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198403 [2016/03/17 15:38] – [THE FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING.] kclacher | 198403 [2016/03/17 15:43] – [KANANGRA TO CARLONS.] kclacher | ||
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==== MARCH 1984 ==== | ==== MARCH 1984 ==== | ||
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|Social Notes for April | | 16| | |Social Notes for April | | 16| | ||
- | ===== S.B.W. OFFICE BEARERS - 1984 ===== | + | ===== S.B.W. OFFICE BEARERS - 1984. ===== |
The following office-bearers and committee members were elected at the S.B.W. Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 1984:- | The following office-bearers and committee members were elected at the S.B.W. Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 1984:- | ||
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===== KANANGRA TO CARLONS ===== | ===== KANANGRA TO CARLONS ===== | ||
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"Carra Beanga Falls," | "Carra Beanga Falls," | ||
- | George wanted to camp at the junction of Kanangra Creek and what we were calling Sally Camp Creek. (Actually, this junction is of Kanangra Creek and Kanangra River - Sally Camp Creek flows into the Kanangra River.) 4 pm arrived, and no Sally Camp Creek. George reckoned we were nearly there; | + | George wanted to camp at the junction of Kanangra Creek and what we were calling Sally Camp Creek. (Actually, this junction is of Kanangra Creek and Kanangra River - Sally Camp Creek flows into the Kanangra River.) 4 pm arrived, and no Sally Camp Creek. George reckoned we were nearly there; |
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- | __Sunday.__ An 8.30 am start, and more wet feet. The sun shone, the flowers bloomed and the river sparkled. Twenty minutes after starting we came to a large side creek, swirling past an enormous grassy flat. The elusive junction - complete with olympic swimming pool of pale turquoise blue. George declared it would be an easy morning walk to the Coxs, so we pottered along enjoying the views. Kanangra River is always pretty. Right then it was a photographer' | + | |
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- | About 11 an there were no more ridges ahead of us. Konangaroo Clearing. We had an early lunch; not one minute too early in fact, because at noon the first spots of rain came down. Only sporadic showers at first, but the clouds thickened and the rain became continuous. A wisp of smoke from the chimney of the hut, and several fat horses grazing on the lush grass. Carlon must have had a small party down for the long weekend. | + | |
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- | After the heavy rains, the Coxs was a real river again, instead of the poor shrunken thing it has been for the past three years. We had to search to find crossings, and I envied the horses, with their long legs. The water was at least 12 cm higher than it had been when I was there at Christmas. At one place where I had crossed without difficulty, the water was hip deep and running fast. After much floundering about, I found two connecting sand bars, which enabled the rest of the party to ford only knee deep. I felt sorry for Jodius, who was shorter than the rest of us, and consequently got much wetter. | + | |
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- | About 4 pm we arrived. at a wide grassy flat which George declared to be Davies Camp. Brian disagreed and said that the optimum spot was a little further. So we went a little further, and came to Breakfast Creek. Three tents, neatly connected together by a green flysheet, formed a little village on the only large flat spot. After some debate with Brian, George decided to proceed to Jenolan River. We exchanged a few pleasant words with the villagers and slogged across the Coxs once more. | + | |
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- | On the opposite sandbank lay a vast silvery bundle. It proved to be two gigantic plastic bags, each large enough to hold a small car. They had been abandoned by their previouS owners beside a particularly dirty | + | |
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- | Lugging our treasure-trove, | + | |
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- | Then, like a couple of devotees to some obscure cult, we knelt beside it breathing life into our newly created deity, With much huffing and puffing we persuaded the kindling to burn and dry out the smallest twigs. Some twenty minutes of persistent deep-breathing and our fire-god began to grow. We fed it liberally with assorted logs and encouraged its appetite, with much fanning. At last we had a fire which even the torrential rain could not drown. Just to make sure, George put a couple of tree trunks on top, for extra protection, | + | |
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- | Hot food and drink now assured, we pitched camp. George used his piece of plastic to make a giant fly for himself and Jeff. Brian asked me if I would 'like a piece of his Just a small piece please, for a groundsheet, | + | |
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- | The rain was relentless and we didn't stay up late. Joe, Brian and George all had plastic fly sheets and my tent didn't need one. Frank and Jodius both had light tents without flies. When snuggling down on my new groundsheet I noticed torches flashing about in their tents and wondered why. | + | |
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- | __Monday.__ I woke about 4 am, for a short but essential wander. I stared in-bleary-eyed astonishment at the pale pre-dawn sky. Not only had it stopped raining, but the clouds had vanished. Must be imagining things, I thought, and slept for another hour. We breakfasted as the sun gilded the rock faces of the twin bluffs and I learned that Frank and Jodius had slept on water beds. There ought to be a law against selling light tents | + | |
- | with sewn-in floors. One tiny leak, and you spend night swimming around like a goldfish in a bowl. | + | |
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- | Having dried most of our gear, we set out. in sparkling sunshine for our last wade across the river, It had been two years since I visited that part of the Coxs. On the last visit there was scarcely enough water to wet | + | |
- | my ankles; now it was hard to cross less than hip deep. After battling nettles and head-high thistles we stopped for morning tea. The hardy ones braved the swirling amber torrent and foaming cascades for a swim. I contented myself with yet another photo. | + | |
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- | Presently, the first blackberry bushes appeared. Then more. Then lots more. Our pace diminished as we spent more time picking than walking. Before long, George declared it was time for a second morning tea and silence | + | |
- | fell on the party. quite rightly too - it's rude to speak with your mouth full. Using gaiters, gloves and some fortitude, I insinuated myself into the middle of a large bush, where I remained for nearly 15 minutes, feeding with both hands. I firmly believe that bushwalkers should eat wild blackberries. Having been slashed by their thorns for eleven months of the year, we are entitled to the reward of any fruit they might produce. At last we could eat no more, and reluctantly left the remaining berries to the birds. | + | |
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- | Lunch - and another drying session at the estuary of Galong Creek. Lounging on the grass, boiling the billy, we debated how to walk out. I would have loved to walk up the creek. All the waterfalls would be at | + | |
- | their best, cascading over the sculptured pink granite and sparkling in the sunshine. But there were also the three pairs of baldy sandshoes to be considered. All too easy for someone to slip on the polished rock and hurt themselves. The cataracts would have to wait for another day. | + | |
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- | Reluctantly abandoning the luscious blackberries of Galong, we climbed up through long grass starred with hundreds of native bluebells (wahlenbergia) to the crest of Tinpot Ridge. Dramatic stormclouds gathered, but despite their black and blue threats, they delivered only a two-minute sprinkle. | + | |
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- | Afternoon tea on Ironpot, sitting in a great field of golden 'straw flowers' | + | |
- | road. All too soon the dinky-toy sheds and vehicles of Carlon' | + | |
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- | The long weekend, alas, was over. | + | |
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- | ===== THE FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING ===== | + | |
- | by Barry Wallace | + | |
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- | The meeting began at about 2023 hours with 20 or so members present and the President in the chair. There was one apology; from Spiro Hajinakitas, | + | |
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- | The only business arising from the Minutes concerned the question of a Club phone contact. After some desultory debate a motion was passed that we discontinue our phone listing. | + | |
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- | Correspondence comprised a letter from the Australian Wilderness Society advising of a forthcoming public meeting, from Steve and Wendy Hodgman requesting transfer to non-active membership, from Span Unlimited advising of a slide night in aid of the Australian Anapurna Expedition, from our archivist, printer, paper procurer and part-time international skier, Phil Butt, concerning the proposed run-out of stocks of imperial sized papers, from Mr. Dick Smith declining the invitation to address the membership at one of our social nights, a notice from the Paddy Pallin Foundation regarding this year's awards, and last of all our letter to the Central Mapping Authority deprecating the recent practice of obscuring map details on the Royal National Park map with depictions of native animals. They have replied that the prints featuring animals sell better to the tourist trade, but that they will re-examine the positioning of the animals before the next printing of the map. | + | |
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- | The Treasurer' | + | |
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- | All of which brought us to the Walks Report. The first news was of Tom Wenman' | + | |
- | David (fair weather) Rostron reported a wash-out of his Kanangra li-lo trip scheduled for 13,14,15 January. Peter Christian cancelled his Heathcote National Park swimming special that same weekend, but John Campbell did lead his abseiling instructional. | + | |
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- | The following weekend, 20,21,22 January saw John Riddell and Bill Holland pooling their resources, so to speak, on the Shoalhaven River. They reported a party of 11 people in all. Peter Christian reported | + | |
- | 18 people and an enjoyable day on his Royal National Park day walk on the Sunday, and John Campbell and his seven starters are reported to have run out of time on his Claustral Canyon trip that same day. | + | |
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- | The Australia Day weekend saw George Walton leading sseven people on his Kanangra to Carlons walk. They reported a good walk with cool weather and some rain. Of Peter Hislop' | + | |
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- | The weekend of 3,4,5 February produced a couple of no reports with both Gordon Lee's and Bill Burke' | + | |
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- | Federation Report indicated only minor items for attention. | + | |
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- | General Business drew forth some debate as to whether we should return to the system of obtaining written walks reports from trip leaders. The discussion did not result in a motion. | + | |
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- | So, then, it was just a matter of announcements, | + | |
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- | ===== BUSHWAIKER RECIPE - HUMUS ===== | + | |
- | A Healthy Spread for Bread, Biscuits.\\ | + | |
- | From Evelyn Walker. | + | |
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- | 2 1/2 cups cooked chick Ped6 (soak overnight) - Simmer for 2 hours.\\ | + | |
- | 1 small onion, minced + 1 clove. of garlic, crushed\\ | + | |
- | 1 1/2 tablespoons tahini (sesame paste) + tbspn. oil lemon juice\\ | + | |
- | 1 tablespoon tamari sauce (or soy sauce)\\ | + | |
- | Blend well to form a spread - it will keep on a trip for several days.\\ | + | |
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- | ===== GREAT WESTERN TIERS AND CENTRAL PLATEAU TASMANIA. ===== | + | |
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- | 26 December 1983 to 9 January 1984.\\ | + | |
- | by A Pawn. | + | |
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- | As we were sitting around our campfire on the second night out Spiro announ9ed that he had been specially commissioned as a reliable reporter of this walk, so Jo put her notebook away, apparently in a bit of a huff. Joan was carefully entering up her diary every day so perhaps the rest of this account comes from her. Who knows? Perhaps one of the pawns on the chessboard, observing the players, is responsible. | + | |
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- | Peter Harris, our leader, played the role of the King. Peter' | + | |
- | constitution also took a bit of a hiding when he succumbed to some deadly bacon (we all took our own food for breakfast on the first four days). Although he was carrying a large first aid kit, and amusing himself by suggesting various parts of the anatomies of the other members that he could doctor with it, this pawn noticed that the treatment seemed to consist entirely of slugs of scotch. It must have worked, because he was able to lead us on a day walk to Forty Lakes Peak, from whose summit at least that many lakes and tarns could be seen. We knew he was better: next morning when he burst into " | + | |
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- | Joan Cooper played the Queen. Joan was always out in front, claiming that she falls into a slothful dawdle if she walks at the rear. On New Year's Day we climbed the Walls of Jerusalem in a gale. "This is terrific," | + | |
- | dessert except tarts. (The King regretted this and had to be satisfied with his little fantasies about nymphs at every lake.) | + | |
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- | Spiro Hajinakitas was the White Knight. Into camp, the fire is lit and the cry " | + | |
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- | Bill Burke played the Black Knight, planning the deployment of his rations in a most efficient fashion. He spent considerable time each day doing mental arithmetic with an air of serious consideration. Is he aspiring to join Mensa or perhaps to sit for the Public Service exam again? This pawn, being privy to his mind, can tell you his train of thought - " | + | |
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- | The White Bishop was played by George Gray. George carried half the communal billies, especially adapted by him to fit together. Playing a good Bishop' | + | |
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- | On New Year's Eve we spotted a possum boldly ransacking a pack, and.during the night George surprised an intruder actually inside the plastic bag lining his pack. He had it by the neck but let it go; later he regretted this charitable action when he found that the dear little thing had actually gnawed through the bottom of his new pack, severed its straps, and made off with his extra salami and a packet of orange barley powder, and left three punctures in a plastic bottle which lost its contents. The same night the little furry creature or his/her mates chewed a large hole in the King's pack and made off with fifteen bucks' worth of ham spec. At the base of the Walls of Jerusalem there is a possum, or Tasmanian devil, or perhaps a tiger-cat, still sleeping off the effects of its grand orgy. We, on the other hand, went soberly to bed at ten. Just goes to show; if we'd roistered noisily all night we'd have been better off in the morning. | + | |
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- | Jo van Sommers was the Black Bishop; another cunning intellectual type with a secret plan to divide her load in two and do the initial climb up the Higgs Track twice - once with the first half and again with the second half. She had thought the Christmas week would be a great way to train for long immersion in cold waters, but not so good for hot climbs, and was quite amazed to find the 2000 ft up through the beech forest was quite manageable after all. How did the canny Bishop get her pack down to 44 lbs when most people had 54 or 55 and two had 60 lbs? It was noticed that she never changed her clothes, had no towel or toiletries other than a tiny toothbrush, felt slippers instead of spare shoes one pair of newish Hercules which lasted the distance without any problem, thermal underwear which is much lighter than woolen trousers, shirt and singlet. The carriers of heavy loads must have had items from the optional list - indeed men were shaving in mirrors, changing their smalls daily without doing any washing, producing clean shirts on the last day. Bill even pulled out an unworn and immaculate pair of long trousers from the bottom of his pack at the end of the walk. | + | |
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- | Dick Mason was the Black Rook, covering a lot of territory. He was a great explorer and bird-watcher. On the evening of our most beautiful campsite, near the summit of the Mountains of Jupiter, beside a tarn and sheltered by a natural amphitheatre, | + | |
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- | Spiro put a stop to the Rook's meanderings by putting him in charge of damper-making that night. Dick turned out a fine specimen, although cynics said that under Spiro' | + | |
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- | Jim Percy played the role of the White Rook. Jim lapped up the longer days of walking, like Day Four from Lake Nameless to Pencil Pine Tarn, which was so hot in the morning that everyone fell asleep during the lunch stop, but later compensated for this by rambling around exploring the numerous pretty lakes set in rocks and pines in the evening. | + | |
- | announcing that he was going home to mother? What was our cheerless bleeder doing changing his fly in the middle of the night?), so we walked around the lakes instead of venturing on to the windy tops. The next day was damp too, but Jim's tent was cosy under the Pines while the rest of the party enjoyed the dark warmth of the hut at Junction Lake. He could have cooked inside if necessary, but instead it turned out that he carried the stove and fuel for the whole way just for the exercise. One would have thought that the Rook would enjoy the breakneck gallop along the Overland Track after we crashed down from the plateau on Day 13, but he wasn't happy with the " | + | |
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- | The party took the long way home via the Cuvier Valley, where most of the mud was dry and the buttongrass afforded a quick passage. I am happy to be able to report that they are all still speaking to each other and are planning a reunion. The Leader did not master the rules and strategies of chess in one lesson, the Queen was persuaded not to pat the cute little Tasmanian devil that came close to the campfire, the Knights did not let us starve, the devious Bishops did not overdo the deep conversations scientific and political, the rangy Rooks finally came home to roost. Thus the game was satisfactorily concluded. | + | |
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- | ===== AVAGOODWEEGEND. ===== | + | |
by Jim Brown. | by Jim Brown. | ||
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Getting back to the Pesto, I think I can foresee a future for it, and perhaps even T.V. advertising like - "When you're on a good thing, stick to it". Maybe - " | Getting back to the Pesto, I think I can foresee a future for it, and perhaps even T.V. advertising like - "When you're on a good thing, stick to it". Maybe - " | ||
- | ===== AN ODE TO 18-TONNE TESS AND SPINDLY SAM. ===== | + | ===== AN ODE TO 18-TONNE TESS AND SPINDLY SAM ===== |
(Pool of Siloam, Walls of Jerusalem; January 1984)\\ | (Pool of Siloam, Walls of Jerusalem; January 1984)\\ | ||
by Peter Harris (with appropriate apologies) | by Peter Harris (with appropriate apologies) | ||
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Some canvas-bloody-gaiters for these tiger-bloody-snakes. | Some canvas-bloody-gaiters for these tiger-bloody-snakes. | ||
- | ===== THE ALPINE WALK JANUARY 1984. ===== | + | ===== THE ALPINE WALK JANUARY 1984 ===== |
- | by Meryl Watman. | + | by Meryl Watman |
- | Leader; Bob Younger. With Christa Younger, Shirley Dean and M. Watman. | + | Leader; Bob Younger. With Christa Younger, Shirley Dean and M. Watman |
From Valhalla to Tom Groggin, the Victorian sector of the Alpine Walk, is approx. 400 km - 160 km of foot tracks, the balance access fire trails, old logging tracks and short distances on road. The countless peaks and radiating spurs seem from the tops of Feathertop and Bogong give a bird's eye view of what must be a very challenging plod yet walkers, many alone, cover it each summer in four to six weeks. | From Valhalla to Tom Groggin, the Victorian sector of the Alpine Walk, is approx. 400 km - 160 km of foot tracks, the balance access fire trails, old logging tracks and short distances on road. The countless peaks and radiating spurs seem from the tops of Feathertop and Bogong give a bird's eye view of what must be a very challenging plod yet walkers, many alone, cover it each summer in four to six weeks. | ||
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400 km of Alpine Walk - well, that remains a challenge. | 400 km of Alpine Walk - well, that remains a challenge. | ||
- | ===== FERRY TRIP ON HAWKESBURY RIVER. ===== | + | ===== FERRY TRIP ON HAWKESBURY RIVER ===== |
How: Comfortable modern Ferry: | How: Comfortable modern Ferry: | ||
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For further details contact SANDY JOHNSON - Tel. 48-3500. | For further details contact SANDY JOHNSON - Tel. 48-3500. | ||
- | ===== AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. ===== | + | ===== AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ===== |
At the Annual General Meeting' | At the Annual General Meeting' | ||
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The Constitutional Amendment to Clause 5(e) of the Constitution moved by Spiro Hajinakitas and seconded by Jo Van Sommers, was LOST. | The Constitutional Amendment to Clause 5(e) of the Constitution moved by Spiro Hajinakitas and seconded by Jo Van Sommers, was LOST. | ||
- | ===== SOCIAL NOTES FOR APRIL. ===== | + | ===== SOCIAL NOTES FOR APRIL ===== |
|April 4 |Committee Meeting | |April 4 |Committee Meeting | ||
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|April 25 |Anzac Day - being a public holiday, the Club will be closed. | |April 25 |Anzac Day - being a public holiday, the Club will be closed. | ||
- | ===== ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 1984. ===== | + | ===== ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 1984 ===== |
The annual subscription6 decided upon at the Annual General Meeting on 14th March are as follows: | The annual subscription6 decided upon at the Annual General Meeting on 14th March are as follows: |
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