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+ | THE SYDNEY. BUSIMALKER is a monthly bulletin' | ||
+ | Editor: George Mawer | ||
+ | 42 Lincoln Road Georges Hall 2198 | ||
+ | Telephone 707 1343 | ||
+ | Business Manager:, Joy Hynes | ||
+ | - 36 Lewis Street, Dee Why 2099 | ||
+ | Telephone 982 2615 (II), 888 3144 (B) | ||
+ | . Production Manager: F.'ran Holland Editorial Teanr.George Mawer; Barbara Bruce, | ||
+ | Jan Roberts, Maurice Smith | ||
+ | .. Printers: Kenn Clacher, Kay Chan, | ||
+ | | ||
+ | THE SYDNEY BUSH' WALKERS INCORPORATED was founded in 1927. ClUb meetings are held every Wednesday evening at 8 pm" at Kinibilli. Neighbourhood Centre, 16. Fitzroy Street., ,, | ||
+ | President-. Greta James | ||
+ | Vice-President: | ||
+ | Public Officer: Fran Holland | ||
+ | Treasurer: Tony Holgate | ||
+ | Secretary: Maureen Carter | ||
+ | . Walks Secretary: Morrie Ward | ||
+ | Social Secretary' | ||
+ | Conservation Secretary: Alex Colley | ||
+ | Magazine Editor: George Mawer | ||
+ | Committee Members: Denise Shaw & | ||
+ | Maurice Smith .. Delegates to Confe deration: Wilf Hilder. & | ||
+ | Ken Smith | ||
+ | THIS ISSUE | ||
+ | EBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | Letter to the Editor Ainslie Morris | ||
+ | Yes they did miss you, Patrick assures me that you two would have added considerably to his story. | ||
+ | 2 Prospectives Training Bill Holland | ||
+ | This is an invitation to all new (and used) members to participate in this training weekend | ||
+ | 3 A Forests Accord SMII Editorial | ||
+ | A rea,sonably impartial view of the timber industry with some sensible suggestions | ||
+ | 5 Four Days At Terrible Hollow An | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | 10 From the Clu broom Jan Roberts | ||
+ | For those who can't always attend the Club. | ||
+ | on Wednesday nights | ||
+ | 11 Carty ning and Abseiling with Ian Wolfe | ||
+ | It seems wondeiful Ian. I'm sure weal!. would have enjoyed it. If only we could be fit enough. | ||
+ | 12 Call of the Wild Patrick James | ||
+ | A multi - input account of the Maurie Bloorn, | ||
+ | The January +General Meeting | ||
+ | Barry Wallace | ||
+ | Advertisers: | ||
+ | 4 Eastwood Camping Centre | ||
+ | 8 Mountain Equipment | ||
+ | 9 Mipsports | ||
+ | 15 Paddy Pallin | ||
+ | PAGE 2 THE SYDNEY BUSH-WALKER FEBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | LETTER TO THE EDITOR. | ||
+ | .Ainsley Tviorris | ||
+ | So, did you miss us? Really truly? We hope so, as it was the first time in years that Mike and I have not been on a SBW Xmas-New Year seven day. walk. Are we getting slack? Never. | ||
+ | Despite a wonderful array of SBW walks in the Snowies, Croajingalong and Ben Boyd to tempt us, we Changed allegiance to our nearest branch Of NPA at Milton, and followed its President Ron Doughton into the Tasmanian Wilderness. | ||
+ | Fine warm sunny weather having been arranged we did the South Coast Track over seven days,. having had a spectacular flight from Hobart to Melaleuca along the whole route of the walk on New Years Day. After our return to Hobart we did the Frenchman' | ||
+ | The western Arthurs and Federation Peak walks would give you more of 'a challenge but are too hard for us, so if you are younger and stronger, they offer spectacular glaciated scenery. | ||
+ | See you on the track, if not before, then next Xmas-New Year in our old haunts in NSW, the true " | ||
+ | Ainslie Morris and Mike Reynolds | ||
+ | For " | ||
+ | Ron Doughtons book | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | P.O. box 176, Ulladulla 2539.PROSPECTIVES TRAINING WEEKEND AT " | ||
+ | Bill Holland | ||
+ | Both experienced and new members are encouraged to attend the training weekend schedUled in the Autumn Walks programme for.18thil9rth March. This will be held on the Club's property " | ||
+ | Assistance from experienced members would be appreciated: | ||
+ | There is a shelter shed near the campsite and cars can be parked a handy distance.. Therefore there is no need to have camping gear or large packs. Just bring along a light sleeping bag (or blanket) and a foam mat to sleep on. Tents are optional. You will have to provide your own meals and cooking gear. There will breakfast for Sunday, lunch for both Saturday and Sunday and dinner for Saturday night. Don't forget a few snacks and we like to have a community happy hour (a drink and nibbles) before ' | ||
+ | Family groups are ' | ||
+ | IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND please phone to me on 484 6636 (h) or 925.3309' | ||
+ | Bill Holland | ||
+ | |||
+ | The lustrous purple blackness | ||
+ | of the soft Australian night, | ||
+ | waned in the grey awakening | ||
+ | that heralded the light | ||
+ | James Lister Cuthbertson | ||
+ | FEBRUARY 1995 'ME SYDNEY BUSHWALKER. PAGE 3 | ||
+ | The following is a reprint of an editorial published in The Sydney Morning I:Ten-aid Wednesday, February | ||
+ | 1, 1995 | ||
+ | FOREST ACCORD | ||
+ | If ever there was a cause where concentration of government effort was required to resolve a policy mess once and for all, it is the annual woodchip licence circus. To begin with,, there. is Confusion about what the problem is. It is certainly not the existence of a wo6dChip export industry: Conservationists have learnt to target the woodchip industry as a tactical device to press the Federal Government on an.. area' of Federal authority - the power to issue export licences. BUt that is not the heart-of the problern. But it certainly helps to contuse the issue, since at the heart of the Problem, it is State and not Federal power AA generally operates,i | ||
+ | At the heart of this policy mess, surely, is the question of what happens to old growth native forests.- Consenrationists, | ||
+ | In the arguments between the Conservationists and the timber industry each side paints the other as intraCtable. In the timber industries demonstrations in Canberra last week, much has been Made of the conservationiste' | ||
+ | - exist at anywhere near its present Size beyond the next decade or so. Many of the mills dependent on old growth Will probably close and jobs will probably be lost. Second,. those Mills that can afford to switch to regrowth logs will face a log shortage caused by the old growth being cut too rapidly Australia is in the process of restructuring an industry from one that is labour intensive and based on old growth forest hardwood to one that is equipment intensive and based on plantation softwood. ' continued on page | ||
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+ | FEBRUARY 1995 THE SI.CDI\TEY BUSHWALKER PAGE 5 | ||
+ | AN " | ||
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+ | FOUR DAYS AT " | ||
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+ | The association of ideas is, of course, due to. the fact that Macarthur' | ||
+ | , Well, let's accept that Terrible Hollow is Macarthur' | ||
+ | camp proved so hair raising that, when we presented a musical special item for the Club's 50th Anniversary camp in October of that year, we featured the events of the Easter camp, with a couple of songs based on the more startling events. | ||
+ | The first came on Easter Saturday, when Tony proposed- a stroll of Several kilometres downstream along the Nattai, then :taking to a major tributary " | ||
+ | Originally we couldn' | ||
+ | Now the first lamb to the slaughter It was Ossie Brownlee' | ||
+ | And it happened up on Wanganderry Creek. - Bitten by a snake we thought her, Or perhaps a dog trap caught her, | ||
+ | When we heard her utter forth a piercing shriek. | ||
+ | We decided that she oughter | ||
+ | Bathe her ankle in the water, | ||
+ | A badly twisted muscle was our hunch. I> | ||
+ | PAGE 6 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKTR FEBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | .. | ||
+ | Then if two strong men support her And the rest of us escort her | ||
+ | Why she'll walk out on her own when we've had lunch. | ||
+ | But the damage that was wrought her Meant we had to "call a porter", | ||
+ | While a pack fraine and two sapling made a seat. | ||
+ | Over rocks and sand and water | ||
+ | To Macarthur' | ||
+ | And the bearers tottered in about dead beat. | ||
+ | Realising overnight that there *as not going to be any swift and miraculous improvement, | ||
+ | and trying to climb up to Russell' | ||
+ | This was followed by a song, which I had to present because, instead of a current camp fire ballad, I chose a cheerful tripping melody which forms the theme of the final movement of a Mozart piano concerto (Kochel No. 453, if you're '.at all familiar with some of the most delightful piano concerti ever written). | ||
+ | "Now when the Hill Top team had left And gone up Starlight' | ||
+ | The rest of us debated what | ||
+ | We'd do 'till they came back. | ||
+ | | ||
+ | And agreed there was no doubt | ||
+ | On our own we'd never make it - -Couldn' | ||
+ | Oh, how then can we gether out? Some thought we should hire horses From the farm atop the hill. Others said "a helicopter" | ||
+ | Oh but who would foot the bill? | ||
+ | Up the pass we sent three people Since for help we had to can. | ||
+ | Chose `ern 'cause they looked the cleanest, Barbara Bruce and John and Paul, | ||
+ | Oh, Bruce looked spruce and Paul is | ||
+ | 11. | ||
+ | *Barbara Bruce and Paul Mawhinney were two of the three who went to surmnon aid. | ||
+ | The commentator at the 1977 Reunion then recited that - | ||
+ | "So there was now a division of activities: some had gone to seek aid; others opted to remain in camp and care for Jan. And a much reduced party, headed by Hans Stichter, decided to spend the rest of the Sunday walking upstream along the Nattai | ||
+ | And some agreed they'd stay with Jan While Stichter led another team To try for Russell' | ||
+ | Once aroused we didn't daily | ||
+ | And we pushed off up the valley | ||
+ | And blow me down! - it happened again | ||
+ | Near Rocky Waterholes Creek. As IvIeriel tried to keep dry feet A stepping stone she missed, | ||
+ | She turned a kind of somersault And landed on her wrist. | ||
+ | The tally now one busted leg And one disabled arm. . | ||
+ | We thought that maybe We should stop Before we came to harm. | ||
+ | To Macarthur' | ||
+ | And no one seemed to give a damn! It was true. Owen Marks, coming out alone to join up with the camping party for the last days of | ||
+ | - Easter, "trod on something that wrenched away I> | ||
+ | FEBRUARY 1995 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALINTR PAGE 7 | ||
+ | , 4 ,from underfoot" | ||
+ | Ve# small beer indeed. At least we acknowledged | ||
+ | th6 event in the October festival where one of the | ||
+ | lasses playing a role was given the line "Oh, that poor snake! Fancy having a heavy bloke like Owen | ||
+ | dancing on your back!" And the " | ||
+ | Later that afternoon our Hill Top reporters were back and right through to nightfall the " | ||
+ | On the Monday we got the injured out. Meriel was " | ||
+ | I heard later that veteran SEW member Ossie Brownlee felt we had mismanaged the whole rescue and should have tried to get a helicopter mission. Well, perhaps - I guess it could have put down on Macarthur' | ||
+ | So there it ended. We'd had our easy, relaKing Easter camp - or was it just four days at Terrible Hollow? | ||
+ | A Forest-Accord continued from page, 3 | ||
+ | In other -words, in this highly emotional argument over trees, the conservationists -are not the only dewy-eyed sentimentalists. The others are those in the timber industry who refuse to see what has been clear for decades - that there will soon be no place for the small old style saw mills equipped for labour-intensive processing of logs from native forests. As Justice Stewart noted, that part of the indus-try has long been doomed. In fact the shift to a plantation based industry is well advanced. That is why the licensing decision of the minister for resources, Mr " | ||
+ | The time is past when the Federal Government can lurch from crisis to crisis, never tackling the fundamental problem. There is much talk of the need for state - Federal cooperation, | ||
+ | emotional conflict of ideas. To realise this, the Federal Government should call a forest summit at which all interests are represented. This with good leadership, should produce a forests accord to end this messy business. | ||
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+ | PAGE 10 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER FEBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | From The Clubroom | ||
+ | Jan Roberts | ||
+ | Firstly, my excuse for missing the report in last month' | ||
+ | Club gossip has it however," | ||
+ | SLIDES OF XMAS WALKS January 25th | ||
+ | A walk on the mild side. Feedback SBWer' | ||
+ | At, last Wednesday' | ||
+ | There. were no slides -but Maurie Blooms' | ||
+ | George Mawer' | ||
+ | Finally, Spiro presented his excellent slides of Ian Ranards' | ||
+ | continuation of &MB Editorial, from page 3 | ||
+ | In other words, in this highly emotional' | ||
+ | The time is past when the Federal Government can lurch from crisis to crisis, never tackling the fundamental problem. There is much talk of the need for state - Federal cooperation, | ||
+ | FEBRUARY 1995 THE SYDNEY BI.ISHWALLTR PAGE 11 | ||
+ | CANYONING TRIP REPORTS | ||
+ | by Ian Wolfe | ||
+ | 1.2-4 December 1994 Bungonia area - 9 participants | ||
+ | . Saturday - a lovely day down Long Gully.' | ||
+ | | ||
+ | 2. 16-18 December 1994 Middle Cluistys Creek (Kanangra) 11 partyers | ||
+ | Walked over Marilman Heath to Pindaii. Pass and then steeply down to the creek before walking back up to view Margaret Falls from below. Then down to Cronus Falls for the first big abseil. A number of smaller drops thereafter before reaching the might Barrallier Falls. We had a progressive lunch- at this point which included diving for sunglasses in the pool below. Continued walking for a.fair distance down the creek before completing the final three small, but very beautiful, falls. Camped at the junction of the two cluisty' | ||
+ | Celebrated my birthday on the river bank with Wine, port, cooler, party hats, party poppers, chocolate cake, Irish Christmas cake; munchies, tall tale's 'arid fireflies. Everyone agreed to conduct a repeat trip in 35 years-time! | ||
+ | Saturday having been quite hot the prospect of a long ridge walk on Sunday afternoon led to a slight change in plan. Instead of continuing down the creek through the Rift to the Kowmung and then out by Stonehag we went directly up Great Groaner to the Colboyd Range. This had us back to the cars by 12 o' | ||
+ | 3. 6-8 January 1995 Bell & Wollangambe Creeks | ||
+ | The auspices were not good in the days prior as the heavens were pouring down torrents! Were we hesitant, were we dismayed .. yes, we were! And this led to some erosion in numbers. Nevertheless six members awoke on Saturday morning at the Mt Wilson sports field. A car shuffle and a close encounter with a very large dog at Holly Lodge saw us striding under a blue sky down to Bell Creek. Here we carefully inspected the water level and found it quite normal before changing into our wetsuits. Thereafter it was clown the creek enjoying the splendid formations of waterworn rock and playing leapfrog with a Bankstown Bushwalking Club day trip (half SBW anyway!). | ||
+ | After much swimming we blew up our lilos and traversed the narrow, deep pools, marvelling at the size of the orange crayfish to cries of " | ||
+ | Eventually we emerged at the Du Faurs Creek junction and shortly thereafter the Wollangambe juifction. Then it was down to the first exit to camp on the sandbank. | ||
+ | Intermittent misty rain fell for most of the night and continued next day. This lowered the temperature slightly, but enough to make us a tad cold. As such we elected to call it quits when we reached the second exit at 11.30 a m., having traversed the main part of this spectacular creek (the waterfalls were particularly pretty). | ||
+ | The trip concluded with a short walk out, a car | ||
+ | | ||
+ | PAGE 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER FEBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | "And then there were..." | ||
+ | Patrick James | ||
+ | Maurie Bloom' | ||
+ | The story of the walk follows. But first, t set 'the scene, the characters in this story are: | ||
+ | first leader Maurie Bloom | ||
+ | second leader Jim Percy | ||
+ | leading lady Barbara Ellis | ||
+ | messengers Tony Crichton and Tom Weranan chorus Helana Chan | ||
+ | Greta James | ||
+ | Patrick James | ||
+ | Angelika Langley | ||
+ | Rosemary MacDougal | ||
+ | Mar3. Moffit | ||
+ | Margaret Sheen | ||
+ | Jo van Sommers | ||
+ | Of the original 14 starters on the walk, but one had to go to Japan, and then there were 13. - With gallant and carefree disregard to any superstitious nonsense concerning numbers we made our separate ways to Adarninaby on Boxing Pay and joined to bus to be dropped off at Round Mountain. The drop off point was full with parked cars, as, bad as Bondi on a hot Sunday in summer. All were experienced Snowy walkers except one who was making his maiden trip. In the process of getting our act together, packs on backs, gaiters on legs, etc, the march flies did seem to be a bit more aggressive than usual, I was told. | ||
+ | The plan was a "Call of the Wild" 6 day walk finishing at Kiandra: Day 1 was uneventful; easy walking under a blue sky and finishing with a beautiful sunset. Day 2 started well, another beautiful day with blue sky. The easy ' | ||
+ | accident. Very quickly Barbara was made comfortable, | ||
+ | reassured that we would not abandon her, a shade erected to shield her from the sun and her legs covered to protect from the march flies The diagnosis was that Barbara had dislocated her elbow at least plus a very strong possibility that a bone or bones were broken. | ||
+ | After a number of discussions and conferences our (first) leader decided that medical evacuation of the patient was called for. Note that here Barbara has become The patient' | ||
+ | Tom and Tony's story. Tom has written a separate account of their story. The following is a condensed version. After lunch on Day 2, Tom and Tony went off to get help, and then there were 11. On the way they met a couple who had a mobile phone with them. Beauty, a call was made, contact established and help was on its way. They did walk out of the park and managed to get a ride to Cabramun-a. After much waiting around the flesh pots of Cabramtirra the likely lads received confirmation that a , helicopter was on its way to rescue Barbara from the wilds of the Snowy. The messengers split-up. Tom returned to the bosom of the party, Tony, who had sprained his ankle in the rush to get help, decided not to return to the walk and so sported himself as a tourist for the remaining days. | ||
+ | Back in the Park. On Day 3 the patient (Barbara) was rescued by the helicopter, and then there were 12. The machine came all the way from Westmead Hospital. It almost missed us as we had moved down off the mountain and it went to the top. We laid out our packs to form the correct ' | ||
+ | Hospital in Canberra. i> continued page 14 | ||
+ | FEBRUARY 1995 THE SYDNEY BUSHWAL10ER PAGE 13 | ||
+ | The January General Meeting. | ||
+ | Barry Wallace | ||
+ | There were some 20 or so members present at around 2014 when the president called for order and got, | ||
+ | Correspondence saw, receipt of about a ream's worth of reports from the Sydney Water Project group. There was a letter from the department of prime minister responding to our recent letter which expressed our opposition to woodchipping and pointed out its effect on our ability to meet our commitments to international conventions on greenhouse gas emissions. There was also a letter from Chris. Harcher responding to the: concerns over sponsorship expressed in our letter about The Royal and mostly explaining why his government thinks it's all right. There were calendars from Confederation S & R on time but with corrections. There was a letter from Confederation musing about the future and advising us that the strategic planning group gets underway in February this year.. Contact Andy McQueen if you wish to assist. There were also outgoing letters to the P.M. as mentioned above and to confederation expressing our view that mandatory accreditation of walks leaders was wholly inappropriate for voluntary organisations such as bushwalking clubs. There were no matters arising. | ||
+ | The treasurer then rose to tell us that we earned income of $636, spent $12,234 and closed with a balance of $2, | ||
+ | The 'walks reports revealed the absence of the walks secretary. Fortunately Bill Holland was able to step in and begin with Ian Wolf's 2 day Kanangra Walls abseiling trip over the weekend of 16, 17, 18 Deceraer. The was a general belief that it went, but no-one had any details. Wilf Hilder led a party of 4 on.. sections 17 and 18 of the Great Southern Walk reporting good wildflowers and warm conditipns. Maurie Ward led his Saturday Sydney Harbour. walk and barbecue. There were 28 on the walk and an untold number at the party. It was a warm. day with swims and ide, cream stops, and in the late, afternoon a strange sea mist rolled in to. shroud all' from view. Bronny Niemeyer led ,l. soon, her, Xmas gourmetwalk which was declared to have been a good walk by | ||
+ | at least one 9f the survivors. | ||
+ | . . | ||
+ | Tuesday 27 December saw Jim Callaway leading a party of 9 on his Helensburgh to Otford coastal walk. Jim expressed his bafflement over the disparate walking capabilities of the party members and was left to ponder whether he, as leader trying to hold the party together, had travelled too fast or too slaw | ||
+ | Christmas this year delivered more clement weather conditions in the Snowys. Ian. Rannard led 18 on his trip in the area round Coolarnine Station from 27 December to I January and described it as pleasant. Maurie Blume and the party of 13 on his programmed Round Mountain to Kiandra walk from 26 December to 2 January ended up with more than the weather on their minds. It seems that Barbara fell and broke an arm somewhere on the slopes of Jagungal. The pain was intense and shock a probability so party members went out to summon help. There were some uncertainties with the mobile phone techfix they encountered along the way, but in the end, just as the main party were beginning to shift for themselves as one might say, the cavalry, or in this case a helicopter, two ranger' | ||
+ | Tony I-iolgate reported a party of 15 on his Croajingolong N.P. coastal ramble from 27 December to: 2...january: | ||
+ | PAGE 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER FEBRUARY 1995 | ||
+ | Elwyn Morris reported a party of 25 and more bushland than one might think on her Sunday walk froin Milsons Point to Gladesville.. | ||
+ | - The conservation report brought news that Alex has written an article for the magazine reviewing the draft plan of management for The Royal and inviting corriments Or submissions. An E.I.S has been prepared for 'a boat ramp at Bonnie Vale with the associated parking area for boat trailers and cars. There was also mention of an article from a Victorian NPA magazine, covering the question of control of foxes and cats. | ||
+ | Confederation report advised that they are in the process' | ||
+ | General business brought a couple. of motions Concerning Cbolana. We voted for the addition of shelving and hanger hooks to the hut. ("Will that affect it's inherently fire resistant design'?" | ||
+ | After the announcements 'the meeting closed at around 2156 | ||
+ | Barry | ||
+ | And Then...Continued from P12 | ||
+ | 41 Besides the helioopter we also had an ambulance come to our rescue. The ambulance crew, , two dashing men in uniform, were accompanied by a NP&WS ranger in a 4WD Ute. The ranger and one ambulance man went off to look at the route up to Mount J,agungal so we served the other ambulance than tea and Christmas cake whilst we all waited. Eventually the motorised tourists came back for their tea. and cake. | ||
+ | With the- evacuation ofthe patient by air our first leader Catild not remain idle in the bush and made immediate plans to be at her side. Maurie arranged to get a lift out with the ranger. So off they went, the ambulance With the two men in blue, the 4WD with the ranger and Maurie leaving behind the rump of the party under the direction of the second leader. And then there were 9. s | ||
+ | The Patient' | ||
+ | Maurie' | ||
+ | Back in the Park. We moved off in the direction of O' | ||
+ | The walk back to Round Mountain was uneventful; good weather, good navigation, no unplanned detours. The bus arrived some 20 minutes late loaded with food, drink and a smiling, limp-free Tony. The bus trip back. to Aciaminaby was a song- filled, feeding frenzy. Bush walking is tough! | ||
+ | Notwithstanding the accident and the change in plans walking in the Snowy area has Merit, perhaps even &eat merit and I, who was on my maiden Snowy walk, look forward to going back again, provided we get the same designer weather. Next time ni wear longer shorts (or perhaps short longs) to save myself from the bloody march flies. Next lime I'll bring along a good book to read in the sun, comfortable gaiters, not the sweat boxes I have at present, more rum in case we run short, maybe some champagne' | ||
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