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- | =====The Sydney Bushwalker.===== | + | ======The Sydney Bushwalker====== |
Established June 1931. | Established June 1931. | ||
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A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers Incorporated, | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers Incorporated, | ||
- | |Editor|Morag Ryder (for this issue)| | + | |**Editor**|Morag Ryder (for this issue)| |
- | |Editor|Judith O' | + | |**Editor**|Judith O' |
- | |Production Manager|Helen Gray, Telephone 86 6263| | + | |**Production Manager**|Helen Gray, Telephone 86 6263| |
- | |Typist|Kath Brown| | + | |**Typist**|Kath Brown| |
- | |Illustrator|Morag Ryder| | + | |**Illustrator**|Morag Ryder| |
- | |Printers|Kenn Clacher, | + | |**Printers**|Kenn Clacher, |
====March 1991==== | ====March 1991==== | ||
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=====S.B.W. Office Bearers & Committee 1991.===== | =====S.B.W. Office Bearers & Committee 1991.===== | ||
- | The following | + | The following |
|President*|Bill Holland| | |President*|Bill Holland| | ||
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We found our marker for where we entered the creek and a somewhat easier route up the first one hundred feet. With care we found our downward track and followed it up to the giant sawn stump. I greeted it like a long-lost friend. In this country you could be two metres from the overgrown road and never know it. | We found our marker for where we entered the creek and a somewhat easier route up the first one hundred feet. With care we found our downward track and followed it up to the giant sawn stump. I greeted it like a long-lost friend. In this country you could be two metres from the overgrown road and never know it. | ||
- | Back at the car we removed another population of leeches and swore never again to visit Georges Creek. It has its beauties, but its defenses | + | Back at the car we removed another population of leeches and swore never again to visit Georges Creek. It has its beauties, but its defences |
If Michele now writes about some lazy summer trip Bob King led there one Christmas -- I don't want to read it!! | If Michele now writes about some lazy summer trip Bob King led there one Christmas -- I don't want to read it!! | ||
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There were also several songs commonly sung around camp fires and at Reunions which gave favourable publicity for boots - indeed, treated them as a vital part of the bush walking scene... more about that later. | There were also several songs commonly sung around camp fires and at Reunions which gave favourable publicity for boots - indeed, treated them as a vital part of the bush walking scene... more about that later. | ||
- | This thinking originated with the reading of an advance copy of Dot Butler' | + | This thinking originated with the reading of an advance copy of Dot Butler' |
Another memory is my own conversion from boots in the 1946-49 period. Earlier, during a number of freelance pre-war walks I had used sneakers - with rubber sole and leather uppers - but after being required to wear boots for about five years (in the army during World War II) and on finding they were standard footwear for most SBW Members in 1947, I submitted to the mode. Not for long. The jolt that went up the shin when walking in hobnailed boots along sealed roads on the last leg into Katoomba, Blackheath or Kiama soon persuaded me "there must be a better way". | Another memory is my own conversion from boots in the 1946-49 period. Earlier, during a number of freelance pre-war walks I had used sneakers - with rubber sole and leather uppers - but after being required to wear boots for about five years (in the army during World War II) and on finding they were standard footwear for most SBW Members in 1947, I submitted to the mode. Not for long. The jolt that went up the shin when walking in hobnailed boots along sealed roads on the last leg into Katoomba, Blackheath or Kiama soon persuaded me "there must be a better way". | ||
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Since the sneakers I'd worn earlier were no longer available, I tried sandshoes and quickly became convinced they were adequate in the easy conditions encountered in our Sydney-side bushland. I even made a few converts, including some of the most active of the new members and - almost to my surprise - the sandshoe suddenly "took off". | Since the sneakers I'd worn earlier were no longer available, I tried sandshoes and quickly became convinced they were adequate in the easy conditions encountered in our Sydney-side bushland. I even made a few converts, including some of the most active of the new members and - almost to my surprise - the sandshoe suddenly "took off". | ||
- | Sinful pride urges me to believe that I had something to do with the widespread adoption of sandshoes for bush walking. Ordinary common-sense persuades me that it is likely other members of our Club and the members of other Clubs were probably moving towards the same conclusion about that time. By 1950 I had finally discarded boots, after a Tasmanian trip, and that wimpish school-boy who had been derided for wearing shoes was doing a bit of gloating over the downfall of the dominant boot. (But was there something else? Did something in my sub-conscious say to me, "You don't have to behave like an Army tank and trample everything down. You can tread softly, go around that prickly hakea, avoid squashing that tiny baronia. You can make the Bush your friend, not something to be beaten down". All I can answer is - yes, for years, walking in my wimpish sandshoes, I always thought the bush was a friendly place, an ally, not an adversary to be defeated.) | + | Sinful pride urges me to believe that I had something to do with the widespread adoption of sandshoes for bush walking. Ordinary common-sense persuades me that it is likely other members of our Club and the members of other Clubs were probably moving towards the same conclusion about that time. By 1950 I had finally discarded boots, after a Tasmanian trip, and that wimpish school-boy who had been derided for wearing shoes was doing a bit of gloating over the downfall of the dominant boot. (But was there something else? Did something in my sub-conscious say to me, "You don't have to behave like an Army tank and trample everything down. You can tread softly, go around that prickly hakea, avoid squashing that tiny boronia. You can make the Bush your friend, not something to be beaten down". All I can answer is - yes, for years, walking in my wimpish sandshoes, I always thought the bush was a friendly place, an ally, not an adversary to be defeated.) |
I think the final seal of approval - the apotheothis - came several years ago, when several young people were overdue on a Colo River walk, and Federation' | I think the final seal of approval - the apotheothis - came several years ago, when several young people were overdue on a Colo River walk, and Federation' | ||
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Everyone put stuff out to dry - including my tent, which shrank! We drank tea from the boiled billy and Janet patched yet another pair of pinprick-sized holes in her lilo (must be from sleeping on it at night - prickles in the grass etc.). Everyone contemplated on how much excess food we would have at the end of the trip. If Bob didn't have his annual 'not to be missed and eagerly anticipated' | Everyone put stuff out to dry - including my tent, which shrank! We drank tea from the boiled billy and Janet patched yet another pair of pinprick-sized holes in her lilo (must be from sleeping on it at night - prickles in the grass etc.). Everyone contemplated on how much excess food we would have at the end of the trip. If Bob didn't have his annual 'not to be missed and eagerly anticipated' | ||
- | More interesing | + | More interesting |
Bob decided to take a short cut overland here, as the river does a massive 2 1/2 kilometre hairpin bend. So, covered in sun cream and beach attire, carrying our inflated lilos, we headed into the bush to go up, over and down. __NOT SO!__ | Bob decided to take a short cut overland here, as the river does a massive 2 1/2 kilometre hairpin bend. So, covered in sun cream and beach attire, carrying our inflated lilos, we headed into the bush to go up, over and down. __NOT SO!__ | ||
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KANANGRA - Hughes Ridge - Butchers Creek - Bull Island Gap - Yerranderie - Mount Colong - Kowmung River - Kanangra. 80 km Medium. Leader: Kenn Klacher. 449 4853 (H) - 968 0059 (B). Maps: Kananqra & Yerranderie. | KANANGRA - Hughes Ridge - Butchers Creek - Bull Island Gap - Yerranderie - Mount Colong - Kowmung River - Kanangra. 80 km Medium. Leader: Kenn Klacher. 449 4853 (H) - 968 0059 (B). Maps: Kananqra & Yerranderie. | ||
+ | =====The February General Meeting.===== | ||
- | #***#### | ||
- | FROM EVERY STATE, | ||
- | AUSTRALIAN MADE | ||
- | IS GREAT! | ||
- | QLD | ||
- | Ql3B f\ | ||
- | Butter Concentrate | ||
- | WA | ||
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- | Backpacks Goretes Clothing Cycle Panniers | ||
- | SA | ||
- | Rossi / ,.ots | ||
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- | ACT | ||
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- | A Outgear | ||
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- | Giant Trees | ||
- | Dried meals | ||
- | NSW | ||
- | Sleeping Bags | ||
- | J & H, Mont, | ||
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- | Day Packs High Tops, Summit Gear | ||
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- | EASTWOOD | ||
- | CAMPING | ||
- | CENTRE | ||
- | 3 Trelawney St (PO Box 131) Eastwood NSW 2122 | ||
- | PHONE Us TODAY & SAY | ||
- | 02-858-3833 | ||
- | March 1991 The-Sydney-Bushwalker Page 13 | ||
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- | THE FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING | ||
by Barry Wallace | by Barry Wallace | ||
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The meeting began at 2014 with around 20 members present and the President in the chair. There were apologies from Patrick James, Bob Niven and Jeff Niven. New members Kevin Burrows, Stewart Corner and David Pisani were welcomed into membership. | The meeting began at 2014 with around 20 members present and the President in the chair. There were apologies from Patrick James, Bob Niven and Jeff Niven. New members Kevin Burrows, Stewart Corner and David Pisani were welcomed into membership. | ||
- | The Minutes of the previous meeting were read in a stripped-down form which unfortunately eliminated most of the details, and received with no matters arising. One can only wonder | + | |
- | what is the point of reading severely truncated minutes and then asking those present to affirm that they believe them to be a true and correct record. | + | The Minutes of the previous meeting were read in a stripped-down form which unfortunately eliminated most of the details, and received with no matters arising. One can only wonder what is the point of reading severely truncated minutes and then asking those present to affirm that they believe them to be a true and correct record. |
Correspondence included a letter of return thanks from May Pallin, a letter of thanks from Warwick Blayden for being provided access to the Club's minute books and a letter from Dr. Martin Jaffee thanking us for our donation to the Save the Hacking committee. | Correspondence included a letter of return thanks from May Pallin, a letter of thanks from Warwick Blayden for being provided access to the Club's minute books and a letter from Dr. Martin Jaffee thanking us for our donation to the Save the Hacking committee. | ||
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Next came what Bill called the "Club Management Section" | Next came what Bill called the "Club Management Section" | ||
- | The Walks Report began with a scythe-cut through those walks programmed for the weekend | + | |
- | of 18,19,20 January. It seems Alan and Anita Doherty' | + | The Walks Report began with a scythe-cut through those walks programmed for the weekend of 18,19,20 January. It seems Alan and Anita Doherty' |
- | were all cancelled. It was left to David Rostron and his party of 10 starters, enjoying the delights | + | |
- | Over"the weekend of January 25,26,27 Barry Wallace' | + | Over the weekend of January 25,26,27 Barry Wallace' |
- | due to a string of last minute cancellations. George | + | |
- | The weekend of 1,2,3 February saw Kenn Clacher leading a party of 10 on his Kalang Falls, Wallara Canyon abseiling trip. THey reported an enjoyable trip and expressed surprise at how | + | The weekend of 1,2,3 February saw Kenn Clacher leading a party of 10 on his Kalang Falls, Wallara Canyon abseiling trip. THey reported an enjoyable trip and expressed surprise at how easy it was to negotiate Murdering Gully when it was dry!! Ian Debert' |
- | easy it was to negotiate Murdering Gully when it was dryIT Ian Debert' | + | |
- | swimming trip did not go, and there was no report of either Barry Ihle's Thornleigh to Chatswood stations walk or Peter Christian' | + | February 8,9,10 saw things end as they began. Bob Hodgson' |
- | February 8,9,10 saw things end as they began. Bob Hodgson' | + | |
- | cancelled due to lack of starters, there was no report of either Errol Sheedy' | + | |
- | . Bill Holland' | + | |
Even good old Confederation failed us. They have had no meetings since our last general meeting. | Even good old Confederation failed us. They have had no meetings since our last general meeting. | ||
- | The Conservation Report brought news of a meeting held with Tim Moore, the N.S.W. Minister for the Environment, | + | |
- | The Minister has invited interested groups to evaluate the likely effects and lodge submissions with him. A motion was passed that we write opposing the raising of the storage level. | + | The Conservation Report brought news of a meeting held with Tim Moore, the N.S.W. Minister for the Environment, |
- | General Business passed with no matters for debate. There was one announcement from the President to the effect that if you arrive at the clubroom prior to 1945 hours (quarter to eight in the evening) you should be careful not to disturb a yoga class which occupies the room up to that time. It seems that it is their practice to conclude with meditation and the entry of a | + | |
- | Page 14 The Sydney Blishwaiker March 1991 | + | General Business passed with no matters for debate. There was one announcement from the President to the effect that if you arrive at the clubroom prior to 1945 hours (quarter to eight in the evening) you should be careful not to disturb a yoga class which occupies the room up to that time. It seems that it is their practice to conclude with meditation and the entry of a group of bushwalkers busy in raucous |
- | group of bushwalkers | + | |
The meeting closed at 2102 with the Social Secretary a little taken aback when the hordes enquired after the advertised wine and cheese. The coffee seemed perfectly OK to me, for an instant that is. | The meeting closed at 2102 with the Social Secretary a little taken aback when the hordes enquired after the advertised wine and cheese. The coffee seemed perfectly OK to me, for an instant that is. | ||
- | * 41- -YE if * | + | |
- | NEW MEMBERS | + | =====New Members.===== |
Please include the following new members on your List of Members:- | Please include the following new members on your List of Members:- | ||
- | Home Phone BURROWS, Kevin - 11 Page Ave, Wahroonga 2076 487 2270 | ||
- | 4637 | ||
- | Bus. Phone | ||
- | 233 9000 | ||
- | 818 1033. | ||
- | 70 0656 | ||
- | 555 7377- | ||
- | 964 8618 | ||
- | 561 8100 | ||
- | 436 3877 | ||
- | 452 5088 | ||
- | 626 9264 | ||
- | 699 2522 | ||
- | 451 6999 Ext.50 | ||
- | CARTER David 7. 3 Bluegum Crescent, Picnic Point 2213 773 | ||
- | CARTER, Maureen - II - | ||
- | CORNERi-Stuart -.18- Maida:St. Lilyfield 2040' 818 | ||
- | DAVIS4AMs) Lyn - 13 Byrne Ave, Russell Lea2046 | ||
- | DOMINY, Dianne -1/28 The Boulevard Cammeray 2962 ,956 | ||
- | DOMINY, Tom - II II IT 11 | ||
- | KENDALL, Jean - 12/141 Jersey Rd, Wo011ahra 2025 363 | ||
- | MILLER, Graeme - 16 Daphne.Ave,, | ||
- | MONTAGUE, John - 8/10 Curt Street, Ashfield 2131 798 | ||
- | MORGAN Jennifer --82 Crescent Road, Newport 2106 997 | ||
- | PISANI, David - 18/177 Sydenham Road, Marrickville 560 | ||
- | 2204 | ||
- | 2865 | ||
- | 7804 | ||
- | 4812 | ||
- | 6809 | ||
- | 4241 | ||
- | 6203. | ||
- | 4793 718 7077 | ||
- | ********** | ||
- | CALLING ALL NAVIGATORS! | ||
- | On,May 18/19 Bankstown Bushwalking Club will hold an inter-club Rogain. A base camp will be established, | ||
- | For all details, contact Robyn Arthur Ph (W) 886.1862-(H) 897.2270 | ||
- | SOCIAL NOTES. | ||
- | APRIL 10th GENERAL MEETING | ||
- | A selection of slides will be shown after the meeting | ||
- | 17th THE RISK PACTORS OF HEART' | ||
- | Talk with slides by Jacqui Wilson from the National Heart Foundation | ||
- | 24th DINNER AND JAll NIGHT (CLUB CLOSED) | ||
- | This is the night before Anzac Day so if you are not driving to a walk, how about joining us at the Strawberry Hill Hotel, 453 Elizabeth Street-, Surrey Hills at.7pm-Contact the Social Secretary by 22nd April to confirm numbers. | ||
+ | |Name|Address|HOme Phone|Bus. Phone| | ||
+ | |Burrows, Kevin|11 Page Ave, Wahroonga 2076|487 2270|233 9000| | ||
+ | |Carter David|3 Bluegum Crescent, Picnic Point 2213|773 4637|818 1033| | ||
+ | |Carter, Maureen|3 Bluegum Crescent, Picnic Point 2213|773 4637|790 0656| | ||
+ | |Corner, Stuart|18 Maida, St. Lilyfield 2040|818 2865|555 7377| | ||
+ | |Davis, (Ms) Lyn|13 Byrne Ave, Russell Lea 2046| |964 8618| | ||
+ | |Dominy, Dianne|1/28 The Boulevard, Cammeray 2062|956 7804|561 8100| | ||
+ | |Dominy, Tom|1/28 The Boulevard, Cammeray 2062|956 7804|436 3877| | ||
+ | |Kendall, Jean|12/141 Jersey Rd, Woollahra 2025|363 4812|452 5088| | ||
+ | |Miller, Graeme|16 Daphne Ave, Castle Hill 2154|634 6809|626 9264| | ||
+ | |Montague, John|8/10 Curt Street, Ashfield 2131|798 4241|699 2522| | ||
+ | |Morgan, Jennifer|82 Crescent Road, Newport 2106|997 6203|451 6999 Ext.50| | ||
+ | |Pisani, David|18/ | ||
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+ | =====Calling All Navigators!===== | ||
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+ | On May 18/19 Bankstown Bushwalking Club will hold an inter-club Rogain. A base camp will be established, | ||
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+ | For all details, contact Robyn Arthur .. Ph (W) 886.1862 - (H) 897.2270 | ||
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+ | =====Social Notes.===== | ||
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+ | |April 10th|General Meeting. A selection of slides will be shown after the meeting| | ||
+ | |April 17th|The Risk Factors Of Heart Disease. Talk with slides by Jacqui Wilson from the National Heart Foundation| | ||
+ | |April 24th|Dinner and Jazz Night (Club closed). This is the night before Anzac Day so if you are not driving to a walk, how about joining us at the Strawberry Hill Hotel, 453 Elizabeth Street, Surrey Hills at 7pm. Contact the Social Secretary by 22nd April to confirm numbers.| |
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