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- | THE SYDNEY" | + | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ====== |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney- Bushwalker, | + | |
- | The N.S.W.. Nurses? Association | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker, The N.S.W. Nurses' |
- | Box No.:- 4476 G.P.O. Sydney. | + | |
- | 332 AUGUST | + | === 332. August |
- | ...1. | + | |
- | Editor: Stuart Brooks, 5 Ingalara Rd, | + | |**Editor**|Stuart Brooks, 5 Ingalara Rd, Wahroonga. 484343.| |
- | Wahroonga. 484343. | + | |**Business Manager**|Brian Harvey| |
- | Business Manager: Brian Harvey | + | |**Reproduction**|Denise Hull| |
- | | + | |**Sales & Subs.**|Lola Wedlock| |
- | 1110.0...210 | + | |**Typed by**|Shirley Dean| |
- | CONTENTS | + | |
- | | + | ===== Contents ===== |
- | Editorial 1 | + | |
- | At our July Meeting | + | | | |Page| |
- | Letter to the Editor | + | |Editorial| | 1| |
- | Ben the Salesman | + | |At our July Meeting|Alex Colley| 3| |
- | Mold be a Walker - Part II. - Jim Brown 7 | + | |Letter to the Editor|Ron. Knightly| 4| |
- | The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia 12 | + | |Ben the Salesman|Kath McKay| 5| |
- | Plumbing Troubles (ad). Hatsimell' | + | |Who' |
- | Paddy' | + | |The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia| |12| |
- | Report of 1961 Expedition to the Carstensz Mts. | + | |Report of 1961 Expedition to the Carstensz Mts. of Neth. New Guinea. |
- | of Neth. New Guinea. | + | |Day Walks| |17| |
- | Day Walks 17 | + | |Science |
- | Science | + | |Federation |
- | Federation | + | |Orbituary - Max Gentle|Ron Baker|21| |
- | Orbituary - Max Gentle. Ron Baker. 21 | + | |Pattern Walks| |22| |
- | Pattern Walks 22 | + | |
+ | ===== Advertisements ===== | ||
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+ | | |Page| | ||
+ | |Plumbing Trouble (ad)|13| | ||
+ | |Hatswell' | ||
+ | |Paddy' | ||
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Hi | Hi | ||
- | I'm feeling in a better mood this month so you won't have to put up with a tirade about lack of walks on the programme, not enough articles for the mag. e etc. (I'm saving this for next month.) | + | |
- | August looks an interesting month from -where I sit. Apart from visiting | + | I'm feeling in a better mood this month so you won't have to put up with a tirade about lack of walks on the programme, not enough articles for the mag. etc etc. (I'm saving this for next month.) |
- | my Mother-in-law, | + | |
- | the leader, the country in this area is most fascinating, | + | August looks an interesting month from where I sit. Apart from visiting my Mother-in-law, |
- | 2. The Sydney Bushwalker. August, 1962 | + | |
- | visits. (Besides, you won't have to carry packs.) Frank Leyden' | + | On top of all this, you lucky people, there are two attractive evenings arranged - Malc. McGregor's "Wild Flowers" |
- | NUmbedah | + | |
- | Wilf will take whoever' | + | Apart from the regular fab. features, this month we have the second of a trilogy from Jim Brown on " |
- | On top of all this, you lucky people, there are two attractive evenings arranged - Malc. NbGregor's "Wild Flowers" | + | |
- | Apart from the regular fab, features, this month we have the second of | + | We also have one of Kath McKay's captivating efforts - the big day in the life of Ben the goat. You'll read it several times just as I have. |
- | a trilogy from Jim Brown on " | + | |
- | We also have one of Kath NbKay's captivating efforts - the big day in the life of Ben the goat, You'll read it several times just as I have. | + | As well, there is a short burst on a very worthwhile organisation - the Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, which, apart from offering you some interesting activities, affords you the opportunity of doing something active in the struggle going on to preserve our fast-dwindling bushland and wild-life from axe, gun and dozer. |
- | As well, there is a short burst on a very worthwhile organisation - the Mild Life Preservation Society of Australia, which, apart from offering you some interesting activities, affords you the opportunity of doing something active | + | |
- | in the struggle going on to preserve our fast-dwindling bushland and wild-life from axe, gun and dozer. | + | At Molly Rodgers' |
- | At Molly Rodgers' | + | |
- | from mush that has been carried around in a pack, probably next to wet socks, | + | ---- |
- | for several days is really quite a feat. Passing on the dodges you have learned through bitter experience will help everyone, so let us know how you cope. | + | |
- | If you're too tired to jot it down, ring..Shirley Dean on 342469 and dictate over the phone. Now that's real service. | + | |
Congratulations to Brian and Dawn Anderson ("The Admiral" | Congratulations to Brian and Dawn Anderson ("The Admiral" | ||
Rachel Askew in June. | Rachel Askew in June. | ||
- | Also cdngratulations | + | |
- | August 62 The Sydney Bu shwalker 3 | + | Also congratulations |
- | AT OUR JULY MEETING | + | |
- | The meeting commenced with a welcome from the Presdent | + | ---- |
- | back from the ILS., and looking very fit. Then a welcome was extended to five | + | |
- | new meMbers, Sandra Bardwell, Elayne Metcalf, David and Judy Balmer and Don Hodge. | + | ===== At Our July Meeting. ===== |
- | Advertising material received included literature on safe boating - no doubt word of the Rudolph Cup has reached the publishers - also a moral hot from the advertising agency - "Every woman has to hoodwink her mq n. sometime." | + | |
- | The Treasurer' | + | Alex. Colley |
- | certain names on the list on the notice board, Revenue of E46.111 included | + | |
- | from subsrriptions, and our bank balance at C215J4,4 was up 14402 on the month. | + | The meeting commenced with a welcome from the President |
- | The Social Secretary also boosted finances with 5 profit from a night at " | + | |
- | Thanks were expressed to jack Wren for making a cabinet for the keeping of | + | Advertising material received included literature on safe boating - no doubt word of the Rudolph Cup has reached the publishers - also a moral hot from the advertising agency - "Every woman has to hoodwink her man sometime." |
- | membership forms etc, used by the membership secretary. | + | |
- | The Walks Secretary reported that both the Queen' | + | The Treasurer' |
- | Will remarked on the excellent work done there by the Local Council. | + | |
- | Frank Leydon' | + | The Social Secretary also boosted finances with £5 profit from a night at " |
- | and had been notable for good views, good camping and mild weather. Although timber getters had been active in the area Tony Queitzch and his party of four had also enjoyed fine scenery on their Paralyser Walk, Nine members and seven prospectives had gene on Ramon U' | + | |
- | 1 visitort | + | Thanks were expressed to Jack Wren for making a cabinet for the keeping of membership forms etc, used by the membership secretary. |
- | At the conclusion of the meeting Frank Ashdown said that three new packs had | + | |
- | " | + | The Walks Secretary reported that both the Queen' |
- | been acquired, He suggested that we maim arrangements for the construction of a cupboard to hold the equipment, | + | |
- | Not only snakes and wombats come out of holes in the ground. Lyndsey- Gray discovered Bob Tjawkft ns In just each a locale and now they' | + | Frank Leydon' |
- | We're not sure yet whether Sydney | + | |
- | 4 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 | + | At the conclusion of the meeting Frank Ashdown said that three new packs had been bought for loaning to prospectives and 1 donated, also some ground |
- | Letter to the Editor from Ron Knightley. | + | |
- | "In your June issue " | + | ---- |
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+ | Not only snakes and wombats come out of holes in the ground. Lyndsey Gray discovered Bob Hawkins in just such a locale and now they' | ||
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+ | We're not sure yet whether Sydney | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ===== Letter to the Editor from Ron Knightley. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "In your June issue " | ||
(i) "In camp that evening the carriers warned us that we might meet hostile natives the next day and the guns were unpacked and assembled." | (i) "In camp that evening the carriers warned us that we might meet hostile natives the next day and the guns were unpacked and assembled." | ||
- | (ii)" | + | |
- | The only inference that T can draw from these statements is that a member | + | (ii)" |
- | of this Club planned an expedition to climb mountains in New Guinea, and that | + | |
- | included in the plans of that expedition was the intention that, under certain | + | The only inference that I can draw from these statements is that a member of this Club planned an expedition to climb mountains in New Guinea, and that included in the plans of that expedition was the intention that, under certain circumstances, |
- | circumstances, | + | |
While realising that the expedition was sponsored by the N.Z.A.C. and not by us, I suggest that we should express our concern at the fact that such plans were made and that the members of the expedition demonstrated their determination to put their plans into effect. | While realising that the expedition was sponsored by the N.Z.A.C. and not by us, I suggest that we should express our concern at the fact that such plans were made and that the members of the expedition demonstrated their determination to put their plans into effect. | ||
- | If we do not express our disapproval, | + | |
- | guilty of two great wrongs. Firstly, we Shall be guilty of hypocrisy in the | + | If we do not express our disapproval, |
- | highest degree; and secondly we shall be guilty of condoning a gross breach of United Nations Declaration of Human Rights4, to which Australia as a nation subscribes. | + | |
Let us examine my two charges. | Let us examine my two charges. | ||
- | Among the aims of this club is the appreciation and preservation of the | + | |
- | great outdoors. Here at home: we would not condone the wanton killing of a snake | + | Among the aims of this club is the appreciation and preservation of the great outdoors. Here at home, we would not condone the wanton killing of a snake or a wallaby; we would not condone the killing of a wildflower or a tree; we would most certainly not condone the killing of a human being who stood on his land and forbade us to cross it. How, then, can we condone |
- | or a wallaby; we would not condone the killing of a wildflower or a tree; we would most certainly not condone the killing of a human being who stood on his land and forbade us to cross it How, then, can we %3; | + | |
- | My second charge refers to Article 3 of the Declaration of Human Rights; | + | My second charge refers to Article 3 of the Declaration of Human Rights, which says: " |
- | which says: " | + | |
- | I hope that members of this club will join me in deprecating the intentions and actions of the N,Z.A.C. expedition in so far as they involved danger to the lives of people other than members of the Expedition. | + | I hope that members of this club will join me in deprecating the intentions and actions of the N.Z.A.C. expedition in so far as they involved danger to the lives of people other than members of the Expedition. |
- | August | + | |
- | BEN AD THE SALESMAN | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | ===== Ben And The Salesman. ===== | ||
Kath McKay | Kath McKay | ||
- | Most bushwalkers know Ray and Peter Page of Ben Ricketts? Jamberoo, and many of them knew their famous billy-goat, Ben. | + | |
- | He was a fine upstanding animal of unusual sagacity and 'powerful aroma. He had a beautiful silky coat, a patriarchal beard and a crushing eye. His lineage was lost in the mists of antiquity; was not his image, Capricorn, burning in the very-heavens? And he knew it. Not for nothing did he figure | + | Most bushwalkers know Ray and Peter Page of Ben Ricketts, Jamberoo, and many of them knew their famous billy-goat, Ben. |
- | in the mysterious | + | |
- | Ben Ricketts, undoubted monarch of all he surveyed. | + | He was a fine upstanding animal of unusual sagacity and powerful aroma. He had a beautiful silky coat, a patriarchal beard and a crushing eye. His lineage was lost in the mists of antiquity; was not his image, Capricorn, burning in the very heavens? And he knew it. Not for nothing did he figure in the mysterious |
- | He was temperamental as a prima donna and was not to be taken lightly; | + | |
- | but he had his favourites Ray of course could govern him, and at cocktail time it was a common sight to see Ben, all sweetness and light, with his head poked through a cabin window, | + | He was temperamental as a prima donna and was not to be taken lightly; but he had his favourites. Ray of course could govern him, and at cocktail time it was a common sight to see Ben, all sweetness and light, with his head poked through a cabin window, |
- | most part they walked warily in his presence and felt safer with a good strong fence between them and Ben. | + | |
- | One fine day Peter, in the role of Nine Host that becomes him so well, agreed to accompany his guests to the top of the mountain, and Trigger, the black cattle dog, delightedly went too. | + | One fine day Peter, in the role of Mine Host that becomes him so well, agreed to accompany his guests to the top of the mountain, and Trigger, the black cattle dog, delightedly went too. |
- | Ray saw the car off and walked back to the hQuse, thinking | + | |
- | She stepped forward resolutely. "Did you want something?" | + | Ray saw the car off and walked back to the house, thinking with satisfaction of all the chores she could dispose of in a whole uninterrupted day. As she came into the living room she froze in her tracks, for at the table sat a strange man. |
- | The stranger looked up and smiled confidently. " | + | |
- | see dome specimens of my'work." As he spoke he took numerous photos from his | + | She stepped forward resolutely. "Did you want something?" |
- | portglfolio | + | |
- | "Thank you" said Ray, omitting to state that photographs of her wedding were | + | The stranger looked up and smiled confidently. " |
- | non-existent, | + | |
- | "Oh come," said the man " | + | "Thank you" said Ray, omitting to state that photographs of her wedding were non-existent, |
- | "No, thank you" said Ray; | + | |
- | decrepit. "I don't want anything at qll. I am very busy, and would be glad if you would go." | + | "Oh come," said the man " |
- | "Ah no," said the man, still smiling, "You are not going to get rid of me | + | |
- | as easily as that I shall sit here until you change your mind" and he sprawled | + | "No, thank you" said Ray, swallowing down a rejoinder that she was not yet decrepit. "I don't want anything at all. I am very busy, and would be glad if you would go." |
- | at his ease and lit a cigarette. | + | |
- | 6 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 | + | "Ah no," said the man, still smiling, "You are not going to get rid of me as easily as that. I shall sit here until you change your mind" and he sprawled at his ease and lit a cigarette. |
- | Ray was silent a moment. The man had obviously arrived by car, hidden it down the road and sneaked into the house while she was farewelling Peter and his guestS.and the dog. The photographer knew that she was alone, at his mercy. Ben Ricketts is isolated, and there was not a soul to whom she could call for help. | + | |
- | -Theni | + | Ray was silent a moment. The man had obviously arrived by car, hidden it down the road and sneaked into the house while she was farewelling Peter and his guests |
- | bell and saw --Ben. Quietly she went to the door and called: "Come here, my | + | |
- | Greatly wondering, Ben advanced. Was he actually being invited into the | + | Then, looking desperately through the window, she heard the clonk of a bell and saw - Ben. Quietly she went to the door and called: "Come here, my love!" |
- | house? Memories of doors shut in his face, of windows hastily closed while hands | + | |
- | frenziedly beat the aiilto | + | Greatly wondering, Ben advanced. Was he actually being invited into the house? Memories of doors shut in his face, of windows hastily closed while hands frenziedly beat the air to ward off the pungent goat-smell: these rose before |
- | The stange | + | |
- | " | + | The strange |
- | "No, no!" babbled the man, snatching up his specimens and craMming theth into his portfolio " | + | |
+ | " | ||
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+ | "No, no!" babbled the man, snatching up his specimens and cramming them into his portfolio " | ||
Terror-stricken he rushed from the house, and at the first gate risked a backward glance. Ray made as if to loose Ben. | Terror-stricken he rushed from the house, and at the first gate risked a backward glance. Ray made as if to loose Ben. | ||
+ | |||
"Hold him! Don't let him go!" yelled the photographer, | "Hold him! Don't let him go!" yelled the photographer, | ||
- | The last Ray saw of him was his flying feet as he made for the outer gate, portfolio flapping, and gained the safety of the road. | + | |
- | Ben has passed on, but to one woman at least he is a fragrant memory. | + | The last Ray saw of him was his flying feet as he made for the outer gate, portfolio flapping, and gained the safety of the road. |
- | SYMBOLIC SONNET | + | |
- | . | + | Ben has passed on, but to one woman at least he is a fragrant memory. |
- | Camped on the western bank, a bicycle wheel thing, | + | |
- | To lift the bridge (the wool boats and the locks Are zone) then went a thousand miles into the flat. | + | ---- |
- | Country and heard the lonely mind at the edge - of the desert looking for a mountain, a hill | + | |
- | Some long wandering, contour to possess, | + | ===== Symbolic Sonnet. ===== |
- | , | + | |
- | Mf people cathe, the men, generations ago | + | |
- | Looking for grass, rain, the heartland. The cattle died between feed and water; | + | |
- | The men walked back to go to foreign wars. | + | |
- | A mountain has a profile, shape, memory to caress | + | |
- | But the desert mind mumbles to itself | + | |
- | Of the dreaming, speaking of death and loneliness | + | |
- | In another language meaning the same things. | + | |
Thornigah. | Thornigah. | ||
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- | / N/ I! Li I i d ft,l-P./...,4 11 | + | of the desert looking for a mountain, a hill\\ |
- | II | + | Some long wandering, contour to possess. |
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- | V.,\.. . | + | Looking for grass, rain, the heartland.\\ |
- | A\ \ 1! | + | The cattle died between feed and water;\\ |
- | I, 1 | + | The men walked back to go to foreign wars.\\ |
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- | , | + | But the desert wind mumbles to itself\\ |
- | \ II | + | Of the dreaming, speaking of death and loneliness\\ |
- | pi / , \ , \ | + | In another language meaning the same things. |
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- | 7iiic / -N.:. "" | + | === It could only be the Federation Ball. === |
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- | August 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 7 | + | |
- | NHO'D BE A NALHER | + | |
- | WANDERING | + | |
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"Which one is that son -? The Catalogue Aria?" | "Which one is that son -? The Catalogue Aria?" | ||
- | "No, that one about being a walker, There' | + | |
- | "Ah, yes - Who'd be a walkeri | + | "No, that one about being a walker. There' |
- | Scrambling for a train | + | |
+ | "Ah, yes - Who'd be a walker,\\ | ||
+ | Scrambling for a train\\ | ||
Wandering round in mist and fog." | Wandering round in mist and fog." | ||
- | " | + | |
- | I started off as a freelance walker and never had any fog trouble worth | + | " |
- | mentioning, But I'd only been about three months with the Walkers when I first | + | |
- | ran into it That doesn' | + | "Did I ever? ----- look son - have you got six or seven hours? Well ---- |
- | " | + | |
- | Range from Kanangra. Easter Saturday night we were going to can on Dex Cteek, | + | I started off as a freelance walker and never had any fog trouble worth mentioning. But I'd only been about three months with the Walkers when I first ran into it. That doesn' |
- | but all that afternoon while we scrambled up from Gabes Gap on to Cloudmaker, the mist thickened, and at the top we had a view of 30 yards of weeping scrub. | + | |
- | . "We knew flex Creek was about north we dropped off the summit on that side | + | " |
- | and an hour later we were tossing aside fallen trees and uprooting vegetation | + | |
- | to clear space for a tvt, It wasn' | + | "We knew flex Creek was about north, so we dropped off the summit on that side and an hour later we were tossing aside fallen trees and uprooting vegetation to clear space for a tent. It wasn' |
- | do. | + | |
- | "Next morning was still murky, but we climbed over a low stony ridge to the | + | "Next morning was still murky, but we climbed over a low stony ridge to the east, and came out on the clearing along Dex Creek. This all seemed extra grouse until we discovered two of the party were astray, |
- | east, and came out on the clearing along flex Creek, This all seemed extra grouse | + | |
- | until we discovered two of the party were astray, | + | " |
- | " | + | |
- | out into the creeping fog. After a short while we got answers to our calls, | + | "All in all it was about an hour before we were all assembled again, and almost immediately the cloud began to blow away. |
- | this time far away; and a good deal latar, having shouted to them to stay put and | + | |
- | . yell, we picked 'em up. They were both people wearing hearing aids, which | + | "I suppose it was because that wasn' |
- | apparently give " | + | |
- | "All in all it was about an hour before we were all assembled again, and almost immediately the cloud began to blow away, | + | "Once again the clouds rolled up as we clambered over Rip, Rack, Roar and Rumble. Because we had a sloppy party with fast breakaways up front, and a slow rearguard, including one sick man, I scarcely noticed, being too fully occupied running up and down the line checking the leaders and coaxing the tail. |
- | 8 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 "I suppose it was because that wasn't | + | |
- | | + | "The view from Cloudmaker was exactly the same as at Easter '47, but warned by that occasion, I led off slightly east of north - and almost ran the party into Ti-Willa Canyon. Finally, after some groping around in wet scrub we got on to the Dex Creek clearings in the last glimmers of daylight. |
- | impressed with the problems that roll up enveloped in mist. Two years later, same nlace, same holiday weekend, I was. | + | |
- | "Once again the clouds rolled up as we clambered over Rip, Rack, Roar | + | " |
- | and Rumble. Because we had a sloppy party with fast breakaways up front, and a slow rearguard, including one sick man, I scarcely noticed, being too fully | + | |
- | occupied running up and down the line'checking the leaders and coaxing the tail. | + | "I can still remember the crawling clouds, the damp chill air, the occasional glimpses of straggly trees lining the edge of Kanangra Creek Valley. The highest ground (and so the most obvious) led away just a shade east of north. A compass sight on to some vaguely seen trees something west of north gave me fresh heart and I looked around - to see our runaways, already almost out of recall, bettling off on the NE ridge. |
- | "The view from Cloudmaker was exactly the same as at Easter '47, but warned | + | |
- | by that occasion, I led off slightly east of north - and almost ran the party into Ti- Nina Canyon. Finally, after some groping around in wet scrub we got | + | "Of course, I should |
- | on to the Dex Creek clearings in the last glimmers of daylight. | + | |
- | 7" | + | " |
- | Creek; with' Ohce a sight of a ghostly hump of Bolworra | + | |
- | over Strongleg, and prwatEly | + | "Well, I had a pretty good trot after that for a few years: plenty of rain, a fair share of winds, but not really lousy fogs. Until I was doing a Victorian Alps trip with three other folk in '55 -- just a tick, now, I've got it in an old magazine here, and if Editors won't reprint me, I can at least quote myself. Here it is - |
- | " | + | |
- | occasional glimpses of straggly trees lining the edge of Kanangra Creek Valley. The highest ground (and so the most obvious) led away just a shade east of north. A compass sight on to some vaguely seen trees something west of north gave me | + | 'In the notes given me by Stuart Brookes (not the slob who was Editor back in '62, but a very pleasant cover in the Vic. Mountain Tramping Club) was a caution. "By the way, on the section from Mt. Wellington to Mt. Howitt, it's not uncommon to run into misty weather - it is best to stay put until the weather improves." |
- | fresh heart and I looked around - to see our runaways, already almost out of recall, bettling off on the NE ridge. | + | |
- | "Of course, I Should | + | Well, I ask you, who would stay put while the track is six feet wide, striding away before you? Then, if there were a real change brewing, we hoped to take shelter in Guy's Hut on Bryce' |
- | cloud began to rise, it was all too obvious we were on our way to Gentle' | + | |
- | " | + | 'The mist thickened, but the approach landmarks to the Plain all tallied with the map - a little stream running west, fences and sliprails. Time 5 p.m. and ahead was the vagueness of a snow plain. Bearing to hut across plain NW. Distance 500 yards. Below is a picture of what we saw in the next hour. |
- | see something! You can get the same feeling sometimes in dense scrub, but never | + | |
- | quite so badly as in a good pea-soup mountain mist. | + | 'Some time past 6 p.m. we groped back and settled thankfully under a couple of large trees, fairly close to our original entry to the Plain. There was water below in the creek. We had written off the Hut - look for it in the morning. |
- | "Well, I had a pretty good trot after that for a few years: plenty of rain, a fair share of winds, but not really lousy fogs. Until I was doing a Victorian | + | |
- | Alps trip with three other folk in '55 -- just a tick, now, I've got it in an old magazine here, and if Editors won't reprint me, I can at least quote myself. | + | 'Once or twice during the night I aroused enough to look out at the mist; and it was still there at first light. Voices in the other tents fetched me back to life again at 5.50, and through the rift at the foot of the tent I could see a gray light - and trees across the plain. I stuck my head out. Guy's Hut was 5 minutes walk away, at the edge of the forest opposite. (Last night we couldn' |
- | Here it is - | + | |
- | 'In the notes given me by Stuart Brookes (not the slob who was Editor back in '62, but alery pleasant cover in the Vic. Mountain Tramping Club) was a caution. | + | |
- | "By the way; on the section from Et. Wellington to Et. Howitt, it's not uncommon to run into misty weather | + | |
- | August 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 9 | + | |
- | Well, I ask you, who would stay put -while the track is six feet wide, striding away before you? Then, if there were a real change brewing, we hoped to take shelter in Guy's' | + | |
- | 'The mist thickened, but the approach landmarks to the Plain all tallied with the map - a little stream running west, fences and sliprails. Time 5 p m. and ahead was the vagueness of a snow plain. Bearing to hut across plain NW. Distance 500 yards. Below is a picture of what we saw in the next hour. | + | |
- | 'Some time past 6 p m, we groped back and settled thankfully under a couple of large trees, fairly close to our original entry to the Plain. There was water below in the creek. We had written off the Hut - look for it in the morning. | + | |
- | 'Once or twice during the night I aroused enough to look out at the mist, and it was still there at first light. Voices in the other tents fetched me back to life again at 5.50, and through the rift at the foot of the tent I could see a gray light - and trees across the plain. I stuck my head out. Guy's Hut was 5 minutes walk away, at the edge of the forest opposite. (Last night we couldn' | + | |
"Of the following afternoon I wrote - | "Of the following afternoon I wrote - | ||
- | 'We saw the bald dome of Mt. Howett a few times before mist closed in again, and crossed a series of pocket-handkerchief snow plains. Each time the path , | ||
- | timber. | ||
- | ' | ||
- | ridge was now bearing 80 degrees. | ||
- | 'There was, I considered, only one place where we could have erred - back | ||
- | at our sidling we must have taken a side-ridge, -which gradually veered east, while the track vent on north along the highest ground. Back, we went, along the crown of the ridge till we came to an extensive open top, the sort of place that | ||
- | usually marks a junction of spurs. We swung west, the tension becoming unbearable - and in 3 minutes intersected (obviously) the main trail, The moisture I rubbed | ||
- | from my forehead was not entirely due to the mist or my exertions ----. | ||
- | "For the next day, when we crossed the serrated Narrow Neck of The Cross | ||
- | Cut Saw, I reported. ' | ||
- | shoulders rising fromWonongatta (Terrible Hollow) but mostly we were stumbling, mind-tossed, | ||
- | 10 The Sydney Bushmalker August 1962 | ||
- | 'We traversed the narrow, rocky, middle section, climbed Mount Buggary, | ||
- | and dropped below the mist for the first time into a 4,600 ft. saddle. We could see the terraced slope of Et. Speculation looming ahead, it's upper | ||
- | 700 ft.. spiking the racing clouds. | ||
- | ' | ||
- | was almost an Everest-ish touch as one paused, bent against the gale, peering, | ||
- | into obscurity. At 2 o' | ||
- | first time it occurred to me it would be fun and games to find the small camp | ||
- | site below the mountain - considering our battle to pick up Guy's Hut and Macalister Springs with a fair trail to follow. | ||
- | 'Well, the valley is NE of the mountain, so out with the compass again. | ||
- | Try to steady oneself against the wind so that the needle settles: pick 'a ghostly snow gum in the right direction and march to it then again | ||
- | We walked almost right onto the camping spot, with the next stage of track | ||
- | leading north towards Mount Koonika.' | ||
- | "After all that, I had another good spell, if you except a couple of - | ||
- | occasions when I was trying to pick the right ridge down from MeMahon' | ||
- | onto the Cox. You had to strike the ridge or you finished up over a cliff. Each | ||
- | time the cloud began to disperse as the crucial part of the descent was reached. NO one mill worry about that place again, I fancy, since the valley floor is now | ||
- | flooded 'by Warragamba. | ||
- | - " | ||
- | "You know, Paddy Pallin once went to Mount Talaterang coming in from Milton and reported 'The view from Talaterang should not be mist. I wouldn' | ||
- | "About foUr hours from the Sassafras Rd, and maybe 2i - 3 hours short of Talaterang I was groping along with the SE mind on my left Shoulder blade', | ||
- | the north and then the west Slope of Mount Bushwalker without seeing it. Finally, at 4 p m. I Was at Gadara Point - l miles north of Talaterang, with a connecting saddle. | ||
- | " | ||
- | dense scrub just back from the point, and spent thp night wondering (a) was I really' | ||
- | and still be back on the road the same evening? In between pondering this,' I dislodged a. few hundred little golden ants which emerged from' their nest Under my pack, | ||
- | " | ||
- | August 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 11 | ||
- | So long. as T could find my way out After all, I still didn't know for sure I was*.ctiLG-adara. | ||
- | " | + | 'We saw the bald dome of Mt. Howett a few times before mist closed in again, and crossed a series of pocket-handkerchief snow plains. Each time the path disappeared in the grass, but popped up again, clear as a highway amongst the timber. |
- | di/it 'of."going.NE and-N1AT, then NE again, I managed to go generally north, find the two vital saddles, and presently, taking far too long, the end of the Army road near Tiangara Trig. | + | |
- | . | + | ' |
- | -"All the while it rained - sometimes heavily, and once I stood on a soaked hillside, watching the clouds eddy past; and-yelled at the top of my voice, "Huey you turn it oft". The profanity helped my spirits, but | + | |
- | Huey took no heed. | + | 'There was, I considered, only one place where we could have erred - back at our sidling we must have taken a side-ridge, which gradually veered east, while the track went on north along the highest ground. Back we went, along the crown of the ridge till we came to an extensive open top, the sort of place that usually marks a junction of spurs. We swung west, the tension becoming unbearable - and in 3 minutes intersected (obviously) the main trail. The moisture I rubbed from my forehead was not entirely due to the mist or my exertions ----. |
- | 4Fiale | + | |
- | to Currockbilly from the Mongarlowe Rd. I just managed | + | "For the next day, when we crossed the serrated Narrow Neck of The Cross Cut Saw, I reported. 'Rarely we glimpsed the Thurat-like spires which from the shoulders rising from Wonongatta (Terrible Hollow) but mostly we were stumbling, wind-tossed, |
- | "Just to have the satisfaction, | + | |
- | "Well now, after that ----- I I | + | 'We traversed the narrow, rocky, middle section, climbed Mount Buggary, and dropped below the mist for the first time into a 4,600 ft. saddle. We could see the terraced slope of Mt. Speculation looming ahead, it's upper 700 ft. spiking the racing clouds. |
- | "But Grandpa - from all your experience | + | |
- | "Well son, I would say sit,domn and let it clear." | + | ' |
- | "But Grandpa, you didn't do that did you? Not at Guy's Hut, or at Cloud- | + | |
- | | + | 'Well, the valley is NE of the mountain, so out with the compass again. Try to steady oneself against the wind so that the needle settles: pick a ghostly snow gum in the right direction and march to it then again ----- We walked almost right onto the camping spot, with the next stage of track leading north towards Mount Koonika.' |
+ | |||
+ | "After all that, I had another good spell, if you except a couple of occasions when I was trying to pick the right ridge down from McMahon' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "But Huey turned it on again for me on my holiday in March '62 when I went out from the Sassafras Rd past Tianjara Trig, target Mount Talaterang. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "You know, Paddy Pallin once went to Mount Talaterang coming in from Milton and reported 'The view from Talaterang should not be mist. I wouldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "About four hours from the Sassafras Rd, and maybe 2½ - 3 hours short of Talaterang I was groping along with the SE wind on my left shoulder blade, a scraggy forest line on my right. Visibility 50 yards - I walked right around the north and then the west slope of Mount Bushwalker without seeing it. Finally, at 4 p.m. I was at Gadara Point - l½ miles north of Talaterang, with a connecting saddle. | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Well I was (on Gadara) and I did (find my may). The process was rather like a billiard ball doing a series of cannons: I bounced from the cliff-line overlooking the Clyde River to the cliff on the east of the plateau and by dint of going NE and NW, then NE again, I managed to go generally north, find the two vital saddles, and presently, taking far too long, the end of the Army road near Tiangara Trig. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "All the while it rained - sometimes heavily, and once I stood on a soaked hillside, watching the clouds eddy past; and-yelled at the top of my voice, "Huey you ..... turn it off". The profanity helped my spirits, but Huey took no heed. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The last leg of my holiday trip - five days later - was a day jaunt up to Currockbilly from the Mongarlowe Rd. I just managed | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Just to have the satisfaction, | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Well now, after that ----- " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "But Grandpa - from all your experience | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Well son, I would say sit down and let it clear." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "But Grandpa, you didn't do that did you? Not at Guy's Hut, or at Cloudmaker | ||
"Look, son, you do what I say, not what I do." | "Look, son, you do what I say, not what I do." | ||
+ | |||
"But Grandpa, what if the mist sticks around for days. You can't wait, can you?" | "But Grandpa, what if the mist sticks around for days. You can't wait, can you?" | ||
- | "Here, off to bed you young varmint. -- These kids - no respect for the wisdom of their elders at all:" | + | |
- | Ron Kennealey departed for Queensland a week ago. 'He hopes to start | + | "Here, off to bed you young varmint. -- These kids - no respect for the wisdom of their elders at all!" |
- | a refrigeration business in his old home town, Grenslopes, so if all goes well, it may be some time before we see, and hear, Ron again. Best of Luck, Ron. | + | |
- | 7 | + | ---- |
- | 12 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia. | + | |
+ | Ron Kennealey departed for Queensland a week ago. He hopes to start a refrigeration business in his old home town, Greenslopes, so if all goes well, it may be some time before we see, and hear, Ron again. Best of Luck, Ron. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia. | ||
Now here's a gang that really deserves your support. Cheap too! Just compare these rates for value. | Now here's a gang that really deserves your support. Cheap too! Just compare these rates for value. | ||
- | Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is 7. | + | |
- | This group adtively | + | Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is £7. |
- | an interesting day is assured. Meet at the entrane | + | |
- | The Society' | + | This group actively |
- | wealth of fascinating flora and fauna. This is no easy tas]..7. | + | |
- | As Bushwalkers, | + | The Society' |
- | The Secretary, | + | |
- | Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, | + | As Bushwalkers, |
- | 14 Pacific Street, | + | |
+ | The Secretary,\\ | ||
+ | Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia,\\ | ||
+ | Mrs Thistle Y. Stead (Harris)\\ | ||
+ | 14 Pacific Street,\\ | ||
Watsons Bay. Tel. FU1838. | Watsons Bay. Tel. FU1838. | ||
- | SOCIAL NEWS | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Social News. === | ||
Two most fascinating lectures will be given during the month of August | Two most fascinating lectures will be given during the month of August | ||
- | . MALCOLM McGREG-OR - WILD FLOWERS". | + | |
- | Mrs. McComish - WITH TIE PEARLING FLEET-." | + | Malcolm McGregor |
- | August 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 13 | + | |
- | PLUMBING TROUBLES???. | + | Mrs. McComish - "With The Pearling Fleet" |
- | DO YOU NEED - | + | |
- | NEAT ROOF, GUTTERING | + | ---- |
- | OR DOES | + | |
- | THE ROOF AND GUTTERING NEED RE-PAINTING | + | === Plumbing Troubles??? === |
- | OR. PERHAPS - | + | |
- | A NEW WATER SERVICE OR HOT-WATER INSTALLATION | + | __Do you need__ new roof, guttering |
+ | |||
+ | __Or does__ the roof and guttering need re-painting?? | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Or perhaps__ a new water service or hot-water installation?? | ||
No job is too small - for any plumbing installations or alterations | No job is too small - for any plumbing installations or alterations | ||
- | YOU NEED ROY'S ' | + | |
- | CONTACT ROY CRAGGS | + | __You need Roy's friendly plumbing service__. |
- | REMEMBER | + | |
- | - FOR ALL YOUR TRANSPCRT FROM BLACEHEATH | + | Contact Roy Craggs |
- | CONTACT | + | |
- | HATSWELL'S TAXI AND TOURIST SERVICE | + | __Remember__ |
- | RING, WRITE, WIRE OR CALL - ANY HOUR - DAY' OR NIGHT | + | |
- | BOOKING OFFICE:. 4 doors rom Gardners Inn Hotel (LOOK FOR THE NEON SIGN) | + | ---- |
- | SPEEDY | + | |
- | FARES: KANANGRA WAUS 30/-, per head (minimum 5 passengers) | + | === Hatswell's Taxi & Tourist Service. === |
- | PERRY 'S LOOKDOWN | + | |
- | JESOLAN STATE FOREST | + | For all your transport from Blackheath contact Hatswell' |
- | CARLON'S FARM.,. . 12/6 | + | |
- | WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES ON APPLICATION | + | 'Phone: Blackheath W459 of W151. |
- | WM.; Blackheath w459 or W151 | + | |
- | 11 | + | Booking office: |
- | t1 | + | |
- | "Has the wild music of the hills taught | + | Speedy |
- | us an undreamt depth in the stream of life? Was it the song of the creek and the melting | + | |
- | sno w, the breeze ringing the silver bells of ice | + | Fares: |
- | on the snQw gum leaves"... c-fi | + | |
- | There is snow oh the Alps, chaps let's | + | * Kanangra Walls: 30/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) |
- | away and_PLough,a furrow across the unblemished | + | * Perry's Lookdown: |
- | PADDY PAWN | + | * Jenolan State Forest: |
- | Lightweight Camp Gear | + | * Carlon's Farm: 12/6 per head (minimum 5 passengers) |
- | 201 CASTLE REACH St SYDNEY | + | |
- | 13M2685 | + | We will be pleased to quote trips or special parties on application. |
- | August 1962 The Sydney | + | |
- | COALUDING | + | ---- |
- | REPORT ?,-3F THE 1961 EXPEDL' | + | |
- | MOUNTAIN; (71, NETHEaLkans LTINtT GUINEA - :Leader Colin Putt, | + | === Paddy Made. === |
- | As this rolte up 'the North wall has only been seen and not actually_ | + | |
- | Cratford | + | "Has the wild music of the hills taught\\ |
- | . On June 25, Cootier | + | us an undreamt depth in the stream of life?\\ |
- | -most. At the West end of the wall, thy found their way intotheBakopa.-yalley | + | Was it the song of the creek and the melting\\ |
- | blocked by the ridge on side, this ,is, near the wall', a very.6teep, | + | snow, the breeze ringing the silver bells of ice\\ |
- | high, jagged rock ridgei | + | on the snow gum leaves.... ?" |
- | to the North-East | + | |
- | better camp under a rock overhang. On June 28, they returned to camp directiy. | + | There is snow oh the Alps, chaps - let's away and plough |
- | reasonably fast and easy route.. | + | |
- | A ' | + | Paddy Pallin Pty. Ltd. Lightweight Camp Gear. |
- | At the base camb,.three boffiresof | + | |
- | cleared' | + | 201 Castlereagh |
- | At 9030 am, a twin,engined aircraft was heard, but not seen, well to the North of the Kemaboe river, and the signal fires were lit, Ey 9.45 the fires were beginning to fill the whole valley with smoke, and the plane, a DC3, was | + | |
- | 16 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 | + | ---- |
- | heard and seen returning on an Easterly course at an altitude of about 16,000 feet and ten to twelve miles North of the snow. It circled twice when almost due North of the camp, and disappeared toward Wamena. The failure to locate us and drop the supplies was largely due to the use of a | + | |
- | large aircraft such as a DC3, as explained earlier, no other plane was available, but the chances of success without radio contact with the ground party and without | + | ===== Concluding Report Of The 1961 Expedition To The Carstensz Mountains Of Netherlands New Guinea. ===== |
- | low level with cloud covered mountains | + | |
- | unsuccessful attempts. The re- a_to Ila a. | + | Leader Colin Putt. |
- | On the afternoon of June 28, both the reconnaissance parties having returned to camp, we went carefully through all our equipment and abandoned any excess weight which could possibly be spared, Clothing and personal effects, medical supplies, and the climbing rope, tent fly, and the tent floor were left behind, We left on the morning of the 29th, carrying between forty and fifty pounds each, and with three and a half days full rations for a distancerwhich | + | |
- | and a half days because we short cut two detours which our native guides had made | + | As this route up the North wall has only been seen and not actually |
- | to reach good camp spots, and because were were able to walk longer hours as we were better equipped to withstand the cold afternoon rain than the carriers had been. le now began to cook on our small emergency reserve of kerosine, which saved a Vast amount of time which would have otherwise been wasted in trying to light fires with the local wood. | + | |
- | During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poor' | + | Crawford |
- | Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' | + | |
- | US welcome and provided us with food and accomodation | + | On June 25, Cooper |
- | 4 the whole party and its remaining equipment was flown out to Wamena, and at | + | |
- | the same-time seven of our Tiome carriers; who had not been able to get home | + | At the base camp, three bonfires of fern fronds |
- | because of the fighting in the West Baliem, were flown to Tiome as back-loading. | + | |
- | The Sydney- Bushwalker 17. | + | At 9.30 a.m. a twin-engined aircraft was heard, but not seen, well to the North of the Kemaboe river, and the signal fires were lit. By 9.45 the fires were beginning to fill the whole valley with smoke, and the plane, a DC3, was heard and seen returning on an Easterly course at an altitude of about 16,000 feet and ten to twelve miles North of the snow. It circled twice when almost due North of the camp, and disappeared toward Wamena. The failure to locate us and drop the supplies was largely due to the use of a large aircraft such as a DC3, as explained earlier, no other plane was available, but the chances of success without radio contact with the ground party and without |
- | flight from Wamena to Hollandia on the 4th July, we airdrop attempt in detail with the Chief Pilot, | + | |
- | August 1962 | + | === The return to Ilaga. === |
- | On the De Kroonduif | + | |
- | were able to discuss the Captain J. Vintges. | + | On the afternoon of June 28, both the reconnaissance parties having returned to camp, we went carefully through all our equipment and abandoned any excess weight which could possibly be spared. Clothing and personal effects, medical supplies, and the climbing rope, tent fly, and the tent floor were left behind. We left on the morning of the 29th, carrying between forty and fifty pounds each, and with three and a half days full rations for a distance which had taken five days on the inward journey. In fact, the return trip was done with ease in three and a half days because we short cut two detours which our native guides had made to reach good camp spots, and because were were able to walk longer hours as we were better equipped to withstand the cold afternoon rain than the carriers had been. We now began to cook on our small emergency reserve of kerosine, which saved a vast amount of time which would have otherwise been wasted in trying to light fires with the local wood. |
- | In Hollandia, we enjoyed the hospitality of the heqd of the Department | + | |
- | of Indland Fisheries, Mr. J. De Vries, for five days before flying out to Australian New Guinea. | + | During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poor diet and because our clothes and sleeping bags were by now saturated. However, the party arrived at Ilaga Mission at 4 p.m. on Sunday, 2nd July in good shape and just in time to contact the Mission Aviation Fellowship by radio and arrange to fly out to Wamena |
- | DAY WALKS | + | |
- | SEPTEMBER | + | Mr. Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' |
- | Otford. 12 miles. | + | |
- | This approach from the Illawarra Railway to the Coast has not | + | On the De Kroonduif |
- | been used for years. Something a little different. Could be scratchy in parts. | + | |
- | 8.42 a m, Wollongong train Central Steam Station to Helensburgh. Tickets: Otford return @ 7/8. Map; Pt. Hacking Tourist. Leader | + | In Hollandia, we enjoyed the hospitality of the head of the Department of Indland Fisheries, Mr. J. De Vries, for five days before flying out to Australian New Guinea. |
- | SEPTEMBER | + | |
- | St. Ives (Warrimoo Rd.) | + | ---- |
- | A walk through the Southern portion | + | |
- | wildflowers, | + | ===== Day Walks. ===== |
- | are some aboriginal rock carvings en route. | + | |
- | 8.40 a m. Horns-LT | + | === September |
- | to Wahroonga. | + | |
- | Rickets: Wahroonga return at 4/3 plus 1/1 bus fares Map: Broken Bay Military. | + | Helensburgh - Wilson' |
- | Leader: David Ingram. | + | |
- | Bill Bourke and Ron Knightly are planning a week's walkabout in The Castle. | + | This approach from the Illawarra Railway to the Coast has not been used for years. Something a little different. Could be scratchy in parts. |
- | area, commencing on the October holiday weekend. Other starters welcome - first come, first served; numbers limited, No strenuous types, | + | |
+ | 8.42 a.m. Wollongong train Central Steam Station to Helensburgh. Tickets: Otford return @ 7/8. Map: Pt. Hacking Tourist. Leader: Jack Gentle. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September | ||
+ | |||
+ | Wahroonga - Gibberagong Creek - Bobbin Trig - Cowan Creek - St. Ives (Warrimoo Rd.) | ||
+ | |||
+ | A walk through the Southern portion | ||
+ | |||
+ | 8.40 a.m. Hornsby | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bill Bourke and Ron Knightly are planning a week's walkabout in The Castle area, commencing on the October holiday weekend. Other starters welcome - first come, first served; numbers limited, No strenuous types, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
If something' | If something' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
From " | From " | ||
- | 'What unthinking person would send a copy of " | + | |
- | 18 ThcSidneiBushwalker August 1962 | + | "What unthinking person would send a copy of " |
- | ' | + | |
- | SCIENCE NATURALLY. Torch Batteries | + | ---- |
- | " | + | |
- | subscription)' | + | ===== Science Naturally. ===== |
- | 10 Continuous discharge with 2.5 V Lamp, | + | |
- | 2. On hour a day 5 days per week, (This represents more typical domestic use and is actually the British Standards-Test)., | + | === Torch Batteries. === |
- | Life of the 5 types under these two tests mere as follows -- | + | |
- | Eveready 950. (1) 2.8 hours, (2) 131 hours, Cost per hour 2.4d. Eveready D50 (1) 4.0 hours. (2) 20 hours. Cost per hour 1.8 Eveready 1050 (1) 7.2 hours.- (2) 25i hours. Cost per hour 1.65 d. Winchester 1511 (1) 5;27.,hours (2) 17 hours. Cost per hour 2.2 d. Lamina (1) 502 hours (2) 17- hours. Cost per hour 2.2 d. | + | " |
- | The Eveready 1050 despite its initial higher cost, represents best value for money. Note the amazing increase in life due to intermittent rather than amntinuous | + | |
- | Smaller torch batteries are muchemere | + | 1. Continuous discharge with 2.5 V Lamp. |
- | We can't leave this absorbing topic without pointing out that your home electricity costs about *per Kilowatt hour, The equivalent amount of power from a torch battery would cost E13 if you use 1050's and up to E150 if you use the baby Eveready 927s. So next tims3 you get your electricity bill, pleaSe! don't complain, | + | |
- | Ferns' | + | 2. On ½ hour a day 5 days per week. (This represents more typical domestic use and is actually the British Standards Test). |
- | There is a three letter word that, by tradition does not appear in the SIN magazine. | + | |
- | On the back of the leaves appear rusty spots in neat rows. These are ' | + | Life of the 5 types under these two tests were as follows - |
- | by fine hair-'-like roots. On the underside of the prothallus, male and female cells are produced, The male cells are released and move through the water to unite with the stationary female cells. They grow into a young fern plant. Next time | + | |
- | I | + | |Eveready 950|(1) 2.8 hours|(2) 13½ hours|Cost per hour 2.4 d.| |
- | ugust 1962 The Sydney B ushwalker '19 | + | |Eveready D50|(1) 4.0 hours|(2) 20 hours|Cost per hour 1.8 d.| |
- | you see a clump of ferns, growing near a creek, have a poke around and you will probably-see the sori, | + | |Eveready 1050|(1) 7.2 hours|(2) 25½ hours|Cost per hour 1.65 d.| |
- | The whole of the stem of. most ferns plants is on or under the ground, | + | |Winchester 1511|(1) 5.0 hours|(2) 17½ hours|Cost per hour 2.2 d.| |
+ | |Lamina|(1) 5.2 hours|(2) 17½ hours|Cost per hour 2.2 d.| | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Eveready 1050 despite its initial higher cost, represents best value for money. Note the amazing increase in life due to intermittent rather than continuous | ||
+ | |||
+ | Smaller torch batteries are much more expensive to run costing about 1/- per hour on intermittent use. The Eveready 1050 was even cheaper to run than the cycle lamp size battery. (Eveready 701) and " | ||
+ | |||
+ | We can't leave this absorbing topic without pointing out that your home electricity costs about 2½d per Kilowatt hour. The equivalent amount of power from a torch battery would cost £13 if you use 1050's and up to £150 if you use the baby Eveready 927s. So next time you get your electricity bill, please! don't complain! | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ===== Ferns' | ||
+ | |||
+ | There is a three letter word that, by tradition, does not appear in the SBW magazine. | ||
+ | |||
+ | On the back of the leaves appear rusty spots in neat rows. These are actually pockets | ||
+ | |||
+ | The whole of the stem of most ferns plants is on or under the ground, | ||
Where conditions are too dry for the spores to grow into prothalli, the fern can multiply by the stem growing sideways through the soil, sending up new leaves as it goes along. Bracken is a good example of this. | Where conditions are too dry for the spores to grow into prothalli, the fern can multiply by the stem growing sideways through the soil, sending up new leaves as it goes along. Bracken is a good example of this. | ||
- | THE PEOPLE'S CAR | + | |
- | Xmas was still a long way off, and so Snow Drown was both surprised and pleased when he found a large package waiting for him at SBW clubrooms. | + | ---- |
- | A few minutes later, he was still surprised, but not pleased, | + | |
- | If you ever get an eyeful | + | ===== The People's Car. ===== |
- | Of a fella with a rifle, | + | |
- | And a bloodhound panting by his side, You can put your last pound down, That its none but our Boy Brown, | + | Xmas was still a long way off, and so Snow Brown was both surprised and pleased when he found a large package waiting for him at SBW clubrooms. |
+ | |||
+ | A few minutes later, he was still surprised, but not pleased. | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you ever get an eyeful\\ | ||
+ | Of a fella with a rifle,\\ | ||
+ | And a bloodhound panting by his side,\\ | ||
+ | You can put your last pound down,\\ | ||
+ | That its none but our Boy Brown,\\ | ||
As vengeance he is seeking, far and wide. | As vengeance he is seeking, far and wide. | ||
- | Where is the hapless youth. - With manners so uncouth? | + | |
- | Who left the parcel, brown and square, | + | Where is the hapless youth\\ |
- | Simply labelled "David Brown, Clubrooms, Sydney Town",. | + | With manners so uncouth,\\ |
+ | Who left the parcel, brown and square,\\ | ||
+ | Simply labelled "David Brown,\\ | ||
+ | C/- Clubrooms, Sydney Town",\\ | ||
Just as though the wee folk put it there? | Just as though the wee folk put it there? | ||
- | With shrieks of great delight, Urged on by all in sight, | + | |
- | The mystery pack was very quickly peeled., | + | With shrieks of great delight,\\ |
- | But a battered, broken vessel, That 'neath the bed should nestle, Was all the opened lid revealed. | + | Urged on by all in sight,\\ |
- | But the cruellest blow of all Was very soon to fail | + | The mystery pack was very quickly peeled.\\ |
- | As Boy Brown quickly scanned the message through. | + | But a battered, broken vessel,\\ |
- | " | + | That 'neath the bed should nestle,\\ |
- | Au,n)i st 1962 | + | Was all the opened lid revealed. |
- | po | + | |
- | The Sydney B ushWalker FEDERATION REPORT | + | But the cruellest blow of all\\ |
- | * | + | Was very soon to fall\\ |
- | Lands Department, | + | As Boy Brown quickly scanned the message through.\\ |
- | Annual Ball. All Clubs have not beencircularised | + | " |
- | Bushwalker. Annual. Owing to the pressure of business, Geoff. Wagg has had to resign as Editor, but will continue on the Publications Committee. Mrs. D. B utler was elected in this stead. | + | If you can only step in it,\\ |
- | Canberra Walkin | + | Then it must be that grey V.W." |
- | Search E..nd Rescue | + | |
- | S | + | ---- |
- | National | + | |
- | ..160.1a4.V.+11.410.1.. | + | ===== Federation Report |
- | Creek area | + | |
- | Lots | + | __Lands Department__. |
- | the Lands Department supporting the proposal to add these blocks to the Garrawarra Primitive Area | + | |
- | in Roads. Board. | + | __Annual Ball__. All Clubs have not been circularised |
- | proposal to put a bitumen surface on the fire trail from King's Tableland to Warragamba Dam, | + | |
- | Boyd Rack. Thanks were extended to the party who recently marked this route which is now easily followed. It affords access to the Colong Caves area. | + | __Bushwalker Annual__. Owing to the pressure of business, Geoff. Wagg has had to resign as Editor, but will continue on the Publications Committee. Mrs. D. Butler |
- | WANTED | + | |
- | .M3M.1 | + | __Canberra Walking |
- | February 1950, | + | |
- | August 1962 The Sydney B ushwalker 21 | + | __Search and Rescue__ |
- | MAX GENTLE | + | |
- | On 14th July 1962, Max Gentle passed away suddenly at his home in Oatley at the age of 51. Max joined the Club in April 1929. He was essentially a solitary walker; he did many trips on his own and, in fact, it was not until he met Gordon. Stith - doing several trips with him - that he decided to join the Sydney Bushwalkers. Even then he very often walked many miles on his own, and cycled huge distances in this State and others. | + | __S & R Demonstration Week-end__, is set down for October 19-21 to be held on the same site as last year on the Colo River, if permission can be obtained. |
- | As a bushman, a better man was hard to find and many were the successful Club and private walks conducted under his leadership;. After his return from interesting and usually unfrequented country, Max would | + | |
- | sit down and write an article for "The Sydney Bushwalker", | + | __National |
- | years, the information would be available to members wishing to traverse the area, a practice which could well be followed with advantage by present leaders. | + | |
- | Max made no secret of the fact that he did not like rock climbing in high places, and yet he spent many hours on his own exploring the Kanangra and Gangerang areas, his name being perpetuated in GentLe's | + | __Lots 8-9, Parish |
- | Sheerdown and Gentle' | + | |
- | Of all our bushwalking country the Colo River was his favourite, and | + | __Main |
- | in 1931, in company with Gordon Smith, walked the length of the Colo River, with a 2 day side trip to Mt. Uraterer, the first and then fastest recorded trip by Bushwalkers in that area, Another feat of his was -walking from Blackheath to Richmond down the Grose River in one day:- on his own. | + | |
- | During the last couple of years, Max made infrequent visits to the Club, but was always assured of a warm welcome by his walking mates over so many years. He was also a member of the Bush Club and was to have led one of their walks on July 22. | + | __Boyd Range Track__. Thanks were extended to the party who recently marked this route which is now easily followed. It affords access to the Colong Caves area. |
- | Representatives from this Club and the B ush nub attended the burial service at the Methodist Section of the Woronora Cemetery. | + | |
- | - | + | ---- |
- | agINT BQKER | + | |
- | t - | + | __Wanted__ |
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Max Gentle. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | On 14th July 1962, Max Gentle passed away suddenly at his home in Oatley at the age of 51. Max joined the Club in April 1929. He was essentially a solitary walker; he did many trips on his own and, in fact, it was not until he met Gordon | ||
+ | |||
+ | As a bushman, a better man was hard to find and many were the successful Club and private walks conducted under his leadership. After his return from interesting and usually unfrequented country, Max would sit down and write an article for "The Sydney Bushwalker", | ||
+ | |||
+ | Max made no secret of the fact that he did not like rock climbing in high places, and yet he spent many hours on his own exploring the Kanangra and Gangerang areas, his name being perpetuated in Gentle's Sheerdown and Gentle' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Of all our bushwalking country the Colo River was his favourite, and in 1931, in company with Gordon Smith, walked the length of the Colo River, with a 2 day side trip to Mt. Uraterer, the first and then fastest recorded trip by Bushwalkers in that area. Another feat of his was walking from Blackheath to Richmond down the Grose River in one day - on his own. | ||
+ | |||
+ | During the last couple of years, Max made infrequent visits to the Club, but was always assured of a warm welcome by his walking mates over so many years. He was also a member of the Bush Club and was to have led one of their walks on July 22. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Representatives from this Club and the Bush Club attended the burial service at the Methodist Section of the Woronora Cemetery. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Ron Baker. ===== | ||
Old hands will learn with regret the passing on of Ron Baker a few weeks ago, at the early age of 39. | Old hands will learn with regret the passing on of Ron Baker a few weeks ago, at the early age of 39. | ||
- | Ron joined the club about 1942 after much solo walking, mainly in the | ||
- | Ku-Ring-gal Chase, his old home being on the-Chase fringe, at Wahroonga, where | ||
- | 22 The Sydney Bushmalker August 1962 | ||
- | the back fen was the boundary. He knew all the good camping caves so never carried. a "bent. | ||
- | In his, | ||
- | Tiwilla-Clear Hill walk with Alan Wilson, about 1957..' | ||
- | activities tap6red Off as his home: | ||
- | recent indifferentchealth.Trevented.Ronfrom walking trips but nevertheless he enjoyed many car-camping outings with his family and other so-Situated. | ||
- | club members and the N.PtA4 | ||
- | " PATTERN :MALES. | ||
- | At recent meetings,, the qUestioh, | ||
- | . . . , | ||
- | members minds, and at the last meeting it was reSoIve-O*PUblish tbi: | ||
- | of walks, which were selected may back in 145 as tieing' | ||
- | of this list, so rather than 'go through all again, here. it is, 17 years: old, but sti.14.aPplicable. | ||
- | Week-end walks (li days) | ||
- | 1, Bundeena, N.hrley, Wattamolla, Garie, Burning Palms f Bola ' | ||
- | 2. ' | ||
- | Meek-end walks (2 days). . | ||
- | 1. ": | ||
- | One Day Walks. | ||
- | 1. KUring-Gai, Crosslands, Beromra Creek, Fish Ponds, Hornsby. | ||
- | 2. Waterfall, Mt. Westmacott, Myuna Creek, Heathcote Creek, Scouters Mountain, Wbronora River, Sabigal Crossing, Engadine. | ||
- | 3. Waterfall, The Mill, Island Track, Palona Creek, Garie Trig, Era, Lilyvale, | ||
- | 4. Gordon, Roclw Creek, Middle Harbour Creek Cowan Creek, track to Sphinx, Cockle Creek, Wahroonga. | ||
- | Despite a heavy casualty list, the reunion is npt classed as a test walk. | ||
- | I | ||
+ | Ron joined the club about 1942 after much solo walking, mainly in the Ku-Ring-gal Chase, his old home being on the Chase fringe, at Wahroonga, where the back fence was the boundary. He knew all the good camping caves so never carried a tent. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In his earlier club activities he joined in many heavy walking trips and did a share of canoeing. His last big trip was an Easter Gangerang - Tiwilla - Clear Hill walk with Alan Wilson, about 1957. His marriage Betty was another club romance and his two daughters are keenly appreciative of the bush. As with most family club men, his walking activities tapered off as his home responsibilities increased. More recent indifferent health prevented Ron from walking trips but nevertheless he enjoyed many car-camping outings with his family and other so-situated club members and the N.P.A. We extend our sincere sympathy to Betty, and his girls - Rhondda and Robyn. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Pattern Walks. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | At recent meetings, the question of test walks has exercised some members minds, and at the last meeting it was resolved to publish this list of walks, which were selected way back in '45 as being representative test walks. One can imagine the argument and heartburning that went into the preparation of this list, so rather than go through all again, here it is, 17 years old, but still applicable. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Week-end walks__ (1½ days) | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. Bundeena, Marley, Wattamolla, Garie, Burning Palms, Bola Height, Wilson' | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2. Blackheath, Govett' | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3. Campbelltown, | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Week-end walks__ (2 days). | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. Katoomba, Six Ft. Track, Gibralter Creek, Cox River, Tin Pot Hill, Carlons, Katoomba. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __One Day Walks__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. Kuring-Gai, Crosslands, Berowra Creek, Fish Ponds, Hornsby. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2. Waterfall, Mt. Westacott, Myuna Creek, Heathcote Creek, Scouters Mountain, Woronora River, Sabigal Crossing, Engadine. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3. Waterfall, The Mill, Island Track, Palona Creek, Garie Trig, Era, Lilyvale. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 4. Gordon, Rocky Creek, Middle Harbour Creek, Cowan Creek, track to Sphinx, Cockle Creek, Wahroonga. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Despite a heavy casualty list, the reunion is not classed as a test walk. | ||
+ | |||
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