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- | A Walk to Wallabadah Pat Harrison. Z | + | ==== CONTENTS ==== |
- | Target for 12 Years Jim Brown 6 | + | |
- | Mt. Equipment Ad 10 | + | |
- | Hope Observed Observer 11 | + | |
- | Joy ReMembered II 12 | + | |
- | Paddy' | + | |
- | The December General Mooring J. Brown 15 | + | |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest | + | ^ ^ ^ Page ^ |
+ | |A Walk to Wallabadah |Pat Harrison | ||
+ | |Target for 12 Years |Jim Brown |6 | | ||
+ | |Hope Observed | ||
+ | |Joy Remembered |Observer | ||
+ | |December General Meeting|J. Brown |15 | | ||
- | Editor: Bill Gillam, 19 Old Bush Road, Engadine 2233 | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bushwalkers, |
- | Business Manager: Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118 | + | |
- | Typist: Christa Younger, 71 Yarran Road, Oatley, 2223 | + | ^ |
- | Illustrators: Helen Gray, 209 Malton Road, Epping 2121 | + | |**Editor |
+ | |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford 2118| | ||
+ | |**Typist | ||
+ | |**Illustrators** |Helen Gray, 209 Malton Road, Epping 2121 | | ||
- | MIMINI10 O.NOMINNI | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalkers | + | ===== The Sydney Bushwalkers |
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January, 1970. | January, 1970. | ||
- | A Walk to Wallabadah | + | ==== A Walk to Wallabadah |
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Pat Harrison | Pat Harrison | ||
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Jim Brow | Jim Brow | ||
- | I suppose you could say it _Fas Pba Harrisonyfno | + | I suppose you could say it was Pat Harrison who started it all, well, at least he revived an old flame that had been dormant for about ten years. |
- | Originally it was back in 1957 that I developed a yearning to visit Broken Rock, that elongated Mount Solitary formation which is the northern end of the ridge dividing Green Wattle Creek and Butchers Creek. The trouble was that I considered it should be practicable to do the trip comfortably in an ordinary two day weekend, and it didn't turn out that may, - | + | Originally it was back in 1957 that I developed a yearning to visit Broken Rock, that elongated Mount Solitary formation which is the northern end of the ridge dividing Green Wattle Creek and Butchers Creek. The trouble was that I considered it should be practicable to do the trip comfortably in an ordinary two day weekend, and it didn't turn out that way. |
- | Over the next two years I made three abortive attempts to reach Broken Rock Trig. The first started from Yerranderie you could stbill 4eive there via Burragorang at that time Jack Gentle anct, | + | |
- | s Main Range to Branfan, | + | |
- | A few months later I was at it again; this time from Bimlow, the lower Cox River and Green riattle | + | Over the next two years I made three abortive attempts to reach Broken Rock Trig. The first started from Yerranderie you could still get |
- | The third bid once again from Yerranderie, | + | |
- | At that stage I threw up my.hands in disgust, declared | + | |
- | that Broken Rock grapes were sour, and wrote it off. Except that, over the years I occasionally found myself | + | A few months later I was at it again; this time from Bimlow, the lower Cox River and Green Wattle |
- | 7. The Sydney Bushwa, | + | |
- | Thou Pat Harrison took a party over it on the Anzac Holiday week-end, coming in from ,Katangra by the .Gingra-Range and Cedar, - Road. It was reported ' | + | |
- | Putting the plan into execution I left the car at ' | + | The third bid once again from Yerranderie, |
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+ | At that stage I threw up my hands in disgust, declared that Broken Rock grapes were sour, and wrote it off. Except that, over the years I occasionally found myself | ||
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+ | Then Pat Harrison took a party over it on the Anzac Holiday week-end, coming in from Katangra by the Gingra Range and Cedar Road. It was reported 'Cuite fully in the magazine | ||
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+ | Putting the plan into execution I left the car at ' | ||
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There followed about three hours up the KOy.t1.42.11g; | There followed about three hours up the KOy.t1.42.11g; | ||
- | crossings coinciding with a black snake who was syrimming. | + | crossings coinciding with a black snake who was swimming |
- | passed the Catholic ' | + | |
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- | A fet hundred yards further south and I was striking off along a ridge to the east. Judging from the map, the northern side of this spur could bring me down into Butchers Greek below the 400 ft, contour, where I could be marooned by Warragamlla | + | A few hundred yards further south and I was striking off along a ridge to the east. Judging from the map, the northern side of this spur could bring me down into Butchers Greek below the 400 ft contour, where I could be marooned by Warragamba |
- | It seemed sensible to go downstream-until I was opposite the northern limit of the cliff line, passing on the way quite a few evidences of farming activity in the days before the flooding of the valley - bits of old fencing wire, short lengths of rough road, even a small herd of half wild cattle. Finally. I camped just above the slack water on a wide flat with open forest. | + | |
- | The next day was to be Broken Lock Day, of cburse9 | + | |
- | 8. The Sydney Bushwalker. January, | + | It seemed sensible to go downstream until I was opposite the northern limit of the cliff line, passing on the way quite a few evidences of farming activity in the days before the flooding of the valley - bits of old fencing wire, short lengths of rough road, even a small herd of half wild cattle. Finally I camped just above the slack water on a wide flat with open forest. |
- | crest, at map reference Bimlow 352062. | + | |
- | The way ahead now dropped slightly, and followed the rim of a kind of causeway leading to the end of the cliff line. The morning was brilliant, the eastern slopes vanishing into a hazy golden film of light, with ghostly timbered slopes rising beyond. I was ,surprised how little of the Cox Valley I could descry | + | |
- | The causeway section, and a further climb of about 500 feet brought | + | The next day was to be Broken Lock Day, of course |
- | Somewhere about 11.0 a.m. I came to a place whEre the cliff appeared to break down. I examined it carefully, as this was the proposed route off the range and came to the conclusion that it would " | + | |
- | The pack was loft at the lunch spot, and with just a camera I went on to the highest point, Broken Rock Trig 2506', twenty minutes or so to the south. Once on it, it was obviously the top of the range, with a nice outlook south to the blue breaks around Yerranderie, | + | The way ahead now dropped slightly, and followed the rim of a kind of causeway leading to the end of the cliff line. The morning was brilliant, the eastern slopes vanishing into a hazy golden film of light, with ghostly timbered slopes rising beyond. I was surprised how little of the Cox Valley I could describe |
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+ | The causeway section, and a further climb of about 500 feet brought | ||
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+ | Somewhere about 11.0 a.m. I came to a place where the cliff appeared to break down. I examined it carefully, as this was the proposed route off the range and came to the conclusion that it would " | ||
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+ | The pack was left at the lunch spot, and with just a camera I went on to the highest point, Broken Rock Trig 2506', twenty minutes or so to the south. Once on it, it was obviously the top of the range, with a nice outlook south to the blue breaks around Yerranderie, | ||
That follows is always anti-climax: | That follows is always anti-climax: | ||
The final morning had a dreamlike. quality. There were several steam-hauled tour trains abroad tha I was keen to sight. To fit in with their schedules, I moved off at 3.30 a.m. and saw:- | The final morning had a dreamlike. quality. There were several steam-hauled tour trains abroad tha I was keen to sight. To fit in with their schedules, I moved off at 3.30 a.m. and saw:- | ||
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