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-===== constitutional Amendments. =====
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 The Annual General Meeting considered and passed the following Constitutional Amendments:
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+===== Grassy Hill. =====
+__The third Colo River trip, 29/30 November, 1 December....__
+__Canoe Creek - Colo River - Angorawa Creek - Drip Rock....__
+__Don Finch, Leader plus 11 others.__
-GRASSY HILL.
-The third Colo River trip, 29/30 November, 1 December     Canoe Creek - Colo River - Angorawa Creek - Drip Rock
-Don Finch, Leader plus 11 others.
 by Alastair Battye.
 On Friday night around 10 o'clock of a forecasted fine and hot weekend, twelve stalwarts, having distributed cars fairly evenly (and of course tidily) around the wilds of the Colo Heights, set off for a preparatory couple of hours walking along a fire trail for the purpose, we were told, of shortening our walking on the Saturday.
-Walking a fire trail at night is a less than joyous experience. The full moon carefully arranged by our leader could not be seen for the rain clouds surrounding us. Of course there was no need to worry about that
-because the weekend was to be fine and sunny. After an hour of stumbling
+Walking a fire trail at night is a less than joyous experience. The full moon carefully arranged by our leader could not be seen for the rain clouds surrounding us. Of course there was no need to worry about that because the weekend was to be fine and sunny. After an hour of stumbling along the trail in the dark, the rain set in. There must have been some cosmic upheaval when we finally reached the selected camp site for the rain stopped for us to get our tents up and we could at least crawl into dry sleeping bags.
-along the trail in the dark, the rain set in. There must have been some cosmic upheaval when we finally reached the selected camp site for the rain stopped for us to get our tents up and we could at least crawl into dry sleeping bags.
-The Saturday morning of the fine and dry weekend dawned - of course - wet! Well, soggy, anyway. After breakfasting and cleaning up and packing
+The Saturday morning of the fine and dry weekend dawned - of course - wet! Well, soggy, anyway. After breakfasting and cleaning up and packing we were all ready to leave at 7.30. All that is except the leader, who finally managed to be ready fifteen minutes later. Then a damp walk along the rest of the fire trail and a long, damp slither down Canoe Creek Point to the Colo itself.
-we were all ready to leave at 7.30. All that is except the leader, who
-finally managed to be ready fifteen minutes later. Then a damp walk along' the rest of the fire trail and a long, damp slither down Canoe Creek Point to the Colo itself.
 Twelve of us stood on a rock just above the river debating whether to jump straight into the river whilst we were still hot (!) from the scrambling down the slope, or to push and shove through the scrub along the banks, or to have a cup of tea.
-The last idea failed, democratically. Most took to the river and two or three started working along the banks. The river surprisingly, to the
-author anyway, was not cold. The wind was, but that could be avoided by keeping swimming. Unfortunately for the author, he doesn't carry any spare fat, so after a couple of hours in the water, cold though it wasn't, there was a somewhat introspective debate carried on as to whether it would be preferable to suffer hypothermia by staying in the water swimming or to suffer hypothermia by climbing out into the chill wind.
+The last idea failed, democratically. Most took to the river and two or three started working along the banks. The river surprisingly, to the author anyway, was not cold. The wind was, but that could be avoided by keeping swimming. Unfortunately for the author, he doesn't carry any spare fat, so after a couple of hours in the water, cold though it wasn't, there was a somewhat introspective debate carried on as to whether it would be preferable to suffer hypothermia by staying in the water swimming or to suffer hypothermia by climbing out into the chill wind.
 In the midst of this debate, surprise, the clouds parted and the sun came out.
 Some little while later, in the middle of what was showing signs of being a beautiful sunny day (weekend?), we reached the lunch spot and had lunch, some of the party already showing signs of incipient sunburn. A couple of hours for lunch on the sandy beach in the sun then off again. The water was great.
-Not so the weather. Around a mile further downstream 'the storm' hit.
-Out of the water was freezing. In the water was less so but impossible.
+Not so the weather. Around a mile further downstream 'the storm' hit. Out of the water was freezing. In the water was less so but impossible. The rain rained so hard there was no water surface on the river, just a vague interface of wild splashing which made it not just impossible to see anything at all, but difficult to determine just where to locate one's nose to breath. And that rain kept on and on and on. Fortunately navigation was just a matter of staying in the river and going with it, through rocks and rapids and all, because visibility was strictly nil.
-The rain rained so hard there was no water surface on the river, just a vague interface of wild splashing which made it not just impossible to see anything at all, but difficult to determine just where to locate one's nose to breath. And that rain kept on and on and on. Fortunately navigation was just a
-matter of staying in the river and going with it, through rocks and rapids and all, because visibility was strictly nil.
+It did stop in the end. We did find the campsite in non-rain and the clouds even thinned and showed signs of breaking. The tents were set up, the fire started, we even contemplated Sunday may be fine and sunny. Some of the energetic members of the party elected to climb a couple of the surrounding peaks, some elected not to. Dinners were eventually cooked still in daylight and amidst clouds of particularly sticky and annoying flies. Dusk and darkness finally got rid of the flies, but there was still no moon - no Halleys Comet either, just cloud. By 10.30 the fire was deserted. Friday night had been after all a rather late night.
-It did stop in the end. We did find the campsite in non-rain and the clouds even thinned and showed signs of breaking. The tents were set up,
-the fire started, we even contemplated Sunday may be fine and sunny. Some
-Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1986.
-of the energetic members of the party elected to climb a couple of the surrounding peaks, some elected not to. Dinners were eventually cooked
-still in daylight and amidst clouds of particularly sticky and annoying flies. Dusk and darkness finally got rid of the flies, but there was still
-no moon - no Halleys Comet either, just cloud. By 10.30 the fire was
-deserted. Friday night had been after all a rather late night.
 Sunday, sunny Sunday. No! Cloudy, cool Sunday. After breakfast - today the leader was the only one ready on time - we all set off along the bank to work up some heat before taking to the river.
 After a few kilometres of scrub and rock and wait-a-whiles and other assorted discouragements most of the party had taken to the river. After some time in the water the cold drove a fair number back onto the banks again.
-By lunchtime though, after a final option of the river with rapids or an impossible cliff line sidle, we reached the beach at Angorawa Creek, our 'leaving the Colo' point. So we had lunch and contemplated whether it
-would be wet or sunny or just plain cloudy for the climb up the creek and the ridge.
+By lunchtime though, after a final option of the river with rapids or an impossible cliff line sidle, we reached the beach at Angorawa Creek, our 'leaving the Colo' point. So we had lunch and contemplated whether it would be wet or sunny or just plain cloudy for the climb up the creek and the ridge.
 Cloudy was the eventual and somewhat surprising decision of the fates - in view of the infallible law of Murphy. But it was not cold, it was humid and the ridge was a steep long scramble, up, up, up.
-There was a top eventually and we could cool down a bit as we scrub- bashed along the top. Having eventually cooled off completely, of course the rain came down again.
-Finally, after some interesting "committee" navigation (which ridge were we on) we did reach the fire trail back to the cars which, after six kilometres, finished the walk with dry clothes and cars and well anticipated pizzas at Windsor.
+There was a top eventually and we could cool down a bit as we scrub-bashed along the top. Having eventually cooled off completely, of course the rain came down again.
-In retrospect it was a great trip, a good party that was fit and able and didn't really care much about the weather, AND the scenery was magnificent. Our fearless leader did well and he couldn't really be blamed for the rain - or couldn't he?
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+Finally, after some interesting "committee" navigation (which ridge __were__ we on) we did reach the fire trail back to the cars which, after six kilometres, finished the walk with dry clothes and cars and well anticipated pizzas at Windsor.
-ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 1986.
+In retrospect it was a great trip, a good party that was fit and able and didn't really care much about the weather, and the scenery was magnificent. Our fearless leader did well and he couldn't really be blamed for the rain - or couldn't he?
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+===== Annual Subscriptions 1986. =====
 At the Annual General Meeting held on 12th March, 1986, the following subscriptions were decided upon:-
-Single member $20
-Household - ($20 plus $10 for
+|Single member|$20|
-each extra person in household $30 (for 2 people)
+|Household - ($20 plus $10 for each extra person in household)|$30 (for 2 people)|
-$40 ( " 3 " )
+| |$40 (for 3 people)|
-$50 ( " 4 " )
+| |$50 (for 4 people)|
-Full-time student (unless included
+|Full-time student (unless included in household subscription)|Not decided at A.G.M.|
-in household subscription) Not decided at A.G.M.
+|Entrance Fee|$ 5|
-Entrance Fee $ 5
 Non-active member subscription and prospective member subscription will be decided by Committee and advised in the April magazine.
-Members are reminded that subscriptions are due and payable as at the A.G.M. The new Treasurer, Bill Holland,will receive your fees either at the clubroom, or posted to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney, 2001.
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+Members are reminded that subscriptions are due and payable as at the A.G.M. The new Treasurer, Bill Holland, will receive your fees either at the clubroom, or posted to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O. Sydney, 2001.
-March, 1986. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 5
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 "RHYMES OF THE TIMES".
 by Jim Brown.