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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | **THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER** |
A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, | ||
The N.S.W. Nurses' | The N.S.W. Nurses' | ||
- | Phone 0'1462. | + | Phone JW1462. |
- | 303 MARCH 1960 Price 1/- | + | **303 MARCH 1960 Price 1/-** |
- | Editor: Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. | + | |**Editor** | Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. WJ3514| |
- | Reproduction: Eileen Taylor | + | |**Reproduction**| Eileen Taylor |
- | Sales & Subs.: Audrey Kenway | + | |**Sales & Subs.**| Audrey Kenway |
- | Business Manager: Brian Harvey | + | |**Business Manager**| Brian Harvey |
- | Typed by Jean Harvey | + | |**Typed** | Jean Harvey |
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Contents ===== | ||
- | CONTENTS | ||
- | Direction Finding - Pisces | + | |Direction Finding - Pisces |
- | At Our February Meeting | + | |At Our February Meeting |
- | Easter Trip 1960 - Warrumbungle Ranges - David Ingram 4 | + | |Easter Trip 1960 - Warrumbungle Ranges - David Ingram| 4| |
- | Yosemite Valley - Keith Renwick 5 | + | |Yosemite Valley - Keith Renwick| 5| |
- | Hatswell' | + | |Hatswell' |
- | The New Zealand Expedition '59-60 - R.A. Duncan 10 | + | |The New Zealand Expedition '59-60 - R.A. Duncan |
- | Sanitarium Health Food Advertisement 11 | + | |Sanitarium Health Food Advertisement |
- | Annual Swimming Carnival 1960 - Brian Harvey 14 | + | |Annual Swimming Carnival 1960 - Brian Harvey |
- | Walking Guide 15 | + | |Walking Guide |15| |
- | Kowmung Capers - Carl Doherty | + | |Kowmung Capers - Carl Doherty |
- | Editorial 20 | + | |Editorial |
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+ | ===== Direction Finding ===== | ||
- | DIRECTION FINDING | ||
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- | **AT OUR FEBRUARY MEETING** | + | ===== At Our February Meeting ===== |
Alex Colley. | Alex Colley. | ||
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In correspondence was a letter from Jim Hooper asking what had happened to our Chronic Opera Company. Why no operas? In reply, Jim brown said the discontinuance had been deliberate. Operas had become harder to arrange and the audience more critical. It had been said that the presentation of operas at reunions was taking away the need for other people to put on entertainment, | In correspondence was a letter from Jim Hooper asking what had happened to our Chronic Opera Company. Why no operas? In reply, Jim brown said the discontinuance had been deliberate. Operas had become harder to arrange and the audience more critical. It had been said that the presentation of operas at reunions was taking away the need for other people to put on entertainment, | ||
- | The Treasurer' | + | The Treasurer' |
The Social Secretary reminded us of the members' | The Social Secretary reminded us of the members' | ||
- | In his walks report, the Walks Secretary told us that 32 members and 38 children, including two two-year old nudists, had enjoyed the childrens' Christmas Treat near Waterfall. Brian Harvey' | + | In his walks report, the Walks Secretary told us that 32 members and 38 children, including two two-year old nudists, had enjoyed the children's Christmas Treat near Waterfall. Brian Harvey' |
Federation Report initiated a discussion on an accident fund. Federation had rejected the Robinson and Mitchell Insurance scheme, but had discussed the creation of a Federation fund, to be raised by a levy from members, and paid out to deserving cases by the trustees of the fund. Arbitrators were to be appointed to decide to whom and how much. | Federation Report initiated a discussion on an accident fund. Federation had rejected the Robinson and Mitchell Insurance scheme, but had discussed the creation of a Federation fund, to be raised by a levy from members, and paid out to deserving cases by the trustees of the fund. Arbitrators were to be appointed to decide to whom and how much. | ||
- | Wilf Hilder was afraid that, secure in the knowledge that Federation would pay, people might get helicopter' | + | Wilf Hilder was afraid that, secure in the knowledge that Federation would pay, people might get helicopter' |
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- | pay 500 out of a fund itAdn't have Colin Putt said that this was not the idea of the fund. It was to *axpserve | + | |
- | WaSi: | + | |
- | pen He thought | + | |
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- | walkers | + | |
- | Fe would have no trouble: | + | |
From the debate there emerged a motion that the Club was in favour of Federation continuing its investigations. Second motion was carried asking the Federation also to consider the alternative of raising a fund, to be subscribed voluntarily, | From the debate there emerged a motion that the Club was in favour of Federation continuing its investigations. Second motion was carried asking the Federation also to consider the alternative of raising a fund, to be subscribed voluntarily, | ||
- | Next we appointed a reunion sub-committee consisting of Edna Stretton (transport organiser), Kevin Dean, Colin Putt, Drn French, Don Matthews, John White, Bill Ketas and Eileen Taylor. Colin was appointed convenor. | + | Next we appointed a reunion sub-committee consisting of Edna Stretton (transport organiser), Kevin Dean, Colin Putt, Ern French, Don Matthews, John White, Bill Ketas and Eileen Taylor. Colin was appointed convenor. |
- | Room stewards for the month were Len Young, Brian Harvey, Bill Ketas and Alex Colley. | + | Room stewards for the month were Len Young, Brian Harvey, Bill Ketas and Alex Colley. A motion for the purchase of a slide viewer was lost, and the meeting ended with the good news from the Treasurer that our rent for the next month was in hand. |
- | A motion for the purchase of a slide viewer was lost, and the meeting ended with the good news from the Treasurer that our rent for the next month was in hand. | + | |
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+ | ===== The Weight of the Years ===== | ||
- | ** | ||
- | THE WEIGHT OF THE YEARS** | ||
BIG H. | BIG H. | ||
- | If the retiring Committee has lacked in anything, they certainly have not been lacking in bushwalklng | + | If the retiring Committee has lacked in anything, they certainly have not been lacking in bushwalking |
- | SOCIAL iarES2. | ||
- | - Edna Garrad. | ||
- | On the 23rd March Palmer Ken-b will be talking to us about Japan, As previously mentioned in this magazine, Palmer was in Japan during the typhoon last year and was previously in Japan in 1932, when he did a walking trip, staying in out-of-the-way inns, etc. He is an excellent lecturer as We 'lmow from past ' | + | ===== Social Notes ===== |
- | March 30th is Members' | + | |
- | ELSTER TRIP.' 1960; - | + | |
- | or. ,, | + | |
- | 1 . . | + | |
- | InE,raM | + | |
- | In his.:Bbok The Face of ustralia Char les: | + | |
- | , | + | |
- | ways to the Glass House Mountains are the ', | + | |
- | north central N.S.W. Both are prominent fec-ltui;cs i u e resent ' | + | |
- | From a distance they appear as a number Of isolated -o-e6.. -On ap-proa,ch more and | + | |
- | . . | + | |
- | more are seen above the horizon, until' at last' all are Merged int,O.a ru,sted mass of | + | |
- | - | + | |
- | mountains rising from 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the general level of..the country. The ,jagged siVline of the mountains is clean cut in the Clear inlar air, ,r1,sing in conical.-/p eaks or s-banding out as vertical needle-like monoliths above the grey green of the wooded heights. Here and -there are the lines of deep ' | + | |
- | The Waxrumbungle -peaks are the renanants-of true volcanoes. It is hard., to- say. just vb y eruptions on each a-scale should haVe occurred in this particular region.. The underlying rocks here are sandstones laid doWn ih a' gig anti d lake 'which filled the centre of Australia 150 million years ago,. The sandstones have lain virtual.-undistu rbed ever since, and beyond a slight uplift there have been no major disturb ances of the earth' | + | |
- | It is . | + | |
- | not known how many individual volcanoes ' | + | |
- | . . | + | |
- | many large as well as innumerable smaller centres oCel4uption. The main craters have long since disappeared, | + | |
- | , Most of the higher peal, are conviosed of such -.3iIIa rs or are calpl ped-by the | + | |
- | remnants of the harder lava-flows. Two of them, Lobara and h Peak, are ezch 4,000 -. | + | |
- | feet high, and stand like sentinals on either side of the gorr.:e in which the infant, stream of the Castlereagh first sees the light. ' | + | |
- | 5. | + | |
- | The usual time to visit this range is during the August school holidays. But there are some members who cannot get away at that time. Easter is late in the | + | |
- | season this year and this presents an opportunity to visit this area without experiencing extremes of temperature. (Possible daytime maximum 80 degrees with minimum around 50 degrees.) | + | |
- | For some years Frank Leyden took Easter trips into this area approaching from Gulargambone to the west of the ranges. The present approach will be from Coonabara- | + | |
- | bran, -where improved train services and a good selection of public hire vehicles mill, it is hoped, ensure prompt arrival right in the ranges. The walking is not, generally | + | |
- | as strenuous as in the "Big Blue Hancly Nbuntains" | + | |
- | walking will be with light packs only. | + | |
- | Coonabarabran is 315 miles north-west by rail and the train usually leaves Central at 10.0 p m. due at Coonabarabran at Noon the following day. The fare will be just over L5.O.0 return, unless party concession rates can be obtained. Taxi fares from and back to Coonabarabran should cost about 21 each. The return train leaves Coonabarabran at 4,35 p m. on Easter Monday due Sydney at about 5.30 a m. the following day. | + | Edna Garrad |
- | So now you have most of the essential details. | + | |
- | Interested? Then come along: | + | |
+ | On the 23rd March Palmer Kent will be talking to us about Japan, As previously mentioned in this magazine, Palmer was in Japan during the typhoon last year and was previously in Japan in 1932, when he did a walking trip, staying in out-of-the-way inns, etc. He is an excellent lecturer as we know from past experience and this should be a very entertaining night. | ||
- | YOSEIVEITE 1/7'ILLL-TY | + | March 30th is Members' |
- | - Keith Renwick. | + | |
- | Situated inland from the South-west coastline of U.S.A. is a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada. In this range, south east of San Francisco, is a very spectacular granite gorge known as Yosemite Valley, which is one of the U.S.A' | + | |
- | The drive from San Francisco to Merced township is through a wide, fiat, dusty valley which is irrigated with water from the mountains and whidh is the centre of a very large fruit industry, Near Merced is a big airforce base, and every so often | + | ===== Easter Trip 1960 Warrumbungle Ranges ===== |
- | one of those really big 8 jet bombers would come in low over the bus station on their way in to land. They sure look impressive things in flight. They have two enormous bogies with at least 8 wheels on each mounted underneath. One came in about every quarter of an hour. | + | |
- | At Merced you change from the Greyhound bus lines to another line which runs into the valley, about 90 miles east by road. You are climbinE | + | David Ingram |
- | - floor is at 4,000 feet, up a narrow river gorge, which has reddish soil and sparsely scattered scrubby bush giving it much of the appearance of a lot of the country in Australia. There are also very many Eucalyptus trees, which were introduced from here | + | |
- | in the gold rush days of last century and have since Tread all over California. | + | In his book The Face of Australia Charles F Laseron says :" |
- | We entered the valley proper just at sunset and stopped by a very- beautiful still lake in the river which reflected the red tinged granite mails to nerfection. | + | |
- | 6. | + | From a distance they appear as a number of isolated peaks. On approach more and more are seen above the horizon, until at last all are merged into a rugged mass of mountains rising from 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the general level of the country. The jagged skyline of the mountains is clean cut in the clear inland air rising in conical peaks or standing out as vertical needle like monoliths above the grey green of the wooded heights. Here and there are the lines of deep ' |
- | After a brief visit to the Ranger' | + | |
- | . They usually feed in the evening but, contrary to popular belief, the staple | + | The Warrumbungle peaks are the remnants of true volcanoes. It is hard to say. just why eruptions on each a scale should have occurred in this particular region. The underlying rocks here are sandstones laid down in a gigantic lake which filled the centre of Australia 150 million years ago. The sandstones have lain virtually undisturbed ever since, and beyond a slight uplift there have been no major disturbances of the earth' |
- | diet of bears is not tourists. However, they are not a)ove collectinE | + | |
- | now and then, when the tourists offer themselves. Their main diet. consists of berries | + | It is not known how many individual volcanoes there were. There must have been many large as well as innumerable smaller centres eruption. The main craters have long since disappeared, |
- | and. fish, but they hang arcurd | + | |
- | law to feed the animals (bears and deer mainly) because they come to de, | + | Most of the higher peal, are composed of such pillars or are capped by the remnants of the harder lava-flows. Two of them, Lobara and High Peak, are each 4,000 feet high, and stand like sentinals on either side of the gorge in which the infant stream of the Castlereagh first sees the light. About seven miles to the west of these is the highest point of all, Mt. Wambelong, 4,200 feet, but the more spectacular is The Needle, 3,900 feet, a giant monolith, its topmost thousand feet a nearly vertical rock." |
- | and starve when the tourists aren't there to feed them. Also., the bears :et a little obstreperous when people stop feeding them - gosh, it takes a lot to fill a bear - this has been when most all of the accidentshave | + | |
- | . They don't normally bother people but come around to see what food they can get; so that the important thing is to heap food out of your tent altogether and string it up a stree when not in use. So this I did in a large plastic bag. It was suspended a | + | The usual time to visit this range is during the August school holidays. But there are some members who cannot get away at that time. Easter is late in the season this year and this presents an opportunity to visit this area without experiencing extremes of temperature. (Possible daytime maximum 80 degrees with minimum around 50 degrees.) |
- | foot or two below the branch, and about 12 or 15 feet above the ground. Also, you put it a long way oat on a branch away from the trunk because bears can climb trees. The standard method of chasing them away is to bang on a billy with a spoon or in some | + | |
- | other may make a lot of noise. | + | For some years Frank Leyden took Easter trips into this area approaching from Gulargambone to the west of the ranges. The present approach will be from Coonabarabran, |
- | Right. I put my tent up and then one of the " | + | |
- | have been fatal - they say - but she fortunately changed her mind about 8 or 10 ft. | + | Coonabarabran is 315 miles north-west by rail and the train usually leaves Central at 10.0 pm. due at Coonabarabran at Noon the following day. The fare will be just over L5.O.0 return, unless party concession rates can be obtained. Taxi fares from and back to Coonabarabran should cost about L1 each. The return train leaves Coonabarabran at 4,35 pm. on Easter Monday due Sydney at about 5.30 a m. the following day. |
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+ | So now you have most of the essential details. Interested? Then come along. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Yosemite Valley ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Keith Renwick. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | Situated inland from the South-west coastline of U.S.A. is a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada. In this range, south east of San Francisco, is a very spectacular granite gorge known as Yosemite Valley, which is one of the U.S.A' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The drive from San Francisco to Merced township is through a wide, fiat, dusty valley which is irrigated with water from the mountains and which is the centre of a very large fruit industry, Near Merced is a big airforce base, and every so often one of those really big 8 jet bombers would come in low over the bus station on their way in to land. They sure look impressive things in flight. They have two enormous bogies with at least 8 wheels on each mounted underneath. One came in about every quarter of an hour. | ||
+ | |||
+ | At Merced you change from the Greyhound bus lines to another line which runs into the valley, about 90 miles east by road. You are climbing | ||
+ | |||
+ | We entered the valley proper just at sunset and stopped by a very beautiful still lake in the river which reflected the red tinged granite mails to perfection. After a brief visit to the Ranger' | ||
+ | |||
+ | They usually feed in the evening but, contrary to popular belief, the staple diet of bears is not tourists. However, they are not above collecting | ||
+ | and starve when the tourists aren't there to feed them. Also, the bears get a little obstreperous when people stop feeding them - gosh, it takes a lot to fill a bear - this has been when most all of the accidents have occurred. | ||
+ | |||
+ | They don't normally bother people but come around to see what food they can get; so that the important thing is to keep food out of your tent altogether and string it up a tree when not in use. So this I did in a large plastic bag. It was suspended a foot or two below the branch, and about 12 or 15 feet above the ground. Also, you put it a long way out on a branch away from the trunk because bears can climb trees. The standard method of chasing them away is to bang on a billy with a spoon or in some other may make a lot of noise. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Right. I put my tent up and then one of the " | ||
away and veered off. Just before I changed my mind about running! She was only about 20 feet away when she started. | away and veered off. Just before I changed my mind about running! She was only about 20 feet away when she started. | ||
- | I then went down to the Lodge cafeteria for dinner. | + | |
- | During the night the bears were around again and trip? | + | I then went down to the Lodge cafeteria for dinner. During the night the bears were around again and tripped |
- | round the hut at Lake Louise to dispute territorial | + | |
- | wandered among the Autumn leaves. It was obvious from the steady increase in volume that they were headed this may and ,L lay wondering what they were up to this time. They | + | From all the excitement that was going on, I didn't feel disposed to disputing the claim and in the morning I was 4lb. apples, 21b. sugar, |
- | weren' | + | |
- | ently there was a large plop and clatter, followed by very excited squeals, grunts and ,growls. | + | Yosemite Valley is a narrow, granite gorge 2,000 to 3,000 feet deep, cut by the action of the Merced River and glaciers over a long period of time as the granite mass rose. It is about 7,000 ft. above sea level at the rim and from the bottom you think that this must surely be the top, but no, the head of the valley is backed up by another 7,000 ft. of mountains (not visible from valley) rising in all to nearly 14,000 ft. in the high Sierra Nevada. Just south of the Yosemite area is Mt. Whitney, 14,400 ft., the highest mountain in the main body of U.S.A. While on the other side is Death Valley, which is 270 ft. below sea level. |
- | From all the excitement that was going on, I didn't feel disposed to disputing | + | |
- | 1 | + | The following day dawned fine and clear again so this time I walked up one arm of the Y-shaped valley to Mirror Lake. It was so flat and smooth that it makes you scared to toss a stone in in case there is a clatter of glass. It was here that I first met two young Americans, Aileen and Albert, who had come up by car. I then walked back down to the junction and up the other arm to the end of the road where I stopped for lunch (llbs. of magnificent grapes at 1/3d. lb.). |
- | the claim and in the morning I was 4 lb. apples, 21b. sugar, | + | |
- | 7. | + | I met Aileen and Albert here again and also some other young Americans arrived. Americans are really and truly tied to their cars. I've seen people spend an extra 5 or 10 minutes trying to park their cars just so they don't have to walk 100 yards. At this beautiful and magnificent spot called Happy Isles some were even too lazy to get out of their cars. Now, from the end of the road up to a bridge which looked up river to Vernal Falls, one of the sights of the valley, it was 0.8 of a mile (1400 yards). |
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+ | I sat munching grapes and listening for awhile to various groups discussing the merits of this tremendous undertaking. Some said it was too far - they got back in their cars. The others set off. Presently one group returned complaining bitterly it was much too difficult and too far. Soon after the rest returned having reached the bridge. It was a wonderful view, but they were so stiff and sore (for 3 days after) | ||
+ | that you'd have thought they wouldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | I wandered up by myself after lunch and found the track very nearly wide enough far a jeep, and uphill with a grade of perhaps 1 in 10. Actually, in all due fairness, I must say that I did meet a couple of old people stepping it out up the track on my way down. I went a long way up past this bridge to the top of Vernal Falls to get a view up to Nevada Falls. Both were very good, being very wide and 300 ft. and 480 ft. high respectively. | ||
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+ | After tea and a film night at the Lodge I went up the road a bit to see the Fire fall from Glacier Point. Glacier Point is one of the best viewpoints in the valley so there is a road up to it and a hotel on top. Near to the edge they make a big fire of bark embers till they get red hot. They they are allowed to cascade over the edge to the valley below. A free fall of 1000 ft. or so: This they put on every night in the tourist season and three times a week in off periods. | ||
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+ | Thursday, again in magnificent weather, I climbed up to Glacier Point, a bit over 3000 ft. from the valley floor. Needless to say I had the track to myself although the point was crowded with dozens of people all trying to get out of the bitterly cold wind blowing straight off the snowy Sierra Nevada. | ||
+ | Yosemite Valley really is a wonderful place, every bit as good as they say. There are lots of wonderful things to see even apart from the valley itself (such as the high Sierra and the giant Sequoi trees) but you need a car to get anywhere near them. The road crosses right over the range at just under 10,000 ft. | ||
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+ | Late September, nearly October, is probably the best time to visit the place as it's terribly hot in summer and shockingly crowded. They have 315,000 motor cars enter the park each year and 1,000,000 camper days. In a small narrow valley this must be hell. In spite of this it is surprising how the valley has retained most of its natural beauty, and shows little sign of wear. Then of course there is skiing in the high country in winter. But then I guess that the park is not really subjected to much wear - more than 100 yards from the roads. | ||
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+ | The types of people you get visiting these, park cover just about all sorts. You wouldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | But the real classic came when Aileen and Albert were checking in at the Lodge. A really typical American tourist man and his wife sauntered in and up to the desk. During the usual palava that goes on in booking into a hotel, the wife pipes up in broad American drawl "Say, why don't youse people round here make your road signs a bit clearer. We came to one (under a cliff face) Which said - watch far falling rocks - well, we waited there 45 minutes and didn't see nothing happen." | ||
- | the less. They really cleaned the larder out, and into the bargain I got a claw hole in my plate and billy, just as through a bullet had gone through. I cleaned 1.17) the mess, had brea1fa9t, and as it was a beautiful fine day decided to make the most of it and set off up the Four mile track to Union Point, almost at the valley rim. | ||
- | Yosemite Valley is a narrow, granite gorge 2,000 to 3,000 feet deep, cut by the action of the Merced River and glaciers over a long -oeriod of time as the granite | ||
- | mass rose. It is about 7,000 ft. above sea level at the rim and from the bottom ycu think that this must surely be the top, but no, the head of the valley is backed up by another 7,000 ft. of mountains (not visible from valley) rising in all to nearly 14,000 ft. in the high Sierra Nevada. Just south of the Yosemite area is Et. Whitney, 14,400 ft., the highest mountain in the main body of U.S.A. While on the other side is Death Valley, which is 270 ft. below sea level. | ||
- | The following day dawned fine and clear again so this time I walked up one arm of the Y-shaped valley to Mirror Lake. It was so flat and smooth that it makes you | ||
- | scared to toss a stone in in case there is a clatter of glass. It was here that I | ||
- | first met two young Americans, Aileen and Albert, who had cone up by car. I then | ||
- | walked back down to the junction and up the other arm to the end of the road where I stopped for lungh (li lbs. of magnificent grapes at 1/3d. lb.). | ||
- | I met Aileen and Albert here again and also some other young Americans arrived. Americans are really and truly tied to their cars. I've seen people spend an extra | ||
- | 5 or 10 minutes trying to park their cars just so they don't have to walk 100 yards. At this beautiful and magnificent spot called Happy Isles some were even too lazy to | ||
- | The Harbour Bridge Opal Cutters, Give us a ring XB6476 (Business) | ||
- | 45 Broughton Street, )01768 (Home) Eirribilli. | ||
- | (2 doors from the big Kirribilli Hotel.) | ||
- | IOur hours are only:- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 11 - Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays by special arrangement. | ||
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- | get out of their cars. Now, from the end of the road up to a bride w'Ach lo67.7ed up river to Vernal Falls, one of the sights of the valley, it was 0.8 of a mile (1400 - yards). | ||
- | sat munching grapes and listening for awhile to various groups discus sin the | ||
- | merits of this tremendous undertaking. Some said it was too far - they got back in | ||
- | their cars. The others set off. Presently one group returned complaining bitterly it was much too difficult and too far. Soon after the rest returned having reached the | ||
- | bridge. It was a wonderful view, but they were so stiff and sore (far 3 days after) | ||
- | that you'd have thought they wouldn' | ||
- | I wandered up by myself after lunch and found the track very nearly-vide enough far a jeep, and uphill with a grade of perhaps 1 in 10. Actually, in all due fairness, I must say that I did meet a couple of old people stepping it out up the track on my | ||
- | way dawn. I went a long' | ||
- | After tea and a film night at the Lodge I vent up the road a bit to see the Fire | ||
- | fall from Glacier Point. Glacier Point is one of the best viewpoints in the valley so there is a road up to it and a Hotel on top. Near to the edge they mae. a big fire of bark embers till,they get red hot. They they are allowed to cascade over the edge to the valley below. A free fall of 1000 ft. or SD: This they put on every night in the tourist season and three times a week in off periods. | ||
- | . Thursday, again in magnificient weather, I climbed up to.Clacier Point, a bit | ||
- | over 3000 ft. from the valley floor. Needless to say I had the track to myself although the point was crowded with dozens of people all trying to get out of the bitterly cold wind blowing straight off the snowy Sierra Nevada. | ||
- | Yosemite Valley really is a wonderful place, every bit as good as the say. There are lots of wonderful things to see even apart from the valley itself (such as the high Sierra and the giant Sequoi trees) but you need a car to get anywhere near | ||
- | them. The road crosses right over the range at just under 10,000 ft. | ||
- | Late SepteMber, nearly October, is probably the best time to visit the ?lace as it's terribly hot in summer and shockingly crowded. They have 315,000 motor cars | ||
- | enter the park each year and 1,000,000 camper days. In a small narrow valley this must be hell. In spite of th16 it is surprising how the valley has retained most of | ||
- | its natural beauty, and Shows little sign of wear. Then of course there is skiing in the high country in winter. But then I guess that the park is not really subjected to much wear - more than 100 yards from the road' | ||
- | The types of people you iet visiting these, park cover just about all sorts. You | ||
- | wouldn' | ||
- | no television! | ||
- | But the real classic came lithen Aileen and Albert were checking in at the Lodge. A really typical American tourist man and his wife sauntered in and up to the desk. During the usual palava that goes on in booking into a hotel, the wife pipes up in | ||
- | broad American drawl "Say, why don't youse people round here make your road signs a bit clearer. We came to one (under a cliff face) Which said - watch far falling rocks - well, we waited there 45 minutes and didn't see nothing ha-open:" | ||
Nothing much has been heard of Frank Rigby' | Nothing much has been heard of Frank Rigby' | ||
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Full house for the B.P. Antarctic film, and for Bob Savage' | Full house for the B.P. Antarctic film, and for Bob Savage' | ||
- | The S. & R. Weekend on the Colo went off with a bang (in fact, with several bangs); Features included a searching aeroplane and demonstration by underwater cave explorers and by rock climbers. | + | The S. & R. Weekend on the Colo went off with a bang (in fact, with several bangs). Features included a searching aeroplane and demonstration by underwater cave explorers and by rock climbers. About 120 people attended. This deserves to be fully written up. Any volunteers? |
- | About 120 people attended. | + | |
- | This deserves to be fully written up. Any volunteers? | + | |
Interesting reading: | Interesting reading: | ||
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- | "The Melbourne Walker 1960" - Annual Journal of the Melbourne | + | |
- | Both available from Paddy. | + | |
- | THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION | + | ===== The New Zealand Expedition |
As recorded by Duncan. | As recorded by Duncan. | ||
- | If anyone read the last issue they will remember that Dot Butler left them with the information that we were at Glenorchy whence we had travelled by steamer up Lake Wakatipu. Two rivers flow into the heact' | ||
- | We started | + | If anyone read the last issue they will remember that Dot Butler left them with the information that we were at Glenorchy whence we had travelled by steamer |
- | Heather Joyce later caught a young duckling in the grass. By midday we reached 25 milehut, opposite the glaciers of Mt. Earnslaw, but not everybody noticed the hut so Dot spent the rest of the afternoon herding back the people who had walked on too far. | + | We started up the wide flat Rees Valley on the first day, flushing Paradise Ducks from the lush green pasture, left, right and centre. These critters, like many N.Z. birds, are only half afraid of man and flapped around us honking and squawking. |
- | Male coming up the valley we had met some N.Z. Alpine Club bods going out from a big Christmas camp. " | + | While coming up the valley we had met some N.Z. Alpine Club bods going out from a big Christmas camp. " |
- | and you will find delicious meat underneath" | + | |
- | many of the crawlers and by the time the hut was rean ed the venison looked, to those of us Who had seen it in its prime, much more presentable. It still moved those beholding it for the first time to derisive abuse however. But now another brave warrior came forward - Heather Joyce attacked the thing with a sharp knife and mined out good meat which she cut into thin slices and fried in butter. It was delicious: As I write this I savour it once more in remembrance and cannot | + | |
- | Twenty five mile hut lies in the afternoon Shadow of the towering 9000' | + | |
- | Et. Earnslaw on the other side of the valley, and the next day, the second of the trip, we crossed the lush river valley, climbed up through the beech forest, climbed up | + | |
- | through the snow grass, and then up through the snow to Esquilant bivvy in a saddle | + | |
- | between the final steep summit of Earnslaw and a satellite peak, Leary. Esquilant bivvy is named after Bert Esquilant who made the first, and with Dot Butler the second,, ascent of Earnslaw, doing a grand traverse from the East to West peak: | + | |
- | of the present bivvy. It was close to sundown when we reached the saddle and we found | + | |
- | it to be swept by a howling gale but we settled into the bivvy, which is little more than a double bunk enclosed in corrugated iron, had tea, and hoped that the morning would be calmer. | + | |
+ | Twenty five mile hut lies in the afternoon shadow of the towering 9000' Mt. Earnslaw on the other side of the valley, and the next day, the second of the trip, we crossed the lush river valley, climbed up through the beech forest, climbed up through the snow grass, and then up through the snow to Esquilant bivvy in a saddle between the final steep summit of Earnslaw and a satellite peak, Leary. Esquilant bivvy is named after Bert Esquilant who made the first, and with Dot Butler the second, ascent of Earnslaw, doing a grand traverse from the East to West peak without the aid of the present bivvy. It was close to sundown when we reached the saddle and we found it to be swept by a howling gale but we settled into the bivvy, which is little more than a double bunk enclosed in corrugated iron, had tea, and hoped that the morning would be calmer. | ||
- | The next morning, the third day, was calmer with a clear blue sky. We were up at six and Dot, Rona , Colin Ferguson, and I roped up and began the final 2000' | + | The next morning, the third day, was calmer with a clear blue sky. We were up at six and Dot, Rona , Colin Ferguson, and I roped up and began the final 2000' |
- | 25 mile hut. Here we met two native New Zealanders, Ian and Alby, who planned to wal up the Rees and back down the Dart. This decided us; we would do the same. | + | |
- | The fourth day dawned fine and warm and we set off up the Rees. The valley climbed steadily and we made our way up through beech forest and grassy flats. We took things easily, lunching from 10.30 a m. till 2.30 p m. but by early afternoon came to some rocky rapids up which we waded coming out to the snow grassed head cirqu of the valley. We made camp here, some of us walking up to the rim of the cirque withoLzt our packs to gaze dawn into Snowy Creek, a tributary of the Dart, and the sna capped peaks beyond. | + | |
- | Picking up our packs on the fifth day we climbed on to the saddle. We had planned to climb a peak before walking down Snowy Creek to Dart hut at the Snowy-Dart junction, but the weather turned black and we proceeded directly to the hut in light | + | |
- | .rain and with much grumbling. We crossed the fierce Snowy Creel: on an exciting | + | The fourth day dawned fine and warm and we set off up the Rees. The valley |
- | suspension bridge and reached the hut for lunch, | + | |
- | changed completely. The Dart became a valley | + | |
- | of magnificent ice peaks, Maori, Liverpool | + | |
- | and there was another mighty view. It was a steady climb up the Dart side to the saddle but from there it dropped almost a sheer 3 or 4,000' | + | |
- | After a night' | + | Picking up our packs on the fifth day we climbed on to the saddle. We had planned to climb a peak before walking down Snowy Creek to Dart hut at the Snowy-Dart junction, but the weather turned black and we proceeded directly to the hut in light rain and with much grumbling. We crossed |
- | -thuJ rob the deer-culler | + | |
- | The sand flies at Dredge | + | After a night' |
- | got back to Glenorday. Alby decided to go to Auckland | + | |
+ | The sand flies at Dredge Hut were terrible and we were glad to leave the place and head downstream again next morning. That night, the seventh, we camped at Chinaman' | ||
+ | Ian had decided to come with us to the Mt. Cook area when we got back to Glenorchy. Alby decided to go to Auckland and get married. Alby was quiet mannered, but he was frequently inwardly amused by things said or done by other members of the party. On such occasions he would laugh quietly to himself with a series of high pitched ha ha ha ha, the ha's coming explosively but very slowly and well separated like the tocks of a grandfather clock. This would go on for what seemed an age but would finally be terminated by a half-sighed half-sung "Oh dear". This performance, | ||
- | The next morning we walked the last few miles to Paradise, took a last look back past the white-faced | + | The next morning we walked the last few miles to Paradise, took a last look back past the white-faced |
- | ANNUAL SWIMMING CARNIVAL | + | ===== Annual Swimming Carnival |
- | - Brian Harvey, | + | |
- | T | + | |
- | he attendance this year was below that of the previous two years, but no doubt the threat of rain on the Saturday discouraged some from donning their packs. Again, heavy rain in the city overnight did nothing to help, yet in spite of it twenty-one adults, accompanied by eleven children put in an appearance on Sunday; but alas most were either too young or too aged or too decrepit to race: There was a dearth of lady starters, which proved that the men were not afraid of dissolving in the rain. Sunday proved dry, until a beau-b thunderstorm about 4 p m. Total attendance was 32 bods with 13 children. Two pounds of peanuts were consumed. | + | |
- | THE RESULTS. | + | Brian Harvey |
- | .4EN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: | + | |
- | 3 Kevin Dean | + | |
+ | The attendance this year was below that of the previous two years, but no doubt the threat of rain on the Saturday discouraged some from donning their packs. Again, heavy rain in the city overnight did nothing to help, yet in spite of it twenty-one adults, accompanied by eleven children put in an appearance on Sunday; but alas most were either too young or too aged or too decrepit to race. There was a dearth of lady starters, which proved that the men were not afraid of dissolving in the rain. Sunday proved dry, until a beaut thunderstorm about 4 p m. Total attendance was 32 bods with 13 children. Two pounds of peanuts were consumed. | ||
- | LADIES' | ||
- | HEN'S BREASTSTROKE: | ||
- | LADIES' | ||
- | NEWS LOM PLUNGE: LADIES' | ||
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- | MAIDELBERG CUP: | ||
- | MM1ORIAL CUP:.1 Nan Bourke | ||
- | 1 Eric Adcock | ||
- | 1 Nan Bourke 1 Bob Godfrey 1 Nan Bourke | ||
- | 1 Kevin Dean Nola Liver | ||
- | 1 Nan Bourke 9 points | ||
- | 2 No starter 2 Roy Craggs | ||
- | 2 Lola Nedlock 2 Eric dcock 2 No starter | ||
- | 2 Bruce McInnes | ||
- | Jean Harvey | ||
- | 3 No starter | ||
- | 3 Bruce McInnes 3 Nola Liver 3 Brian Harvey 3 No starter | ||
- | 3 Jack Gentle | ||
- | Lola Wedlock | ||
- | 2 Eric Adcock 3 Bob Godfrey 61- points 412 points | ||
+ | THE RESULTS. | ||
- | EROSION IN THE ALPS. | + | MEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: |
+ | LADIES' | ||
+ | MEN'S BREASTSTROKE: | ||
+ | LADIES' | ||
+ | MENS LONG PLUNGE: | ||
+ | LADIES' | ||
+ | MANDELBERG CUP:1 Kevin Dean Nola Liver 2 Bruce McInnes Jean Harvey 3 Jack Gentle Lola Wedlock | ||
+ | HENLY MEMORIAL CUP: 1 Nan Bourke 9 points 2 Eric Adcock 6.5 points 3 Bob Godfrey 4.5 points | ||
- | The National Parks Association wants information about erosion being caused by jeep tracks along a power line at Kosciusko. If any reader intends walld_ng in the area during the next twelve months, and would be prepared to walk along | ||
- | one of the tracks and report on it, please contact Tom Moppett (JA8873) some weeks before the trip. He will give details of' the information wanted. | ||
+ | **EROSION IN THE ALPS** | ||
+ | The National Parks Association wants information about erosion being caused by jeep tracks along a power line at Kosciusko. If any reader intends walking in the area during the next twelve months, and would be prepared to walk along one of the tracks and report on it, please contact Tom Moppett (JA8873) some weeks before the trip. He will give details of' the information wanted. | ||
- | IN MEMORY OF MIKE PERYMAN | ||
- | "There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter And lit by the rich sides, all day. And after, Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance And wandering loveliness; He leaves a white Unbroken | + | **IN MEMORY OF MIKE PERYMAN** |
- | A width, a shining peace, under the night." | + | |
+ | "There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter | ||
+ | And lit by the rich sides, all day. And after, | ||
+ | Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance \\ | ||
+ | And wandering loveliness; He leaves a white unbroken | ||
+ | A width, a shining peace, under the night." | ||
- Rupert Brooke. | - Rupert Brooke. | ||
- | WALKING GUIDE. | + | |
- | MARCH 25-26-27 Car to MacDonald River - Et. Yengo rettron | + | ===== Walking Guide ===== |
- | For an account, by Jim Brown of a rc.,, | + | |
- | area not often visited. Extensive views of the flo rthern 3lue | + | ** |
- | Mountains. 10 days notice required. | + | MARCH 25-26-27** |
+ | Car to MacDonald River - Mt. Yengo return | ||
+ | For an account, by Jim Brown of a recent | ||
Leader: Jim Brown B0543, act. 299. | Leader: Jim Brown B0543, act. 299. | ||
- | 15. | + | |
- | MARCH 26-27 | + | **MARCH 26-27 APRIL 1 -** |
- | APRIL 1 - | + | |
Instructional Weekend. | Instructional Weekend. | ||
Berowra - Joe Crafts Creek - Cowan. | Berowra - Joe Crafts Creek - Cowan. | ||
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Leader: Alex Colley JJ2707. | Leader: Alex Colley JJ2707. | ||
- | Yalwal Yalwal Headwaters - Bunbunda Creek Maps: Yalwal and Tianjara Military. Transport: See leader | + | Yalwal Yalwal Headwaters - Bunbunda Creek |
- | Explorat cry trip including rock hopping, scrambling. River gorge scenery. | + | Maps: Yalwal and Tianjara Military. |
+ | Transport: See leader | ||
+ | Exploratory | ||
Car to Yalwal, round trip return to Yalwal. | Car to Yalwal, round trip return to Yalwal. | ||
- | Leader: Colin -Putt JU3218 | + | Leader: Colin Putt JU3218 |
- | APRIL 2-3 Federation Re-Union. | + | **APRIL 2-3** |
+ | Federation Re-Union. | ||
See Notice Board for details. | See Notice Board for details. | ||
- | APRIL 3 | + | **APRIL 3** |
Blaxland St.Helena Glenbrook | Blaxland St.Helena Glenbrook | ||
Map: Liverpool Military | Map: Liverpool Military | ||
Medium track and scrub walking. Pleasant lunch spot at St. Helena. Good area for map-reading practice. | Medium track and scrub walking. Pleasant lunch spot at St. Helena. Good area for map-reading practice. | ||
Leader: Len Fall 115959 | Leader: Len Fall 115959 | ||
- | 16. | + | |
- | APRIL 9-10 | + | |
- | APRIL 10 | + | **APRIL 9-10** |
- | WALKING GUIDE | + | |
Blackheath - Car to Perry' | Blackheath - Car to Perry' | ||
- | Map; Eatoomba | + | Map; Katoomba |
- | Limber up for Easter. Steep 2,000' drop (views of Mts. King George and Hay) into the forest famous for its stand of Blue Gums. | + | Limber up for Easter. Steep 2,000' drop (views of Mts. King George and Hay) into the forest famous for its stand of Blue Gums. Good riverside campsite. Medium climb out 2, |
- | Good riverside campsite. Medium climb out 2, | + | |
Leader: Bill Rodgers 3X3106. | Leader: Bill Rodgers 3X3106. | ||
- | Waterfall - Mt. Westmacott Myuna Creek - Heathcote Creek - Scouter' | + | |
+ | **APRIL 10** | ||
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+ | Waterfall - Mt. Westmacott | ||
Creek and ridge walking. Passes by picturesque pools of Morella Harong, Meorabinda and Miara (swimming and camping spots). | Creek and ridge walking. Passes by picturesque pools of Morella Harong, Meorabinda and Miara (swimming and camping spots). | ||
- | Maps: Port Hacking Tourist | + | Maps: Port Hacking Tourist, Military. |
- | Military. | + | |
Leader: David Ingram. | Leader: David Ingram. | ||
- | KOWMUNG CAPERS. | + | ===== Kowmung Capers ===== |
Carl Doherty. | Carl Doherty. | ||
Illustrations by Helen Barrett. | Illustrations by Helen Barrett. | ||
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- | EDITORIAL. | + | ===== Editorial ===== |
Twelve issues of "The Sydney Bushwalker" | Twelve issues of "The Sydney Bushwalker" | ||
There were times when the Editor tore his hair and wrote furiously into the night to make up a few missing pages. Then in the post would come a last minute contribution so superior that it went in instead. There were times when he pursued evasive writers around the Clubroom and even went on official walks to get " | There were times when the Editor tore his hair and wrote furiously into the night to make up a few missing pages. Then in the post would come a last minute contribution so superior that it went in instead. There were times when he pursued evasive writers around the Clubroom and even went on official walks to get " | ||
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