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+=====The Sydney Bushwalker=====
-A Monthly Bulletin devoted"to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney.
-No.53 Price 3d. MAY, 1939
+A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney.
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-Editor: Dorothy Lawry Business Manager: Brian Harvey Publication) Misses Dot. English and Doreen Harris; Messrs Arthur Salmon and
+====No.53  Price 3d.  May, 1939====
-Staff Dick Schofield. Bill filu_lins
-CONTANTS
+|**Editor**|Dorothy Lawry|
-Editorial 000 00* Page 1
+|**Business Manager**|Brian Harvey|
-Mountain 'Walking by W. Henry Lewis (Canada) " 2
+|**Publication Staff **|Misses Dot. English and Doreen Harris; Messrs Arthur Salmon and Dick Schofield. Bill Mullins|
-At Our Own Meeting .. ... " 4
-Assistant Officers, 1939/1940 000 it
+=====Contents=====
-Leica Photo Service - Advertisement 0 6
+| | |Page|
-Are You Really Displaying an Interest in
+|Editorial| | 1|
-Conservation? asks Bill Mullins n 7
+|Mountain 'Walking|by W. Henry Lewis (Canada)| 2|
-River Maps by the R.C.C. n 8
+|At Our Own Meeting| | 4|
-Paddy's Advertisement ... 0 9
+|Assistant Officers, 1939/1940| | 5|
-Beards on the Trail ? A Query from the U.S.A. n 9
+|Are You Really Displaying an Interest in Conservation?|asks Bill Mullins| 7|
-Eats ... by E.A.T.O.R. 0 10
+|River Maps|by the R.C.C.| 8|
-Federation News - 00 000 n 11
+|Beards on the Trail?|A Query from the U.S.A.| 9|
-Of Interest to Women .. 0 12
+|Eats ...|by E.A.T.O.R.|10|
-Of General Interest .. 000 0 12
+|Federation News| |11|
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+|Of Interest to Women| |12|
- From Here, There and Everywhere ... 12
+|Of General Interest| |12|
-Club Gossip 000 v.. a 13
+|From Here, There and Everywhere| |12|
-Pijarrots!! A Glimpse into the Future by Dorothy Lawry 0 14
+|Club Gossip| |13|
-EDITORIAL
+|Pijarrots!! A Glimpse into the Future|by Dorothy Lawry|14|
+=====Advertisements=====
+| |Page|
+|Leica Photo Service| 6|
+|Paddy's| 9|
+=====Editorial=====
 As you can read on Page 5, the Committee has re-elected us to the job of running the Club Magazine; who we are you can see from the top of this page; and how we do our job you can see by reading the whole magazine.
 We hope you will enjoy our work as much as we do, and we believe our Constant Readers will agree with us that we all know a lot more about the job now than we did this time last year.
-We intend to make "The Sydney Bushwalker" an even better magazine this yiar than last - if we can have the co.-operation of our fellow-members. Yes, articles, paragraphs, accounts of trips, verses, jokes and "items of interest" are what we msan. Without them we cannot produce a magazine, so sand them along please,
+We intend to make "The Sydney Bushwalker" an even better magazine this year than last - if we can have the co-operation of our fellow-members. Yes, articles, paragraphs, accounts of trips, verses, jokes and "items of interest" are what we mean. Without them we cannot produce a magazine, so send them along please,
 all the bright and breezy tales, all the pithy pars, all the concise and interesting articles. Send them along and have your name, or nom-de-plume, included in the list of those who have helped to make the magazine.
- mgrith these few words".....as Chairmen say we introduce "The Sydney Bushwalker" to you once again.
-CD
+"With these few words"..... as Chairmen say ..... we introduce "The Sydney Bushwalker" to you once again.
-..MC.UNT.A,IN WALKING,
-by 117.Henry Lewin.
+=====Mountain Walking=====
-Some Extracts from an Article that appeared in The Canadian Alpine Journal,1937
-It is, perhaps, an open question whore mountain walking ends and mountain climbing begins, for many devotees of the former are sometimes inclined to mistake the two terms. But as a general proposition, the line of demarcation would appear to be at that point where the raising of the body requires the assistance of the hands or where the negotiation of ice and snow is concerned....
+by W. Henry Lewin.
-Similar to mountain climbing, however, mountain walking also possesses its awn special technique. It may seem a mere platitude to state that the first half.. hour of a long steep walk should be conducted at the slowest possible speed, a crawling start up the first few hundred feet being the only method by which ultimate rhythm of movement can be maintained. Once this rhythm is established speed should increase automatioally without any corresponding increase in the rate of pulse or breathing. With careful attention to this slow start, the walker should find himself going stronger at the end of the day than when approaching the luncheon halt.
-But perhaps the primary law of walking up a steep track is that THERE SHOULD BE A MINIMUM OF CONSCIOUS EFFORT IN LIFTING THE LEGS FROM THE GROUND. A slight swing of the body from left to right, alternately, which, with practice, becomes almost unconscious will bring up each foot with a minimum of energy expenditure. The length of the stride being, of course, determined by the angle of terrain: the steeper the angle, the shorter the stride. To travel uphill behind a Swiss guide is an education in this direction, his footmarks leaving almost a single instead of a double track. His legs will seem to swing from the hips upon automatic pivots, and once this method has been mastered it is found to be entirely lacking in concentrated mental effort upon muscular centres.
+====Some Extracts from an Article that appeared in The Canadian Alpine Journal, 1937====
-It is thus the weight of the body, correctly applied, which is the all- important factor in ascending a fairly smooth track or path. With rough bed rock tracks, where many steps may be several inches higher than the preceding ones, some conscious lifting of the feet and bending of the knees will be necessary. But even over that class of track the swerving roll of the body will have its influence both in ensuring normal breathing and also in minimum energy expenditure. This method of travelling, if perhaps unbeautiful, is really the only effective means of covering long distances uphill with very little more effort than when travelling upon the flat,
-One of its minor results, also) is that it assists in bringing the comp/etalower surface of the boot inte a perfectly flat contact with the ground at every
+It is, perhaps, an open question where mountain walking ends and mountain climbing begins, for many devotees of the former are sometimes inclined to mistake the two terms. But as a general proposition, the line of demarcation would appear to be at that point where the raising of the body requires the assistance of the hands or where the negotiation of ice and snow is concerned....
-step, and thus tends to avoid the temptation - so prevalent on severe angles - of ascending only upon tlic sole of the foot, with the heel an inch or two off
-the ground. The latter should be strictly guarded against, causing, as it does, a severe strain upon the ankles and not improbably a damaged cuticle upon the toes. Upon certain tracks where the angle slopes to loft or right a similar flat-footed tread should prevail. Soaping the heels and toes of stockings is
+Similar to mountain climbing, however, mountain walking also possesses its own special technique. It may seem a mere platitude to state that the first half-hour of a long steep walk should be conducted at the slowest possible speed, a crawling start up the first few hundred feet being the only method by which ultimate rhythm of movement can be maintained. Once this rhythm is established speed should increase automatically without any corresponding increase in the rate of pulse or breathing. With careful attention to this slow start, the walker should find himself going stronger at the end of the day than when approaching the luncheon halt.
-also a good idea under all tonditions.
+But perhaps the primary law of walking up a steep track is that **there should be a minimum of conscious effort in lifting the legs from the ground**. A slight swing of the body from left to right, alternately, which, with practice, becomes almost unconscious will bring up each foot with a minimum of energy expenditure. The length of the stride being, of course, determined by the angle of terrain: the steeper the angle, the shorter the stride. To travel uphill behind a Swiss guide is an education in this direction, his footmarks leaving almost a single instead of a double track. His legs will seem to swing from the hips upon automatic pivots, and once this method has been mastered it is found to be entirely lacking in concentrated mental effort upon muscular centres.
+It is thus the weight of the body, correctly applied, which is the all-important factor in ascending a fairly smooth track or path. With rough bed rock tracks, where many steps may be several inches higher than the preceding ones, some conscious lifting of the feet and bending of the knees will be necessary. But even over that class of track the swerving roll of the body will have its influence both in ensuring normal breathing and also in minimum energy expenditure. This method of travelling, if perhaps unbeautiful, is really the only effective means of covering long distances uphill with very little more effort than when travelling upon the flat.
+One of its minor results, also, is that it assists in bringing the complete lower surface of the boot into a perfectly flat contact with the ground at every
+step, and thus tends to avoid the temptation - so prevalent on severe angles - of ascending only upon the sole of the foot, with the heel an inch or two off
+the ground. The latter should be strictly guarded against, causing, as it does, a severe strain upon the ankles and not improbably a damaged cuticle upon the toes. Upon certain tracks where the angle slopes to left or right a similar flat-footed tread should prevail. Soaping the heels and toes of stockings is
+also a good idea under all conditions.
 Straight-line short cuts across a zigzag track when ascending tend to upset rhythm and throw the breathing apparatus out of gear, but every short cut should be utilised during the descent.
-Frequent halts under the well-known camouflage of "admiring the scenery" should be avoided as also tending to destroy the rhythm. Given an average surface of track with speed carefully regulated during the initial stages, two thousand feet of altitude over an area of three miles of ground should be easily accomplished, non-stop, in an hour and a half. Stopping to admire the scenery seems unnecessary, for it is the writer's experience that the most intense quality of scenic beauty is realised more completely when glimpsed instantaneously under conditions of physical and mental effort rather than when viewed during. state of bodily inertia.
+Frequent halts under the well-known camouflage of "admiring the scenery" should be avoided as also tending to destroy the rhythm. Given an average surface of track with speed carefully regulated during the initial stages, two thousand feet of altitude over an area of three miles of ground should be easily accomplished, non-stop, in an hour and a half. Stopping to admire the scenery seems unnecessary, for it is the writer's experience that the most intense quality of scenic beauty is realised more completely when glimpsed instantaneously under conditions of physical and mental effort rather than when viewed during a state of bodily inertia.
 But all rests must be dominated by considerations of maintaining that somewhat elusive term "form". It is difficult to diagnose this term with any exactitude, but in the lower part of the abdomen, about five inches below the
-solar plexus, there is a location, perhaps partly physical and partly psychological, which appears to be the central fulcrum and initiating machinery of all physical and mental effort. It is probably an intense and continuous grasp of this centre which denotes the maintenance of "form". Some ancient once desc:lbed
+solar plexus, there is a location, perhaps partly physical and partly psychological, which appears to be the central fulcrum and initiating machinery of all physical and mental effort. It is probably an intense and continuous grasp of this centre which denotes the maintenance of "form". Some ancient once described the spot named as the seat of the soul, which, in the absence of all evidence, seems a plausible diagnosis. Whenever a personal grasp of this centre is relaxed, owing to exhaustion or lack of concentration, form and style will be lost and the continuance of physical effort under such circumstances may be more harmful than beneficial. A bodily condition will have been reached which may also be described as "walking upon one's uppers," and a long rest may be necessary to restore the old grip .....
-the spot named as the seat of the soul, which, in the absence nf all evidence, seems a plausible diagnosis. Whenever a personal grasp of this centre is relaxed,owing to exhaustion or lack of concentration, form and style will be lost and the continuance of physical effort under such circumstances may be more harmful than beneficial. A bodily condition will have been reached which may also be described as "walking upon one's uppers," and a long rest may be necessary to restore the old grip
-Descents of mountain tracks are usually conducted at a fairly high speed, the rolling method being less necessary awing to the momentum of bodily weight at a descending angle tending to carry the legs with it. What appears te be the correct movement, given suitability of angle, is a sort of jog-trot
+Descents of mountain tracks are usually conducted at a fairly high speed, the rolling method being less necessary awing to the momentum of bodily weight at a descending angle tending to carry the legs with it. What appears to be the correct movement, given suitability of angle, is a sort of jog-trot .....
-To descend an average angle slowly, however, with the body in too upright a position, means that a check is being placed unduly upon the work that the body will perform automatically by its own momentum. And this bodily check, awing to a too slow and cautious descent, will also impose a greater strain upon the tibialis anticus muscles and knee caps than will be the case with greater freedom of movement and longer strides. That suspicion of crocked knees upon the day following a long descent will be much less apparent under the latter tonditions, and will also tend towards good balance, a quick eye and increases ac-ivity.
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+To descend an average angle slowly, however, with the body in too upright a position, means that a check is being placed unduly upon the work that the body will perform automatically by its own momentum. And this bodily check, awing to a too slow and cautious descent, will also impose a greater strain upon the tibialis anticus muscles and knee caps than will be the case with greater freedom of movement and longer strides. That suspicion of crocked knees upon the day following a long descent will be much less apparent under the latter conditions, and will also tend towards good balance, a quick eye and increases activity.
-(Note. The Canadian Alpine Journal, 1937, is available in the Club Lbrary ) (if anyone-wishes to read the whole article - Ed.
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+(Note. The Canadian Alpine Journal, 1937, is available in the Club Library if anyone-wishes to read the whole article - Ed.)
-,
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