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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 | + | =====Up Early In The Morning.===== |
- | 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 | + | |
Pat Harrison | Pat Harrison | ||
- | The leader of a walk is always mightily pleased when Friday night comes, for then he knows that there can be no more. changes in who is coming and who is not coming. The phone calls were at an end and the party for the Yaouk | + | |
- | walk on 14/15 December was finally stabilised at six members. Ross Hughes collected Shirley Dean and Bill Gillam and headed for the Seven Seas Cafe at Canberra, while David Cotton collected me and headed for the same rendezvous, where we all met Frank Rigby at 10.40 p.m. The two vehicles then set out for Glendale Crossing on the Gudgenby River and decided to camp there because it | + | The leader of a walk is always mightily pleased when Friday night comes, for then he knows that there can be no more changes in who is coming and who is not coming. The phone calls were at an end and the party for the Yaouk walk on 14/15 December was finally stabilised at six members. Ross Hughes collected Shirley Dean and Bill Gillam and headed for the Seven Seas Cafe at Canberra, while David Cotton collected me and headed for the same rendezvous, where we all met Frank Rigby at 10.40 p.m. The two vehicles then set out for Glendale Crossing on the Gudgenby River and decided to camp there because it was the only place for forty miles around where a fire could be lit. After a cup of Bill' |
- | was the only place for forty miles around where a fire could be lit. After a cup of Billts | + | |
- | so brightly over all that I had a half-awake confused dream that the nearby Tracking Station was engaged in an inter-planetary.war.with Mars and I re4ly expected little men to carry me away at any moment. It was worth a 225-mile drive just to camp under such a moon in such a place on such a night. | + | We were up for an early breakfast on Saturday morning and climbed into the cars at 6.00 a.m. for the last stage of the drive to Yaouk and points north. The road climbed |
- | We were up for an early breakfast on Saturday morning and climbed, into | + | |
- | the cars at 6.00 a.m. for the last stage of the drive to YaoUk and points north. The road cliMbed | + | We parked the cars at a timbergetter' |
- | 7b parked the cars at a timbergetter' | + | |
- | Horgan, but the timbergetter | + | Oldfield's Hut is sited in a beautiful meadow, and the alpine flowers were beginning to show; there was also a most imposing view of Bimberi Peak: but Frank Rigby detests huts (and I must admit that Oldfield' |
- | Whatsoever --- he knew less than we aia about the area. However, we found the Bung Harris Track and in pretty | + | |
- | Oldfield/s Hut is sited in a beautiful meadow, and the alpine flowers were beginning to shawl there was also a most imposing view of Bimberi Peak: but Frank Rigby detests huts (and I must admit that Oldfieldis | + | Bill Gillam tied his fishing line to a pole that would have made Izaak Walton |
- | January, 1969 The Sydney Bushwalker 5 | + | |
- | Bill Gillam tied his fishing line to a pole that would have made Izaak Walton | + | We had reached Oldfield' |
- | We had reached Oldfield' | + | |
- | TS were up early again on Sunday morning and in due course Frank announced that he had a Bimberi in him today. The party had protested somewhat about early rising and about early starts, but it was the poor leader who was still dousing the fire at 6.00 a.m. while the rest of them were galloping down, the Goodradigbee and heading for Murray Gap. Leaders of walks can never win. If the walk goes perfectly, the others just regard that as,it should be; but odium is heaped upon the poor fellow if things go wrong. | + | We were up early again on Sunday morning and in due course Frank announced that he had a Bimberi in him today. The party had protested somewhat about early rising and about early starts, but it was the poor leader who was still dousing the fire at 6.00 a.m. while the rest of them were galloping down the Goodradigbee and heading for Murray Gap. Leaders of walks can never win. If the walk goes perfectly, the others just regard that as it should be; but odium is heaped upon the poor fellow if things go wrong. |
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We dumped our packs at Murray Gap and a deaf ear was turned to subtle interpretations of the snowy mist that was rising from the Cotter Valley. Murray Gap is a glorious place to camp, with water right in the Gap; but there is an even better place on Dunn's Flat Creek about halfway between Oldfield' | We dumped our packs at Murray Gap and a deaf ear was turned to subtle interpretations of the snowy mist that was rising from the Cotter Valley. Murray Gap is a glorious place to camp, with water right in the Gap; but there is an even better place on Dunn's Flat Creek about halfway between Oldfield' | ||
- | Bimberi Peak was climbed and about forty minutes was spent there in picking out landmarks around the skyline | + | |
- | -Badk to Murray Gap, Picked | + | Bimberi Peak was climbed and about forty minutes was spent there in picking out landmarks around the skyline - the Snowy Mountains, the Bogong Peaks over near Yarrangobilly, |
- | There are two summits on Murray, the easterly one apparently the higher, and it was from the jumbled mass of granite boulders on this end that we dropped | + | |
- | Everybody had a wash in the icy water of Bung Harris Creek, and we all set off for IMMO at 3.40 p.m. I am somewhat nervous these days of motor vehicles, having recently been in one that was rolled; consequently you will appreciate how I felt when David came down Fitz's Hill in top gear with his brake linings burning and smoking furiously; but despite all my fears I at last fell asleep near Piton and David was allowed to drive the last leg of the journey in peace. | + | Back to Murray Gap, picked |
- | 6 The Sydney Bushwalker Jp.nuarY, | + | |
- | AT am DECEMBER MEETING | + | There are two summits on Murray, the easterly one apparently the higher, and it was from the jumbled mass of granite boulders on this end that we dropped |
- | r....amrr11r, | + | |
- | reportedy Alex' | + | Everybody had a wash in the icy water of Bung Harris Creek, and we all set off for home at 3.40 p.m. I am somewhat nervous these days of motor vehicles, having recently been in one that was rolled; consequently you will appreciate how I felt when David came down Fitz's Hill in top gear with his brake linings burning and smoking furiously; but despite all my fears I at last fell asleep near Piton and David was allowed to drive the last leg of the journey in peace. |
- | . 'After convoying | + | |
- | 'The minutos,of the previous meeting gave rise to two reports. The first, from Barry Pacey our Social Secretary explained the mystery of the missing dinner dance tickets,. The number of tickets printed | + | ---- |
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- | ' | + | =====At Our December Meeting.===== |
- | October alpine | + | |
- | ity for the accident, it was thought advisable to hold the report as: a safeguard. | + | reportedy Alex Colley |
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- | . , | + | After conveying |
- | , corredpondence were letters | + | |
- | $30 to $1009000. . | + | The minutes |
- | , From the Dungalla'Club there came a list of officers (Mori Berry, President; Ian Malcolm and Rene ;Brown Vice-Presidents; | + | |
- | of whether the " | + | The other report |
- | Jgtnuary; 1969 The Sydney Bushwalker 7 | + | |
+ | In corredpondence were letters | ||
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+ | From the Dungalla Club there came a list of officers (Mori Berry, President; Ian Malcolm and Rene Brown, Vice-Presidents; | ||
The Treasurer reported income for the month Of $8 and outgoings Of $88. Nevertheless our bank balance remained at a healthy $460. | The Treasurer reported income for the month Of $8 and outgoings Of $88. Nevertheless our bank balance remained at a healthy $460. | ||
- | The Talks Secretary reported an active month, despite unpleasant conditions. Most popular walk of the month was Frank Rigby' | + | |
- | love of the bush, the popularity of the leader, or free afternoon tea that | + | The Walks Secretary reported an active month, despite unpleasant conditions. Most popular walk of the month was Frank Rigby' |
- | attracted 20 starters on Owen Nark's Burning Palms walk, may never be known; but, good as his word, the leader produced an eggbeater, a bowl and cream, | + | |
- | and ran up a batch of pikelets for afternoon tea, which was enjoyed by all. | + | Though we are used to bits being taken off parks it came as a pleasant surprise to hear that several parks are having bits added. |
- | David Cotton was substitute leader for Joan Rigby' | + | |
- | trip, attended-by '18 starters | + | The question |
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- | Trip". Somehow it ended up down the wollongambie. | + | A report in the course of " |
- | Though we are used to bits being taken off parks it came as a pleasant | + | |
- | surprise to hear that several parks are having bits added. | + | It was also reported that Nadgee, |
- | The cluGstion | + | not open to walkers over the holiday period. |
- | were never sold anyway (so it was merely a " | + | |
- | A report in the course of " | + | In view of the holding of our dinner dance on October 18th, Committee had decided not to put on a Club Christmas party because the interval between parties would be too short. |
- | haa to vacate their Club rooms at one month' | + | |
- | own rooms might be,choice real estate bait for a developer, so perhaps we | + | |
- | should. be prepared. A committee of Owen Marks and Ramon U/Brien, with power to coopt, was appointed to specify the Club's needs and report on any suitable premises, | + | |
- | Grounds | + | |
- | It was also reported that Nadgee, | + | |
- | not open to walkers over the-holiday period. | + | |
- | In view of the holding of our dinner dance on October 18th, Committee had decided not to put on a Club Christmas party because the interval between | + | |
- | parties would be too short, | + | |
The meeting ended with the expression of Christmas good wishes to members from the President. | The meeting ended with the expression of Christmas good wishes to members from the President. | ||
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