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- | A report was presented from a special committee gathered together for the purpose of discussing the investment of the Era Fund. The committee recommended that we use the fund for the purpose for which it was subscribed - conservation - by the purchase of an area suitable for reservation. Bluegum and Era had been preserved by this means and there were probably other suitable areas if we looked for them. There was land for sale at Yaddboro | + | A report was presented from a special committee gathered together for the purpose of discussing the investment of the Era Fund. The committee recommended that we use the fund for the purpose for which it was subscribed - conservation - by the purchase of an area suitable for reservation. Bluegum and Era had been preserved by this means and there were probably other suitable areas if we looked for them. There was land for sale at Yadboro |
The President drew our attention to the deposition of cigarette ash on the Club room despite the provision of an abundance of ashtrays (a week later a complaint re ash was made by the cleaners). | The President drew our attention to the deposition of cigarette ash on the Club room despite the provision of an abundance of ashtrays (a week later a complaint re ash was made by the cleaners). | ||
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The lost 1 1/2 hours put any thought of getting through that day quite out of reasonable reckoning, but once on the track I clung tenaciously to it, passing at 10.0 o' | The lost 1 1/2 hours put any thought of getting through that day quite out of reasonable reckoning, but once on the track I clung tenaciously to it, passing at 10.0 o' | ||
- | Yes, I clung to that track, which continued reasonably strong and clearn | + | Yes, I clung to that track, which continued reasonably strong and clear on to the ridge south of, and parallel to, the Wirraba Range: then swung more to the south, once descended obligingly to the head of a creek, climbed again on to the ridge and to my amazement - plunged right down into the bed of a creek flowing south east and began to chase it downstream. I know now that it was here I lost contact with the map. I believed I was on an unnamed stream which flows into the Wollerie about 2 1/2 miles below the junction of Putty Creek: instead it could only be Gobo Creek, which takes a much more southerly course and ultimately joins the Wollerie opposite the northern side of the Culoul Range. |
The track remained alongside the creek far over a hour, until about 3.0 o' | The track remained alongside the creek far over a hour, until about 3.0 o' | ||
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Here, at last, I mislaid the trail, which must go up and over yet another ridge, possibly over two, before coming to Wollerie Creek somewhere near Putty Creek. I can't say I regretted losing the trail. By this time I was heartily sick of its intransigence. Surely Putty stockmen must have spent years seeking the most roundabout course between Wollerie Creek and Uraterer. I went on down " | Here, at last, I mislaid the trail, which must go up and over yet another ridge, possibly over two, before coming to Wollerie Creek somewhere near Putty Creek. I can't say I regretted losing the trail. By this time I was heartily sick of its intransigence. Surely Putty stockmen must have spent years seeking the most roundabout course between Wollerie Creek and Uraterer. I went on down " | ||
- | I had never proposed to go out via Putty Volley. That would entail walking 10 miles almost north before getting out on to the Singleton Road and would place me probably 25 miles north from the car back at Culoul. My plan was to strike generally east, allow a bit of a curve north to get around a deep part of Long Wheehy | + | I had never proposed to go out via Putty Volley. That would entail walking 10 miles almost north before getting out on to the Singleton Road and would place me probably 25 miles north from the car back at Culoul. My plan was to strike generally east, allow a bit of a curve north to get around a deep part of Long Wheeny |
This was still my plot on Thursday morning, which was very misty with visibility down to 100 yards or less. Worse, the mist rose as I went up the eastern wall of Wollerie Creek on a steady grade. I kept trying to detour to the north east, each time finding the ground falling away and finally, with no view of the landscape, decided to keep going with the rise of the ground. | This was still my plot on Thursday morning, which was very misty with visibility down to 100 yards or less. Worse, the mist rose as I went up the eastern wall of Wollerie Creek on a steady grade. I kept trying to detour to the north east, each time finding the ground falling away and finally, with no view of the landscape, decided to keep going with the rise of the ground. | ||
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=====Day Walks.===== | =====Day Walks.===== | ||
- | |July 16|Palm Beach - ferry to The Basin - West Head Road - Cottage Rock - Yeoman' | + | |July 16|Palm Beach - ferry to The Basin - West Head Road - Cottage Rock - Yeoman' |
|July 23|Hornsby - bus to Crossland' | |July 23|Hornsby - bus to Crossland' | ||
|July 30|Wondabyne - Kariong - Koolewong. 10 miles. A bit early for the wildflowers which abound in this area, but the surroundings will make up for that. An excellent view from Kariong Trig. Well worth the extra rail fare. Train: 8.15 a.m. Gosford train from Central Steam Station. Tickets: Koolewong Return at 15/6d. Maps: Gosford Military or Hawkesbury River Tourist. Leader: Reg Meakins.| | |July 30|Wondabyne - Kariong - Koolewong. 10 miles. A bit early for the wildflowers which abound in this area, but the surroundings will make up for that. An excellent view from Kariong Trig. Well worth the extra rail fare. Train: 8.15 a.m. Gosford train from Central Steam Station. Tickets: Koolewong Return at 15/6d. Maps: Gosford Military or Hawkesbury River Tourist. Leader: Reg Meakins.| | ||
- | |August 6|Pymble - bus to St. Ives (Douglas Street) Bungaroo - Middle Harbour Creek - Lindfield. 11 miles. This used to be a favourite walk, but hasn't been progrmmed | + | |August 6|Pymble - bus to St. Ives (Douglas Street) Bungaroo - Middle Harbour Creek - Lindfield. 11 miles. This used to be a favourite walk, but hasn't been programmed |
|August 13|Leumeah - Bushwalkers' | |August 13|Leumeah - Bushwalkers' | ||
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201 Castlereagh St Sydney BM2685 | 201 Castlereagh St Sydney BM2685 | ||
+ | =====Letter From Dorothy Lawry In New Zealand.===== | ||
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+ | "95 St. Andrews Road, Epsom, Auckland, S.E.3, N.Z. | ||
- | LETTER FROM DOROTHY LAMY IN NEW ZEAL/AND. | ||
- | "95 St. Andrews Road, | ||
- | Epsom, | ||
- | AUCICr, | ||
I noticed from the list of officers and the walks programme that several of the Old and Bold are still doing yeoman work for the Club. It is also good to see plenty of the newer members' | I noticed from the list of officers and the walks programme that several of the Old and Bold are still doing yeoman work for the Club. It is also good to see plenty of the newer members' | ||
- | By the way, I noticed that the iinnual Meetinf | + | |
+ | By the way, I noticed that the Annual Meeting | ||
Best wishes to your all, | Best wishes to your all, | ||
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Yours sincerely, | Yours sincerely, | ||
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Dorothy Lawry." | Dorothy Lawry." | ||
- | THE LUG NEEKEND. | + | |
- | Roy Craggs' | + | =====The Long Weekend.===== |
- | OOOOOO | + | |
- | A Colley - Leyden party of seven did some scrub bashing in the Putty - Monundilla area. AnS.B.W. party in 1953 took two e rws to traverse the c=tremely | + | Roy Craggs' |
- | hours walking along a Fire Trail. However, the above .,; | + | |
- | via Ccridudgy | + | ---- |
- | George Gray's party, bound for the Back,-of-the-Castle area via the Vines, holed up in the cave near Castle Hill because of poor weather. | + | |
- | IMEND WALKS. | + | A Colley - Leyden party of seven did some scrub bashing in the Putty - Monundilla area. An S.B.W. party in 1953 took two days to traverse the extremely |
- | 17. | + | |
- | JULY 21-22-23 | + | ---- |
- | Combined walk with Y.H.A.C.C. | + | |
- | B1ackheath0- Cox Turnoff | + | George Gray's party, bound for the Back-of-the-Castle area via the Vines, holed up in the cave near Castle Hill because of poor weather. |
- | Varied river scenery. See the rugged granites | + | |
- | Steep track walk up Black Jerry' | + | ---- |
- | Katoomba MJTtary. | + | |
- | Leader: Frank Young. | + | =====Bowen Bash (I'm orright Jack).===== |
- | JULY 28-29-30 Blackheath - Car to Cox's River via Little Hartley - Cox's River - Megaiong | + | |
- | This trip follows Cox 's River (beautiful river scenery) | + | - Stuart Brooks. |
- | Then scramble up tiTourh | + | |
- | Yaps: Blue Mountains :71.177 BurraccranE Tourist. | + | We five arrived under the brow of Mt Tootie on a dark Friday night, Greg Grennan, Reg Meakins, Paul Howard, Peter Price, Stuart Brooks. |
- | Katoomba | + | |
- | . Leader: CreF r3nnnn. | + | Choosing a relatively grasay spot, obviously very popular in the near past with the Mt Tootie bovine sorority, we took the usual precautions against snake bite and settled down for the night. |
- | AUGUST 4,5-6 Bell - Grose River Victoria Falls - Mt. Victoria. | + | |
- | (This will be a two-day walk, not 3-day as shown on the programme.) Rugged creek bash down the Grose from.2ell to the Victoria Falls Creek, then easier going to the Falls, and climb out from the valley. Gaiters recommended. | + | Saturday 8.30 a.m. saw us away, headed westwards towards Mt Irvine along a ridge that grew rapidly steeper, ending in abrupt walls 300 feet above Bowens |
- | Map: Kntoomba | + | |
- | Leader: WiIf Hader. | + | Price took the opportunity during the descent to conduct two experiments, the conclusions from which will be known as Price' |
- | AUGUST U-12-13 Wolgan WI -Ley - Annie Rowan' | + | |
- | (Private Transport fair dirt road into the Valley through | + | On our descent, we had chosen a likely looking ridge on the opposite side of Bowens Creek, and it did in fact prove quite feasible, though breathtaking. |
- | Explore | + | |
- | Leader: Dnvid Brown. | + | We reached Tesselate Hill at 11.30 duly admired |
- | wwilw mummor | + | |
- | Katoomba Council is reported | + | We made four miles along the ridge in this roller-coaster fashion before we found a soak on the side of some bluffs and decided on lunch. |
- | 16. | + | |
- | More scratching around in the creek bed unearthed a comfortable sand spit. As this was a place obviously infested with all kinds of snakes, precautionary methods were duly taken while dinner was being assembled (and after). Dinner was garnished with legal anecdotes from Paul, and some free legal advice to those of us unfortunate enough to hate had brushes with the law. Pete and Reg gave valuable advice, inter alia, on the many chemical problems that beset one day by day. Contributions from Grennan and Brooks were more mundane. | + | After lunch, we followed |
- | After breakfast and the traditional | + | |
- | Reluctantly we turned | + | Our ridge behaved admirably until the last 300 feet when it dropped abruptly into Bowens Creek. With daylight fading fast it began to look like a dry camp with the just audible gurgle of the fast flowing creek to lull us to sleep. However after some frantic scratching around, Reg found a niche in the ridge' |
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+ | More scratching around in the creek bed unearthed a comfortable sand spit. As this was a place obviously infested with all kinds of snakes, precautionary methods were duly taken while dinner was being assembled (and after). Dinner was garnished with legal anecdotes from Paul, and some free legal advice to those of us unfortunate enough to have had brushes with the law. Pete and Reg gave valuable advice, inter alia, on the many chemical problems that beset one day by day. Contributions from Grennan and Brooks were more mundane. | ||
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+ | After breakfast and the traditional | ||
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+ | Reluctantly we turned | ||
Near midday we found with a little effort a spring about 100' below the top of the ridge just short of Big Hill, and had a pleasant lunch garnished with more legal anecdotes of Paul' | Near midday we found with a little effort a spring about 100' below the top of the ridge just short of Big Hill, and had a pleasant lunch garnished with more legal anecdotes of Paul' | ||
- | Immediately after lurch, we came across a well warn bush road obviously coming from Ht. Tootle, but going where? Dropping our packs, we followed it for three miles along a ridge towards | + | |
- | By careful timing we were just able to make Marrajong | + | Immediately after lurch, we came across a well worn bush road obviously coming from Mt. Tootie, but going where? Dropping our packs, we followed it for three miles along a ridge towards |
- | The following prescription for )revention | + | |
- | of research done by Gilroy, who does, however, admit some assistance from an Arunta witch-doctor. Many subsequent trials have proved, without doubt, its efficacy. | + | By careful timing we were just able to make Kurrajong |
- | Take 1 fl oz. aqua forte or aqua ignis (these are available from my pharmacy A cheaper substitute, preferred by many with a thrifty trend, can be found in the form of whisky or (shudder) rum - if you can stand the taste.) Add 1 gm. citric acid (or 6 drops lemon juice at a pinch), stir in 5 grms. sucrose (or 1 teasnoon | + | |
- | 4 | + | __Appendix.__ |
- | 18. | + | |
- | FIRE =S. | + | The following prescription for prevention |
- | (Reported from various recent walks,) | + | |
+ | Take 1 fl oz. aqua forte or aqua ignis (these are available from my pharmacy. A cheaper substitute, preferred by many with a thrifty trend, can be found in the form of whisky or (shudder) rum - if you can stand the taste.) Add 1 gm. citric acid (or 6 drops lemon juice at a pinch), stir in 5 grms. sucrose (or 1 teaspoon | ||
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+ | =====Weekend Walks.===== | ||
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+ | |July 21-22-23|Combined walk with Y.H.A.C.C. B1ackheath- Cox Turnoff - Cox's River - Billy Healy Hill - Black Jerry' | ||
+ | |July 28-29-30|Blackheath - Car to Cox's River via Little Hartley - Cox's River - Megalong Creek - Devil' | ||
+ | |August | ||
+ | |August 11-12-13|Wolgan Valley - Annie Rowan' | ||
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+ | Katoomba Council is reported to favour the erection of a Snowless Ski Run at Katoomba. There' | ||
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+ | =====Fire Trails.===== | ||
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+ | (Reported from various recent walks.) | ||
The construction of fire trails has been noted in the following areas:- | The construction of fire trails has been noted in the following areas:- | ||
- | ST. IVES from the end of Warrimoo Road through Kuringai Chase in a northerly direction to a point nem- the head of salt water in Cowan Creek. | ||
- | KURINGAI CHASE from a point above the junction of Kuringai and Cowan (fresh water section) Creeks to the Mona Vale Road at Torrey Hills running close to Ryland Trig. | ||
- | MEGALONG VA=" branching off the road to Carlon' | ||
- | road continues around the cliff line, over Galong Creek, past Carlon' | ||
- | enough to be difficult for even this type of transport" | ||
- | ON THE BONNY BANKS OF THE GROSE. | ||
- | During a chance conversation the other day the Conservation Secretary learned that there was land for sale at Grose Wold, on the banks of the Grose River. Just what we wanted to buy with the Era Fund. 139 acres, with a:1958 V.G. of 500! So off went Brian Harvey, Alex Colley and John White on Sunday, 2nd July, complete with cut lunches and thermos | ||
- | have a very fine stand of re-growth trees at the top end, just alongside the last farm before going down the rough track towards Woods Creek Camp. As the block went | ||
- | down a gully developed, merging into a beautiful valley at the foot with wattles and green grass, reminiscent of the wattle groves at Eureka Clearing. Enough for a re-union mob of 200, with tons of firewood up the hill. There was an ancient house | ||
- | on a rocky shelf, very much the worse for vandalism and white ants. The old slab walls mould provide a good camp fire. Round the house jonquils were coming into blossom - fragrant flowers at the tent door, just like home. The creek in the gully was dry - probably only runs after rain. Nhat more could one ask? It was | ||
- | just what we've been waiting for for years. After lunch, the party had a yarn with the farming bod up at the top. Yes, the 11.nd was up for sale all right, and now in the hands of a local estate agent. He had heard, and this has now been confirmed, that an offer of 6,000 had been made. | ||
- | The party cooled off in a violent thunderstorm on the way home. | ||
+ | __St. Ives__ from the end of Warrimoo Road through Kuringai Chase in a northerly direction to a point near the head of salt water in Cowan Creek. | ||
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+ | __Kuringai Chase__ from a point above the junction of Kuringai and Cowan (fresh water section) Creeks to the Mona Vale Road at Terrey Hills running close to Ryland Trig. | ||
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+ | __Megalong Valley__ branching off the road to Carlon' | ||
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+ | =====On The Bonny Banks Of The Grose.===== | ||
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+ | During a chance conversation the other day the Conservation Secretary learned that there was land for sale at Grose Wold, on the banks of the Grose River. Just what we wanted to buy with the Era Fund. 139 acres, with a 1958 V.G. of £500! So off went Brian Harvey, Alex Colley and John White on Sunday, 2nd July, complete with cut lunches and thermos | ||
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+ | The party cooled off in a violent thunderstorm on the way home. |
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