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+ | ======The Sydney Bushwalker.====== | ||
- | Business Manager | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker, The NSW Nurses' |
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+ | Box No. 4476, G.P.O. Sydney. Phone 843985. | ||
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+ | |**Editor**|Frank Rigby, 3/24 Ocean St., Cronulla. 5234475.| | ||
+ | |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Dr., Carlingford. 8711207.| | ||
+ | |**Typist**|Shirley Dean, 30 Hannah St., Beecroft.| | ||
+ | |**Sales & Subscriptions**|Neville Page, 22 Haward St., Kingsford. 343536.| | ||
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+ | ====381. September, | ||
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+ | =====Contents.===== | ||
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+ | | | |Page| | ||
+ | |Editorial - Our Social Habits| | 2| | ||
+ | |The Wild Goats of Wild Goat Plateau|Don Finch| 3| | ||
+ | |The August General Meeting|Jim Brown| 6| | ||
+ | |Go Walkabout|J. Gentle| 7| | ||
+ | |Beware!| |10| | ||
+ | |Letter from Bill O' | ||
+ | |White-Out|Greg Reading|14| | ||
+ | |Conservation Commentary|A. Colley|14| | ||
+ | |One More Month|" | ||
+ | |Federation Report|P. Butt|20| | ||
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+ | =====Advertisements.===== | ||
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+ | | |Page| | ||
+ | |Paddy' | ||
+ | |Mountain Equipment Co.|13| | ||
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+ | =====Editorial.===== | ||
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+ | ===Our Social Habits.=== | ||
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+ | In our own Club it has been said that, as far as the Social Programme goes, we have become a club of spectators rather than participants. These critics complain that the Slide Projector has grown to be our Master, while we are its dumb slaves, sitting in the dark and being most anti-social. Could we say it is something like taking our T.V. set to the Clubroom? | ||
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+ | A study of the Social Programmes from the past shows there is some substance in these claims. There has been a gradual change in emphasis over the years, a change that has, in general, favoured the spectator functions. A period of relatively rapid change in the early to mid fifties heralded the explosion of the colour slide cult into mass popularity - perhaps the colour slide has done to us what T.V. has done to Society as a whole. | ||
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+ | For instance, how many years is it now since the Club has enjoyed an intelligent debate? (We may have even lost the art). Community singing with a piano-accordion ana a lusty leader is as dead as a dodo - no wonder our campfire singing has gone down the drain. Remember the square dance years, some of you - that stuff was real participation; | ||
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+ | Slide nights make it easy for everyone - for everyone: for the Social Secretary, for the Lecturer and for the audience. Because they' | ||
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+ | It is up to these people to sell their ideas to the Social Secretary and the Committee. If they' | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | =====Social Notes For September.===== | ||
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+ | This month our thanks are due to two of our Club Members for supplying items on the Social Programme. On 21st September, Frank Ashdown will present a talk on two places of great scenic attraction, i.e. Canberra and Lamington Plateau. All new and prospective members, particularly from overseas, should find the night most enjoyable since both places should be visited by new arrivals in this country as soon as possible. | ||
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+ | Those people who had the good fortune to be in the Clubroom when Henry Gold entertained us with "The Aztecs" | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | =====The Wild Goats Of Wild Goat Mountain.===== | ||
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- | C ONTENT S. | ||
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest | ||
- | to the Sydney. Bushwalker, The NSW Nurses' | ||
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- | /- The Wild Goats of Wild Goat Plateau | ||
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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | ||
- | SDPITWBER, 1966 | ||
Don Finch. | Don Finch. | ||
- | The August General Meeting | + | |
- | Go Walkabout | + | The meeting place on Friday night was to be The Royal George at Picton, thus showing the leader to be a fellow apt to make indiscreet decisions. The first load of bods came in Brian Harding' |
- | Paddy' | + | |
- | Beware! | + | By closing time the last car had arrived and after a " |
- | Letter from Bill O' | + | |
- | Mountain Equipment Co. Ad. | + | The fire was started at 6.30 a.m. the next morning and by 7 a.m. everybody was awake if not up and cooking |
- | White Out Greg Reading. Conservation Commentary | + | |
- | :, - , _ | + | After several false starts, including a femme who started cooking breakfast after everyone else had packed up, a true move-off |
- | I , | + | |
- | :.,:`,!.: | + | When the announcement came that it was time to move off up the hill and that it was advisable to fill up our water bottles I was delighted to hear the Pres. grumble that he didn't bring his water bottle. I was going to suggest that he should go back and get his two gallon container. I am sure, however, that his answer would also have been a suggestion. The climb up to Junction |
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- | -, | + | At a vantage point on the top of a small cliff where we rested and took in the view, a fellow called Zot who came in Ian Steven' |
- | . f'..4 ..--) ....; | + | |
- | ___ ... .L....7, | + | The top of the Wild Goat Plateau was everything that we hoped it wouldn' |
- | . / | + | |
- | \, ":: | + | The minor tributary in the gully ran into another minor tributary which ran into another minor tributary. Thirty yards from this junction the creek bed, which had been consistently dry with a few damp patches, was found to be under two feet of water. The campsite was chosen and then made, a fire was built which contrary to the usual procedure was large enough for everybody to cook on at the one time. The after-dinner |
- | 0. | + | |
- | ____.> -, -, | + | I awoke the next morning to see Dot start the fire and our little world covered in a light dew. Breakfast was over at 8.10 a.m. and after a moan from the leader (which fell on deaf ears) that we were at least four hours behind schedule |
- | < _ I ,, _2.11 _,,,..___. --'-`i --, ' - - -..1\--,-- --,:-.:_-_: ... _.- , ,- | + | |
- | -', /4 | + | The leader started ranting and raving about the 15 miles distance back to the cars. This seemed |
- | 2. The Sydney Bushwalker September, 1966 | + | |
- | EDITORIAL | + | A fire was lit and a community tea was had, Dot as chief disher-upper |
- | mn......vorIms.* | + | |
- | ur Social Habits. | + | ---- |
- | " | + | |
- | have all heard it again and again from the old-timers in every walk of life. You know, just occasionally they could be right. | + | Congratulations to Peter Cameron and Patsy Moulden on the announcement of their engagement. |
- | In our own Club it has been said that, as far as the Social Programme goes, we have become a club of spectators rather than participants. These critics complain that the Slide Projector, has grown to be our Master, while we are its dumb slaves, sitting in the dark and being most anti-social. Could we say it is something like taking our T.V. set to the Clubroom? | + | |
- | A study of the Social Programmes from the past shows there is some | + | ---- |
- | substance in these claims. There has been a gradual change in amphasis over the years, a change that has, in general, favoured the spectator functions. | + | |
- | A period of relatively rapid change in the early to mid fifties heralded the explosion of the colour slide cult into mass popularity - perhaps the colour slide has done to us what T.V. has done to Society as a whole. | + | =====The August General Meeting.===== |
- | For instance, how many years is it now since the Club has enjoyed an intelligent debate? (We may have even lost the art). Community singing with a piano-accordion ana a lusty leader is as dead as a dodo - no wonder our campfire singing has gone down the drain. Remember the square dance years, | + | |
- | some of you - that stuff was real participation; | + | |
- | Slide nights make it easy for everyone - for everyone -for the Social Secretary, for the Lecturer and for the audience. Because they' | + | |
- | and more qualitY in their slide evenings and who would like the gaps filled | + | |
- | - in with participation functions. | + | |
- | It is up to these people to sell their ideas to the Social Secretary | + | |
- | and the Committee. If they' | + | |
- | SOCIAL NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER. | + | |
- | This month our thanks are due to two of our Club Members for supplying items on the Social Programme. On 21st September, Frank AsMown will present a talk on two places of great scenic attration, i e. Canberra and Lamington Plateau. All new and prospective members., particularly from overseas, | + | |
- | new arrivals in this country as soon as possible. | + | |
- | Those people who had the good fortune to be in the Clubroom when Henry Gold entertained us with "The Aztecs" | + | |
- | Henry is an excellent photographer and manages to capture the unusual in | + | |
- | his pictures. | + | |
- | September, 1966 The Sydney Bushwalker 3. | + | |
- | .11 11.10 | + | |
- | THE TLLD GOATS OF WILD GOAT PLATEAU. | + | |
- | Don Finch. | + | |
- | The meeting place on Friday night ' | + | |
- | Picton, thus showing the leader to be a fellow apt to make indiscreet decisions. The first load of bode came in Brian Harding' | + | |
- | By closing time the last car had arrived and after a " | + | |
- | The fire was started at 6.30 a m. the next morning and by 7 a m. everybody was awake if not up and conking | + | |
- | back of his panel van enjoying his little game with his 2 gallons of water and eleven presumably thirsty | + | |
- | After several false starts, including a femme who started cooking breakfast after everyone else had packed up, a true moveoff | + | |
- | of the clifflined Nattai and Little River valleys was a magnificent reward | + | |
- | for our penance. A new fire trail scars the loft hand bank of The Little River going at least up to the Blue Gum Creek junction. Lunch was started at 11.45 a m. near Blue Gum Creek. The lunch fire was quite fierce and erupted several times during lunch. Ramon U' | + | |
- | a hot amber and for its entertainment value, the ensuing performance was well worth the trouble to watch. | + | |
- | 4. The Sydney Bushwalker Sept ember, 1966. | + | |
- | ...wwOr | + | |
- | Millen | + | |
- | At a vantage point on the top of a small cliff where we rested and took in the view, a fellow called Zot who came in Ian Steven' | + | |
- | The top of the Wild Goat Plateau was everything that we hoped it wouldn' | + | |
- | 938 mm wide and 1556.4 mm long with a maximum depth of well over 15 mm. | + | |
- | Although it presented no problem on this occasion it is adivsed that water | + | |
- | . wings should be carried. if venturing into the area after periods of heavy rain.) | + | |
- | The minor tributary in the gully ran into another minor tributary | + | |
- | which ran into another minor tributary. Thirty yards from this junction | + | |
- | the creek bed, which had been consistently dry with a few damp patches, was found to be under two feet of water, The campsite was chosen and then made, a fire | + | |
- | was built which contrary to the usual procedure was large enough for everybody | + | |
- | to cook on at the one time. The afterdinner | + | |
- | trains, direction by the stars and for Zot's benefit, the correct way to pronounce " | + | |
- | there were only two schools of thought, then somebody asked Peter for the English version | + | |
- | if we would be up all night until Ian called for mugs which he said were for a short burst of 'Scotch, after which it was time to retire at 9.30 a m. | + | |
- | Uncle John, whb had already been in bed for two hours trying to get to sleep, declared in no uncertain terms that it was about time too. | + | |
- | ' | + | |
- | moan from the leader (which fell on deaf ears) that we more at least four | + | |
- | hours bdhindschedule | + | |
- | September, 1966 The Sydney Bshwalker 5. | + | |
- | and it was no great surifise When we found ourselves three hundred yards | + | |
- | west of where we should have been. Threo alternatives faced us: to go east to the saddle to the south and then west again total distance 2 miles; go down to the creek9 | + | |
- | and we climbed up the other side across the top of a flat ridge and down into Martins Creek via a side crook. The side creek had several large waterfalls | + | |
- | in it but these were no problem to sidle. Martins Creek was reached well after 11 a m. and after about a thousand yards of rock hopping down the creek we stopped for lunch. | + | |
- | The leader started ranting and raving about the 15 miles distance back to the cars. This seamed | + | |
- | junction the party spread out so we didn' | + | |
- | and Uncle John should go up over Et. Burragorang along the fire trail to the | + | |
- | cars and then bring the cars down the Sheehys Creek road and pick up the mob. | + | |
- | A fire was lit and a community tea was had, Dot as chief disherupper | + | |
- | road to meet the cars. "7e7ve been running since the river" was the story. However, they were too tired to be impressed. | + | |
- | inch high tidal waver | + | |
- | CONGRATULATIONS TO PETER CAMERON AND PATSY MOULDEN ON TiE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT | + | |
- | 6. The Sydney Bushwalker September, 1966 | + | |
- | THE AUGUST GENERAL MEETING. | + | |
Jim Brown. | Jim Brown. | ||
- | ------ started | + | |
- | Minuks | + | Started |
- | the school to be held at Gosford and the date of application had been extended: David Ingram regretted that there was one " | + | |
- | Gordon Redmond advised a month in which receipts were just a little | + | Minutes |
- | in excess of expenditure to give a closing | + | |
- | that were threatened with road development: | + | Gordon Redmond advised a month in which receipts were just a little in excess of expenditure to give a closing |
- | direct concern to us a letter to the Lands Department asking its policy | + | |
- | on transfer of tenure of Era hutments. | + | Phil Butt presented a Federation Report, the items covering Federation' |
- | Phil Butt presented a Federation Report, the items covering Federation' | + | |
- | for a canoe party overdue by l days on the Shoalhaven, advice that Black | + | Gordon Redmond put an addendum along the lines that Federation' |
- | Jerry' | + | |
- | iate passers by making themselves known (except at those times not usually | + | The Walks Report was inaudible. Social Notes related to things that will take place before this is published, so no comment. Before entering on General Business, John White spoke simply of Alan Rigby, and asked us to observe the usual minutes' |
- | regarded as visiting hours). The rest of the meeting, said Phil, went on and on and on, and included the election of officers. Affiliation fees were | + | |
- | fixed for Metropolitan Clubs at 10c per head. The meeting also fixed Feder- | + | No one had any ideas on what form our Christmas Party would take. We were asked to support Federation' |
- | ation events for the ensuim7 | + | |
- | Gordon Redmond put an addendum along the lines that Federation' | + | The first general business stemmed from Gordon Redmond' |
- | he contended. He did not blame the retiring Treasurer who had taken on the | + | |
- | job siDply | + | |
- | The Walks Report was inaudible. Social Notes related to things that | + | |
- | will take place before this is published, so no comment. Before entering on General Business, John White spoke simply of Alan Rigby, and asked us to observe the usual minutes' | + | |
- | September, 1966 The Sydney Bushwalker | + | |
- | No one had any ideas on what form our Christmas Party would take. | + | |
- | We were asked to support Federation' | + | |
- | The first general business stemmed from Gordon Redmond' | + | |
- | remark on Federation' | + | |
- | intermittantly in the past and we voted that it should be " | + | |
This gave rise to the President' | This gave rise to the President' | ||
- | It was pointed out that Federation' | + | |
- | determined on a different footing. We voted to go ahead on our usual date | + | It was pointed out that Federation' |
- | anyway. | + | |
- | Dot Butler reported being in touch with Rev. Father Coughlan on behalf of the Club's Cycling Section and finding that he had no objection to walkers using the shelter of the hut; but asked that people going that way give him some prior advice. Eddie Stretton asked if the Club had a | + | Dot Butler reported being in touch with Rev. Father Coughlan on behalf of the Club's Cycling Section and finding that he had no objection to walkers using the shelter of the hut; but asked that people going that way give him some prior advice. Eddie Stretton asked if the Club had a Cycling section and it was suggested that we had one "de facto" |
- | Cycling section and it was suggested that we had one "de facto" | + | |
- | After the debacle of July the President was obviously relieved that his call "Tho'd be a Room Steward, who, who, who" did evoke three " | + | After the debacle of July the President was obviously relieved that his call "Who'd be a Room Steward, who, who, who" did evoke three " |
- | GO 7ALKABOUT. | + | |
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+ | =====Go Walkabout.===== | ||
Jack Gentle. | Jack Gentle. | ||
- | The novelty has worn off the motor car. There is no doubt that the | + | |
- | tide is turning. Walking is coming back into fashion. | + | The novelty has worn off the motor car. There is no doubt that the tide is turning. Walking is coming back into fashion. |
- | Consider this novel phenomenon. Some young executives bound for lunch spend ten minutes trying to get a taxi to carry them at a snail' | + | |
- | an important lesson. | + | Consider this novel phenomenon. Some young executives bound for lunch spend ten minutes trying to get a taxi to carry them at a snail' |
- | 8. The Sydney Bushwalker September, 1966 | + | |
- | =1.111= ml.....il11 | + | Rapid transit is often the slowest way of getting somewhere. In England, country walking never went completely out of fashion, and the public right of way along traditional paths across private property is jealously protected to this day. The German students' |
- | Rapid transit is often the slowest way of getting somewhere. In | + | |
- | England, country walking never went completely out of fashion, and the public right of way along traditional paths across private property is jealously protected to this day. The German students' | + | The significant fact is that such pedestrian tours are not merely for those who cannot afford anything else - their advantages, as well as their economy, have come to be what count. Another recent phenomenon operates positively in the same direction: the rediscovery of nature. Books about animals, plants, mountains and oceans are being bought in unprecedented numbers. Thoreau is more widely read today than ever before, and one of the things we are learning from him is that nature is as wonderful in the small and near as in grandiose and remote. |
- | ceased to be a respectable tradition, and within the last 'decade youth | + | |
- | hostels have become increasingly familiar all over nurope | + | Once you get into the bush there is no substitute for legs. That is true whether your taste is for the ambitious walking or for " |
- | other nations have discovered them and the European tour conducted at least | + | |
- | partly on foot has become increasingly popular. | + | Two hundred and fifty years ago the London poet John Gay wrote a descriptive poem entitled |
- | The significant fact is that such pedestrian tours are not merely for those who cannot afford anything else their advantages, as well as | + | |
- | their economy, have come to be what count. Another recent phenomenon operates positively in the same direction: the rediscovery of nature. Books about animals, plants, mountains and oceans are being bought in unprecedented numbers. Thoreau is more widely read today than ever before, and one of the things we are learning from him is that nature is as wonderful in the | + | Demosthenes composed his orations while walking on the beach. |
- | small and near as in grandiose and remote. | + | |
- | Once you get into the bush there is no substitute for legs. That is true whether your taste is for the ambitious walking or for " | + | ---- |
- | their concrete footpaths will find that city walking also affords delight. | + | |
- | You can't get the best of a city from a taxi or a bus (to say nothing of a train), because much of it, like much of the best in the bush, is made up of little things. | + | For the second time in a month, Death has struck suddenly at the Club ranks. In July we lost Alan Rigby, a well-loved |
- | Two hundred and fifty y ars ago the London poet John Gay wrote a | + | |
- | descriptive poem entitlel"The Art of Walking the Streets of London" | + | ---- |
- | something that is equally true today you learn a city only by walking in it. Thether | + | |
- | both the tongue and the brain. Samuel Johnson, that hater of the country, said some of his best things while waking with Boswell. | + | =====Paddy Made.===== |
- | Demosthenes composed his orations while walking on the beach. | + | |
- | pato taught in a grove. Aristotle who founded modern logic and science was known to his coritemporaries | + | Bushwalking and ski touring have a great deal in common. Because of this it is quite usual to find that most ski tourers are bushwalkers also. Bushwalkers |
- | .111M | + | |
- | For the second time in a month, Death has struck suddenly at the Cltib ranks. In July we lost Alan Rigby, a wellloved | + | September and October are the good months, why not get yourselves organised and try it? |
- | standing | + | |
- | due to be presented with his Membership badge at the September meeting, lost his life when rockclimbing | + | Call in and have a yarn with Paddy, John or Robert |
- | of the Australian bush and the companionship of bushwalkers, | + | |
- | Bushwalking and ski touring have a great deal in common. Because of this it is quite usual to find that most ski tourers are bushwalkers also. Bush | + | Paddy Pallin Pty Limited. |
- | walkers | + | |
- | perils, interest and adventures of ski touring should take positive steps to do somsthing about it. | + | 109A Bathurst Street, 1st Floor, Cnr. George Street, Sydney. Phone 26-2685. |
- | September and October are the gond months, why not | + | |
- | get yourselves organised and try it? | + | ---- |
- | Call in And have a yarn with Paddy, John or Robert | + | |
- | just three of the walkers at Paddys who caught the ski touring | + | |
- | PADDY PALLIN PTY LIMITED. | + | |
- | 109A Bathurst Street, | + | |
- | 1st Floor, Cnr. George Street, | + | |
- | Sydney. | + | |
- | Phone 26-2685. | + | |
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- | 10. The Sydney Bushwaiker , | + | |
BEWARE! | BEWARE! | ||
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