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===January 1969.=== | ===January 1969.=== | ||
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- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Northcote Buildings, Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney. Postal Address: Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney. | ||
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- | |**Editor**|Ross Wyborn, 1/73 Harris Street, Harris Park 2150| | ||
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=====Contents.===== | =====Contents.===== | ||
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|Danae Brook|Barry Wallace|13| | |Danae Brook|Barry Wallace|13| | ||
|Mopping up after bushfires|Marie B. Byles|15| | |Mopping up after bushfires|Marie B. Byles|15| | ||
- | |Corrigenda for teh current walks programme| |16| | + | |Corrigenda for the current walks programme| |16| |
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- | |A note fromteh | + | |A note from the President|Frank Rigby|19| |
|Blue Mountains passes| |20| | |Blue Mountains passes| |20| | ||
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- | SPRING IS THE SEASON OF THE SOUL | + | =====Spring Is The Season Of The Soul.===== |
Bill Gillam | Bill Gillam | ||
- | %..there are alpine meadows, granite boulders, snow gums, long days, crisp 'nights, good views, and where it is still springtime at 6,000 feet on Morgan, Murray, and BiMberi." (Pat Harrison 1968) | + | |
- | "The corollary of long 'days is short nights" | + | "...there are alpine meadows, granite boulders, snow gums, long days, crisp nights, good views, and where it is still springtime at 6,000 feet on Morgan, Murray, and Bimberi." (Pat Harrison 1968) |
- | (Pithekoi. Greek Philosopher and Dramatist. 435 B.C.) | + | |
- | Thosb who beleive | + | "The corollary of long days is short nights" |
- | 'and disillusion is no more than a cloudy, day; He was, in fact, not claiming much; At sea :level Spring was only thirteen days past, ,of4, | + | |
- | The first thing to do was to find Frank Rigby, and the manner | + | Thosb who beleive advance publicity, indeed any publicity, bring to my mind a picture of the Childrens' |
- | Glendale Crossing, Gudgenby.River... Half past twelve. At one ()clock I softened the ground sufficiently to rest on, at two an immense, dazzling thin sliver of moon woke me, at three I took my skivvy from my inadequate pillow to stop the convulsive shivering of my legs, then forty minutes later threw'a stone at the giggling' | + | |
- | By half past eight and another forty miles we had left the oars, gaed in awe-at the'mountains, ventilated our lungs to the lowest lobe, and'started | + | The first thing to do was to find Frank Rigby, and the manner |
- | January, 1969 The Sydney Bushwalker | + | |
- | then flung our packs onto the first available alpine meadow. That was a mistake. Pat could see the bulk of Horgan | + | Glendale Crossing, Gudgenby River. Half past twelve. At one o'clock I softened the ground sufficiently to rest on, at two an immense, dazzling thin sliver of moon woke me, at three I took my skivvy from my inadequate pillow to stop the convulsive shivering of my legs, then forty minutes later threw a stone at the giggling kookaburras and shamed Pat by getting up before him. The first long day had begun. |
- | He could not, and we would not, rest until it was knocked over, log book signed, the reddust | + | |
- | manl He had persuaded us to leave tents behind, offering the comforts of Oldideldts | + | By half past eight and another forty miles we had left the cars, gazed in awe at the mountains, ventilated our lungs to the lowest lobe, and started |
- | unattainable. We ran. re took fences to indicate we were nearing the hut, we pointed the map at trig stations to convince ourselves we were falling behind. | + | |
- | I had a daytime hallucination | + | Inertia won the day. Frank thought he would go higher if he rested longer. We rested. |
- | from the stream had found it salt. With five hours of daylight remaining we arrived, rested, and then the weather showing only daytype | + | |
- | suggested camping in Murray' | + | The moon, the shivering as before, the birds as before. I had the first match to the fire as Pat came running with his rubber hose to persuade the larger logs to burn. It was four oclock. Breakfast was a leisurely meal of thirty two minutes, a pensive burning and burying of tins, a positively gracious drying out of sleeping bags drenched by dew, a prolonged putting out of the fire, and then we sat down until six o' |
- | Stunned silence. Utter disbelief. Aghast. Long days surely meant long hoUrs of daylight. Not long days. I pointed out that I was descended from Early Settlers, that I had caught and, carried a grasshopper and that there was a trout stream flanked. by superb campsites. | + | |
- | Inertia won the day. Frank thought he would go higher if he rested longer. | + | Frank was sure he would go high. We ventilated our lungs. Frank ran up the fire trail, heel and toed across alpine meadows, flung down his pack at Murray's Gap, shouted Bimberi, and then saw the thick mist coming from the Cotter side of the wateshed. Would he be able to go to the top before the weather closed in? He was determined. A man in such an elevated mood is wonderful to contemplate. Run to the trig, identify the Main Range as before, run down, pick up pack, climb Murray feeling as though he had any number of Bimberis left in him, and then lunch in yet another alpine meadow, having done two six thousand |
- | We rested.iffe dined. We were so intent on the conservation of energy that we | + | |
- | spoke in monosyllables. We slept. | + | It is a feeling not given to many men. A feeling of euphoria. A " |
- | The moon, the shivering as before, the birds as before. I had the first | + | |
- | match to the fire as Pat came running with his rubber hose to persuade the larger logs to burn. It was four oclock. Breakfast was a leisurely meal of | + | ---- |
- | thirty two minutes, a pensive burning and burying of tins, a positively gracious | + | |
- | drying out of sleeping bags drenched by dew, a prolonged putting out of the | + | |
- | fire, and then we sat down until six ocloCk. | + | |
- | Frank was sure he would go high. We ventilated our lungs. Frank ran up the fire trail, heel anastoed | + | |
- | of the wateshed. Would. he be able to go to the top before the weather closed in? He was determined. A man in such an elevated mood is wonderful to contemplate. Run to the trig, identify the Main Range as before, run down, pick up pack, climb Murray feeling as though he had any number. of Bimberis left in him, and then lunch in yet another alpine meadow, having done two six thousand | + | |
- | ,- the one morning. | + | |
- | .77 | + | |
- | It is a feeling not given to many men. A feeling of euphoria. A 6)stoi)& | + | |
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- | 4 The Sydney Bushwalker January, | + | |
UP IN THE MORNING- EARLY | UP IN THE MORNING- EARLY | ||
Pat Harrison | Pat Harrison |
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