateau. Today this area is protected by the Kanangra-Boyd National Park. In the northern | + | His contribution to conservation has always been a willingness to take on activities that involve both time and effort. Aside from editing |
- | second largest Park, .Wollemi National Park. For over a decade he has worked to bring to fruition the gazettal of the State' | + | |
- | . | + | In conservation, |
- | It is perhaps typical of Alex Colley that when, in July 1981, the Sydney Bushwalkers Club elected him as their second Honorary Active Member, he told those gathered that he felt the Club owed him nothing - rather | + | |
- | September, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 7 | + | It is perhaps typical of Alex Colley that when, in July 1981, the Sydney Bushwalkers Club elected him as their second Honorary Active Member, he told those gathered that he felt the Club owed him nothing - rather |
- | Alex's many friends and colleagues in the great conservation movement are delighted at the well-deserved honour he has received. And to this | + | |
- | official recognition we all heartily add our own special | + | Alex's many friends and colleagues in the great conservation movement are delighted at the well-deserved honour he has received. And to this official recognition we all heartily add our own special |
- | Hardly need we say - "Keep up the good work!" | + | |
- | * * * * * * * * * * * * * | + | Hardly need we say - “Keep up the good work!” |
- | NO NEGOTIATION ON THE DAINTREE. | + | |
- | From "The Oolong | + | =====NO NEGOTIATION ON THE DAINTREE===== |
- | The July A.C.F. Newsletter reports that | + | |
- | Last NOvember | + | From “The Colong |
- | (they claim the December blockade cost them $20,000). Despite the efforts of the Environment Minister, Martin Tenni (Barron River), the government does not appear to be about to put more money into the road. | + | |
- | The lack of preparation and haste of the Council in bulldozing from | + | The July A.C.F. Newsletter reports that Last November |
- | both ends last December has now become quite clear. In places the grading | + | |
- | is so steep that it is difficult to walk, let alone drive a vehicle. At | + | The lack of preparation and haste of the Council in bulldozing from both ends last December has now become quite clear. In places the grading is so steep that it is difficult to walk, let alone drive a vehicle. At the northern end where the road climbs above the Woobadda River large landslips |
- | the northern end where the road climbs above the Woobadda River large land- | + | |
- | slips have sent sections of the road into the river. Some low sections of | + | It is obvious that a road in this terrain and climate will have to be thoroughly drained, graded and surfaced, and kept that way if it is to be usable. Simply pushing a bulldozer through the scrub is not only destructive, but useless. An all-weather road might well cost millions of dollars. |
- | the road behind Cowie Beach would be flooded during summer rains. At the southern end between Emmagen Creek and Cape Tribulation the road is also excessively steep and sections have slipped up to 100 m. Throughout its 38 km length erosion has created deep channels and gullies up to 3.5 m | + | |
- | deep over some creek crossings. | + | Mr. David Connolly, Federal Shadow Minister for the Environment, |
- | It is obvious that a road in this terrain and climate will have to be thoroughly drained, graded and surfaced, and kept that way if it is to be | + | |
- | usable. Simply pushing a bulldozer through the scrub is not only dest- | + | =====AN EXTRA WALK FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEK-END. EASY CAMP===== |
- | ructive, but useless.- An all-weather road might well cost millions of | + | |
- | dollars. | + | Sunday 30th.Sept., Monday 1st Oct. (Suitable for beginners) |
- | Mr. David Connolly, Federal Shadow Minister for the Environment, | + | |
- | the Opposition proposal to offer Federal Funds to build or upgrade an alter- | + | Glenbrook |
- | native | + | Leader: Barbara Evans. Phone 94,6333 (H) before 9.00 pm. |
- | **************** | + | |
- | AN EXTRA WALK FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEK-END. EASY CAMP | + | =====" |
- | Sunday 30th.Sept. (Suitable for beginners) | + | |
- | ) | + | by Peter Christian |
- | Monday 1st Oct. ) GLENBROOK | + | |
- | LEADER: Barbara Evans. Phone 94,6333 (H) before 9.0 pm. | + | Touch the stillness of twilight huddled deep in the lap of wilderness\\ |
- | eastwood | + | As cool night air brushes ruddy complexion and prickles even a leathery skin;\\ |
- | camping | + | Incessant stars shine above unblinking as both air and time stand still,\\ |
- | ce | + | Faces framed by flickering flame give friends a ghostly grin. |
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- | ILightweight Tents Sleeping Bags Rucksacks | + | Feel the icy, swirling mountain waters as they numb both calf and knee,\\ |
- | | + | Agonising pins and needles and futile battle of shoes versus rigid feet,\\ |
- | DISTRIBUTORS OF: | + | When unrelenting scrub and lawyer vine nearly reduce pack and limbs to shreds,\\ |
- | Paddymade | + | The luxury and reprieve of grassy river bank where rest of bones is complete. |
- | ICAMPING EQUIPMENT Large Tents Stoves | + | |
- | Proprietors: | + | Rugged granite spurs and ridges tax heart and limb to limits of endurance,\\ |
- | EASTWOOD CANVAS GOODS & CAMPING SUPPLIES 3 Trelawney St Eastwood NSW 2122 Phone: 858 2775 | + | Solitary mountain peaks stand witness to the weathering of eons of time.\\ |
- | Rut ledge Street | + | Fragile heath spreads its delicate lace and lightly springs beneath our tread;\\ |
- | September, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | Persistent |
- | . | + | |
- | " | + | Stinging nettle on snaking Colo keeps tough walkers recoiling in retreat;\\ |
- | by Peter Christian, | + | Casuarinas as dense as bristles stubbornly resent and rebuff our advances.\\ |
- | Touch the stillness of twilight huddled deep in the lap of wilderness | + | Evil black oozing bog of ancient sphagnum swamps, squelches between the toes\\ |
- | As cool night air brushes ruddy complexion and prickles even a leathery | + | |
- | skin; Incessant stars shine above unblinking as both air and time stand still, | + | |
- | Faces framed by flickering flame give friends a ghostly grin. | + | |
- | Feel the icy, swirling mountain waters as they numb both calf and knee, | + | |
- | Agonising pins and needles and futile battle of shoes versus rigid feet, When unrelenting., scrub and lawyer vine nearly reduce pack and limbs to | + | |
- | shreds, | + | |
- | The luxury and reprieve of grassy river bank where rest of bones is | + | |
- | complete. | + | |
- | Rugged granite spurs and ridges tax heart and limb to limits of endurance, | + | |
- | Solitary mountain peaks stand witness to the weathering of eons of time. Fragile heath spreads its delicate lace and lightly springs beneath our | + | |
- | tread; | + | |
- | PerAistent | + | |
- | sublime. | + | |
- | Stinging nettle on snaking Colo keeps tough walkers recoiling in retreat; Casuarinas as dense as bristles stubbornly resent and rebuff our advances. | + | |
- | Evil black oozing bog of ancient sphagnum swamps, squelches between the toes | + | |
Whilst walking in the birthplace of many a great river' | Whilst walking in the birthplace of many a great river' | ||
- | Sandstone buttresses stand sentinel in far-flung Hawkesbury reaches. | + | |
- | Currawong and lyrebird sing of a newborn day as morning mist disperses. Shy platypus and wild duck cautiously ripple those tranquil inland waters | + | Sandstone buttresses stand sentinel in far-flung Hawkesbury reaches.\\ |
- | Where rock orchids display their creamy finery perched on protective | + | Currawong and lyrebird sing of a newborn day as morning mist disperses.\\ |
- | ledges. | + | Shy platypus and wild duck cautiously ripple those tranquil inland waters\\ |
- | Sense the wild and untamed beauty, the balm for restless heart and soul, That can only be found in unblemishes | + | Where rock orchids display their creamy finery perched on protective ledges. |
+ | |||
+ | Sense the wild and untamed beauty, the balm for restless heart and soul,\\ | ||
+ | That can only be found in unblemished | ||
+ | But only a few oases remain due to destructive hand of ignorance and greed\\ | ||
So precious little left on this tiny planet - preserve it before it's only a dream. | So precious little left on this tiny planet - preserve it before it's only a dream. | ||
- | ************** | + | |
- | CONGRATULATIONS | + | **Congratulations** - on the birth of a daughter, Catrina, on 9/7/84 to Rowena |
- | ******** | + | |
- | Page 10 THE SYDNEY : BUSHWALKER | + | =====THE DESERT SURVIVAL PROBLEM===== |
- | THE DESERT SURVIVAL PROBLEM. | + | |
- | Marion Lloyd, a Club member for some years, was introduced to the following | + | Marion Lloyd, a Club member for some years, was introduced to the following |
- | she has forwarded it for presentation in the Magazine. - - | + | |
- | INTRODUCTION, | + | [Removed for copyright reasons] |
- | The situation described in this problem is based on over 2,000 actual cases around the world in which men and mwomen lived or died depending on the survival decisions they made, Assume that your " | + | |
- | could depend on how you apply your present knowledge to a relatively unfamiliar problem. | + | The views of the “experts” will be published in the October |
- | THE SITUATION. | + | |
- | It is approximately 10.00 am, in mid-December, | + | =====CAROL' |
- | twin-engine plane, containing the bodies of the pilot and the co-pilot | + | |
- | has completely burned. Only the air frame remains. None of the rest of you has been injured. | + | by Bill Gamble |
- | The pilot was unable to notify anyone of your position before the crash. However, he had indicated before impact that you were 110 km, | + | |
- | south-south-west from a mining camp which is the nearest known habitation. and that you were approximately 105 km off the course that was filed in your Flight Plan. | + | There was Brian, Shirley, Jan, Paul, John, Marilyn .... in all thirty-one on Carol Bruce' |
- | The immediate area is composed of sand ridges with a little vegetation including prickly pear. The last weather report indicated the temperature would reach 43C that day which means that the temperature at ground level would be 55C. You are dressed in light weight clothing - short-sleeved | + | |
- | shirts, pants, socks and street shoes. Everyone has a handkerchief. Collectively your pockets contain $2.83 in change, $85.00 in bills, a pack of cigarettes, and a biro. | + | Carol led a procession of many prospectives and a few members, generally on a well-used track along the true right of the creek (there are a couple of places where the track swings to the true left, e.g. downstream from Karloo Pool) and Peter Miller kept the rear intact. Sometimes it was easier to forget about the track as travel was often easy on both sides of the creek. |
- | THE PROBLEM. | + | |
- | Before the plane caught fire your group was able to salvage the | + | Lunch break was taken above Karloo Pool and there was plenty of time for an afternoon snack in the sun on the east side of Yaala Pool (for Laurie Quaken and a lady it was sufficient |
- | 15 items listed below. Your task is to rank these items according to their importance to your survival; starting with (1) the most important, to (15) the least important. | + | |
- | You may assume: 1. You are one of the actual people in the situation. | + | At the time, Kangaroo Creek was running cold and clear and the way was easy. Given a warmer time of year there would have been ample opportunity for the party to have swum and waded itself downstream. The rock pools are numerous and a delight, and the walk is recommended for inclusion in the summer walks programme. |
- | 2. The team has agreed to stick together. | + | |
- | 3. All the items salvaged are in good condition. | + | =====WILDLIFE IN THE APSLEY RIVER GORGE====== |
- | ITEM SALVAGED. | + | |
- | Flashlight (4 battery size) Pocket Knife | + | First printed in “The Sydney, Bushwalker” May, 1967 |
- | Sectional air map of the area Plastic raincoat | + | |
- | ORDER OF PRIORITY FOR SURVIVAL | + | by Dot Butler |
- | (1) = most ' | + | |
- | (15) least important | + | In the spacious days before speed, when the whole of your life stretched ahead in a golden never-ending summer, you travelled by coastal steamer from Sydney to Port Macquarie taking several days over the trip, including the wait to get over the bar. Uncle met you there with his buggy and you bowled off inland along a dirt road through the dense rainforest filled with Buffalo Marys (a large-bodied yellow |
- | September, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 11 | + | |
- | Magnetic Compass | + | Easter Friday morning saw 12 Sydney Bush Walkers and a number |
- | Bandages | + | |
- | .45 calibre pistol (loaded) Parachute (red & white fabric) | + | The Apsley River winds its way in great loops from west to east right across the map, dropping about 2,400 ft in this distance. While the car drivers took the car on some thirty miles to where we planned to come out on the last day, the rest of us wandered round to admire the falls, and to speculate on our chances of getting through the deep, rock-piled canyon floor down which the brown water tumbled, building up back eddies of yellow foam. It was beautiful hot dry inland weather and billies of tea seemed much more in demand than climbing activity. However, when our ruthless leaders, Ross Wyborn and Don Finch, arrived back at about 11 am it was a case of “Finish your eating and get packed up; we're moving off in ten minutes!” And strange as it may seem, in less than ten minutes we were actually moving off. |
- | Bottle of salt tablets (1000 tablets) | + | |
- | 1 quart of water per person | + | We clambered down a steep spur, covered with scant vegetation, and moved across to a steeply |
- | 1 pair of sunglasses per person | + | |
- | A book entitled " | + | When we reached the river bed we found it even more rugged than it looked from the top. Huge dark grey block-up boulders lay crowded together in great heaps and over these we clambered for the rest of the afternoon. Those in the lead had plenty of time to admire the scenery while waiting for the tail-enders to catch up. The warm air had a dream-like quality. The sun filtered down in a golden haze. The scene looked like a picture done in pointillism - that form of art in which the whole effect is achieved by little dots of colour. The thousand-foot high rock walls, dark grey and almost vertical, were spotted with palest grey-green lichen, the pale blue sky was a backdrop to countless thousands of lightly floating thistledowns, |
- | 2 quarts of overproof Vodka 1 Top Coat per person | + | |
- | A cosmetic Mirror | + | We camped in the afternoon on a flood-strewn heap of rocks. To say something in its favour, it was at least fairly horizontal, and after we had scraped up heaps of dry casuarina needles for a bed it was even comfortable. The keen ones studied the map and found we had achieved hardly a mile. We'll have to make better time tomorrow. |
- | The views of the "experts" | + | |
- | * * * * * * * * * * * * * | + | Away bright and early in the morning. The water must be swarming with eels; we came across many 2 ft long ones dead among the rocks, probably killed by the impact of flood waters the previous week. Stranded shells on the black mud gave evidence of fresh-water mussels. This rocky gorge is a lizard' |
- | CAROL' | + | |
- | There was Brian, Shirley, Jan, Paul, John, Marilyn.... in all thirty-one on Carol Bruce' | + | Our progress this day involved much swimming, pushing our floating packs before us. I heard no complaint about the temperature of the water from the girls, but poor Digby, shivering his way over the rocks from one swim to the next, was heard to remark through chattering teeth, |
- | Carol led a procession of many prospectives and a few members, generally on a well-used track along the true right of the creek (there are a couple of places where the track swings to the true left, e.g..downstream from Karloo Pool) and Peter Miller kept the rear intact. Sometimes it was easier to forget about the track as travel was often easy on both sides of the creek. | + | |
- | Lunchbreak | + | After cooling off in the water it was a delightful sensation to lie on the hot rocks and dry off. We weren' |
- | At the time, Kangaroo Creek was running cold and clear and the way was easy. Given a warmer time of year there would have been ample opportunity for the party to have swum and waded itself downstream. The | + | |
- | rock pools are numerous and a delight, and the walk is recommended for inclusion in the summer walks programme. | + | Next day more swimming. In fact, the first seven miles of the gorge involve as much swimming as walking. For this reason it would be wise for anyone else planning this trip to find out about local rainfall during the previous week as it would be extremely hazardous, if not impossible, to swim the canyons in flood. Huge logs and other flood debris was piled 20 and 30 ft up the sides of the gorge. |
- | **************** | + | |
- | Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | This was a glorious day. With most of the food eaten the pack was light and easy to carry. Going quietly, barefoot, over the rocks, the wild creatures were not frightened into hiding. The lizards hardly bothered |
- | -WILDLIFE IN THE APSLEY RIVER GORGE. | + | to plop into the water, As I swam quietly behind my pack the ducks accepted me as part of the scenery and stayed floating above their reflections as I swam among them. A vivid cerulean blue kingfisher darted out of the bank and skimmed across the water. Flocks of swallows filled the air overhead and I floated on my back to watch their darting flight. Up the rocky hillsides |
- | First printed in "The Sydney, Bushwalker" | + | |
- | by Dot Butler. | + | In the afternoon the country began to flatten out. The stark rocky canyons had given way to thickly wooded mountains, which now gave way to lower hills. Clawing his way up a tree a 6 ft goanna looked like some ageless antedeluvian monster in the never-ending sunshine. Bright little butterflies flitted about, some with black and orange markings and some as yellow as a buttercup. Dragonflies skimmed by water on gauzy wings. Huge spiders |
- | In the spacious days before speed, when the whole of your life stretched ahead in a golden never-ending summer, you travelled by coastal steamer from Sydney to Port Macquarie taking several days over the trip, including the wait to get over the bar. Uhcle met you there with his buggy and you bowled off inland along a dirt road through the dense rainforest filled with BuffaloIMarys | + | |
- | Now we get in our cars at 6.00 pm. Friday, travel non-stop through the night, and in the early hours of the morning we have arrived. | + | |
- | Easter Friday morning saw 12 Sydney Bush Walkers and a numbcr | + | |
- | miles of its rugged gorges and canyons. As far as we knew, this trip had never been done before. | + | |
- | The Apsley River winds its way in great loops from west to east right across the map, dropping about 2,400 ft in this distance. While the car | + | |
- | drivers took the carS-on some thirty miles to where we planned to come out on-the last day, the rest of us wandered round to admire the falls, and to speculate on our chances of getting through the deep, rock-piled: canyon floor down which the brown water tumbled, building up back eddies of yellow | + | |
- | foam. It was beautiful hot dry inland weather and billies of tea seemed | + | |
- | much more in demand than climbing activity. However, when our ruthless leaders, Ross Wyborn and Don Finch, arrived back at about 11 am it was a case of "Finish your eating and get packed up; we're moving off in ten minuted!" | + | |
- | We clambered down a steep spur, covered with scant vegetation, and moved across to asteeply | + | |
- | grazing Ross's head as it screamed past. Of course, being Ross's head, it | + | |
- | caused no damage. However, another piece hit him on the arm, paralysing | + | |
- | it, and it remained out of commission for the rest of the trip. We applied | + | |
- | band-aids and continued on our way. | + | |
- | When we reached the river bed we found it even more rugged than it looked from the top. Huge dark grey block-up boulders lay crowded together | + | |
- | in great heaps and over these we clambered for the rest of theafternoon. Those in the lead had plenty of time to admire the scenery while waiting for | + | |
- | the tail-enders to catch up. The warm air had a dream-like quality. The | + | |
- | sun filtered down in a golden haze. The scene looked like a picture done in pointillism - that form of art in which the whole effect is achieved by | + | |
- | September, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | little dots of colour. The thousand-foot high rock walls, dark grey and | + | |
- | almost vertical, were spotted with palest grey-green lichen, the pale blue sky was a backdrop to countless thousands of lightly floating thistledowns, | + | |
- | size of golden guineas. Great casuarinas, their gnarled roots gripf)ingthe | + | |
- | We camped in the afternoon on a flood-strewn heap of rocks. To say something in its favour, it was at least fairlyhorizontal, and after we had scraped up heaps of dry casuarina needles for a bed it was even comfortable. The keen ones studied the map and found we had achieved hardly a mile. We'll have to make better time tomorrow. | + | |
- | Away bright and early in the morning. The water must be swarming with eels; we came across many 2 ft long ones dead among the rocks, probably killed by the impact of flood waters the previous week. Stranded shells on the black mud gave evidence of fresh-water mussels. This rocky gorge is a lizard' | + | |
- | Our progress this day involved much swimming, pushing our floating packs before us. I heard no complaint about the temperature of the water | + | |
- | from the girls, but poor Digby, shivering his way over: the rocks from one swim to the hexti was heard to remark through chattering teeth, | + | |
- | wallabies leaping effortlessly upwards. At a safe di' | + | |
- | After cooling off in the water it was a delightful sensation to lie on the hot rocks and dry off. We weren' | + | |
- | this; we found we were sharing the rocks with lizards and snakes,. the red-bellied black snake, a greyish whip-snake, a. beautifully marked diamond | + | |
- | python. With his -Call in the water and a large frog on its way down his | + | |
- | throat, a bright green tree-snake tried to look inconspicuous and failed. | + | |
- | Camp for the night was another heap of rocks - the only thing offering in this steep gorge country. We made a big campfire from dry wood brought down by the floods and sang into the late hours, though you might wonder what we had to sing about as this day we had only covered another four or five miles, and no knowing how we were to get out. All night long bats, | + | |
- | flitted across the star-shine and disappeared into the dark shadows of the trees. | + | |
- | Next day more swimming. In fact, the first seven miles of the gorge | + | |
- | involve as much swimming as walking. For this reason it would be wise for anyone else planning this trip) to find out about local rainfall during | + | |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | the previous week as it would be extremely hazardous, if not impossible, to swim the canyons in flood. Huge logs and other flood debris was piled | + | |
- | 20 and 30 ft up the sides of the gorge. | + | |
- | This was a glorious day. With most of the food eaten the pack was | + | |
- | light and easy to carry. Going quietly, barefoot, over the rocks, the wild | + | |
- | creatures were not frightened into hiding. The lizards hardly bothered | + | |
- | to plop into the water, As I swam quietly behind my pack the ducks accepted me as part of the scenery and stayed floating above their reflections as I swam among them. A vivid cerulean blue kingfisher darted out of the bank | + | |
- | and skimmed across the water. Flocks of swallows filled the air overheadand | + | |
- | : | + | |
- | beaks. I was thinking, " | + | |
- | rest of my days floating in this beautiful river." | + | |
- | great beating of wings above my head and a huge eagle flew by, his wings marked with dark feathers like all eagles, but his underbody a sparkling | + | |
- | creamy white. I have never seen a more perfect bird in a more perfect | + | |
- | setting. He circled round and finally came to rest on a branch - king of | + | |
- | all he surveyed. | + | |
- | In the afternoon the country began to flatten out. The stark rocky | + | |
- | canyons had given way to thickly wooded mountains, which now gave way to lower hills. Clawing his way up a tree a 6 ft goanna looked like some | + | |
- | ageless antedeluvian monster in the never-ending sunshine. Bright little | + | |
- | butterflies flitted about, some with black and orange markings and some as yellow as a buttercup. Dragonflies skimmed by water on gauzy wings. Huge spiders | + | |
We had now finished with swimming. Grassy river flats made walking a pleasure. In place of the rock wallabies we now saw pale grey aristocratic kangaroos feeding on the fine native grasses. | We had now finished with swimming. Grassy river flats made walking a pleasure. In place of the rock wallabies we now saw pale grey aristocratic kangaroos feeding on the fine native grasses. | ||
- | Camp for the night was a complete contrast to our previous ones - right in the middle of an acre of grassy river-flat. We made a big camp fire and when Ross arrived we found that he had another close shave - this time with an exotic female who chased him into the river when he appeared to be threatening her baby. After the evening meal we initiated Donnie into | + | |
- | the mysterious practices of the masseur' | + | Camp for the night was a complete contrast to our previous ones - right in the middle of an acre of grassy river-flat. We made a big camp fire and when Ross arrived we found that he had another close shave - this time with an exotic female who chased him into the river when he appeared to be threatening her baby. After the evening meal we initiated Donnie into the mysterious practices of the masseur' |
- | hacking, clapping, pounding, wringing, toe-rolling, | + | |
- | With sadistic delight and everybody became his victim in turn. Joan was | + | Next day we had only a couple of miles walk along the river flats before the long pull up a steep ridge to the farmlands above and so back to the cars and home. The Apsley Gorge has such high potential for a Natural Reserve that we hope it will be dedicated as such in the near future. |
- | Worried | + | |
- | will happen next time he goes to a beach and sees all those recumbent bodies - he won't be able to control himself." | + | ===== GOOD NEWS AT NARROW NECK ===== |
- | Next day we had only a couple of miles walk along the river flats before the long pull up a steep ridge to the farmlands above and so back to the cars and home. | + | |
- | The Apsley Gorge has such high potential for a Natural | + | by Bill Gamble |
- | ************ | + | |
- | September, 1984 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 15 | + | |
- | GOOD NEWS AT NARROW NECK. | + | |
- | by Bill Gamble. | + | |
On Sunday, 17th June 1984, Jim Laing led a party of twelve members and prospectives in a loop walk from Golden Stairs. The sections of the walk may be summarised thus:- | On Sunday, 17th June 1984, Jim Laing led a party of twelve members and prospectives in a loop walk from Golden Stairs. The sections of the walk may be summarised thus:- | ||
- | . Golden Stairs car-park to Narrow Neck fire tower | + | * Golden Stairs car-park to Narrow Neck fire tower |
- | Fire tower to Cedar Head via Walls Pass | + | |
- | Cedar Head to creek (for lunch) and up to Ruined Castle | + | |
- | | + | |
The party went at 8.45 am and was back at the cars by 4.15 pm. | The party went at 8.45 am and was back at the cars by 4.15 pm. | ||
- | 11, doubtful weather forecast and fog in Sydney did not augur well for the walk; but at the car-park it was fine and clear with billowy clouds of fog filling the Megalong and Jamison Valleys. | + | |
- | A cracking pace was set for the walk along Narrow Neck to the fire | + | A doubtful weather forecast and fog in Sydney did not augur well for the walk; but at the car-park it was fine and clear with billowy clouds of fog filling the Megalong and Jamison Valleys. |
- | tower (at times I think that there ought to be a law against this sort of | + | |
- | thing early on a Sunday morning). Jim allowed us about five minutes at the fire tower for a mouthful or two of morning snacks before setting an arc-like course around Cedar Head swamp to reach -Walls Pass without delay. | + | A cracking pace was set for the walk along Narrow Neck to the fire tower (at times I think that there ought to be a law against this sort of thing early on a Sunday morning). Jim allowed us about five minutes at the fire tower for a mouthful or two of morning snacks before setting an arc-like course around Cedar Head swamp to reach Walls Pass without delay. |
- | The descent by chains slowed the pace as one by one we clambered down the almost cliff-like pass. Barry Wallace' | + | |
- | was the steadying hand of Bill Capon stationed on a ledge half way down. | + | The descent by chains slowed the pace as one by one we clambered down the almost cliff-like pass. Barry Wallace' |
- | And Brian Bolton was anchorman at the bottom, holding the lower chain taut | + | And Brian Bolton was anchorman at the bottom, holding the lower chain taut and directing footholds on the awkward last couple of metres. Most of an hour was spent getting the party safely down the pass and everyone had plenty of time to enjoy the warm sun and the views. |
- | and directing footholds on the awkward last couple of metres. Most of an hour was spent getting the party safely down the pass and everyone had plenty of time to enjoy the warm sun and the views. | + | |
- | But once we were down J-m forged ahead again, around the cliff line - to Cedar Head by a tricky route, finally slipping off on to the steep ridge for the descent to Cedar Creek and a well-earned lunch break of twenty-five minutes. | + | But once we were down Jim forged ahead again, around the cliff line to Cedar Head by a tricky route, finally slipping off on to the steep ridge for the descent to Cedar Creek and a well-earned lunch break of twenty-five minutes. |
- | Within forty-five minutes of lunch break we had clambered the east ridge out of the creek and up to Ruined Castle and were sitting atop the highest rock parapet in somewhat chilly conditions. By this time the party was so taken by J1m's pace that they declined a bonus break until 3.15 pm and were soon plunging downhill to join the Mt. Solitary/ | + | |
- | It would be easy to write off the walk as just another S.B.W. race in which kilometres covered in the least possible time is the purpose and- end. Not so. The route which Jim took has a lot of merit. It mixes | + | Within forty-five minutes of lunch break we had clambered the east ridge out of the creek and up to Ruined Castle and were sitting atop the highest rock parapet in somewhat chilly conditions. By this time the party was so taken by J1m's pace that they declined a bonus break until 3.15 pm and were soon plunging downhill to join the Mt. Solitary/ |
- | the familiar with the not so familiar. Easy walking becomes more demanding and in the end resolves into a relaxed conclusion. Any descent of a pass requiring chains and goad footholds is a personal challenge - for some to overcome fear of heights and for others not to be too cavalier in their approach as rock facea can be unforgiving places. The sidling around the cliff line and out onto Cedar Heed was a delight where more time could be well spent in future trips. The soaks were dripping profusely and an | + | |
- | overnight bivvy on Cedar Head for a small party is possible. Ceder Creek. | + | It would be easy to write off the walk as just another S.B.W. race in which kilometres covered in the least possible time is the purpose and end. Not so. The route which Jim took has a lot of merit. It mixes |
- | Page 16 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER September, 1984. | + | the familiar with the not so familiar. Easy walking becomes more demanding and in the end resolves into a relaxed conclusion. Any descent of a pass requiring chains and goad footholds is a personal challenge - for some to overcome fear of heights and for others not to be too cavalier in their approach as rock faces can be unforgiving places. The sidling around the cliff line and out onto Cedar Heed was a delight where more time could be well spent in future trips. The soaks were dripping profusely and an overnight bivvy on Cedar Head for a small party is possible. Ceder Creek was flowing well and the banks on both sides were heavily timbered and oozed moisture. The rocks in the creek were slippery with moss. In a few words it was rain forest. And the ridges, down from Cedar Head and up to Ruined Castle-were subtle and demanded some attention to route finding. |
- | was flowing well and the banks on both sides were heavily timbered and | + | |
- | ooZed moisture. The rocks in the creek were slippery with moss. In a few | + | |
- | words it was rain forest. And the ridges, down from Cedar Head and up to | + | |
- | Ruined Castle-were subtle and demanded some attention to rout. finding. | + | |
In all, there is good news for bushwalkers seeking to traverse the country between Walls Pass and Ruined Castle. | In all, there is good news for bushwalkers seeking to traverse the country between Walls Pass and Ruined Castle. | ||
- | * * * * * * *-* * * * | + | |
- | SOCIAL NOTES FOR OCTOBER. by RogerBrowne. | + | ===== SOCIAL NOTES FOR OCTOBER |
- | October 10 - CLUB AUCTION. Buy and sell your second-hand billies, tents, rucksacks, clothes, cameras, beanies, raincoats, pogo-sticks, | + | |
- | items, with a 25% commission to the Club. You may set a reserve price if | + | by Roger Browne |
- | you like. Clean out your cupboards, get a small return on your surplus | + | |
- | equipment, and help newcomers equip themselves for bushwalking. Bring CASH too - you never know what bargains await you | + | |October 3 |
- | DINNER | + | |October 10 |
- | 87 Willoughby Road, Crow' | + | | |0nce again, the popular Charlie Brown will conduct the auction. |
- | ask for the " | + | | |You may set a reserve price if you like. Clean out your cupboards, get a small return on your surplus equipment, and help newcomers equip themselves for bushwalking. Bring **cash** |
- | October 17 - HIMALAYAN NIGHT with Stan Corny. Stan has led treks through the Himalayas each year for some time MOW. and has inteestidg | + | | |**Dinner** |
- | to the area for those who are interested in seeing it for themselves: | + | |October 17 |
- | October 24 - GAMES NICHT. Deirdre Schofield will host a games evening. Form tables of 6 on the night for loads of fun. | + | | |Stan will also talk about a forthcoming trip to the area for those who are interested in seeing it for themselves. | |
- | October 31 - MACDONNEL RANGES | + | |October 24 |
- | DECISIONS - HALF-YEARLY | + | |October 31 |
- | 1. Roger Browne has now returned to Sydney, has withdrilwn | + | |
- | 2. Barbara Evans has been.elected as 4th. Federation delegate. | + | ===== DECISIONS - HALF-YEARLY |
- | 3. Mike Reynolds has been appointed as Assistant to the New Members Secretary. | + | |
- | 4. The motion was CARRIED "That this. meeting recommend to the Annual General Meeting that the category of married couple | + | - |
- | 5. Coolana has been chosen as the site for the 1985 Annual Reunion and Spiro.Hajinakitas has been appointed as Convenor. | + | |
- | xxxxxxxx | + | |
- | CONqtATULATIONSs | + | |
+ | | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Congratulations!** | ||
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