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by Jack Thorp | by Jack Thorp | ||
- | • Placed third at our Annual Exhibition. | + | Placed third at our Annual Exhibition.\\ |
- | The judge, Mr. Eadet said that the print quality of this study could not be improved. The subject, a pleasing group of trees on a sunny day,was simple and effective. It did not nave quj.te | + | The judge, Mr. Eade said that the print quality of this study could not be improved. The subject, a pleasing group of trees on a sunny day was simple and effective. It did not have quite the same general interest as the first and second photographs (see previous issues). If it had been possible to get a slightly lower camera angle it might have been improved a little. The lights on the tree trunk were a bit lost against the background. |
- | Photographers might note too that this 'simple silhouetted type of photograph | + | |
- | C | + | Photographers might note too that this simple silhouetted type of photograph |
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====== October Holiday ====== | ====== October Holiday ====== | ||
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R. Cotter. | R. Cotter. | ||
- | At first we worried about the weather because September had been very we and our iralk was tO be a riVer walk. The next worry was when a food party' | + | At first we worried about the weather because September had been very wet and our walk was to be a river walk. The next worry was when a food party member resigned at a late hour, and finally When we assembled at Blackheath the party was three short and the cars were ready to leave! |
- | Finally we loft Blackheath. It was a perfect moonlight night and the drive down into the valley was most enjoyable. | + | |
+ | Finally we left Blackheath. It was a perfect moonlight night and the drive down into the valley was most enjoyable. | ||
The sight of the mist-filled Cox Valley shining in the moonlight as we descended into it down Black Jerry' | The sight of the mist-filled Cox Valley shining in the moonlight as we descended into it down Black Jerry' | ||
- | We roadbed the Cox by various ways and s' | ||
- | Saturday morning we got away to a late sta2-t | + | We reached the Cox by various ways and supper fires were lit whilst the sleepy heads went straight to bed. |
- | When we caae to nross the Cox' | + | |
- | him. However he finally surfaced with his glasses intact and reached the other bank. This somewhat | + | Saturday morning we got away to a late start at 8.am. We had only gone a few hundred yards when there was a chorus |
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+ | When we came to cross the Cox' at Harry' | ||
While we had been battling with the stream Claude Haynes had been exploring and he now returned to assure us that ho had found an easier way across. On tackling this we found it chest high but not running too strongly. | While we had been battling with the stream Claude Haynes had been exploring and he now returned to assure us that ho had found an easier way across. On tackling this we found it chest high but not running too strongly. | ||
- | Max, hari ng just watched all these anties, dee,ided it was not for him so with a parting shout °Itll see you at Fasterl he retraced his footsteps. | ||
- | Before starting up Harryts River the party dried out slightly and had a snack. The going up the river was seg because of the increased flow of water but no difficulties were onountered. That night we camped a little distance above Diable CrOOk and as we were much behind schedule a council of war wae he:ld, It was decided the main party would not reach jenolan but that -ao: | ||
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- | Sunday morning 'Id the main party with another late start retraced its steps to DiLtle Creek and shot up a ridge to the Black Range. | + | Max, having |
- | We lunched on a tributary of Little River and at the ruins on Little River the photographers spent some time trying to snap the blossom. | + | |
- | Tho photographers were the last to reach the Cox which was still running a banker. | + | |
- | Some boys camped nearby had been fixing wire across the river and we crossed over to an island quite easily by holding the wire as a support. From here to the other bank the wire went across a pool neck high and it was a case of get across as best you collld. Mary showed us the best way by just hanging on to the wire and kicking and we all followed suit and got over with our packs more or loss dry until Claude, bringing.7idnats pack over, tried a new method and filled | + | |
- | We had a good camp fire that night and what our singing lacked in quality was made up in other ways. The girls kept a constant lookout for Noel and Ron but there was no sign of them. Monday being an easy day we made another late start and after we had been going a short while the rain started, However this cooled down the walk through Megalong and after two perfect days we could not grovl. | + | Before starting up Harry' |
- | Noel ant Ron caught later train than the main party, having had quite a strenuous trip. | + | |
+ | We lunched on a tributary of Little River and at the ruins on Little River the photographers spent some time trying to snap the blossom. Mary Macdonald climbed a fence to get the best viewpoint but found she needed more than two hands so had to ask Edna Stratton to push the plunger. This Eddie did with such gusto that she nearly knocked Mary off the fence. | ||
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+ | The photographers were the last to reach the Cox which was still running a banker. Some boys camped nearby had been fixing wire across the river and we crossed over to an island quite easily by holding the wire as a support. From here to the other bank the wire went across a pool neck high and it was a case of get across as best you could. Mary showed us the best way by just hanging on to the wire and kicking and we all followed suit and got over with our packs more or loss dry until Claude, bringing Edna's pack over, tried a new method and filled it with water. I am sure the boys who put up the wire had their reward in the laughs they got out of us. | ||
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+ | We had a good camp fire that night and what our singing lacked in quality was made up in other ways. The girls kept a constant lookout for Noel and Ron but there was no sign of them. Monday being an easy day we made another late start and after we had been going a short while the rain started, However this cooled down the walk through Megalong and after two perfect days we could not growl. | ||
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+ | Noel and Ron caught | ||
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Jim Brown. | Jim Brown. | ||
- | History is absolutely rotten with instances of men who didn't know when they were beaten. Journalists :rate glilly of unconquerable determination", | + | History is absolutely rotten with instances of men who didn't know when they were beaten. Journalists :rate glilly of unconquerable determination", |
There they are, the men who were not e-iervrown by adversity but took arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing ended them Do.7ou see them - the early navigators, sailing their worm-riddled | There they are, the men who were not e-iervrown by adversity but took arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing ended them Do.7ou see them - the early navigators, sailing their worm-riddled | ||
ships, driving their scurvy-sick crews beyond the ends of the earth? Napolen, intolerant of the stupid_ word " | ships, driving their scurvy-sick crews beyond the ends of the earth? Napolen, intolerant of the stupid_ word " | ||
Now, on the other hand, take me. I know my limitations. I can give the game away with the greatest facility. I am one of the Sissy Bushwalkers. I am a pansy. I am a rabbit. So what? I can prove it. More, I can double-prove it Consider those case histories. | Now, on the other hand, take me. I know my limitations. I can give the game away with the greatest facility. I am one of the Sissy Bushwalkers. I am a pansy. I am a rabbit. So what? I can prove it. More, I can double-prove it Consider those case histories. | ||
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Chapter 1. Hurley 's Hateful Hike. | Chapter 1. Hurley 's Hateful Hike. | ||
- | I've been loth to speak of this trip before, but since the leader has purged her contempt before the competent tribunal (Committee) and the two prospectives concerned have been admitted to full membership, I feel I need no longer cloa.2. my shame, The occasion was tho 4/5 June, the walk an official trip from Robertson to Yeola, Carrington Falls and Minnamurra, 0 denotes may be considered a test walk, and the type - wet. Awful wet, - seven inches at Robertson that day, unless someone tampered with the rain gauge. | ||
- | The leader caused a mild flutter at Cent_eal, appearing in groundsheet, | ||
- | Room (vide Madden' | ||
- | While the wind hammered watery nails into the walls there was some vague, romantic, visionary talk about carrying on with the trip when the storm abated, | + | I've been loath to speak of this trip before, but since the leader has purged her contempt before the competent tribunal (Committee) and the two prospectives concerned have been admitted to full membership, I feel I need no longer cloak my shame, The occasion was tho 4/5 June, the walk an official trip from Robertson to Yeola, Carrington Falls and Minnamurra, 0 denotes may be considered a test walk, and the type - wet. Awful wet, - seven inches at Robertson that day, unless someone tampered with the rain gauge. |
+ | The leader caused a mild flutter at Cent_eal, appearing in groundsheet, | ||
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+ | While the wind hammered watery nails into the walls there was some vague, romantic, visionary talk about carrying on with the trip when the storm abated, | ||
prevail" | prevail" | ||
- | It was saidJ We all talked blatantly about going back that | + | It was said We all talked blatantly about going back that day - provided the wretched branch line wasn't washed out. First, though, we had to prove to ourselves that it was really too violent. (That was not the original motive - that was simply the way it worked out.) We set out for the local pub to fill in waiting time. Useless groundsheets flapped madly about our necks, rain that felt like pellets of ice rattled an the capes and stung our legs, and we were blown willy-nilly about the roadway. One of the lightweights was whisked fro m the tarmac |
- | day - provided the wretched branch line wasn/t washed out. First, though, we had to prove to ourselves that it was really too violent. (That was not the original motive - that was simply the way it worked out.) We set out for the local pub to fill in waiting time. Useless groundsheets flapped madly about our necks, rain that felt like pellets of ice rattled an the capes and stung our legs, and | + | |
- | we were blown willy-nilly about the roadway. One of the lightweights was whisked fro m the tarmac | + | |
- | One of the lasses shivered in saturated shorts until the proprietor' | + | One of the lasses shivered in saturated shorts until the proprietor' |
- | the raging wind we staggered to the station; there to drip in gyowing | + | the raging wind we staggered to the station; there to drip in growing |
Chapter 2. Washout at War)g, | Chapter 2. Washout at War)g, | ||
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You couldn' | You couldn' | ||
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It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at (7,30 in cialet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at (7,30 in cialet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | ||
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Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn/t quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did „lust that, and at 10 a.m. still in steady rain, we were in a nasty little gully west cf the correct ridge. | Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn/t quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did „lust that, and at 10 a.m. still in steady rain, we were in a nasty little gully west cf the correct ridge. | ||
We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge end down towards the east arm of Wilson/s (Wanganderry) Creek. Cliffs there - probably not impossible, but the vision of tangled valley and misted gorge ahead not inviting. | We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge end down towards the east arm of Wilson/s (Wanganderry) Creek. Cliffs there - probably not impossible, but the vision of tangled valley and misted gorge ahead not inviting. | ||
- | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influsnce of precedent Had the really truly leader of the tri:p been there the question would probably never have arisen, but Jupiter PlIlvius was here dealing with far more malleable material. The party looked its disbelief, but I was infinitely resourceful - I djscovered | + | |
+ | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influsnce of precedent Had the really truly leader of the tri:p been there the question would probably never have arisen, but Jupiter PlIlvius was here dealing with far more malleable material. The party looked its disbelief, but I was infinitely resourceful - I discovered | ||
A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | ||
- | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over .a period of time - the time it takes to 02t- a leisca-ed lunch. The arguments were decided for us whcn we found that the water bucket beneath our most promising water point had yielded less than a pint and a half in two hours. TiGee, sat]. Don, I don't want a dry. camp l" "Dry camp l" we echoed with horrible sardonic laughter. | + | |
+ | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over .a period of time - the time it takes to 02t- a leisca-ed lunch. The arguments were decided for us when we found that the water bucket beneath our most promising water point had yielded less than a pint and a half in two hours. TiGee, sat]. Don, I don't want a dry. camp l" "Dry camp l" we echoed with horrible sardonic laughter. | ||
So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared the Fire (note the capital) that night - a Fire carefully coaxed from seemingly saturated logs into a roaring, searing furnace. TI-o Fire was built between the two tents - and they were hardly six feet apart - so that the occupants slept salamander fashion in a boiler room atmosphere. Vapours curled from the leeward tent of Ron and Noel, and at intervals frightened faces peered out as the flames licked the steaming japara. | So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared the Fire (note the capital) that night - a Fire carefully coaxed from seemingly saturated logs into a roaring, searing furnace. TI-o Fire was built between the two tents - and they were hardly six feet apart - so that the occupants slept salamander fashion in a boiler room atmosphere. Vapours curled from the leeward tent of Ron and Noel, and at intervals frightened faces peered out as the flames licked the steaming japara. | ||
- | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened t:11 the sur, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two :tays winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly sholJherded the clouds to | + | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened t:11 the sur, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two :tays winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly sholJherded the clouds to regions which certainly didn't need them less. |
- | regions which certainly didn't need them less. And we road bashed in thirteen miles to Mittagong. | + | And we road bashed in thirteen miles to Mittagong. The pastoral country was green and fresh in the weak sun, the massed clouds pictorial, but it was still road-bashing. The little girl in the cafe couldn' |
- | The pastoral country was green and fresh in the weak sun, the massed clouds pictorial, but it was still road-bashing. The little girl in the cafe couldn' | + | |
- | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be u4ind to him, food party - his unfailing cheerfulness meant a good deal to us that weekend), drained the bitter dregs of defeat again (good cliche | + | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be unkind |
Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. Itra a sissy bushwalker. So what?" | Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. Itra a sissy bushwalker. So what?" | ||
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====== The Sydney Bushwalker Library ====== | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker Library ====== | ||
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By Jess Martin, Librarian. | By Jess Martin, Librarian. | ||
- | It is obvious from the number | + | It is obvious from the number |
a . | a . | ||
- | have forgotten that the Club has hLENDING Lfal=, and how rany | + | have forgotten that the Club has hLENDING Lfal=, and how many |
of our newer members are familiar with its conen:1 and how it as first established? | of our newer members are familiar with its conen:1 and how it as first established? | ||
One evening in 1932 Mr. W.J. Cleary vii-L.:3ed the Club to give an address entitled hThe Literature of Walking", | One evening in 1932 Mr. W.J. Cleary vii-L.:3ed the Club to give an address entitled hThe Literature of Walking", | ||
- | The suggestion was made that the works quoted by Mr. Cleary would form the nucleus of a fine library, the idea was enthusasicelly | + | The suggestion was made that the works quoted by Mr. Cleary would form the nucleus of a fine library, the idea was enthusiasictaly |
From time to time new books have been added, The more serious side of bushwalking is catered for in books on Mal:. Reading and Making, Astronomy, Meteorology, | From time to time new books have been added, The more serious side of bushwalking is catered for in books on Mal:. Reading and Making, Astronomy, Meteorology, | ||
Unfortunately, | Unfortunately, | ||
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- | The Librarian to purchase any book when nine people sign a petition for its purchase and pay a fortnightly subscription in advance. It shall be the duty of the | + | The Librarian to purchase any book when nine people sign a petition for its purchase and pay a fortnightly subscription in advance. It shall be the duty of the proposer of the books to collect the subscriptions and hand them to the Librarian. Non-fiction books of interest to walkers are to be purchased by the Librarian when five people sign a petition and pay a fortnightly subscription and the Committee votes the balance |
- | I, proposer of the books to collect the subscriptions and hand them to the Librarian. Non-fiction books of interest to walkers are to be purchased by the Librarian when five people sign a petition and pay a fortnightly subscription and the Committee votes the balanJe | + | |
- | 4The oharge | + | The charge |
- | part thereof) per 2/6d. (or part thereof) of the hockpurchase | + | |
- | Library shall be ld0 for the first fortnight and 2d, per week thereafter01 | + | |
Now that the confusion into which the Library had been allowed to lapse has been straightened outs it is hoped that sustained interest in our Library will be renewed. | Now that the confusion into which the Library had been allowed to lapse has been straightened outs it is hoped that sustained interest in our Library will be renewed. | ||
- | ADDITIONS TO LIBRABY | + | ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY |
The following books have been donat,•e Mrs. J. Morris :- | The following books have been donat,•e Mrs. J. Morris :- |
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