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- | COLORADO. | + | ===== One Year In Colorado. ===== |
- | (From.a.letter.da;77679/82) by Bob Duncan. | + | |
- | We have had a fantastic year. During the eight months of winter | + | (From a letter |
- | summer they became equally fanatical walkers. Rosslyn goes walking with a group of robust ladies each Wednesday, and each weekend the four of us go walking together. | + | |
- | The walking has changed dramatically since I was here 20 years ago. | + | by Bob Duncan. |
- | Then one did one's own route-finding and almost never saw a track or anyone | + | |
- | else on the trip. Now unbelievable numbers walk so that to save the tundra | + | We have had a fantastic year. During the eight months of winter |
- | from trampling the authorities have put in tracks to above the tundra line | + | |
- | and impose severe penalties for leaving them. It makes walking | + | The walking has changed dramatically since I was here 20 years ago. Then one did one's own route-finding and almost never saw a track or anyone else on the trip. Now unbelievable numbers walk so that to save the tundra from trampling the authorities have put in tracks to above the tundra line and impose severe penalties for leaving them. It makes walking |
- | once so shy now blatantly beg for titbits all along the tracks. | + | |
- | The most spectacular peak here, which we can see from our bedroom | + | The most spectacular peak here, which we can see from our bedroom window, is Long's Peak at 14,236 feet, and 10,000 people climb it each year! When I read this I couldn' |
- | window, is Long's Peak at 14,236 feet, and 10,000 people climb it each year: | + | |
- | When I read this I couldn' | + | The big problem in climbing here, which you don't get in Australia and New Zealand is lightning. In summer, thunderstorms build up virtually every day by lunchtime and vicious ground strikes bang down on all sides. In the U.S.A. 500 people a year are killed by lightning and another 1,500 maimed. It is the next biggest cause of accidental death and injury after road accidents. Furthermore a disproportionate number of these deaths and injuries occur in Colorado, and a disproportionate number of the Coloradan deaths and injuries occur to climbers. |
- | which has to be climbed is very steep and narrow and displaced rocks fly down disconcertingly. Also, passing people going the other way on the ledges is | + | |
- | quite an acrobatic feat. Thirty nine people have been killed in the last | + | Everyone is justifiably terrified of lightning and our main concern when we go climbing is always to get to the top before the afternoon storms build up. When we climbed |
- | ten years, though most of these have been on winter or technical climbs. | + | |
- | It is an 18-mile trek (there and back) and 5,0001 of actual climb (ignoring ups and downs). There is only one non-technical route, and this year this | + | ---- |
- | was only open (i.e. snow free) for about four weeks. It's similar to | + | |
- | Mt. Anne but bigger and steeper. The altitude makes it a bit more difficult | + | ===== "Five Reutrns Dulbolla, Please." |
- | too. We have climbed two higher peaks but Lang's is definitely the most exciting; it's easy to see why it is so popular. | + | |
- | The big problem in climbing here, which you don't get in Australia | + | |
- | and New Zealand is lightning. In summer, thunderstorms build up virtually every day by lunchtime and vicious ground strikes bang down an all sides. In the U.S.A. 500 people a year are killed by lightning and another 1,500 maimed. It is the next biggest cause of accidental death and injury after road accidents. Furthermore a disproportionate number of these deaths and | + | |
- | injuries occur in Colorado, and a disproportionate number of the Coloradan | + | |
- | deaths and injuries occur to climbers. | + | |
- | Everyone is justifiably terrified'of lightning and our main concern when we go climbing is always to get to the top before the afternoon storms build up. When we climbed. Lang's we were late in starting (i.e. 7 aa) and had to fight against a tide of people coming down the narrow chutes | + | |
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- | Page 11 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKHR | + | |
- | "FIVE RETURNS DULBOLLA PTIA9E | + | |
by Ray Kirkby. | by Ray Kirkby. | ||
- | (In the Obituary for the late Ray Kirkby published in the September magazine, Alex Colley said of Ray - "it is probably for his very original humour he will be remembered." | + | |
- | appreciated, | + | (In the Obituary for the late Ray Kirkby published in the September magazine, Alex Colley said of Ray - "it is probably for his very original humour he will be remembered." |
- | My deah, doTau wish to be booked together with your parrot to Kilimanjaro via King's Cross? Or do you wish to know how to do the cheapest submarine trip up the Yangtze Kiang? If so, I am your man. I am wonderful and I admit it myself. Of course I had to learn by hard experience but I may as well cash in on it and, in years to come, as I drive past in my magnificent limousine from the palatial offices of " | + | |
- | Any simpleton can go to the Railway and ask, "Is there or is there not a certain train running?" | + | My deah, do you wish to be booked together with your parrot to Kilimanjaro via King's Cross? Or do you wish to know how to do the cheapest submarine trip up the Yangtze Kiang? If so, I am your man. I am wonderful and I admit it myself. Of course I had to learn by hard experience but I may as well cash in on it and, in years to come, as I drive past in my magnificent limousine from the palatial offices of " |
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+ | Any simpleton can go to the Railway and ask, "Is there or is there not a certain train running?" | ||
However, actions speak louder than words, let us to a concrete example. | However, actions speak louder than words, let us to a concrete example. | ||
- | To commence our Queensland trip I considered it advisable to alight from the Brisbane Express at Dulbolla. Dulbolla is a siding about 60 miles from Brisbane having quite three houses and no platform but only about a mile from the township of Rathdowney. The N.S.W. Railway Guide does not mention the place so resort had to be made to " | ||
- | Dulbolla was hemmed in by a symbolism which would have inspired Pitman. | ||
- | They were all represented - K, f, p, see page 68,, ::, /, and g which means- | ||
- | " | ||
- | / | ||
- | two different answers to the one question, donrt believe either" | ||
- | Of course, I am not blaming Alex for what happened. Perhaps I should have had my party in for tutorial classes twice a week. However, Alex | ||
- | offered to buy the tickets - just "Five returns Dulbolla, please" | ||
- | Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWAIKER | ||
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- | saying that he could not issue return tickets there and that Alex would have to accept tickets td-Bisbane-" | ||
- | want to use a.considerable proportion of the return ticket at all. May could we not buy return tickets to the Border and then get single extensions to Dulbolla? | ||
- | The official reluctantly agreed that this could be done but said it would make little difference in cost so I had to make a lot of dalculations | ||
- | to prove otherwise and then, only then, did he abandon his defences and surrender, knowing that I had an atom bomb up each sleeve. With good grace (and, I felt, with some respect and a tinge of admiration for me) he handed | ||
- | me back lots of five pound notes and told me how to proceed. | ||
- | The impact of a ticket to Border Tunnel onto the brain of the train officials had garying effects. Some expressed great astonishment. Others looked at it as people probably looked at the first aeroplane and yet showed not the least curiosity. In the early hours of the morning, when it was still dark, a ticket examiner came through the train and happened to catch Jean away from her home base. Unfortunately, | ||
- | Within a hundred miles of our destination we got quite " | ||
- | "Only one stop today," | ||
- | The road may have been hard but the climax was worth it. The express came to a standstill and a voice called out "Seats numbers forty two to forty six - Dulbolla" | ||
- | boxes were flung out, and he and_ numerous passengers, whose heads protruded | ||
- | from Windows, saw the inexpressible sight of girls jumping onto the rails. | ||
- | My deah, we were there and, between us and Rathdowney, only a mile of road and fifty per cent of Dulbolla' | ||
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- | Page 13 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER December, | ||
- | THE UNCANNY STORY OF THE S.B.W.MAGAZINE. | + | To commence our Queensland trip I considered it advisable to alight from the Brisbane Express at Dulbolla. Dulbolla is a siding about 60 miles from Brisbane having quite three houses and no platform but only about a mile from the township of Rathdowney. The N.S.W. Railway Guide does not mention the place so resort had to be made to " |
- | - by-Evelyn Walker. | + | |
- | It was suggested recently that members might be interested to know | + | Of course, I am not blaming Alex for what happened. Perhaps I should have had my party in for tutorial classes twice a week. However, Alex offered to buy the tickets |
- | the processes by which their magazine comes to them. Despite my reluctance to comment on the unknown I have been persuaded by bewildered members to share the facts with readers | + | |
- | The story starts, of course, with Kath Brown, whose contribution is 4escribed | + | The official reluctantly agreed that this could be done but said it would make little difference in cost so I had to make a lot of calculations to prove otherwise and then, only then, did he abandon his defences and surrender, knowing that I had an atom bomb up each sleeve. With good grace (and, I felt, with some respect and a tinge of admiration for me) he handed me back lots of five pound notes and told me how to proceed. |
- | involves a good deal of time each month. The next person in the process is | + | |
- | Phil Butt, ,who regularly manhandles huge deliveries of paper and turns out 410 x 18 pages Of clean duplicating with fine precision, and delivers them | + | The impact of a ticket to Border Tunnel onto the brain of the train officials had varying effects. Some expressed great astonishment. Others looked at it as people probably looked at the first aeroplane and yet showed not the least curiosity. In the early hours of the morning, when it was still dark, a ticket examiner came through the train and happened to catch Jean away from her home base. Unfortunately, |
- | carefully packaged to the Gray household. So far, so good. It is at this | + | |
- | point that events take an unusual turn. | + | Within a hundred miles of our destination we got quite " |
- | " | + | |
- | However, it is obvious that nothing further will be done without food, and a cordon bleu curried pumpkin soup, decorated with cream and paprika pepper, is served. Fazeley Read, who is now known to be able to make soup and who produced this masterpiece, | + | "Only one stop today," |
- | Ray Hookway is heard to mutter quietly "Mat about the magazine?" | + | |
- | Some time later concern is expressed about getting home before midnight, or. ,whether the.werk could not be much better done the next day, which would. allow the group to move straight on to the tempting supper of cherry cheesecake. However, reason prevails, and Phil covers the table with thick piles of duplicated pages. There is discussion about how the work is to be done. A favourite method involves a line of people walking slowly round the table like slaves round a treadmill, riffling the pages on each pile and seizing one as they go. These are shoved firmly into a cover and passed on to the stapler. But here the mystery begins. The collators appear to be affected in some way by their activities and the speed of the work gradually grows faster and faster. The theory is that the air is slowly saturated with an unknown toxic drug which appears to be released by the riffling of the paper and is inhaled with the paper dust, though this explanation has been | + | " |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKEIR December, | + | |
- | ....... o...1.1NW | + | The road may have been hard but the climax was worth it. The express came to a standstill and a voice called out "Seats numbers forty two to forty six - Dulbolla" |
- | challenged | + | |
- | cry urges the pace yet faster and faster, until the room appears to be filled with whirling dervishes performing a secret paper ceremony. Gradually each participant goes into a trance induced by vertigo and intoxication and. becomes unaware of painful feet and heels kicked by the one behind. Stamina is rapidly ebbing when the aupply | + | My deah, we were there and, between us and Rathdowney, only a mile of road and fifty per cent of Dulbolla' |
- | As the other people in the room come into focus it is clear that the | + | |
- | stapler, Spiro Hajinakitas, | + | ---- |
- | staccato rhythm and gloats over the pile of finished magazines swelling at | + | |
- | his feet. While this is going on other workers are hastily pasting | + | ===== the Uncanny Story Of The S.B.W. Magazine. ===== |
- | copies move from one group to another | + | |
- | and the whole operation is wrapped up with amazing accuracy at top speed and with great smoothness, despite the toxic effects of the materials handled. | + | by Evelyn Walker. |
- | No one knows quite how this is achieved. | + | |
- | And suddenly, with the removal of the magazines to the confines of someone' | + | It was suggested recently that members might be interested to know the processes by which their magazine comes to them. Despite my reluctance to comment on the unknown I have been persuaded by bewildered members to share the facts with readers... |
- | pages were placed upside down and back to front, and highly decorated. Dot Butler recalls an occasion when one magazine went out embellished by her footprint made in ink. So, gentle reader, you are warned never to criticise the quality control of this excellent production - which is always of course | + | |
- | 101 per cent perfect. Collators mix unidentified with ordinary | + | The story starts, of course, with Kath Brown, whose contribution is described |
- | members', knOwn only to each other, and can pick up any negative comments and | + | |
- | relay them to the NIGHT GROUP': | + | " |
- | The results of the tests have been received and our worst fears are | + | |
- | confirmed. The conclusion is .unmistakable. It is definitely not the paper dust which is the chief intoxicating agent but the written | + | However, it is obvious that nothing further will be done without food, and a cordon bleu curried pumpkin soup, decorated with cream and paprika pepper, is served. Fazeley Read, who is now known to be able to make soup and who produced this masterpiece, |
- | entranced. There is no known cure. | + | |
- | CHANGE OF ADDRESS OR 'PHONE NUMBER. | + | Ray Hookway is heard to mutter quietly "What about the magazine?" |
- | --- Would thethbers | + | |
- | BARBARA BRUCE, Hon.Secr et ary . | + | Some time later concern is expressed about getting home before midnight, or whether the work could not be much better done the next day, which would allow the group to move straight on to the tempting supper of cherry cheesecake. However, reason prevails, and Phil covers the table with thick piles of duplicated pages. There is discussion about how the work is to be done. A favourite method involves a line of people walking slowly round the table like slaves round a treadmill, riffling the pages on each pile and seizing one as they go. These are shoved firmly into a cover and passed on to the stapler. But here the mystery begins. The collators appear to be affected in some way by their activities and the speed of the work gradually grows faster and faster. The theory is that the air is slowly saturated with an unknown toxic drug which appears to be released by the riffling of the paper and is inhaled with the paper dust, though this explanation has been challenged |
- | Phone 546-6570. | + | |
- | Page 15 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER December, | + | As the other people in the room come into focus it is clear that the stapler, Spiro Hajinakitas, |
- | , | + | |
- | 1 - | + | And suddenly, with the removal of the magazines to the confines of someone' |
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+ | === Stop Press. === | ||
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+ | The results of the tests have been received and our worst fears are confirmed. The conclusion is unmistakable. It is definitely not the paper dust which is the chief intoxicating agent but the __written | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | === Change of address of 'phone number. === | ||
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+ | Would members | ||
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+ | Barbara Bruce, Hon. Secretary. Phone 546-6570. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
TEE NOVEKBER GENERAL MEETMG. | TEE NOVEKBER GENERAL MEETMG. | ||
by Barry Wallace. | by Barry Wallace. |
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