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+ | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | ||
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+ | A monthly-bulletin of mattes of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, 14 Atchison Street, St. Leonards. | ||
+ | POSTAL AIMS: Box 4476 G.P.0.9 Sydney, N.S.W. 2001. Meetings at the Club Rooms on Wednesday evenings after 7.30 p m. Enquiries regarding the Club Mrs. Marcia Shappert, Tel 30 2028. | ||
+ | *************# | ||
+ | Editor: Spiro Kbtas, 104/10 Wylie Street, Pott's Point,2011. 7261. 357-1381 (home) | ||
+ | Typist: Kath Brown | ||
+ | Duplication: | ||
+ | Business Managers Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, | ||
+ | IN THIS ISSUE: | ||
+ | The February General Meeting Kanangra Adventure | ||
+ | Paddy Pallin Advertisement | ||
+ | Ayres Rock and Spoilation of Nature The Blue Breaks TemppLarghetto Mountain Equipment Advertisement N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs S.B.W. Office Bearers 1974 Walks Secretaryls Notes for April Social Secretary' | ||
+ | by Jim Brown Page 2 | ||
+ | Dot Butler 4 | ||
+ | 6 | ||
+ | 8 | ||
+ | 9 | ||
+ | 12 | ||
+ | 13 | ||
+ | 14 | ||
+ | 15 | ||
+ | 17 | ||
+ | 18 | ||
+ | Marie B. Byles Jim Brown | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Wilf Hilder Elaine Brown Frances Colley | ||
+ | X XX | ||
+ | 4E-x-X*X X X X : | ||
+ | Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
+ | THE FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING. | ||
+ | by Jim Brown. | ||
+ | Although it's the first busine8s meeting of the Club's OffiCial year, February' | ||
+ | ceedings) Tom Wilhelm who accepted Linda' | ||
+ | Frank Roberts was the other absentee. | ||
+ | Minues were accepted. ' | ||
+ | Service was advice that our Kangaroo Valley land had been proclaimed a Wild Life Sanctuary. Membership movements included resignations from Audrey and. Bob Godfrey (now settled in Queensland) and re-instatement of | ||
+ | Meryl Smith (back from abroad). | ||
+ | The Treasury indicated that the closing balance in current funds at the end of January was $7619 and Auditor Gordon Redmond cautioned that, because of several adjustments, | ||
+ | slightly from that figure. | ||
+ | . A Federation delegate opined that there had not been anything signi- | ||
+ | ficant to report from the January meting, so we moved on to walking activity, beginning with Alastair Battye' | ||
+ | Things were a deal more favourable for Barry Wallace and team of 18 pn the Wollondilly-Tomat Falls country, which included some goummandising at Tony Carlon' | ||
+ | The long January weekend, saw Wilf HildeM' | ||
+ | covered about 26 miles. Weathar threats wrecked Ray Hodkway' | ||
+ | Wolgan/ | ||
+ | Page 3 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 19749 | ||
+ | with two of the party withdrawing after lunch and the remaining 15 reaching Otford about 7.0 p m. | ||
+ | On the first weekend. of February, David Rostron -book a crew of eight | ||
+ | towards Davies Canyon, but the volume of water in the falls made the going so | ||
+ | tricky that two of the party withdrew quite early on Saturday, and the rest abandoned plans to' go all the way down. On. the way out they saw evidences | ||
+ | of the people -missing for several days on the tops - Dot Butler' | ||
+ | brought out 24 people, while Elaine Brown' | ||
+ | To complete the recital, we couldn' | ||
+ | In General Business, Dot Butler was able to bring us up to date on negotiations With the Water Board over the flooding of part of Coolana. Legal documents were being prepared in which we sell to the Board about 16 acres (being inundated) for $3500, and " | ||
+ | Alex Colley referred to a recent statement by the Federal Minister for Conservation 8c, Environment, | ||
+ | Next we heard that the A.B.C. wanted to obtain some TV film footage showing young walkers at their sport. Some discussion ensued, in which some believed we should have nothing to do with the request, because it seemed to be slanted along samewhat unrealistic lines; while others put it that We should offer co-operation, | ||
+ | news media. | ||
+ | In fact the meeting ended. by loading an added. burden to the President when he indicated that, in the absence of any other taker, he would act as convener of the Re-union sub-committee provided help with the supper arrange- | ||
+ | ments was forthcoming. | ||
+ | After announcements that certain Club officers would not seek re-election | ||
+ | in March and that any proposed Constitutional Amendments must be received before the March meeting of the Committee, we called it a night at 9.30 p m. | ||
+ | **XXXXXX# | ||
+ | Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974.. | ||
+ | KLIVANGRA ADVENTUPZ. | ||
+ | by Dot Butler. | ||
+ | NEWS FLASH .the rain continues.....enormous flood damage in Queensland.....roads cut in the great Outwest.....Mt. Isa isolated in a sea of wet spinifex, unable to get its copper out or fuel supplies stock being drowned in thousands....FLASH....FLASH....Typhoon Ida? or, Clara? or Whatnot swooping towards our drenched coastline.. ..FLASH.... FLASH Giant tides (the perigeesyzygy demons) sweeping around the world and due to strike the coast of Australia this first week in February. In a word, physical upheaval on a colossal scale. Most sane people prefer to stay all snug and safe at home. But what do Bushwaikers, | ||
+ | perverse breed what do Bushwalkers do? Nothing is good enough but an abseiling trip down Davies Canyon, the roughest canyon in the Roughest Country in the State! | ||
+ | Our intrepid leader is Dave Rostron. He has, for once, left his | ||
+ | recent bride at home. Judith is keen on bushwalking, | ||
+ | What should you know that you don't know? tell you: | ||
+ | Our party of 8 in two car S reached the campsite near Whelan' | ||
+ | about the same time and we retired to roost somewhere around midnight. | ||
+ | We made a reasonably early getaway next morning, along the road towards Kanangra Tops then a turnoff on the left along the fire trail to Queen Pin. After several detours left or right to avoid pools of water, muddy patches or great fallen trees across the track we eventually came to | ||
+ | a stop at a point beyond Which it would be inadvisable for even a Bushwaiker to take his car. Then we strode off along a track which headed in our | ||
+ | direction and at length abandoned it and struck out through the wet scrub, | ||
+ | down a steep hillside till we burst through a thicket of dense vegetation and found ourselves gazing on Sally Camp Creek. I had last seen it in drought time when there was no difficulty in following down the bed of the creek; the contrast now was somewhat chilling all those extra feet of water rushing along just imagine what the abseil over the waterfall is going to be like! | ||
+ | We made heavy going downstream, pushing through wet bushes, making | ||
+ | thighdeep crossings when the other side looked possibly less torturing | ||
+ | than the side we were on, blondining over fallen treetrunks above the | ||
+ | swirling water, occasional stops for everyone to catch up; Laurie is trailing along somewhere back there, physically present but mentally absent; Bob looks fetching in his cutdown overalls; Peter is beginning to look blue about the gills; Willie Burke is cursing his slippery soles and our | ||
+ | leader is wondering whether he is really going to manage to " | ||
+ | We had been walking for two hours, various members going for involuntary slides on the slippery rocks and a general feeling of insecurity pervading all. Whilst negotiating a deep crossing amongst black rocks, | ||
+ | suddenly eleven stone of Irish muscle floundered and fell on top of me. | ||
+ | ." | ||
+ | Page 3 TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
+ | I perfarmed a jack-knife-forward-bend at the knee, to the detriment of | ||
+ | that joint which pretty soon started to stiffen up. Even bashing along at high speed to keep it warmed up was no good, so I bade the party Godspeed and told them I was going out to the high country and they could | ||
+ | have the canyon on their own. Bill decided to accompany me so we headed back upstream, recognising all the familiar landmarks We had passed on the | ||
+ | way down, and just when we couldn' | ||
+ | Back at the cars we dug out David' | ||
+ | Falls where we ixould expect the others to amer6 after they had completed | ||
+ | the trip dawn Davies and up Whalania Canyon. Whilst engaged on these perigrinations what should we pass but a motor-car and auto tent looking all forlorn and deserted in the wet scrub. Tha: | ||
+ | sad and deserted as though they hadn't been used. Other gear indicated | ||
+ | that the owners were not bushwaikers. We presumed they wei'e fishermen. | ||
+ | However, there was no one about to talk to so we continued on our way. | ||
+ | Bill and I followed a track around the high swamps, then down a feeder creek which plunged al length over a precipice and disappeared | ||
+ | noisily into an eerie mist-filled gorge. It was quite a waterfall due | ||
+ | to all the recent rain but it was not Vhalania Falls9 so rather than push through the wet scrub for another mile we headed out to the track and | ||
+ | decided to take the car back again to its original parking spot; after all, the others might conceivable came out another way and not up the slimy rocks of the waterfall. | ||
+ | Just as well we did. We had abandoned the car just short of a swampy | ||
+ | patch, to get around which would have meant a precarious detour through a' | ||
+ | close thicket of saplings, and were walking towards the other car when the | ||
+ | rest of the party hove into view almost simultaneously. Without letting | ||
+ | them get their packs off we had them tell us their story s They had made a very hairy descent downthe first abseil and along a narrow ledge where the wind blast from the rush of water was almost enough to blow them off, then seeing that a quarter of the party had already white-anted the trip, | ||
+ | they also called it a day and climbed out via a side ridge and so made their way back to the cars. But one oda thing they had seen on the ways compass-reading and studying the map continuously as they felt their way | ||
+ | | ||
+ | a fairly recent campfire - its embers were still glowing. But what was noteworthy about it was its unusual size - quite long, and a great heap of ashes as though they had really piled the logs on all night. Another thing that stuck out as unusual was a flattened out beer-can with three names scratched laborously on it and the message that they had slept here the previous night. But no sign of the people themselves. "Just as | ||
+ | well," said Barry, "or I would have given them a lecture about not putting | ||
+ | out their campfire and leaving a mess of beer cans about" | ||
+ | Page 6 TEE SYDNEY BUSHYTALKER March, 1974. | ||
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+ | Page THE SYDNEY BUSHWAT10ER March, 1973. | ||
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+ | at the cars. | ||
+ | A council of war was held. Obviously something was wrong. Barry offered to go back to the camp that Bill and I had seen for some further | ||
+ | sleuthing. We all met out on the road soon after and Barry was able to | ||
+ | report that their car had beenleft unlocked, with car keys and money | ||
+ | lying around, and that the name of the owner co-incided with one of the | ||
+ | names on the flattened out beer can and he was a member of Richmond Air Force. Well, pilots az e taught how to navigate in the air, but are they | ||
+ | equally efficient when grounded amongst thick scrub in a whiteout? We decided to play safe and :report the matter to the nearest Police on our way out. The Mt. Victoria cop was not on the job, so Barry, whose social conscience is very well develpped, offered to go round via Katoomba and report the matter there, giving exact grid references as to the car and the abandoned campfire. The rest of us headed for home via Bell's Road and that was that. | ||
+ | The next day we saw nothing in the papers about the lost ones, nor the day after. It was not till Wednesday that the headlines broke: "THREE | ||
+ | SURVIVE ON RAW FISH!" "Two men and a boy plucked to safety by a RAM | ||
+ | helicopter, They had gone up on the Friday night for a 2-day trout fishing | ||
+ | trip but got lost, fell into a creek and got their clothes and matches wet. | ||
+ | They ran out of food but caught 16 trout which they had to eat raw. On | ||
+ | Tuesday they managed to dry their matches and were able to light a fire but they were tired and hungry and" | ||
+ | One puzzling item of the newspaper report is that when they realised they were lost the men decided to move downstream 4 this despite the fact that they knew they had parked their car and set up their tent on the plateau top. Could it be that they were following some "What to do when Lost" | ||
+ | booklet? After all, if you go downstream you'll eventually land out on the | ||
+ | seacoast - after three weeks or a month if you're lucky, and after beating your may through what is, actually, some of the Roughest Country in the State. | ||
+ | The little boy, Darren (aged 7), they say was terrific. At night he slept between his father and Michael and did the same as they did, He admitted that he didn' like the cold fish much and he spent a lot of time | ||
+ | thinking of Mum and his little sister aged 4. I think it would be quite an idea to write to Bill Elliot (31) and Mike Bray (23) and invite them to | ||
+ | join the Bushwaikers. After such a nerve-shattering experience they would need no further incentive to become expert bushmen. | ||
+ | ****ie****## | ||
+ | CORRECTION, to Walks Programmes- | ||
+ | 'Frank Taeker' | ||
+ | the two walks he is leading. The correct number is 690-444, Ett.551 (bus.) | ||
+ | Page 8 THE SYDNEY BUSHUALKER Harch9 1974. | ||
+ | AIRES ROCK AND SPOILATION OF NATURE. | ||
+ | by Marie B. Byles | ||
+ | | ||
+ | do, and I am earnestly looking forward to the' next instalment of her article. | ||
+ | But What I want to know is whether we are better, except in a very | ||
+ | small degree, than those tourists who carve their names on Ayres Rock or leave heaps of litter on all the trails up the Japan Alps. | ||
+ | Everything that bushwalkers take with them is processed from the des.... ruction of the produce of the earth - animal, vegetable or mineral. | ||
+ | Primitive man struck a balance with nature. He fished, hunted or gathered | ||
+ | roots necessary for his sustenance, and he did not breed more than the fish, animals or wild plants. The aborigines of Australia were able to sustain | ||
+ | life in an arid continent without destroying it or making it more arid. | ||
+ | We are not. I do not suggest that primitive man had any more concern for | ||
+ | the well-being of nature than we have but his lack of knowledge, experience and technology did not hurt nature. He was therefore incapable of injuring | ||
+ | it. But we are. (The only objection to the set-up of primitive man was | ||
+ | that Germain Greer might have had a more uphill task than she has today!) | ||
+ | In the days before tourism I used to camp alone at Kosciusko. I | ||
+ | certainly did nature no harm, and no one could have told where I had camped. | ||
+ | ut what about my rucksack, my matches, aluminiun containers, food and | ||
+ | clothing, my tent and groundsheet? | ||
+ | world had increased the world' | ||
+ | helped to swell the size of his genealogical tree! In China we read that they have the slogan, "Two children are all right, but one is better" | ||
+ | hope to keep Australia as a pleasure gardenforLtho rest of7the world that | ||
+ | has none by that time, even if we took up China' | ||
+ | And what about all those lovely virgin peaks in New Zealand which I joyfully put in my rucksack? In addition to all the processed food and | ||
+ | garments one expedition took an axe to cut wood for burning, and of course | ||
+ | access routes were always made for others. We did not leave nature any | ||
+ | better for despoiling virgin peaks, but worse. | ||
+ | Finally, all these things happend in the days before technology gave | ||
+ | motor cars for all, with the result that you now go as far as the road and then walk, and then get the road lengthened so that you can walk further, and go on getting it lengthened until there is no place to walk further. | ||
+ | Well9 Marion, what is your remedy, perhaps Sheila might help you | ||
+ | formulate a reply? But frankly, I cannot see that bushwaikers, | ||
+ | aineers are very much better than tourists who' go to lyres Rock. | ||
+ | , Al- | ||
+ | Page 9 TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | ||
+ | THE BLUE MEALS - TEMPO IARGHETTO. | ||
+ | by Jim Brown. | ||
+ | Of course, walking in the Blue Breaks country in JaEuary isn't logical. But, you see, the trips I really had in mind - Shoalhaven Gorge - an unknown stage on the Colo - just weren' | ||
+ | fall as though the pianist is working it out as he goes along. So I traversed a large lump of the Southern Blue Mountains hissing Mozart' | ||
+ | Departure was from Kanangra Walls in the dawning light of Wednesday, | ||
+ | January 30th. Then back about a mile along the road and south across the .-. - | ||
+ | dew soaked. Marrilman Heath, while "the bloody sun uprose" | ||
+ | take one around the western faces of Mounts Rungin and Colboyd, thence | ||
+ | steadily down along the ridge to Et. Ardbanoo. All this was done at a sauntering pace, with pauses to peer down into the chasm of Christy' | ||
+ | Just beyond Arabanoo I made my only considerable navigational boo-boo of the whole trip. Following an animal pad I slewed a bit far north at ono of the several cliffy sections of the ridge. Too late, after losing so much height I was unwilling to scramble back up to the main ridge, I noted a rocky cone ahead of me beyong the ravine into which I was scrambling. Plainly it was CaMbage Spire, and I was going to fetch up a mile or two up East Christy' | ||
+ | A gocid restful time there, trying to make up my mind whether to | ||
+ | assault the Bulga Range just opposite - it looked rather severe for climbing on a warm afternoon - or whether to seek a less steep ridge upstream. The Kowmung was flowing strongly but not difficult to cross and. finally I opted for Bulga. Only 1400 ft. to climb, but I spent two hours over it with the afternoon sun very hot on my back, then another hour along the fairly level ridge top to emerge on the Water Board' | ||
+ | During the night it occurred to me that the following day would be | ||
+ | Page 10 TIM SYDNEY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | ||
+ | the Thursday after the Australia Day holiday - and it was on the same day 33 years previously I had first passed through Yerranderie on the sixth | ||
+ | day of an eight-days solo jaunt from Wentworth Falls to Bowral. Of course, Yerranderie was still a going concern in 1941, and I had visited the store | ||
+ | to by a packet of Sao biscuits, a tin of beef, jib of cheese and two | ||
+ | bottles of lemonade - which I remember I drank between West and East - | ||
+ | Yerranderie so they wouldn' | ||
+ | Thursday' | ||
+ | journey, repeating a section of Lacy's Creek, I had once before visited, | ||
+ | leading a rather ill-starred trip in August 19509 when we found our progress reduced to a crawl by tangles of lawyer vine. However, another S.B.W. 2 | ||
+ | party covered the upper section of Lacy's Creek at Easter 1970, and as their accounts of the trip didn't indicate delay due to thorny vegetation, | ||
+ | I was eager to have another look. | ||
+ | The morning promised another brilliant summer day as I passed at 7.0 a m. through West Yerranderie, | ||
+ | ridge down to the Tonalli River that wouldn' | ||
+ | through thick scrub, and it was 9.30 when I recrossed the river and started up the ridge which leads to the prominent rocky headland which identifies Lacy's Gap. Seventeen hundred feet steady climb to the pass, tempo | ||
+ | larghetto - two hours to reach the cliff and skirt around to the pass | ||
+ | which is a few hundred yards around to the west. | ||
+ | From the gap it was a little over an hour along the ridge bearing E.N.E. to the top of Amphitheatre Pass (reference Burragorang 293912) | ||
+ | and about IL hour down the rift into Lacy's Creek, for a midday rest-up | ||
+ | at 1.30 p m. Over lunch I came to the conclusion that the densely-grown banks were " | ||
+ | .above the stream on the south side. Progress here was fair if not fast, | ||
+ | but after about an hour a steep crumbling slope drove me back to the | ||
+ | creekside, and I now came to a new conclusion. | ||
+ | The upper part of Lacy's Creek descends quite gradually, and even after the liberal January rains, the stream was only a few inches in depth, running crisply over a sand and pebble floor between a forest containing many tree ferns and pale slender smooth-boled trees shin#glin theft2towinnon sunlight. I took to the stream bed and for another two hours splashed | ||
+ | along, startling the red-and-: | ||
+ | to do Lacy-' | ||
+ | am convinced that I cut back to the creek too soon after-skirting | ||
+ | the cascades on the west bank, as the going down in the floor of the | ||
+ | valley remained slow and difficult until I finally halted for the night at 7.45 at the first possible campsite, still several hundred yards short | ||
+ | a | ||
+ | Page 11-- - - THE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | ||
+ | of the junction of the North arm of Lacy's Creek. | ||
+ | The account in the magazine of the aster '70 trip told_ me that | ||
+ | the party took between-3 and 3-i- bra. to cover the 2*- miles along North | ||
+ | Lacy's Greek to the exit ridge at 3149459 so I guessed it would take me | ||
+ | most of the following morning. It did. Turning into North Lacy's at 7.30 a m. it was 11.45 before I identified the creek junction and the | ||
+ | foot of the spur. North Lacy's has no especial difficulties. The banks are less densely clothea with scrub than those of the main stream, but the | ||
+ | creek descends more rapidly and the rock-hopping is simply slow work.-..My | ||
+ | rate of advance proved 'to be little better than 1000 yards per hour - barely tempo larghetto. | ||
+ | The climb out, commenced at 1.0 p m., proved mercifully short, as the | ||
+ | rain forest on the ridge was mighty tangled. At the top of the slope the cliffy area was easily outflanked on the northern face and access to,the | ||
+ | plateau gained at about contour 2000'. The ridge continued to rise, bringing me to a fine vantage point on a ring contour 2450 ft. just after 2.0 p m. This place commands a far-ranging view, especially northsand west, and locks directly down some 1500 ft. into Green Wattle Creek. The way was now almost east along the rim overlooking Green Wattle and another hour brought me to one of the most remarkable formations in the Blue Breaks. | ||
+ | Maps show an almost unbroken cliff line along the eastern side of the gorge of Green Wattle Creek, but at reference 3219592 just to the west of the name "The Clear Hills", | ||
+ | 6.45 p m. | ||
+ | This was almost the end of that part of the walk which demanded any | ||
+ | navigational care. Departing before 7.0 on the Saturday morning, the climb up into the Break took just under an hour: the descent into Butchers Creek roughly another hour, and after a brief spell I was crawling at my familiar funereal march pace up the Big Stringybark Range, which deposited | ||
+ | me on the Water Board Road along Scotts Main Range at 10.45 a m. It took | ||
+ | only another hour to pass the site of Bran Jan House and drop dawn the road to the Kowmung, where the weirs and gauging stations of the Water - | ||
+ | Board were all new intrusions since I'd been thereabouts perhaps ten years previously. | ||
+ | I had intended a good rest by the river before making the assault on the long but gradually graded Gingra Ridge trail. Instead, driven frantia by-hordes of sticky flies, I confined my stop to an hour and was away about 10 p m. on a sultry but overcast afternoon. To complete the account of times taken- possibly setting a new record for a long-drawn-out ascent | ||
+ | Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
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+ | of Gingra - I passed Fourth Top at 3.30, Hughes Top at 4.50, First Top at 5.45, and paused for half an hOur at the first water in the coal seam cave at South Kanangra at 6.50 to 7.20. By this time a strong south-west wind was piping and the atmosphere was almost fresh. In fact I half hop'ed I would make my final approach to the cars at Kanangra at a somewhat more impressive pace thaa I had achieved most of the way. An, well - going over the tops I believe I did get up to an adagio tempo, but in the final pull up to the car park it was a case of one...foot...after...the... | ||
+ | othermin, | ||
+ | light of 8.25 p m. | ||
+ | .************ | ||
+ | N.S.W. FEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING CLUBS - ANNUAL REUNION. | ||
+ | ....Saturdays Earca: | ||
+ | EAPs Morisset 1" mile. Map references, entry gate 317022, | ||
+ | Drive north along the Calga Expressway, past the Oak Est. turn left | ||
+ | at Upper Mangrove sign and proceed to the Springs Road (sign posted). Turn right and continue through to " | ||
+ | junction, take the right hand fork (Ravensdale), | ||
+ | Black and yellow F.B.W. signs will mark route. | ||
+ | Programme will include tent erecting, billy boiling and plain and | ||
+ | fancy damper and bush brownie cake competitions. All competition cooking | ||
+ | to be performed on the site. A forum will be held to permit members to air | ||
+ | their views on Federation, so bring along your ideas for discussion. A meeting of Walks Secretaries will also be held during the weekend. A campfire and sing-song will be held on Saturday evening. Clubs and groups are requested to arrange short entertainment items for the campfire. | ||
+ | Supper will be provided. A small donation to defray the cost of the supper will be requested on signing the Reunion Log book. See Jan Wouters. | ||
+ | EMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO REFRAIN FROM THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT THE CAMPFIRE BEFORE SUPPER IS SERVED. | ||
+ | NO bottles, tins, etc. to be thrown into the Campfire. | ||
+ | Please leave Campsite clean Please carry out all tins and bottles or put them in the -trailer provided.. The site is private property loaned to the Federation by Mr. Anderson. | ||
+ | ORGANISING COMMITTEE s Warwick Daniels (te1.29-8331(B) 9 Jan Wouters 9 Gordon Edgecombe (te1.84-3034 (H). | ||
+ | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSH AIR March9 1974. | ||
+ | | ||
+ | The following officebearers and committee members were elected at the S.B.W., | ||
+ | President VicePresidents | ||
+ | Secretary | ||
+ | Assistant Secretary Treasurer | ||
+ | Walks Secretary Social Secretary | ||
+ | Membership Secretary Committee Members | ||
+ | Federation Delegates | ||
+ | Barry Wallace Bob Younger | ||
+ | Spiro Ketas Helen Gray | ||
+ | Margaret Richards Frank Roberts Bob Hodgson Owen Marks Margaret Reid' Rosemary Edmunds Diana Lynn | ||
+ | Frank Taeker | ||
+ | Alistair Battye 'Spiro Ketas Frank Malloy Mike Short . Evelyn Welker | ||
+ | o - | ||
+ | Substitution Federation ) Owen Marks | ||
+ | Delegates Craig Shappert | ||
+ | Conservation Secretary Alex Colley | ||
+ | Literary Editor Spiro Ketas | ||
+ | Magazine Business Manager Bill Burke | ||
+ | Duplicator Operator Frank Tacker Keeper of Maps & Timetables John Holly | ||
+ | Equipment Hire Frank' | ||
+ | Search & Rescue Contacts Elsie Bruggy Heather White | ||
+ | Christa Younger | ||
+ | Archivist Phil Butt | ||
+ | Projectionist Frank Tacker | ||
+ | Auditor Gordon Redmond | ||
+ | Solicitor Colin Broad | ||
+ | Trustees Heather White Bill Burke | ||
+ | Gordon Redmond | ||
+ | Management Committee " | ||
+ | Kangaroo Valley property. Owen Marks Spiro Ketas George Gray Bill Gillam | ||
+ | * Indicates member of the Committee. | ||
+ | *******1( X X X | ||
+ | Page 15 THE SYDITETY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | ||
+ | |||
+ | WALKS SECRETARY' | ||
+ | by Wilf Hilder. | ||
+ | 1974 | ||
+ | 5-6-7 April - Alan Pike gets the April walks rolling with this | ||
+ | intrepid Cedar Creek and Ht. Solitary trip. Some scrambling on Walls Pass into Cedar Creek, with some rock-hopping down the creek to a good ridge onto Korrowall. The pass on the Buttress is very exposed - but the views are world beaters. Some mild exposure on the descent of | ||
+ | Solitary-to Ruined Castle. Good tracks back to the vehicles. | ||
+ | 5-6-7 April - A Wolgan test walk with Rod Peters. Glorious scenery down in the most scenic canyon in N.S.W. (with lush camp- | ||
+ | sites laid on). Could be a bit scrubby up Dean Creek but good going through Constance Gorge and down to the ruins of Mt. Wolgan Railway Station complete with rolling stock. Please book early for this trip. | ||
+ | Sund,R,F 7th Meryl Watman is your guide on this popular Heathcote area walk from Waterfall. Good tracks all the way except on the Morella Karong part of the trip. Very pleasant | ||
+ | scenery and company. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | ||
+ | Easter: | ||
+ | 11 -15 April - NOT ON PROGRAMME: An additional walk in the Snowy Mts. | ||
+ | has been arranged by David Rostron. Munyang Power Station- Whites Hut - Schlink Pass - Gumgartan Peak - Tin Hut - Brassy Range - Et. Jagungal (sacred mountain of the Alps)- Grey Mare Hut - Valentines Falls - Schlink Hilton ( pa mit no beer)- Dicky Coopers Bogong (affectionately known as | ||
+ | D.C.B.)- Rolling Grounds - Mt. Tate - Guthega. Distance about 77 kilometres (48 m.) with a lot of hill climbing. Grading:- Hard. Tel.No.451-7943. | ||
+ | Easter: | ||
+ | 11 -15 April - Bob Younger is leading this interesting test walk down ye | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Easter: | ||
+ | 11 -15 April - Uncle Joe Marton carries the flag to the ' | ||
+ | a base camp day walks will be arranged to take in all the magnificent graded tracks that go to the scenic highlights of this tremendous area. Please book early to make the transport arrangements as smooth as possible. | ||
+ | 19-20-21 Tony Denham' | ||
+ | April (1800 hours EST or 700 hours Greenwich ILean Time). Good tracks all the way with a lush campsite at Bluegum. Steep climb up Govetts with spectacular views. | ||
+ | Page 16 TISYD1. BUSHWALKER March9 1974. | ||
+ | 19-20-21 "Old Father Cox keeps rolling along9 down to the mighty | ||
+ | April sea", so they say. Hans Beck is leading a test trip to | ||
+ | see 00F.Cox down the Six Foot Track, over Mini Mini Saddle and down Little River9 with an interesting climb up Galong Creek to Canons. First rate scenery on this historic walking toux9 with some rockhopping in the creeks. | ||
+ | Slanday 21 This sabatical stroll set down as a test walk is captained | ||
+ | by Wilf Hilder (who I can safely say9 hasn't done the trip | ||
+ | previously). Wilf's map reading instruction may be put to good use especially if he gets lost and earns a large slice of humble pie. Very early start from Sydney and starting time at Carrington Falls will be around 8.00 hrs. Quite a bit of rockhopping in the Kangaroo River above Yeola with some easy going downstream steep climb with scrub up Odbonas Butter Track Pass. | ||
+ | Sunday 21 No9 it's not a misprint! Uncle David is leading this Heathcote Creek walk9 in person. Good tracks all the way | ||
+ | except from Et. Westmacott to Hyuna Creek. Very pleasant scenery on this medium walk. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | ||
+ | Anzac Day What a:. good- way to put in a day Solitary in a day with | ||
+ | Thursday 25 Uncle Joe Marton! Early start on this great walk please bring your tiger shoes. Tracks all the way with some scrambling onto Mt. Solitary. Excellent scenery with an unusual range of vegetation. | ||
+ | Thursday 25 Uncle Sam Hinde (no relation to that 3rd rate T.V. commercial) leads this easy walk to Marley from Bundeena. Excellent tracks and Aboriginal relics on this ever popular walk. | ||
+ | Train to Cronulla special excursion ticket and very pleasant ferry. ride across Port Hacking to Bundeena. | ||
+ | 26-27-28 Base camp at George and Helen Gray's land at Wood-hill Gap April (near Kangaroo Valley). Children and their parents are especially welcome on this base camp which includes swimming | ||
+ | and short walks from camp. Helen Gray is your leader and | ||
+ | organiser please ring her now and let her know you're coming. | ||
+ | 27-28 April 7 Saturday morning start on this day and a half ramble around. | ||
+ | Ilt.Wilson with our Glad Gladys Roberts. Beautiful rautumn leaves and. lavish _gardens surrounded by virgin bush. Base camp on the mountain. | ||
+ | Sunday 28 Uncle Bill Hall winds up our April walks with a classic test walk from Waterfall to Loftus. Good tracks for about half the distance with new maps available of Otford and Port Hacking for you to follows-the walk on. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | ||
+ | Page 1 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
+ | 26-27-28 - Uncle Jim Vat iliotis is your genial guide on this Budawang | ||
+ | April test walk starting from Clyde River, and taking in Talaterang and Pigeon House. Could. be scrubby on Talaterang, but the scenery is magnificent. Spectacular lookout on Pigeon House. Please book early - Budawang walks are popular. | ||
+ | Candid off-the-cuff comments departments- This completes my two years term as Walks Secretary. I am resigning only because I feel that | ||
+ | no one should hold this office for more than two years. Some ten years | ||
+ | ago I also held the office for two years. Any walks secretary who is | ||
+ | worth his or her salt should be running out of ideas after two years. Without new ideas and new blood the programme stagnates - after 47 years, a.B.W. as a walking club cannot affort to run stagnant programmes. | ||
+ | I am deeply grateful to our retiring president for his help in many ways and I 'am even more indebted_ to the small handful of typists who have | ||
+ | laboured into the wee small hours to typo the programmes and walks notes. It is my fervent wish that you will support the incoming Walks Secretary even better than you have supported me. | ||
+ | ************* | ||
+ | SOCIAL SECRETARY' | ||
+ | by Elaine Brown. | ||
+ | April 17th - Map Reading Training night by Wilf Hilder and helped by | ||
+ | Carl Bock. Here is a chance to have some personal tuition by these two vary experienced bushwalkers. If you have any questions which I know a lot of us have when it comes to map reading, tame along with a map (1:63,360) | ||
+ | and your Silva compass, and ask these two experienced members. A Canadian film on Orienteering in the terrain will be screened during the night. | ||
+ | On April 24th9 Fran Christie will give her talk and slide showing on | ||
+ | China. I think we have visited nearly every country in the world with slides from members but never China, so this should prove a very interesting | ||
+ | evening. | ||
+ | *--X-X-Xxx x****** | ||
+ | Also at the Annual General Meeting the Amount of Annual Subscriptions was determined as follows:- | ||
+ | Full Members $7.00 p a. | ||
+ | Married Couples $9.00 p a. | ||
+ | Full-time Students $4.00 p a. | ||
+ | Members are reminded that these fees are due and payable. | ||
+ | Subscriptions of Non-Active Members wiU be determined by the Committee and advised next month. | ||
+ | -******** | ||
+ | Page 18 TIM SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
+ | EUROPE IN MIDT7MER. | ||
+ | by Frances_eolley._ | ||
+ | (Frances has just retUrned from a nine week tour, with her friend Mary Brennan, of Europe starting with the Scandinavian countries. Here are some extracts from her letters home.) | ||
+ | 2212=L12Z11: | ||
+ | is on exhibition. Caught the bus from town and driver told us where to get | ||
+ | off. Then we had about imile walk through houses to the exhibition. Very | ||
+ | beautiful - like walking through a series of giant Christmas cards. Large two-storey houses, many painted white, set amongst silver birches and blue | ||
+ | spruces on quite large blocks of land. Some houses had moorings on edge of water. It is so very true that you do see so much more on foot - we find | ||
+ | we are walking nearly everywhere. | ||
+ | It is light in this part of the world only from about 8 a m. to 4 p m. Then completely dark. We had dinner at about 4.30 p m. The town is dead - | ||
+ | seems to be no night life at all and this is Saturday night. Mary and I find the darkness hard to get used to, but find that about 5 p m. we are | ||
+ | exhausted, at any rate. | ||
+ | There is obviously not such strict control over town planning in Oslo | ||
+ | as in Stockholm - very narrow higgledy-piggledy streets. Most surfaces | ||
+ | just cobblestones covered with tar, worn away in many places with, | ||
+ | are being constantly ripped up - barricades everywhere. We didn't see any | ||
+ | in Stockholm. We are staying behind the Royal Palace. This stands on a hill overlooking the town. Jal_get to town we have to walk through beautiful grounds of the palace - a large park - all covered with snow. They cover all paths here with sand to prevent slipping on the ice. | ||
+ | 2212.=_L12/ | ||
+ | at back of Oslo (called Tryvann Hills)' | ||
+ | The view from the top was spectacular - lovely pine covered snowy hills. Very much like Australian Alps in shape of terrain and number of trees. We were to have gone to top of Tryvannstarnet (a tower) to have views of 11,600 sq. miles, but this was closed as they were working on it. Obviously this is one of the main recreational areas of Oslo. Many people walking or langlaufing - area covered with marked ski trails. We went for a walk in the forest - Mary has trouble on the ice with her leather soled. boots and fell over several times. We soon, learnt that I had to hang on to her in dangerous sections. | ||
+ | Bergen 5/12/73: At tourist information we found out we could have train | ||
+ | trip to Plain which is a town on a beautiful fjord a few hours from Oslo. | ||
+ | With Eurail passes this won't cost us anything. The next day we will leave Bergen for Stanargen by hydrofoil - a 4 hour journey, and catch the trqin from there back to Oslo around the southern Dart of Norway. | ||
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