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- | "Oh, this is serious, Tom. The editor of "The Sydney Bushwalker" | + | " |
- | "Oh,goodl Well put down the usual opening phrase - "After waiting three hours ir the ante-room I was conducted by a uniformed attendant through miles of corridors and Iffs.A | + | |
+ | "Oh, this is serious, Tom. The editor of "The Sydney Bushwalker" | ||
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+ | "Oh,good! Well put down the usual opening phrase - "After waiting three hours in the ante-room I was conducted by a uniformed attendant through miles of corridors and was at length ushered into the chamber of the Presence". | ||
"Look, Herbert, cut out the hooey and try to be presidential" | "Look, Herbert, cut out the hooey and try to be presidential" | ||
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- | How could I? I wish the tlub mould find some other title for its chief | + | " |
- | executive officer; something more in keeping with the ' | + | |
- | "Ahl - /happy-go-lucky spirit' | + | "Ah! - 'happy-go-lucky spirit' |
"Well, Jack, that's the Club's greatest attraction to me. It' | "Well, Jack, that's the Club's greatest attraction to me. It' | ||
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"And how does the S.B.W. attract you more than any other recreational club?" | "And how does the S.B.W. attract you more than any other recreational club?" | ||
- | "Our Club offers a refreshing haven from jaded work-a-day reality. At the Club you meet and chat with your fellow members. You may talk of airy nothings and you laugh as much as you talk - and what a tonic that isi One big family of happy kids glad to drop the formality and seriousness of things commercial and just bubble over with glee. When wandering in the bushland and mountains the | + | |
- | same merry chaffing | + | "Our Club offers a refreshing haven from jaded work-a-day reality. At the Club you meet and chat with your fellow members. You may talk of airy nothings and you laugh as much as you talk - and what a tonic that is! One big family of happy kids glad to drop the formality and seriousness of things commercial and just bubble over with glee. When wandering in the bushland and mountains the |
- | real name" | + | same merry chaffing |
- | UYou seem to have lived dawn your old nickname of 'Mandelberg. | + | |
- | 71Well, I suppose I deserved the name when it was first applied. To save packing space in my sack I used to hang on the outside of it billy can, mug and anything else with a handle. In addition there might hang sundry items of wet | + | “You |
- | clothing that I wanted to dry and my resemblance to a second-hand shop was greeted with the cry of "MandelbergC | + | |
+ | “Well, I suppose I deserved the name when it was first applied. To save packing space in my sack I used to hang on the outside of it billy can, mug and anything else with a handle. In addition there might hang sundry items of wet clothing that I wanted to dry and my resemblance to a second-hand shop was greeted with the cry of "Mandelberg” | ||
"And what of Club friendships? | "And what of Club friendships? | ||
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"Well of course some of them have developed into marriage but they speak for themselves. My experience is that when you make friends out on the track you do so without any illusions. There' | "Well of course some of them have developed into marriage but they speak for themselves. My experience is that when you make friends out on the track you do so without any illusions. There' | ||
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"Do the Club's outdoor activities appeal to you more strongly than any one of your other sporting pastimes?" | "Do the Club's outdoor activities appeal to you more strongly than any one of your other sporting pastimes?" | ||
- | "I think the appeal is more lasting. By mountains, rivers and t, | + | |
- | exult in your freedom from restraint and revel in the fresh air, sunshine and scenery and in that priceless companionship of good fellows who are sharing the delights and difficulties of a trip with you. And then there is the camp fire at the end of the day's activity. Having fed well you feel at peace with all the world as you recline before a blazing log fire and yarn and sing and smoke and yarn again. It's at times like these that you can open your heart and talk with freedom to pals who will give sympathetic response. Around a camp fire you listen to and discuss the varying opinions of life and all its complexities with a frankness that another environment would discourage" | + | "I think the appeal is more lasting. By mountains, rivers and bushland |
- | "Well if you have no further questions, that is all I have to say. These are | + | |
- | my personal views on what you might call "The Club and Myself" | + | "Well if you have no further questions, that is all I have to say. These are my personal views on what you might call "The Club and Myself" |
- | to see the views of other members | + | |
"I intend to seek the views of other members, Tom, and I will also invite them to make comments on any of your views" | "I intend to seek the views of other members, Tom, and I will also invite them to make comments on any of your views" | ||
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"Go right ahead, Jack. Now will I ring for the uniformed attendant to conduct you out". | "Go right ahead, Jack. Now will I ring for the uniformed attendant to conduct you out". | ||
- | "Goodbyet I'm going before you get frivolous again" | + | |
+ | "Goodbye! | ||
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+ | "Cheerio! | ||
===== Why Wear Winter Woolies When Weather Wax Wery Wintry? A Personal Parley With Paddy Pallin. ===== | ===== Why Wear Winter Woolies When Weather Wax Wery Wintry? A Personal Parley With Paddy Pallin. ===== | ||
- | When I arrived at Paddy' | + | When I arrived at Paddy' |
- | mean" | + | |
+ | If I am rubbing my hands because __it' | ||
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+ | "What are your views on sleeping bags?" was my neat question. "Well there are two views of sleeping bags", replied Paddy, "the inside and the outside. I prefer the inside" | ||
- | IfI ea rubbing my hands because it's cold, not because I'M cold" said Paddy enigmatically, | ||
- | "What are your views an sleeping bags?" was my neat question. 'Veil there are two views of sleeping bags", replied Paddy, "the inside and the outside. I | ||
- | prefer the inside" | ||
- | and smiled reassuringly at me. Thus encouraged, I took the bull by the horns, "Are yomr sleeping bags warm enough for the coldest wcather?" | ||
- | promptly, "if they were they'd be much too warm for the majority of nights. One | ||
- | of my regular sleeping bags is right for 75% of camping conditions but on very hot nights they' | ||
"What is the remedy?" | "What is the remedy?" | ||
- | *Most people can put up with the warm nights and on a cold night a couple of | + | |
- | extra sweaters and a pair of long woolly underpants will generally do the trick. By the way I heard of a good stunt a little while ago. Get a p:' | + | *Most people can put up with the warm nights and on a cold night a couple of extra sweaters and a pair of long woolly underpants will generally do the trick. By the way I heard of a good stunt a little while ago. Get a piece of flannel about 12" wide and 4 or 5 feet long and after putting on all your extra clothing, wrap it round the waist - it should go about 1 1/2 times round. Have the extra half turn at the back so that you get a double thickness at the back. I have tried out the idea and it works well. The idea came from South Africa. They call it a "Veldt Blanket" |
- | wrap it round the waist - it should go about liF times round. Have the extra half turn at the back so that you get a double thickness at the back. I have tried out the idea and it works well. The idea came from South Africa. They call it a "Veldt Blanket" | + | |
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"What about a person who is a cold sleeper?" | "What about a person who is a cold sleeper?" | ||
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"If a person knows he is a cold sleeper he should have a bag made with a few ounces extra of down in it. It doesn' | "If a person knows he is a cold sleeper he should have a bag made with a few ounces extra of down in it. It doesn' | ||
- | "What do you think " | ||
- | Just then a few customers arrived and so have another try later. | ||
- | P.S. Paddy tells me that those 8 foot Zipps cost 12/-, Elastic in the top 0 ( extra and additional dawn 31- per ounce. | ||
- | PADDY PALLIN, 312 George St. over Hallam' | ||
- | our interview terminated, but we'll | ||
- | THE KOWMUNG-WITH VARIATIONS. | + | "What do you think of this?" said Paddy as he produced a few yards of Zipp, " |
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+ | Just then a few customers arrived and so our interview terminated, but we'll have another try later. | ||
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+ | P.S. Paddy tells me that those 8 foot Zipps cost 12/-, Elastic in the top 1/6 extra and additional dawn 1/- per ounce. | ||
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+ | PADDY PALLIN, 312 George St. over Hallam' | ||
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+ | ===== THE KOWMUNG-WITH VARIATIONS. | ||
(concluded) | (concluded) | ||
- | SATURDAY | + | |
- | We awoke about 7 a.m, and found that we had certainly camped in a rough locality. Rocks large and small surrounded us on all sides and the river roared through the canyon nearby. By the map our position seemed to be about one and a | + | __SATURDAY |
- | half miles above Hanrahants | + | |
- | slipped when crossing logs: in fact for the next couple of days my balance was all astray. This was probably | + | We awoke about 7 a.m. and found that we had certainly camped in a rough locality. Rocks large and small surrounded us on all sides and the river roared through the canyon nearby. By the map our position seemed to be about one and a half miles above Hanrahan' |
- | had been a hard day all through with the last couple of hours most trying. I should not like to compute the thousands of foot-pounds of energy used up in lumping a 45 lb. pack 500 feet up a rock face at an angle of 70 degrees. What was needed was a dayls rest, but alas: We were short of food. | + | |
- | After Werong there was an improvement. Grassy flats and rough patches | + | After Werong there was an improvement. Grassy flats and rough patches alternated, but, praise be to Allah, no granite canyons. The day had been warm early and the sky was now overcast. As we commenced to pick our way through the beginnings of Rudder' |
- | alternated, but, praise be to Allah, no granite canyons. The day had been warm | + | |
- | early and the sky was now overcast. As we commenced to pick our way through the beginnings of Rudder' | + | Made a late start in the afternoon (5 p.m.) and until dark walked as hard as the conditions and our conditions allowed. We camped in a rather good cave - one of the few on the Kowmung |
- | in a few seconds a heavy rain and thunderstorm was in action. We took shelter under trees - more or less dry - and taking | + | |
- | Made a late start in the afternoon (5 p.m.) and until dark walked as hard as the conditions and our conditions allowed. We camped in a rather good cave - one of the few on the Kung - and after some cooking and eating crawled into our | + | __SUNDAY |
- | sleeping bags at about 9 p.m. (11 miles). | + | |
- | SUNDAY | + | |
I found that the eel line which I had set the night before had not been | I found that the eel line which I had set the night before had not been | ||
disturbed. There were eels in that part of the river because I had seen one about four feet long swimming downstream the day before, hut apparently they were all good Mahommedans and gave our bacon a wide berth. | disturbed. There were eels in that part of the river because I had seen one about four feet long swimming downstream the day before, hut apparently they were all good Mahommedans and gave our bacon a wide berth. |
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