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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER's--- | + | |
- | Established June | + | Established June 1931 |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters Of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, | + | |
- | * * * * * * * * * | + | A monthly bulletin of matters Of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, |
- | EDITOR: | + | |
- | BUSINESS MANAGER: | + | |Editor |
- | PRODUCTION MANAGER: | + | |Business Manager |
- | TYPIST: | + | |Production Manager |
- | PRINTERS: | + | |Typist |
- | * * * * * * * * * | + | |Printers |
- | DECEMBER, 1984. | + | |
- | Editorial | + | ===== DECEMBER, 1984 ===== |
- | First Aid Course - St.John Ambulance Kakadu and the Far NOrth | + | |
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- | Any Minute Now. | + | |Editorial |
- | Advrtisement | + | |First Aid Course - St.John Ambulance |
- | A Trip to the Snowy Mountains in January 1875 | + | |Kakadu and the Far North |by Ray & Fusae Dargan | 3| |
- | Letter to the Editor | + | |" |
- | - Club 1/ | + | |Any Minute Now |
- | Page 2 | + | |Advertisement |
- | 2 | + | |A Trip to the Snowy Mountains in January 1875 |
- | by Ray & Fusae Dargan 3 | + | |Letter to the Editor |
- | Peter Christian 5 | + | |Club Walk in Sierra Nevada U.S.A. - 1985 |Bill Gamble |
- | Barbara Evans 6 | + | |Social Notes for January |
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- | Dundas Allen 8 | + | **CHRISTMAS GREETINGS\\ |
- | Col Lander 11 | + | AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR** |
- | Bill Gamble | + | |
- | Roger Browne 12 | + | ===== EDITORIAL |
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- | ACNOD 8E21 vViaeS Fc Th NJ yeA | + | |
- | EDITORIAL. | + | |
What a great year of bushwalking 1984 has been. The bush blossomed in the Spring with wonderful displays of wildflowers, | What a great year of bushwalking 1984 has been. The bush blossomed in the Spring with wonderful displays of wildflowers, | ||
- | With some hiccups the printing of the magazine on the offset printer and new paper finally gave us a new look for, the November issue. We hope you liked the improvements, | + | |
+ | With some hiccups the printing of the magazine on the offset printer and new paper finally gave us a new look for the November issue. We hope you liked the improvements, | ||
Line drawings and maps should create no great difficulties as you can see, so do think of contributing them with or without an article. | Line drawings and maps should create no great difficulties as you can see, so do think of contributing them with or without an article. | ||
- | Letters | + | |
- | Contributions to the magazine are now being solicited (that means eagerly sought) for the February issue in 1985, so if you're just been thinking of writing or drawing or making up a quiz or song or poem or joke act now! | + | **Letters** to the Editor to voice your opinions on walks, social events, conservation issues, or just to let us in on a humourous anecdote or news would be most welcome. |
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+ | **Contributions** to the magazine are now being solicited (that means eagerly sought) for the February issue in 1985, so if you're just been thinking of writing or drawing or making up a quiz or song or poem or joke - **act now**! | ||
I have had my job as Editor made a pleasure by the fine team effort of typist, Kath Brown, and printers and collators, and look forward to producing our magazine in its 54th year. | I have had my job as Editor made a pleasure by the fine team effort of typist, Kath Brown, and printers and collators, and look forward to producing our magazine in its 54th year. | ||
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My best wishes to you all for some fun trips over the summer, and a Happy Xmas. | My best wishes to you all for some fun trips over the summer, and a Happy Xmas. | ||
- | AINSLIE MORRIS. | + | |
- | FIRST AID COURSE | + | Ainslie Morris |
- | ST. JOHN AMBULANCE TRAINING IN CITY. | + | |
- | Need to RENEW your St. John Ambulance First Aid Certificate? | + | ===== FIRST AID COURSE |
- | (It expires after 3 years) | + | |
- | Need to get one because you are on the Search and Rescue list of | + | ==== ST. JOHN AMBULANCE TRAINING IN CITY. ==== |
- | volunteers? (It is compulsory for insurance cover) | + | |
- | Need to upgrade your knowledge of first aid so that you are | + | |
- | confident in its use on bushwalks? | + | |
- | YES? Then come to our Club's special group training session after | + | |
- | Easter in readiness for the winter walking season. | + | |
- | DATES: Weekend of 13th and 14th April 1985 | + | |**Yes?** |Then come to our Club's special group training session after Easter in readiness for the winter walking season. |
- | (Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 5 pm) | + | |**Dates:** |Weekend of 13th and 14th April 1985 | |
- | AND one evening on Wednesday, 17th April (For the exam. 6-8 pm) VENUE: 6 Hunt Street, Surry HIlls. (Train to Central or Museum Stations) | + | | |(Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 5 pm) | |
- | Give your name to Ainslie Morris by phoning 428-3178 or at Club meetngs | + | | |**and** |
- | as soon as possible if you feel your first aid knowledge is not "up to scratch" | + | |**Venue:** |6 Hunt Street, Surry Hills. (Train to Central or Museum Stations) |
- | KAKADU AND THE FAR NORTH | + | |
+ | Give your name to **Ainslie Morris** by phoning 428-3178 or at Club meetings | ||
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+ | ===== KAKADU AND THE FAR NORTH ===== | ||
by Ray and Fusae Dargan. | by Ray and Fusae Dargan. | ||
- | 1984 has been a history-making year. of walking for us. Our first Tasmanian trip from the Walls of Jerusalem to Lake. St. Clair via the Mountains of JUpiter, in January with DAvid Rostron, Craig Austin and Malcolm Steele. Again with DAvid to the Macdonnell | + | |
- | It's the Top End experience that prompts this trip story - not many walkers have been there from our Club whereas our other trips were in better known areas and the Tasmanian and Macdonnell | + | 1984 has been a history-making year of walking for us. Our first Tasmanian trip from the Walls of Jerusalem to Lake. St. Clair via the Mountains of Jupiter, in January with David Rostron, Craig Austin and Malcolm Steele. Again with David to the MacDonnell |
- | A good way to do the far north would be to start by hiring a 4-W.D. vehicle in Darwin and allow at least a week, but possibly two or three. This was not what we did as we stayed with Patrick McBride, now living in Jabiru and involved in conservation-related aspects of the uranium mining. We did several trips from Jabiru as a base. | + | |
+ | It's the Top End experience that prompts this trip story - not many walkers have been there from our Club whereas our other trips were in better known areas and the Tasmanian and MacDonnell | ||
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+ | A good way to do the far north would be to start by hiring a 4WD. vehicle in Darwin and allow at least a week, but possibly two or three. This was not what we did as we stayed with Patrick McBride, now living in Jabiru and involved in conservation-related aspects of the uranium mining. We did several trips from Jabiru as a base. | ||
July is the best month, the coolest month, and approximately equivalent to Sydney summer climate although rain is almost unknown at that time of year. August and September are much hotter and any earlier in the year floodwaters from the monsoon may still close roads to desirable areas. | July is the best month, the coolest month, and approximately equivalent to Sydney summer climate although rain is almost unknown at that time of year. August and September are much hotter and any earlier in the year floodwaters from the monsoon may still close roads to desirable areas. | ||
- | OBIRI AND EAST ALLIGATOR REGION. | + | |
- | In the region of Obiri Rock and East Alligator can be seen some | + | ==== Obiri and East Alligator Region ==== |
- | of the best Aboriginal rock painting in Australia, some very large wetland lagoons and swamps, numerous birds of many species and the abundant wetland plant life. The birds, plants and crocodiles are not nearly as accessable | + | In the region of Obiri Rock and East Alligator can be seen some of the best Aboriginal rock painting in Australia, some very large wetland lagoons and swamps, numerous birds of many species and the abundant wetland plant life. The birds, plants and crocodiles are not nearly as accessible |
The region certainly establishes the significance of Aboriginal rock painting as art and compares well with the bark painting in the Art Gallery of N.S.W. The Tasmanian Tiger is included in the Obiri art indicating its presence in the region within the last few thousand years. The East Alligator River is typical of the tidal streams and mangrove swamps of the area - and in common with all the lagoons and creeks of the monsoonal flood plains, not recommended for swimming because of the crocs. | The region certainly establishes the significance of Aboriginal rock painting as art and compares well with the bark painting in the Art Gallery of N.S.W. The Tasmanian Tiger is included in the Obiri art indicating its presence in the region within the last few thousand years. The East Alligator River is typical of the tidal streams and mangrove swamps of the area - and in common with all the lagoons and creeks of the monsoonal flood plains, not recommended for swimming because of the crocs. | ||
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Arnhem Land is a sandstone escarpment which rises several hundred feet above and to the east of the flood plains of the Alligator River system. | Arnhem Land is a sandstone escarpment which rises several hundred feet above and to the east of the flood plains of the Alligator River system. | ||
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In the region of Obiri numerous outlying bluffs of the escarpment occur. As the region was close to Jabiru we spent some time climbing onto these cliffs and bluffs (usually in the evenings) and were rewarded with exciting views and sunsets. | In the region of Obiri numerous outlying bluffs of the escarpment occur. As the region was close to Jabiru we spent some time climbing onto these cliffs and bluffs (usually in the evenings) and were rewarded with exciting views and sunsets. | ||
- | COOINDA. | + | |
- | Cooinda is a surprisingly pleasing commercial motel/ | + | ==== Cooinda ==== |
- | usual bushwalking areas. It was possible for us to hire a large motored punt and spend an evexing | + | Cooinda is a surprisingly pleasing commercial motel/ |
- | of crocodiles and birds. We sighted five crocs, two at very close quarters, and about 30 species of birds in two hours on the billabong. | + | |
- | Page 4 | + | |
- | - THE-SYLNEi k.gHWiLKER ' December, 1984. | + | |
We had the punt as close as three metres to a Jabiru crane and equally close to many other birds. The wildlife is well accustomed to the organised boat trips available each morning and evening and therefore quite unafraid. By hiring a punt we had much better opportunity to see the wild life than was possible as a passenger on the organised punt trips. Had we had the time we should have camped the night and repeated the exercise the following morning. Bird species to be seen include the Pied Goose, Straw-necked Ibis, Plumed Egret, Black Cockatoo, Nankeen Night Heron, Lotus Bird, White-breasted Sea Eagle, Burdekin Duck, Jabiru Crane, Chestnut-quilled Pigeon, Whistling Kite, Rainbow Bee-eater, Blue Winged Kookaburra. | We had the punt as close as three metres to a Jabiru crane and equally close to many other birds. The wildlife is well accustomed to the organised boat trips available each morning and evening and therefore quite unafraid. By hiring a punt we had much better opportunity to see the wild life than was possible as a passenger on the organised punt trips. Had we had the time we should have camped the night and repeated the exercise the following morning. Bird species to be seen include the Pied Goose, Straw-necked Ibis, Plumed Egret, Black Cockatoo, Nankeen Night Heron, Lotus Bird, White-breasted Sea Eagle, Burdekin Duck, Jabiru Crane, Chestnut-quilled Pigeon, Whistling Kite, Rainbow Bee-eater, Blue Winged Kookaburra. | ||
- | BAROALBO SPRINGS. | + | |
- | This is a permanent large creek with chains of water holes through a mini rain forest along the creek banks. The water holes occur at the base of the Arnhem Land escarpment from which the creek descends. Indications are that a day or so following the course of the creek up into the escarpment would be very rewarding. Unfortunately time did not permit. In the dry season the area is an oasis within the very arid country nearby. In fact the whole vast area is extremely arid during the dry season once away from the few permanent creeks and wetland areas. | + | ==== Baroalbo Springs ==== |
+ | This is a permanent large creek with chains of water holes through a mini rain forest along the creek banks. The water holes occur at the base of the Arnhem Land escarpment from which the creek descends. Indications are that a day or so following the course of the creek up into the escarpment would be very rewarding. | ||
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+ | Unfortunately time did not permit. In the dry season the area is an oasis within the very arid country nearby. In fact the whole vast area is extremely arid during the dry season once away from the few permanent creeks and wetland areas. | ||
The water pools of the creek at Baroalbo Springs form a retreat for fish during the dry season. Thousands of fish of twenty or thirty species populated all of the crystal clear pools through the rain forest. A hundred metres from the creek was a dusty desert of stunted timber. | The water pools of the creek at Baroalbo Springs form a retreat for fish during the dry season. Thousands of fish of twenty or thirty species populated all of the crystal clear pools through the rain forest. A hundred metres from the creek was a dusty desert of stunted timber. | ||
- | JIM JIM FALLS AND TWIN FALLS. | + | |
- | The Jim Jim Falls and Twin Falls Gorge area of the Kakadu Park is apparently well worth a couple of days and provides good camping and walking. However as a 4 W.D. vehicle is required we did not visit the area. | + | ==== Jim Jim Falls and Twin Falls ==== |
- | KATHERINE GORGE NATIONAL PARK. | + | The Jim Jim Falls and Twin Falls Gorge area of the Kakadu Park is apparently well worth a couple of days and provides good camping and walking. However as a 4WD vehicle is required we did not visit the area. |
- | Katherine Gorge National Park is about 350 km south of Darwin and provides a range of walks up to 5-6 days duration on routes well marked by the park authority. | + | |
+ | ==== Katherine Gorge National Park ==== | ||
+ | Katherine Gorge National Park is about 350 km south of Darwin and provides a range of walks up to 5-6 days duration on routes well marked by the park authority. | ||
We regarded the trip as most rewarding. It's a very different part of Australia with much to offer and if one were to allow ten days or more then the Kimberly area could be visited also. One would have no trouble spending three weeks in the area but July is the month in which to do it. | We regarded the trip as most rewarding. It's a very different part of Australia with much to offer and if one were to allow ten days or more then the Kimberly area could be visited also. One would have no trouble spending three weeks in the area but July is the month in which to do it. | ||
- | NOTES ON 1 1221J...LiTheNi or | + | |
- | The Colong Committee has made a submission to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service on the management of Kakadu National Park. The full article is in The Oolong | + | **NOTES ON KAKADU |
- | .***#### | + | The Colong Committee has made a submission to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service on the management of Kakadu National Park. The full article is in The Colong |
- | December, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 5. | + | |
- | " | + | ===== " |
by Peter Christian. | by Peter Christian. | ||
- | The Tigers' | + | |
- | They wail at lackadaisical outings without the customary aches and exhaustion. | + | The Tigers' |
+ | Apparently a plague of threatening proportions has decimated their ranks.\\ | ||
+ | They wail at lackadaisical outings without the customary aches and exhaustion.\\ | ||
They mourn for the "old days" of torturous "tiger walks" ordeals, done without thanks. | They mourn for the "old days" of torturous "tiger walks" ordeals, done without thanks. | ||
- | We day trippers defend our position among such cherished and hallowed | + | |
- | company. | + | We day trippers defend our position among such cherished and hallowed company.\\ |
- | We have our test walks, though considered "soft strolls" | + | We have our test walks, though considered "soft strolls" |
- | insides; | + | We cannot all be superhuman, oblivious to pain over sheer mountainous terrain.\\ |
- | We cannot all be superhuman, oblivious to pain over sheer mountainous | + | |
- | terrain. | + | |
We enjoy the bush, not charging at a headlong push until we split our sides. | We enjoy the bush, not charging at a headlong push until we split our sides. | ||
- | Why not smell the flowers, watch the waters flow, listen and absorb the quietude. | + | |
- | Sensitivity we feel is a true measure of walkers, as essential as the gift of sight; | + | Why not smell the flowers, watch the waters flow, listen and absorb the quietude.\\ |
- | No room for brashness or to treat with rashness, but time to tune and breathe in. | + | Sensitivity we feel is a true measure of walkers, as essential as the gift of sight;\\ |
+ | No room for brashness or to treat with rashness, but time to tune and breathe in.\\ | ||
Life is so short, why also cut the walk to a rip, rack, roar and rumble dubious delight? | Life is so short, why also cut the walk to a rip, rack, roar and rumble dubious delight? | ||
- | Alas, so we are frowned upon, regarded with impunity to disdain. | + | |
- | But take heart, my fellow worshippers of forbidden fruits and native roses; | + | Alas, so we are frowned upon, regarded with impunity to disdain.\\ |
- | Think of how much pleasure we derive from our simplistic view of "bush bashing" | + | But take heart, my fellow worshippers of forbidden fruits and native roses;\\ |
+ | Think of how much pleasure we derive from our simplistic view of "bush bashing" | ||
Imagine a sane limit to lacerations, | Imagine a sane limit to lacerations, | ||
- | *********# NOTE - From Kath Brown. | + | |
- | As the typist of the above poem I feel I must put forward a contrary opinion to the views expressed. Although for many years, owing to family responsibilities and increasing age, I have been a "day walker" | + | **Note** - From Kath Brown. |
- | feel day walking has a definite place in the Club and for bushwalkers generally, just the same the overnight bushwalk is what really thrilled me and gave me the greatest pleasure in thosedistant | + | |
- | The weekend walker has pleasures, magic moments, that the day walker never knows. Waking to see the early morning light softly touch theglade | + | As the typist of the above poem I feel I must put forward a contrary opinion to the views expressed. Although for many years, owing to family responsibilities and increasing age, I have been a "day walker" |
- | *##*###* | + | |
- | Page 6 | + | The weekend walker has pleasures, magic moments, that the day walker never knows. Waking to see the early morning light softly touch the glade in which you have pitched your little tent; that first flicker and then warmth as the breakfast fire is lit; that early morning cup of tea. And then, on the track at 8 am when everything is fresh and sparkling with dew. The distant views of river or ridges or mountain peaks. When it is time to make camp in the late afternoon what pleasant decisions - where to put the tent, where the cooking fire, where to fill the water bucket; and how enjoyable to settle down with the walking companions of the day to gather firewood, to cook, to eat, to socialize, to chat or sing songs, and then at length to crawl into that little tent, that cosy sleeping bag - miles from the cares and problems of everyday life! |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | , | + | ===== ANY MINUTE NOW ===== |
- | December, 1984. | + | |
- | ANY MINUTE NOW. | + | by Barbara Evans |
- | "ANY MINUTE NOW," said Jim, " | + | |
- | trace us, simply by following the trail of human skin dangling from the thorn bushes.) | + | "Any minute now," said Jim, " |
- | We struggled to a slight eminence. Through a screen of foliage the distant coastline was just visible. It had a rugged splendour. "ANY | + | |
- | MINUTE NOW," said Jim " | + | We struggled to a slight eminence. Through a screen of foliage the distant coastline was just visible. It had a rugged splendour. "**Any minute now**," said Jim " |
- | to widest, each clinging to the pack in front. Thus arranged, our human submarine, with Brian Goldstraw in the twin roles of prow and periscope, plunged into the sea of softly waving greenery. | + | |
- | Some time later thirst overcame our crew. " | + | Some time later thirst overcame our crew. " |
- | Resuming our journey we skirted round a large sea-dyke and on again into the scrub. "ANY MINUTE NOW," said Jim, "we should reach the path | + | |
- | leading to the Gorilla Cave." Sure enough we came to a path and | + | Resuming our journey we skirted round a large sea-dyke and on again into the scrub. "**Any minute now**," said Jim, "we should reach the path leading to the Gorilla Cave." Sure enough we came to a path and followed it for some distance. " |
- | followed it for some distance. " | + | |
- | sure to find the right track...." | + | In no time at all flames were licking round a big billy. Small and then larger bubbles began to rise. Jim was unscrewing the lid of a small tin. "Get your mugs out," he said, "Tea will be ready" - his face lit with an innocent smile - "**any minute now**." |
- | headed off into the scrub. Soon we came to another path. Jim said not | + | |
- | a word, but you could see what he was thinking. There was a quick descent of a little waterfall, and we found ourselves at sea level at the head of a rocky inlet. On the right was a huge sandy-floored cave. On the left a sheer cliff pushed a little way out to sea, ending in the unmistakable profile of a giant gorilla. | + | |
- | In no time at all flames were licking round a big billy. Small and then larger bubbles began to rise. Jim was unscrewing the lid of a small tin. "Get your mugs out," he siad, "Tea will be ready" - his face lit | + | |
- | with an innocent smile - "ANY MINUTE NOW." | + | |
Well. It just goes to show that even a leader can be right sometimes. Through wraiths of fragrant steam rising from our mugs, we gave him an affectionate grin. | Well. It just goes to show that even a leader can be right sometimes. Through wraiths of fragrant steam rising from our mugs, we gave him an affectionate grin. | ||
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- | NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY. | + | **Note from the Secretary**\\ |
- | Please notify any change of address or phone number to the Secretary | + | Please notify any change of address or phone number to the Secretary early in January for inclusion in the 1985 List of Members. |
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- | eastwood | + | ===== A TRIP TO THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS IN JANUARY 1875 ===== |
- | camu.ing | + | |
- | can | + | by Dundas Allen |
- | BUSHWALKERS | + | |
- | Lightweight Tents Sleeping Bags Rucksacks | + | In these days when a man can leave his office in Sydney on Friday afternoon, have two days in the mountains, and be back in his office on Monday morning, an account that my father, |
- | CAMPING EQUIPMENT Large Tents * Stoves | + | |
- | DISTRIBUTORS OF:. | + | |
- | Paddymade | + | |
- | Proprietors: | + | |
- | EASTWOOD CANVAS GOODS & CAMPING SUPPLIES | + | |
- | Rutledge Street | + | |
- | Rowe Street | + | |
- | Page 8 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER December, 1984. | + | |
- | A TRIP TO THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS IN JANUARY 1875. | + | |
- | by Dundas Allen. | + | |
- | In these days when a man can leave his office in Sydney on Friday afternoon, have two days in the mountains, and be back in his office on Monday morning, an account that my father, | + | |
My father, who at this time was just 18, had been at Sydney Grammar School, but was then in his first year at Sydney University. Myalla is a station just south of Cooma, then owned by Edward Pratt, a master at Sydney Grammar, but managed by his brother Sam Pratt, and which is now owned by Edward Pratt' | My father, who at this time was just 18, had been at Sydney Grammar School, but was then in his first year at Sydney University. Myalla is a station just south of Cooma, then owned by Edward Pratt, a master at Sydney Grammar, but managed by his brother Sam Pratt, and which is now owned by Edward Pratt' | ||
- | The railway line only reached Goulburn in 1869, and in 1875 anyone going to Cooma had to do the remaining 140 odd miles by Cobb's coach, going by Queanbeyan. My father' | + | |
- | Wednesday 6 January, 1875. | + | The railway line only reached Goulburn in 1869, and in 1875 anyone going to Cooma had to do the remaining 140 odd miles by Cobb's coach, going by Queanbeyan. My father' |
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- | Whitfeld on Cocky. Scully also rode and led a packhorse. Of course | + | **Wednesday 6 January, 1875**\\ |
- | we all had our blankets and greatcoats strapped on our saddles. In | + | " |
- | fact we looked like a party of miners going to the diggings. | + | |
- | "We did not halt at all during the day and at 6 pm arrived at Kalkite - a station of Mr. Donald Ryrie' | + | "We did not halt at all during the day and at 6 pm arrived at Kalkite - a station of Mr. Donald Ryrie' |
- | its junction with the Snowy River.) | + | |
- | "The day had been, and was ,still very hot, so we were glad to find | + | "The day had been, and was still, very hot, so we were glad to find a cherry garden close to the house. Though they were only the wild or Kentish cherries we enjoyed them very much. Towards the evening there was a thunderstorm and several showers fell before we went to bed. We shall have a miserable camp on the mountains if the rain continues. |
- | a cherry garden close to the house. Though they were only the wild | + | |
- | or Kentish cherries we enjoyed them very much. Towards the evening | + | **Thursday 7 January, 1875**\\ |
- | there was a thunderstorm and several showers fell before we went to bed. We shall have a miserable camp on the mountains if the rain continues. | + | " |
- | Thursday 7 January, 1875. | + | covered with snow. The first snow we passed close to us lay (as far as I could afterwards ascertain by Mr. Scott' |
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- | the SNowy which was not deep, about 8 and halted on the hills about 900 feet above the Snowy River at 9 am for breakfast, which consisted | + | "The rain cleared off in the afternoon, and it was quite fine about 4.30 when we reached the place where we intended to camp for the night - about 20 miles from Kalkite - nearly 6000 ft above the sea. We hobbled the horses, lit a good fire, had tea and otherwise tried to make ourselves comfortable. A thick fog however came on about 8 pm, more like a Scotch mist than anything. The day was not so cold but the night was rather chilly - at midnight 45< |
- | December, 1984. | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 9. | + | **Friday 8 January**\\ |
- | of tea, damper and some tinned meat. Started again about 11.15. As | + | "Got up before |
- | we ascended I suppose we got into the clouds, for a gradually increasing rain came on and lasted for over two hours, just long enough to wet us thoroughly. During the rain we halted for nearly an hour on a hill, | + | |
- | from which we got our first clear view of Kosciusko. It appeared nearly | + | "There were lots of snow in patches of several acres in extent, some of it was over 4 ft in depth, but quite hard and frozen so that we walked over it without sinking. We could not make very good snowballs. The air in the morning was cold, but as the day wore on the sun became powerful though the air was still quite cool. |
- | covered with snow. The first snow we passed close to us lay (as far | + | |
- | as I could afterwards ascertain by Mr. Scott' | + | "We got on to what Scully said was the summit about 11 am. It was a long and rather narrow |
- | height of Kosciusko) about 5700 or 5800 ft above the sea. It was only | + | |
- | a small patch - quite hard frozen. | + | "Scully and Mr. Stephenson got up first, and we afterwards, about 20 minutes to 1. I must say I was delighted though tired. On the top of the cone is an enormous natural pile of stones about 40 or 50 ft in height, and on top of this is a round cone of stones placed by some surveyor - about 8 or 10 ft high. On this we sat in turns and so that we could say that we were for the time the highest people in Australia - 7300 ft above the sea. We all wrote our names on a slip of paper and put the paper in a tin matchbox, and fastened the matchbox onto the |
- | The rain cleared off in the afternoon, and it was quite fine about 4.30 when we reached the place where we intended to camp for the night - about 20 miles from Kalkite - nearly 6000 ft above the sea. We hobbled the horses, lit a good fire, had tea and otherwise tried to make ourselves comfortable. A thick fog however came on about 8 pm, more like | + | topmost stone. I also brought down a piece of the top of Kosciusko with me. We descended off the stones and ate our dinner of damper and jam and snow on the grass. I forgot to say that we could distinctly see the Murray on the west side. It rises just at the foot of the mountain. The day was however not good for seeing. The mountains and gullies (very deep on the Victorian side) were pretty clear but the whole of the low country was hidden by clouds. |
- | a Scotch mist than anything. The day was not so cold but the night | + | |
- | was rather, chilly - at midnight 45. Did not sleep well. Had to | + | "We did not stay on the mountain but came down early, and as it afterwards turned out, luckily, for had we stayed longer we should have been unable to find our camp through the fog. We went back to our camp by a somewhat easier road than the one by which we had ascended. We had one little dangerous piece of climbing however, the only dangerous piece on our journey. There was a very steep hill, slippery and very nearly covered with snow, and very high, more like the side of a gully than a hill. We crawled down this on our backs, clinging to the grass and making holes in the snow to put our feet in. Had we slipped we should have slid over the snow on to the rocks beneath. However, we didn't slip. We got back to the camp in the midst of a thick mist - fearfully tired. The night was damp and cold, still I slept very well. |
- | get up several times to put wood on the fire. | + | |
- | Friday 8 January. | + | **Saturday 9 January 1875**\\ |
- | Got upbefore | + | "Luckily a finer morning. Had there been a fog we could not have found our way down the mountain. Rode on quietly and arrived at Mr. Ryrie' |
- | walk to -Koscitsko. We had a terrible climb. I was never so thoroughly | + | |
- | exhausted | + | **Sunday 10 January 1875**\\ |
- | nothing and it was not the 1400 ft or thereabouts of ascent that tired us, but it was the succession of ridges that we had to cross, the alter- | + | "Started early and rode back to Myalla before dark. Got two batches |
- | nate ascent and desCent. I, am sure we ascended 3 or 4 times the height | + | |
- | of Kosciusko above our camp, if we include all the hills. We were all wet through almost directly we started, owing to the wet grass and scrub, and besides that we had to walk through the river. | + | |
- | There were lots of snow in patches of several acres in extent, some of it was over 4 ft in depth, but quite hard and frozen so that we walked over it without sinking.- We could not make very good snowballs. The air in.the, morning was cold,,but as, the day wore on the sun became powerful though the air was still quite, cool. | + | |
- | We got:on to what Scully-said wasthe | + | |
- | showed this to Mr. Stephenson and he agreed that that was thesummit | + | |
- | Scully and Mr. Stephenson got' | + | |
- | of the cone is an enormous natural pile of stones about 40 or 50 ft in height, and on top of this is a round cone of stones placed by some surveyor - about 8 or 10 ft high. On this we sat in turns and so that we could say that we were for the time the highest people in Australia - 7300 ft above the sea. We all wrote our names on a slip of paper and put the paper in ,a tin matchbox, and fastened the matchbox onto the | + | |
- | topmost stone. I also brought down a piece of the top of Kosciusko with | + | |
- | me. We descended off the stones and ate our dinner of damper and jam | + | |
- | and snow on the grass. I forgot to say that we could distinctly see | + | |
- | the. Murray on the west side. It rises just at the foot of the mountain. | + | |
- | The day was however not good for seeing. The mountains and gullies (very deep on the Victorian side) were pretty clear but the whole of the low country was hidden by clouds. | + | |
- | Page 10 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | December, 1984. | + | |
- | We did not stay on the mountain but came down early, and as it afterwards turned out, luckily, for had we stayed longer we should have been unable to find our camp through the fog. We went back to our camp by a somewhat easier road than the one by which we had ascended. We had one little dangerous piece of climbing however, the only dangerous piece on our journey. There was a very steep hill, slippery and very nearly covered with snow, and very high, more like the side of a gully than a hill. We crawled down this on our backs, clinging to the grass and making holes in the snow to put our feet in. Had we slipped we should have slid over the snow on to the rocks beneath. However, we didn't slip. We got back to the camp in the midst of a thick mist - fearfully tired. The night was damp and cold, still I slept very well. | + | |
- | Saturday 9 January 1875. | + | |
- | Luckily a finer morning. Had there been a fog we could not have | + | |
- | found our way down the mountain. Rode on quietly and arrived at Mr.Ryrie' | + | |
- | with Mr. Wallace say they killed 19 snakes one day. I don't believe that. | + | |
- | Sunday 10 January 1875. | + | |
- | Started early and rode back to Myalla before dark. of home letters." | + | |
- | Got two batches | + | |
At this point my father' | At this point my father' | ||
- | Many years ago my father told me that from what he had learned later, he was in some doubt as to whether the summit they reached was Mt.. Kosciusko or Mt. Townsend; people who know the country better than I do and who have read my father' | + | |
+ | Many years ago my father told me that from what he had learned later, he was in some doubt as to whether the summit they reached was Mt. Kosciusko or Mt. Townsend; people who know the country better than I do and who have read my father' | ||
If my father did mistake the two mountains he was not the only person to do so, for in 1870 the Victorian Survey Department - in making a survey of the Victorian border - prepared a map in which Mt. Townsend is shown as Mt. Kosciusko. | If my father did mistake the two mountains he was not the only person to do so, for in 1870 the Victorian Survey Department - in making a survey of the Victorian border - prepared a map in which Mt. Townsend is shown as Mt. Kosciusko. | ||
- | * * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | NEW MEMBERS & ADDRESSES. | + | ===== NEW MEMBERS & ADDRESSES |
Please add the following names to your Membership List:- | Please add the following names to your Membership List:- | ||
- | BROWN, Steve, 3/26 Pacific Street, Watson' | + | |
- | HATHERLY, Peter, 1/9 HOrnsey | + | |BROWN, Steve, |
- | LEWIS, David, 2/51 McDougall Street, Kirribilli | + | |HATHERLY, Peter, |
- | WORNER, Greg, 158 Elswick Street, Leichhardt 560,2638 | + | |LEWIS, David, |
- | ********** | + | |WORNER, Greg, |158 Elswick Street, Leichhardt. 560, |
- | NEW ADDRESS | + | |
+ | **New address** of the New Members Secretary - **Joan Cooper**\\ | ||
Flat (upstairs), 73 Burwood Road, Burwood, 2134 - Phone 745-2728 | Flat (upstairs), 73 Burwood Road, Burwood, 2134 - Phone 745-2728 | ||
- | December, 1984. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 11. | + | |
- | LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Madam Editor, | + | ===== LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
- | I feel constrained | + | |
- | To start with, we were an ill-assorted party. Our leader was Dick Tator, a thorough no-nonsense, | + | Dear Madam Editor, |
- | sort of bloke. In his car he brough | + | |
- | The rest of the party included that charming old boy Ben Evolent, but regrettably he had as a visitor his son Mal- of whom the least said the better. In his car also was his old mate Sam Ovar, who takes every ten-minute halt as an invitation to begin a brew-up of his favourite Earl Grey: and, of course, his usual companion Emma Royd - and everyone knows she is a pa-in. | + | I feel con**strained** |
- | Another car-load was brought by Millie Peede - what a girl she is - all legs! With her was prospective | + | |
+ | To start with, we were an ill-assorted party. Our leader was Dick Tator, a thorough no-nonsense, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The rest of the party included that charming old boy Ben Evolent, but regrettably he had as a visitor his son Mal - of whom the least said the better. In his car also was his old mate Sam Ovar, who takes every ten-minute halt as an invitation to begin a brew-up of his favourite Earl Grey: and, of course, his usual companion Emma Royd - and everyone knows she is a pain in the backside. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Another car-load was brought by Millie Peede - what a girl she is - all legs! With her was prospective | ||
The rest of the mob included Roy Stirr, who had brought his usual two casks of Red Ned, filling almost all of his pack so that his sleeping bag was lashed loosely on top, and dropped off going down Smiths Pass....and again going down into Gabes Gap....and again....and again.... With him was his pal Con Vivial and Billy Hooker, who has more hang-ups than anyone else I know. | The rest of the mob included Roy Stirr, who had brought his usual two casks of Red Ned, filling almost all of his pack so that his sleeping bag was lashed loosely on top, and dropped off going down Smiths Pass....and again going down into Gabes Gap....and again....and again.... With him was his pal Con Vivial and Billy Hooker, who has more hang-ups than anyone else I know. | ||
+ | |||
Nurse Penny Sillin came along and tried to talk all week-end about her job and life-saving drugs, while Sue Perior sneered at everyone and everything. Finally, there was Belle Ijerent who was just spoiling for a fight with Ann and Vi. | Nurse Penny Sillin came along and tried to talk all week-end about her job and life-saving drugs, while Sue Perior sneered at everyone and everything. Finally, there was Belle Ijerent who was just spoiling for a fight with Ann and Vi. | ||
- | Really, Madam Editor, I can't even begin to describe the trip itself, except to say that I found it a great strain. | + | |
+ | Really, Madam Editor, I can't even begin to describe the trip itself, except to say that I found it a great **strain**. | ||
Yours, | Yours, | ||
- | COL LANDER. | + | Col Lander |
- | CORRECTIONS TO THE SUMMER WALKS PROGRAMME | + | |
+ | ===== CORRECTIONS TO THE SUMMER WALKS PROGRAMME | ||
Please make these alterations to your copy of the Walks Programme:- | Please make these alterations to your copy of the Walks Programme:- | ||
- | 11,12,13 January - Leader: | + | |
+ | 11, 12, 13 January - Leader: | ||
This is a day walk for Sunday 13th January, not a weekend walk. | This is a day walk for Sunday 13th January, not a weekend walk. | ||
- | 3rd March - Leader: | + | |
- | 2,3rd March - Leader: | + | 3rd March - Leader: |
- | ********* | + | |
- | BILL HOLLAND | + | 2,3rd March - Leader: |
- | Page 12. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER, December, 1984. | + | |
- | CLUB WALK IN SIERRA NEVADA U.S.A. - SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER, 1985. | + | **Bill Holland** says - my walk on 12th January |
- | BILL GAMBLE | + | |
- | money and inclination) under the same conditions as apply to any Club walk. | + | ===== CLUB WALK IN SIERRA NEVADA U.S.A. - SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER, 1985. ===== |
- | Bill writes:- | + | |
- | " | + | **Bill Gamble** |
- | "The first walk will.Xbart | + | |
+ | Bill writes:-\\ | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "The first walk will start a Lee Vining (6100' | ||
"I would see the grade of the walks as medium, although it is always difficult to say how individuals will react to height and cold (one can feel a little light-headed and breathless around 10, | "I would see the grade of the walks as medium, although it is always difficult to say how individuals will react to height and cold (one can feel a little light-headed and breathless around 10, | ||
+ | |||
"At this stage I would like to hear from members who may be interested in joining me. My telephone at home is 389-9071." | "At this stage I would like to hear from members who may be interested in joining me. My telephone at home is 389-9071." | ||
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- | SOCIAL NOTES FOR JANUARY. by Roger Browne. | + | ===== SOCIAL NOTES FOR JANUARY |
- | January 2 oom closed. | + | |
- | Janua* | + | by Roger Browne |
- | discus6 walks, etc. The social secretary promises an improve- | + | |
- | ment over the usual quality of thebiscuits! | + | |January 2 |
- | Janita | + | |January |
- | DINNER BEM-RE THIS MEETING AT Eric's Seafood Restaurant, 316 Pacific Highway, , | + | |January |
- | ask for Sydney, | + | | |**Dinner before this meeting** at Eric's Seafood Restaurant, 316 Pacific Highway, Crow's Nest. Meet outside,at 6.30 pm sharp. Late arrivals ask for Sydney |
- | Januaxiyi | + | |January |
- | uary.30 - Equoipmen | + | |January |
- | ******* | + | |
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