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====== THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER ====== | ====== THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER ====== | ||
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker, The N.S.W. Nurses' | + | **A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker |
- | Association Rooms " | + | ** |
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+ | The N.S.W. Nurses' | ||
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Reiby Place, Sydney. | Reiby Place, Sydney. | ||
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- | CONTENTS | + | ===== CONTENTS |
| July General Meeting - J. Brown | 2 | | | July General Meeting - J. Brown | 2 | | ||
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- | **AT THE JULY GENERAL MEETING** | + | ===== AT THE JULY GENERAL MEETING |
- | Jim Brown | + | |
+ | By Jim Brown | ||
A lot was said at the July meeting, so let's get stuck straight into | A lot was said at the July meeting, so let's get stuck straight into | ||
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- | ==== KANANGRA - MT. COLONG & RETURN. ==== | + | ===== KANANGRA - MT. COLONG & RETURN. |
- | Dot Butler | + | By Dot Butler |
**Party**: Don Finch, Peter Kaye, Margaret Dogterom, Johanna Hallman, Brian Harding, Dot Butler, Roger Lockwood. | **Party**: Don Finch, Peter Kaye, Margaret Dogterom, Johanna Hallman, Brian Harding, Dot Butler, Roger Lockwood. | ||
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7 am saw us sliding out of our white-powdered tents to breakfast by the warm fire. Then up and away, but first, so we can say we've been to the highest point on Colong, we must go and climb up the trig station. | 7 am saw us sliding out of our white-powdered tents to breakfast by the warm fire. Then up and away, but first, so we can say we've been to the highest point on Colong, we must go and climb up the trig station. | ||
- | This huge cylindrical pile of rock was well dusted over with snow. It was cold to the fingers as we swarmed up it, getting finger and toe holds in the small cracks between the granite. | + | This huge cylindrical pile of rock was well dusted over with snow. It was cold to the fingers as we swarmed up it, getting finger and toe holds in the small cracks between the granite. |
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+ | We followed a ridge down till we struck the old Yerranderie road, through the paperbarks on the swampy flat, then up Mt. Armour and the dead end road that peters out just above Church Creek. Here we saw the marked trail of the party who had been here a few weeks earlier investigating the proposed limestone quarry lease. The whole panorama of country we had been over in the past two days was so completely untouched and free from human dispoiliation that the mere thought of a great gaping scar on the green hillside hurt like a personal blow. There must be other areas, already messed up, where they can get their necessary limestone and leave this graceful hillside unmarred. | ||
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+ | At the bottom of the ridge we struck the trail that led through a gap in the hills and so to the Kowmung. We walked along this a couple of miles on the sandy river flats and across the river pebbles, the tall casuarinas whispering in the light breeze. Where Christie' | ||
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+ | But it can't last forever. Into this Paradise creeps the serpent; in this case it is Time. Donnie starts consulting his watch and working out mileage. What time will we have to leave if we are to be up to Kanangra road before dark? He decided we must leave by twenty past one. That gives us another half hour of glorious loafing and we all lie back and soak up the sun again. Except Brian. Brian says he will go now and make a quick dash to Kanangra and bring back the jeep to the Tops to save us the 6? mile walk 4 to the Boyd trail where our transport is parked. So away he goes and in due course we all reluctantly pack up and start off up the steep slope of Cambage Spire. Margaret has eaten a conglomeration of goodies - soup, instant pud., sardines, sour orange, etc., etc. " | ||
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+ | It's a steep pull up the Spire. The three boys get ahead of the three femmes. At the top of the ridge we tail-end Susies overshoot the mark and continue along a wrong spur. We have hardly gone five minutes down this when we discover our error, as we can see our correct ridge sweeping away to the left, so we retrace our steps and start racing along this so as to catch up to the boys. "Fancy doing a thing like that!" we told ourselves. "What mug map readers!" | ||
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+ | We went flat out till we met the Gingera Trail. We turned left along this and kept up our speed, feeling very conscious-smitten that we couldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | We felt so elated by this freak of fortune that we decided we'd have a party and eat the rest of our food. Below a rocky escarpment beside the trail was a plastic bucket full of water, collected from a drip from the rocks. We had to break a 2inch crust of ice on it before we could get a drink. Roger put a match to an empty biscuit packet to get rid of it, but in a split second eager hands were piling on dead bracken, twigs and wood, and in a matter of seconds this vital spark of heat became a nice warm fire. Then, as Margaret pronounced this the best and mightiest trip ever, we felt that climbing Big Rick in all that snow was almost on a par with the first ascent of Everest and we put our six pairs of arms around our six shoulders and danced round and round the fire singing the famous Hillary anthem, "we knocked the bastard off! We knocked the bastard off!" | ||
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+ | But time was creeping on, so we put the fire out and pushed off to the Tops. An icy wind was gusting wildly over the bleak upland, almost blowing the lighter ones off their feet at times. We raced along at top speed, our bare ears nearly dropping off with the cold. When we got within sight of the road we saw a car there but by the time we reached the road this slight chance of a lift had gone. Nor were Brian and the jeep in sight, so in the waning light we plodded off along the freezing road. On the roadside bushes small twittering birds were making an unusual racket as they settled down for the night, bearing cut Duncan' | ||
- | We folloWed a ridge down till we struck the old Yerranderie road, through the paperbarks on the swampy flat, then up Mt. Armour and the dead end road that peters out just above Church Creek. Here we saw the marked trail of the party who had. been here a few weeks earlier investigating the | ||
- | proposed. limestone quarry lease. The whole panorama of country we had been | ||
- | over in the past two days was so completely untouched anl free from human dispoiliation that the mere thought of a great gaping scar on the Freen hillside hurt like a personal blow. There must be other areas, already messed up, where they can get their necessary limestone and leave this graceful hillside unmarred. | ||
- | At the bottom of the ridge we struck the trail that led through a | ||
- | gap in the hills and so to the Komung. 70 walked along this a couple of miles on the sandy river flats and across the river pebbles, the tall | ||
- | casuarinas whispering in the light breeze. There Christie' | ||
- | and I had a swift dip in the icy water. 'e lay on our sleeping bags soaking up the sun while we ate lunch peace, solitude, sun and bright air and sky, where merely to be alive Was a grand affair. | ||
- | But it can't last forever. Into this Paradise creeps the serpent; in this case it is Time Donnie starts consulting his watch and working out mileage. That time will we have to leave if we are to be up to Kanangra road before dark? He decided we must leave by twenty past one. That gives us, | ||
- | another half hour of glorious loafing and we all lie back and soak up the sun again. Except Brian. Brian says he will go now and make a qui& dash | ||
- | to Kanangra and bring back the jeep to the Tops to save us the 6 ? mile walk 4 1.. | ||
- | to the Boyd trail where our transport is parked. So away he goes and in due | ||
- | course we all reluctantly pack up and start off up the 'steep slope of Gambage Spire. Margaret has ,:stn a conglomeration of goodies | ||
- | instant pud., sardines, sour orange, etc., etc. " | ||
- | It's a steep pull up the Spire. The three boys get ahead of the three femmes. At the top of the ridge we tailend Susies overshoot the mark and continue along a wrong spur. We have hardly gone five minutes down this when we discover our error, as we can see our correct ridge sweeping away to the left, so we retrace our steps and start racing along this so as to catch up to the boys. "Fancy doing a thing like that!" we told ourselves. "That nug map readers!" | ||
- | 8. The Sydney Bushwalker August, 1966 | ||
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- | We went flat cut till we met the Gingera Trail. We turued left along this and kept up our speed, feeling very conscioussmitten that we couldn' | ||
- | We felt so elated by this freak of fortune that we decided we'd have | ||
- | a party and eat the rest of our food. Below a rocky escarpment beside the trail was a plastic bucket full of water, collected from a drip from the rocks. We had to break a 2inch crust of ice on it before we could get a drink. Roger put a match to an empty biscuit packet to got rid of it, but in a plit second eager hands were piling on dead bracken, twigs and wood, and in a matter of' seconds this vital spark of heat became a nice warm fire. Then, as Margaret pronounced this the best and mightiest trip ever, we felt that climbing Big Rick in all that snow was almost on a par with the first ascent of Everest r-,nd we put cur six pairs of arms around | ||
- | our six shoulders and danced round_ and round the fire singing the famous Hillary -anthem, "we knocked the bastard off! 70 knocked the bastard off!" | ||
- | But time was creeping on, so we put the fire out and pushed off to the Tops. An icy wind Was gusting wildly over the bleak wjand, almost blowing the lighter ones off their feet at times. We raced along at top speed, our bare ears nearly dropping off with the cola. When we got within sight of the | ||
- | road we saw a car there but by the time we reached the road this slight chance | ||
- | of a lift had gone. Nor were Brian and the jeep in sight, so in the waning | ||
- | light we plodded off along the freezing road. On the roadside bushes small twittering birds were making an unusual racket as they settled down for the | ||
- | night, bearing cut Duncan' | ||
- | noise it has to make to warm up its small body so that it won't freeze and drop off its perch. Fluffing cut its feathers and going in for a protracted -bout of evening song is equivalent to Bushwalkers warming up their sleeping bags by | ||
- | the firs and having a heavy argument before they go to boa about who is going to get up first in the morning to conk the porridge. This is a necessary | ||
- | survival mechanism. | ||
About 6 o' | About 6 o' | ||
- | had been an hour tinkering with the Jeep's innards, and Ina just about-got | + | had been an hour tinkering with the Jeep's innards, and had just about got |
her going. Despite two tins of antifreeze, the radiator had frozen up, | her going. Despite two tins of antifreeze, the radiator had frozen up, | ||
- | and eyen the oil was solid when he probed it with the dipstick. He lit a | + | and even the oil was solid when he probed it with the dipstick. He lit a |
- | fire ander the engine, like New Zealanders say they warm up the cows in the South Island before they milk them, but I don't believe it. But a fire under the engine can be tor much o-P LLi o Brian had been pushing the jeep off it and back over it again and again for the past hour till | + | fire under the engine, like New Zealanders say they warm up the cows in the South Island before they milk them, but I don't believe it. But a fire under the engine can be too much of a good thing, so Brian had been pushing the jeep off it and back over it again and again for the past hour till the ice thawed. Unfortunately one of the radiator pipes had burst but he repaired |
- | August, 1966 The Sydney Bushwslker | + | |
- | the ice thawed. Unfortunately one of the radiator pipes had burst but he rep-,, | + | We drove off with the seven of us packed |
- | Iffe drovd Off with tlla s: | + | |
- | We stood at the counter by the wayside stall along with the semitrailer drivers munching our toasted hamburgers, then all aboard and home about 1 a m. | + | We stood at the counter by the wayside stall along with the semitrailer drivers munching our toasted hamburgers, then all aboard and home about 1 am. |
Snow trips like this are so out of the ordinary they make a well known bushwalk into a mighty adventure. There should be more of them. | Snow trips like this are so out of the ordinary they make a well known bushwalk into a mighty adventure. There should be more of them. | ||
- | PADDY PALLI aRIENTEERING | + | |
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+ | |||
+ | **PADDY PALLIN ORIENTEERING | ||
DON'T FORGET THIS INTERESTING ADVENTURE, TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER | DON'T FORGET THIS INTERESTING ADVENTURE, TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER | ||
SEE JULY MAGAZINE AND CONTACT PADDY' | SEE JULY MAGAZINE AND CONTACT PADDY' | ||
- | The Australian Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club | + | |
- | will be holding a | + | |
- | FILM EVENING | + | ---- |
- | at the S.B.w.Club room on Thursday, 15th September at 8 p m. | + | |
- | Films shown will include | + | |
- | "Terra Incognity (The Islands of Kerguelen" | + | //The Australian Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club |
+ | will be holding a// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **FILM EVENING** | ||
+ | at the S.B.W. Club room on Thursday, 15th September at 8 p m. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Films shown will include | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Terra Incognity (The Islands of Kerguelen" | ||
"A Mountaineering Team climbs the Eiffel Tower." | "A Mountaineering Team climbs the Eiffel Tower." | ||
- | EVERYBODY | + | |
- | 10. The Sydney Bushwalker Aw7ust, 1966 | + | EVERYBODY |
- | ONE MORE MONTH | + | |
- | By " | + | ---- |
- | Who was the bushwalker who put Rinsc in her coffee instead of powaered | + | |
- | milk? " | + | |
- | we suggest respectfully that in future | + | ===== ONE MORE MONTH ===== |
- | John Scott, who doggedly | + | |
- | while others. rode in luxury on bicycles (??)9 is planning to do the same thing again, only this time without stopping (except for snacks). John will walk alone and finds it difficult to explain just why this adventure calls him so - "an affair of the spirit, perhaps", | + | By " |
- | We might have known it would snow on the week-end | + | |
- | same week-end | + | Who was the bushwalker who put Rinso in her coffee instead of powdered |
- | You should have heard the sorems | + | |
- | walk had to cross the icy-cold Cox River and it was not much more than | + | John Scott, who doggedly |
- | ankle deep/ either. "They don't know what suffering is", | + | |
- | old,-timer. | + | We might have known it would snow on the weekend |
- | recYcned | + | |
+ | You should have heard the screams | ||
Denise Hull is back in Sydney for a visit after 18 months in the Northern Territory. "The city is not for me any more - I can see no sense in it." says Denise. Neither can many bushwaikers, | Denise Hull is back in Sydney for a visit after 18 months in the Northern Territory. "The city is not for me any more - I can see no sense in it." says Denise. Neither can many bushwaikers, | ||
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This " | This " | ||
- | I say " | + | I say " |
- | with utter contentment as he recounted | + | with utter contentment as he recounted |
- | from hi S 6normous..repetoire. Could anyone say good-bye to this world in a better way? | + | from his enormous..repetoire. Could anyone say good-bye to this world in a better way? |
- | 'SOCIAL NOTES FOR AUGUST. | + | |
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+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== **SOCIAL NOTES FOR AUGUST** ==== | ||
On August 17 we have an unusual event, an Auction. The idea is to bring ANYTHING along to go under the Auctioneer' | On August 17 we have an unusual event, an Auction. The idea is to bring ANYTHING along to go under the Auctioneer' | ||
Of course we want plenty of bidders, too, so roll up, there will probably be some bargains going. | Of course we want plenty of bidders, too, so roll up, there will probably be some bargains going. | ||
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- | model it is built on the box quilting principle, :i ' V )0 | ||
- | of breathing nylon. It weighs 10 ozs less and is W | ||
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- | | + | ===== FINDING YOUR WAY BY THE STARS ===== |
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- | August, 1966 The Sydney Bushwaiker 13. | ||
- | FINDING YOUR 7AY BY THE STARS.. | ||
By " | By " | ||
- | (Condensed from a Talk given by Er. To Petry in the Clubroom on July. 27). | ||
- | TO FIND TRUE NORTH | ||
- | First of all you must become familiar with the eight stars listed | ||
- | below. To do this, you should buy a Star chart for about 50 cents | ||
- | at any bookstore or newagent and study the night sky with the aid of the chart. The rest is just simple mental arihmetic. | ||
- | On the dates given, the star is on the meridian (i e. the North South line) and north of the zenith at 9 p m. exactly. | ||
- | STAR DATE | ||
- | HAMAL 6th December | ||
- | ALDABARAN 13th January. | ||
- | SIRIUS 15th February | ||
- | REGULUS 7th A:]:27i1 | ||
- | SPICA 28th MAY | ||
- | ANTARES 15th JULY | ||
- | ALTAIR 4th SEPTEMBER | ||
- | FOMALHAUT 20th October | ||
- | The star will advance 1 to the west of north for each day after the given date. It will also advance 15 to the west of north for each hour after the given time of 9 1.m. | ||
- | Select one of the two stars whose given dates aro ne' | ||
- | date of Observation. You may select either star dorending upon visibility conditions, time of night etc. (If you can estimate North from both | ||
- | . stars, this give you a double check). Chock the time accurately, Apily the corrections as above to obtain the direction of North. | ||
- | Example: | ||
- | Suppose Observation is made at 10 p m. on 26th August and that ALTAIR is selected. | ||
- | i) 26th August is 9 days earlier than the given date of 4th September, therefore, ALTAIR will be 90 east (i e. to your right) of the meridian at 9 p m. | ||
- | ii) 10 p m. is lhour later than the given time of 9 p m. therefore ALTAIR would be 15o west (i e. to your loft) of its position at 9 p m. | ||
- | Now from (i), AFAIR is placed 90 east of the meridian, and from (ii | ||
- | ALTAIR is placed 15 west of the meridian, therefore ALTAIR will be 15-9 9 = | ||
- | 6 TEST of the meridian at 10 pm. on 26th August. | + | // |
- | - 14. The Sydney Bushwalker | + | |
- | It follows | + | **TO FIND TRUE NORTH** |
- | 6 to the east | + | First of all you must become familiar with the eight stars listed below. To do this, you should buy a Star Chart for about 50 cents at any bookstore or newsagent and study the night sky with the aid of the chart. The rest is just simple mental arithmetic. |
- | To be Ecre 9 p m. on 26th | + | |
- | at True North. | + | On the dates given, the star is on the meridian |
- | from this that you will have to estimate an angle of (i e. to your right) to find True:North. | + | |
- | accurate, you should observe ALTAIR at 9/15 hrs after | + | | __STAR__ | __DATE__ | |
- | August (i e. at exactly 9.36 p m.), when it will be precisely | + | | HAMAL | 6th December | |
- | TO FIND SOUTH (Approx) | + | | ALDABARAN | 13th January | |
- | i) Southern Cross-Method: | + | | SIRIUS | 15th February | |
+ | | REGULUS | 7th April | | ||
+ | | SPICA | 28th May | | ||
+ | | ANTARES | 15th July | | ||
+ | | ALTAIR | 4th September | | ||
+ | | FOMALHAUT | 20th October | | ||
+ | |||
+ | The star will advance 1 degree to the west of north for each day after the given date. It will also advance 15 degrees to the west of north for each hour after the given time of 9 pm. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Select one of the two stars whose given dates are nearest to the date of observation. You may select either star depending upon visibility conditions, time of night etc. (If you can estimate North from both stars, this gives you a double check). Check the time accurately, Apply the corrections as above to obtain the direction of North. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Example__: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Suppose Observation is made at 10 pm on 26th August | ||
+ | |||
+ | | ||
+ | - 10 pm is 1 hour later than the given time of 9 pm. therefore ALTAIR would be 15 degrees west (i e. to your left) of its position at 9 pm. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now from (1), ALTAIR is placed 9 degrees | ||
+ | ALTAIR is placed 15 degrees west of the meridian, therefore ALTAIR will be 15-9 = 6 degrees WEST of the meridian at 10 pm. on 26th August. | ||
+ | |||
+ | It follows | ||
+ | |||
+ | To be more accurate, you should observe ALTAIR at 9/15 hrs after 9pm on 26th August (ie. at exactly 9.36pm) when it will be precisely | ||
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+ | |||
+ | **TO FIND SOUTH (Approx) | ||
+ | ** | ||
+ | |||
+ | __1) Southern Cross-Method: | ||
+ | __ | ||
The two pointers point to the head of the Cross. Run your eye | The two pointers point to the head of the Cross. Run your eye | ||
(or a stick broken to correct length) from the head of the Cross to the | (or a stick broken to correct length) from the head of the Cross to the | ||
- | foot, then extend this line times its length in the same direction to obtain South. | + | foot, then extend this line 4.5 times its length in the same direction to obtain South. |
- | ii) Sirius | + | |
+ | __2) | ||
Join Sirius to Canopus, then extend this line the same amount again | Join Sirius to Canopus, then extend this line the same amount again | ||
in the same direction to obtain South. | in the same direction to obtain South. | ||
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Note: The above data will be reasonably accurate anywhere in eastern N.S.W. | Note: The above data will be reasonably accurate anywhere in eastern N.S.W. | ||
- | ONE NIGHT IN A TENT | + | |
- | Frank Rigby. | + | |
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+ | |||
+ | ===== ONE NIGHT IN A TENT ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Frank Rigby | ||
I have spent countless nights in tents but none quite like this one, thank goodness. | I have spent countless nights in tents but none quite like this one, thank goodness. | ||
- | I suppose it was all Ross Wyborn' | + | |
+ | I suppose it was all Ross Wyborn' | ||
The party had about eight or nine tents erected around a knoll some | The party had about eight or nine tents erected around a knoll some | ||
- | 500 feet or so above the Snowy the only protection a small group of very | + | 500 feet or so above the Snowy the only protection a small group of very |
- | scattered snow gums and whatever you could get from the knoll itself, which was precious little. Not a promising sort of place, you might say, but that the Snowy Mountains all over. | + | scattered snow gums and whatever you could get from the knoll itself, which was precious little. Not a promising sort of place, you might say, but that' |
- | On Sunday Afternoon, a cruel wind from the southeast began to whip across the snowfields and things began to look bad as our little tents flapped and billowed. Our one and only snow saw w rked overtime that day as most of the bods cut large snow blocks 9" thick out of the ground and | + | |
- | built walls around the exposed sides of their tents. The Butler family built an igloo to sleep three, partly for the fun of it, but also, I suspect, | + | On Sunday Afternoon, a cruel wind from the southeast began to whip across the snowfields and things began to look bad as our little tents flapped and billowed. Our one and only snow saw worked |
- | 15. The Sydney Bushwalker August, 1966 | + | |
- | through premonition of things to come Graham Budd's mountaineering tent, Tight on the very crest of the knoll, pitched to the ground 9" below snow | + | By nightfall, almost everyone, it seemed, was in good shape except the Rigbys. There just hadn't been a chance to borrow the saw and build a wall in that last hour of day light I must confess that earlier I had preferred skiing to working; my chickens were now coming home to roost. |
- | level and surrounded by a huge snow wall, looked like something out of | + | |
- | a Himilayan | + | |
- | By nightfall, almost everyone, it seemed, was in good shape except the Rigbys. There just hadn't been a chance to borrow the saw ana build a wall in that last hour of day light I must confess that earlier I had preferred skiing to working; my chickens were now coming home to roost. | + | |
To make matters worse, the wind steadily increased in strength as the | To make matters worse, the wind steadily increased in strength as the | ||
darkness settled in and falling snow was now tearing horizontally across the knoll. It was bitterly cold. Our tent was pegged into the snow. Now solid ground is one thing, but snow is quite another for holding down a tent. | darkness settled in and falling snow was now tearing horizontally across the knoll. It was bitterly cold. Our tent was pegged into the snow. Now solid ground is one thing, but snow is quite another for holding down a tent. | ||
- | I placed a big snow block over each end guy peg; piled up the snow and tramped it down solidly over all the others; piled up snow around the edges to keep the wind out. By this time I was numb with cold and th-A was about all I couldb. By about 7 p m. we had a nearblizzard | + | I placed a big snow block over each end guy peg; piled up the snow and tramped it down solidly over all the others; piled up snow around the edges to keep the wind out. By this time I was numb with cold and that was about all I could do. By about 7 pm, we had a near-blizzard |
- | there was no future in being out in the great outdoors of the Snowy Mts. It would be a long night. | + | |
- | We were certainly cosy enough | + | We were certainly cosy enough |
- | up to Queensland. The din was frightening. As I lay there, I began to wonder just what I would do if our shelter suddenly took wings and flew. | + | up to Queensland. The din was frightening. As I lay there, I began to wonder just what I would do if our shelter suddenly took wings and flew. To even retrieve it could be a nightmare, to put it up again in those conditions would be impossible; and yet to survive the night without shelter was unthinkable |
- | To even retrieve it coula be a nightmare, to put it up again in those | + | |
- | conditions would be impossible; and yet to survive the night without | + | Several hours passed but sleep would not come. The constant anxiety, the japara now flapping in a frenzy, now straining at its moorings |
- | shelter was unthinkable | + | |
- | Several hours passed but sleep would not come. The constant anxiety, the japara now flapping in a frenzy, now straining at its moorings | + | By midnight mental exhaustion should have overtaken |
- | By midnight mental exhaustion should have overtaken | + | |
- | August, 1966 The Sydney Thashwa: | + | |
fully justified. After about two hours of this almost subconscious torture, I must have finally drifted into sleep. Of course I woke up again every time a really heavy gust was thrown at us, right hand on my sleeping bag zipper ready for instant action of some sort or other. | fully justified. After about two hours of this almost subconscious torture, I must have finally drifted into sleep. Of course I woke up again every time a really heavy gust was thrown at us, right hand on my sleeping bag zipper ready for instant action of some sort or other. | ||
- | And so it went on until the dawn; never was a dawn more welcome. Not that the weather had improved one iota, but at least we could pack up and gat out. Nlhad a lot of coar in this small ttnt and a careful plan was required to organise ourselves and the gear everything would have to be done inside in these conditions. | + | |
- | 7hen we finally exited to the outside world, I was amazed to find that only two of our pegs had pulled out if only I had had more confidence in the h-lding | + | And so it went on until the dawn; never was a dawn more welcome. Not that the weather had improved one iota, but at least we could pack up and get out. We had a lot of gear in this small tent and a careful plan was required to organise ourselves and the gear - everything would have to be done inside in these conditions. |
- | rle put our heads down and got out. I don't mind admitting I learned a lesson or two. | + | |
- | COLOUR SLIDE COMPETITION. | + | When we finally exited to the outside world, I was amazed to find that only two of our pegs had pulled out - if only I had had more confidence in the holding |
- | a August 3Ist, tteCclour | + | |
+ | We put our heads down and got out. I don't mind admitting I learned a lesson or two. | ||
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+ | ==== COLOUR SLIDE COMPETITION | ||
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+ | On August 3Ist, the Colour | ||
Remember that: | Remember that: | ||
- | 1) The competition will be divided into two sections, AUSTRALIAN | + | |
- | 2) Competitors are limited to a maximum of 12 entries. | + | - 1) The competition will be divided into two sections, AUSTRALIAN |
- | 3) All slides should be spotted in the top right hand corner (as positioned in the projector gate) and should bear the name of the competitor. | + | |
- | 4. Entries should be handed to the Soqial | + | |
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This is the colour photographers big event. Be in it to win it. | This is the colour photographers big event. Be in it to win it. | ||
- | :August, 1966 The Sydney Dushwalker 17. | + | |
- | ALN PTERPOINT | + | |
- | Departed this life suddenly, on Colong Main. Range, Middle Kowmung, | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | ===== OBITUARY | ||
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+ | |||
+ | //Departed this life suddenly, on Colong Main Range, Middle Kowmung, | ||
Sunday, 24th July, 1966, aged 64 years. | Sunday, 24th July, 1966, aged 64 years. | ||
- | ORATION read at funeral service, Northern Suburbs Crematorium, | + | |
- | 16y friends and bush brothers, | + | ORATION read at funeral service, Northern Suburbs Crematorium, |
- | In this life we have not much time. All busy people' | + | |
- | , So it was with our good mate Alan Rigby. Always full of Ian, geod intentions, always thinking forward in al: | + | My friends and bush brothers, |
- | necessary practical steps to do his own jobs as a process artist? or | + | |
- | -making things about the home - for he was a craftsman and enjoyed the making; or, with his conservation-minded mates and friends, planning the action and process necessary to impress the authorities with the necessity for creating more national parks for the younger generation and posterity. No conservator knew the social | + | In this life we have not much time. All busy people are pressed |
- | It is sadly ironical that' | + | |
- | conservation movement came to a sudden halt in the execution of a vnluntary | + | So it was with our good mate Alan Rigby. Always full of plans and good intentions, always thinking forward in practical |
- | assignment: to procure photographs of rugged limestone scenic features, that were required in the current campaign to prOtect Oolong | + | necessary practical steps to do his own jobs as a process artist; or |
+ | making things about the home - for he was a craftsman and enjoyed the making; or, with his conservation-minded mates and friends, planning the action and process necessary to impress the authorities with the necessity for creating more national parks for the younger generation and posterity. No conservator knew the social importance of this work better than Alan P. Rigby. | ||
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+ | It is sadly ironical that one of the best minds in the bushwalking | ||
from being devasted by commercial quarrying. | from being devasted by commercial quarrying. | ||
- | . For this work there cnuld not have been a more Skilful person? a mountain trailer and. bushwalker trained in bushcraft; a superb photographer with first-class | + | |
- | years he had examined a lot of new country during the past year?. and that he could. keep up with the younger men in the-National 'Park Associationts | + | For this work there could not have been a more Skilful person: a mountain trailer and bushwalker trained in bushcraft; a superb photographer with first-class |
- | We know what he was capable of with the camera. Probably-no other enthusiast in the conservation movement in this State has produced such a volume of consistently beautiful work, for so many years, Back in the thirties his series of,Kanangra views, | + | years he had examined a lot of new country during the past year; and that he could keep up with the younger men in the National |
- | Alan Rigby was one of the leadingpinds | + | |
- | 18. The Sydney Bushwalker AUgust, 1966-- | + | We know what he was capable of with the camera. Probably no other enthusiast in the conservation movement in this State has produced such a volume of consistently beautiful work, for so many years. Back in the thirties his series of Kanangra views, |
- | Particularly as an early member of the'Mountain Trails Club, and | + | |
+ | Alan Rigby was one of the leading minds in the early campaigns for national parks, when the first of the bushwalking | ||
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+ | Particularly as an early member of the Mountain Trails Club, and | ||
the N.P.P.A. Council, it can be stated that his aesthetic perception, | the N.P.P.A. Council, it can be stated that his aesthetic perception, | ||
voluntary assistance in planning, his cash contributions and practical | voluntary assistance in planning, his cash contributions and practical | ||
enthusiasm, materially assisted the eventual creation of Garawarra Park, | enthusiasm, materially assisted the eventual creation of Garawarra Park, | ||
Heathcote Primitive Area, Blue Mountains National Park, Kosciusko State Park, Warrumbungle National Park, and others. | Heathcote Primitive Area, Blue Mountains National Park, Kosciusko State Park, Warrumbungle National Park, and others. | ||
- | It was his discovery of the destruction which threatened the Blue Gum Forest in Grose Canyon, and his indignant report to the Mountain Trails Club, in 1931, that started the successful campaign which saved it for posterity | + | |
- | Our time is limited: this short eulogy cannot be a history of our bush brother. But may it be added that he was a man ofa cLrisf..ng | + | It was his discovery of the destruction which threatened the Blue Gum Forest in Grose Canyon, and his indignant report to the Mountain Trails Club, in 1931, that started the successful campaign which saved it for posterity |
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+ | Our time is limited: this short eulogy cannot be a history of our bush brother. But may it be added that he was a man of a surprising | ||
And above all, for its virtue as the essence of sheer freedom under | And above all, for its virtue as the essence of sheer freedom under | ||
- | the gun and stars his unbounded, uninhibited joy in wandering and camping, with his mates and his camera, on the high plateaux, the forested ranges, and in the great deeps of the rugged country which was the best in the world for ', | + | the sun and stars - his unbounded, uninhibited joy in wandering and camping, with his mates and his camera, on the high plateau, the forested ranges, and in the great deeps of the rugged country which was the best in the world for Alan P. Rigby - and he knew it. |
- | It is ironic that in the end his enthusiasm for a good job of work lowered his caution and let him down: he did not suspect the symptoms of his final trouble; he was a stoic, anyway. He knew he was a robust fellow but he did not allow for his years and last Sunday he scrambled around too many rocky outcrops, walked up too many rises, and tried to cover too many miles, all in the one short winter day. | + | |
- | It will be no effort to keep in ou/ minds the memory of this wellread | + | It is ironic that in the end his enthusiasm for a good job of work lowered his caution and let him down: he did not suspect the symptoms of his final trouble; he was a stoic, anyway. He knew he was a robust fellow but he did not allow for his years - and last Sunday he scrambled around too many rocky outcrops, walked up too many rises, and tried to cover too many miles, all in the one short winter day. |
- | Finally, we all trust that the mercy of Providence will blunt the | + | |
- | sense of loss and make it bearable as time goes on; whilst we hold the memory - | + | It will be no effort to keep in our minds the memory of this well-read |
- | og a lovable character who proved he could rise ouperior | + | |
- | August, 1966 The Sydney Dushwaiker 19. | + | Finally, we all trust that the mercy of Providence will blunt the sense of loss and make it bearable as time goes on; whilst we hold the memory - |
- | ALAN RIGBY HIS CHARACTER AND LIFE WORK. | + | of a lovable character who proved he could rise superior |
- | By Myles Dunphy. | + | |
- | The scope of Alan Rigby' | + | ==== ALAN RIGBY - HIS CHARACTER AND LIFE WORK ==== |
- | and explorers, and for the architectural | + | |
+ | By Myles Dunphy | ||
+ | |||
+ | The scope of Alan Rigby' | ||
+ | and explorers, and for the architectural | ||
This compound of interests exercised the Rigby imagination; | This compound of interests exercised the Rigby imagination; | ||
these contacts, that remained with him through his life, was developed his thoughtful and forthright character and ebullient Spirit. He was lively, easy to talk with, and had a sense of humour. His constructive | these contacts, that remained with him through his life, was developed his thoughtful and forthright character and ebullient Spirit. He was lively, easy to talk with, and had a sense of humour. His constructive | ||
- | mina was critical of the loss of natural values through alleged progress, and he deplored useless waste and vandtlism. | + | mind was critical of the loss of natural values through alleged progress, and he deplored useless waste and vandalism. |
- | At first Rigby started to study architecture and construction, | + | |
- | the,tough atmosphere of this keenlycompetitive | + | At first Rigby started to study architecture and construction, |
- | others, in training, for Some time, until he and his artist wife established their own joint business. From his large circle of friends engaged in | + | the tough atmosphere of this keenly competitive |
- | diverse work and study he obtained sound training, imbibed a lot of ideas from lively and progressive people, a fund of general. knowledge,. and a doMPr' | + | others, in training, for some time, until he and his artist wife established their own joint business. From his large circle of friends engaged in |
- | topics in an analytical, reasonable | + | diverse work and study he obtained sound training, imbibed a lot of ideas from lively and progressive people, a fund of general knowledge and a comprehension |
- | Without any denigration of home, he possessed an acute awareness of human environment outside and beyond the home; and. his life showed that persons who possess the:right skills,and incentives can be at home anywhere where the sun _shines. theloreezes | + | topics in an analytical, reasonable |
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- | Mien the Rigbys acquired growing sons Alan developed their interest | + | Without any denigration of home, he possessed an acute awareness of human environment outside and beyond the home; and his life showed that persons who possess the right skills and incentives can be at home anywhere where the sunshines. the breezes |
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- | ; | + | When the Rigbys acquired growing sons Alan developed their interest |
- | In add ition -to' | + | |
- | wellread | + | In addition |
- | ana the Royal -Australin, | + | well-read philosopher was a member of the Rostrum |
- | . | + | |
- | The, bom:6. Taythevfood: | + | The family home at Blythewood Avenue, Warrawee, nestles deep in forest growth, overshadowed by some of the tallest eucalypts in the Sydney district. |
- | forest growth, overshadowed by some of the -tallest eucalypts. in the | + | |
- | Sydney district. | + | One of the most pleasurable aspects |
- | - _ . | + | |
- | One of the most Pleasiarabl-e- aspectt, | + | The Rigby connection with the Mountain Trails Club's famous- Miara Sanctuary of 85 acres in Heathcote |
- | the family' | + | |
- | mind in the bxshlanxbwershighly rizedJ, | + | From their earliest days the Rigby boys were introduced to the worlds of books, art and music and the basis of what was beautiful and inspiring in nature and the works of mankind. At home Alan always was occupied with something interesting or useful and the boys were raised to realize there was always something to be done; they were shown that the things one worked hard to obtain, were the things one would value most, with a clear, conscience and a good deal of satisfaction. |
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- | The Rigby connection with the Mountain Trails Club's famous.- Miara Sanctuary of 85 acres in Haathcot: | + | It was providential that Alan Rigby met and married a girl such as Enid, a person of calm disposition, |
- | Rigby family made good use of the -place', | + | |
+ | On behalf of many friends this obituary is closed with an expression of their deepest sympathy for Mrs Enid Rigby, her sons Roger, Byron and Geoffrey, the brothers of Alan, the sisters and brother Enid and all other relatives, in their bereavement. | ||
- | - | + | //"If I had to give a summary of Alan in one word, it would be ' |
- | From their earliest days the Rigby boys were introduced to the worlds of books; art arid music and the basis of what was beautiful and inspiring in nature and the works of mankind. At home Alan always was occulid with something interesting or useful, and tie boys were raised. to realize there was always something to be anne; they. were. shown that the things one worked hard 'to obtain, were tha things one would value most, with a clear, conscience and a good deal of satisfaction. | + | He was that vein of gold in the quartz of life." |
- | - | + | |
- | It was providential that Alan ,Rigby met and married a girl such as Enid, a person of calm disposition, | + | |
- | smoothed away the troubles that at times assailed the sensitive nature of her husbfInd, and the school trials and other troubles of her boys, | + | |
- | On behalf of many friends this obituary is closed with an expression - | + | |
- | of their deepest sympathy for Mrs. Enid Rigby, | + | |
- | "If I had to give a summary of Alan in one word,.it, would be. | + | |
- | "He was that vein of gold in the quartz of life.." | + | |
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