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-WHILE  THE BILLY BOILS. -,
+=====While the Billy Boils.=====
-Now that Victoria has an ,Alpine Park adjoining ours, the respective 'Parks & Wildlife Services are trying to make a plan of management
+Now that Victoria has an Alpine Park adjoining ours, the respective Parks & Wildlife Services are trying to make a plan of management __common to both__. The subject of summer grazing is high on the agenda.
-common to both. The subject of summer grazing is high on the agenda.
-One good thing which the S.M.A. did for Kossi was to have the cattle removed, because of soil erosion and water pollution. Victoria id not
+One good thing which the S.M.A. did for Kossi was to have the cattle removed, because of soil erosion and water pollution. Victoria is not so lucky. A recent visit to the Victorian Alpine Area was an eye-opener. At height of the flowering season, the lack of wildflowers was amazing. Obviously, they make tasty cattlefeed. In their place were heaps of cow manure, all swarming with flies.
-so lucky. A recent visit to the Victorian Alpine Area was an eye-opener.11111 At height of the floWering season, the lack of wildflowers was amazing. Obviously, they make tasty cattlefeed. In their place were heaps of cow i4) manure, all swarming with flies.
-The local graziers are incensed at the thought of having this source of
+The local graziers are incensed at the thought of having this source of free feed taken away, but it's hard to see how they would be seriously disadvantaged. All over Australia there are graziers who provide their stock with summer feed by planting improved pasture. Surely those in the vicinity of Bogong High Plains are capable of doing likewise?
-free feed taken away, but it's hard to see haw they would be seriously disadvantaged. All over Australia there are graziers who provide their stock with summer feed by planting improved pasture. Surely those in
-the vicinity of Bogong High Plains are capable of doing likewise?
+If you can spare a couple of stamps, you might like to write to the Federal and the Victorian ministers for environment (as I have) to remind them of this. After all, would you __like__ to spend your Alpine walks going tippy-toes through the moo poo?
-If you can spare a couple of stamps, you might like to write to the Federal and the Victorian ministers for environment (as I have) to remind them of this. After all, would you like to spend your Alpine walks going tippy-toes through the moo poo? -
 See you on the track....
-THE ANNUAL REUNION
-It has been decided that the Reunion will NOT be held on the weekend after -the but over the. weekend 14/15 September. It will be held
-at ".C6olana", oui-own property in the Kangaroo Valley. Full details about the Reunion and how-to get there will be published in the 'magazine.
-SOCIAL NOTES
-th March - The Annual General Meetin2. Come along and elect the Office
-Bearers and Committee for the coming year. Only members majr vote but all active- members are eligible to stand for every office.
-th March - Instead of meeting in the clubroom, a BARBECUE will be held in the back garden of the Kirribilli Community Centre, starting 6.30 pm. Drinks will be provided by the Club - bring your own tucker.
-th March - A display of the equipment taken on certain types of trip - (a) Abseiling - (b) Li-loing - (c) Trips requiring very light-weight gear. Very informative for all members, and especially prospectives.
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-February 1991 The Sydney BUSHwalker Page 3
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-===== More Names for our Honour Roll =====
+Morag
+=====The Annual Reunion.=====
+It has been decided that the Reunion will __NOT__ be held on the weekend after the A.G.M., but over the weekend 14/15 September. It will be held at "Coolana", our own property in the Kangaroo Valley. Full details about the Reunion and how to get there will be published in the magazine.
+=====Social Notes.=====
+__13th March - The Annual General Meeting.__ Come along and elect the Office Bearers and Committee for the coming year. Only members may vote but all active members are eligible to stand for every office.
+__20th March__ - Instead of meeting in the clubroom, a BARBECUE will be held in the back garden of the Kirribilli Community Centre, starting 6.30 pm. Drinks will be provided by the Club - bring your own tucker.
+__27th March__ - A display of the equipment taken on certain types of trip - (a) Abseiling - (b) Li-loing - ( c) Trips requiring very light-weight gear. Very informative for all members, and especially prospectives.
+=====More Names for our Honour Roll.=====
 Last November Jim and Kath Brown wrote to Committee suggesting that Helen Gray, George Gray and Spiro Hajinakitas be added to our list of Honorary Active Members. At the December Committee Meeting the motion was unanimously passed to cries of "What a good idea!", and "We should have done it sooner!" The announcement was made at the Christmas Party and the certificates will be presented at the Annual General Meeting on 13th March.
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 Such laurels are not easily won, but are given by the Club in sincere appretiation for years of service and support - as you will see by the following:-
-==== Helen Gray ====
+====Helen Gray====
   * Admitted to membership (Helen Barrett) October 1959
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   * Assisted in sorting and arranging Club Archives 1987 - 88
-==== George Gray ====
+====George Gray====
   * Admitted to membership (about) October 1952
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   * (No doubt gave extensive support for Helen as Secretary, President, Editor, and in the monthly task of magazine production)
-==== Spiro Hajinakitas ====
+====Spiro Hajinakitas====
   * Admitted to membership ("Bill Ketas") October 1959
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   * (In addition, who was it that provided and carried so much edible fare to SBW Reunions? Who operated a cut-rate sale of Volley sandshoes for Club members for many years? Oh, I think his initials were S.H. For myself, I can only admire the Greeks when they bear gifts - Jim Brown)
-===== BOOK REVIEW =====
+=====Book Review.=====
-"THE BAREFOOT BUSHWALKER"
 by Alex Colley
--For many years her friends have urged our first Honorary Active Member, Dotaltler, to write a book on her adventures. Not until she was awarded the Australian Geographic Society's ADVENTURER OF THE YEAR medallion in June 1989 (in recognition of her contribution to Australian bushwalking and mountaineering and encouragement of adventure among young people):-.0!id she consent, at the request of the A.B.C., to write such a book, which was given -the above title.
- ,Dot describes her wide ranging experiences in her simple, intimate and vivid style, enriched with humour and quotations from her beloved poets, a style so well appreciated by readeks of the SBW magazine. Starting from childhood with a real cameo of adventure in b.c. (before cars and radio) suburban Sydney, when people entertained each other, she graduates from bushwalking to rock climbing and mountaineering, first in New Zealand, later in the,Alps, the Andes and Himalayas, cycling in Europe and Cambodia, 'Canoeing the Yukon, and many other adventures in remote places. Most of her trips have beenaescribed in the magazine, but they will not have been read by more recent members. It is regrettable that the A.B.C. deleted a good deal of her writing on bushwalking, which would undoubtedly have had a wide appeal to the many thousands of bushwalkers, but we may hope it will appear in another book.
+===="The Barefoot Bushwalker"====
-The book is much more than a chronicle of adventures. It is very well written.
-The A.B.C. describes it as "filled with thrills, romance and challenges as she recalls her, childhood, her career, marriage and adventure. It is presented with extraordinary immediacy and peopled with men and women who have been her companions in entertainments and danger. It also reveals a personality of warmth and charm whose sense of fun and -abundant enjoyment of life characterise all her experiences." '
+For many years her friends have urged our first Honorary Active Member, Dot Butler, to write a book on her adventures. Not until she was awarded the Australian Geographic Society's __Adventurer Of The Year__ medallion in June 1989 (in recognition of her contribution to Australian bushwalking and mountaineering and encouragement of adventure among young people) did she consent, at the request of the A.B.C., to write such a book, which was given the above title.
-Dot's love of the natural environment recurs in every page. It is therefore not surprising that, even before she joined the Club and was influencedby the eloquence of her close friend Myles Dunphy, she was a keen conservationist. Her work for the SBW is well known to Club members, but they may not appreciate her ever willing and generous support of wilderness conservation.
+Dot describes her wide ranging experiences in her simple, intimate and vivid style, enriched with humour and quotations from her beloved poets, a style so well appreciated by readers of the SBW magazine. Starting from childhood with a real cameo of adventure in b.c. (before cars and radio) suburban Sydney, when people entertained each other, she graduates from bushwalking to rock climbing and mountaineering, first in New Zealand, later in the Alps, the Andes and Himalayas, cycling in Europe and Cambodia, canoeing the Yukon, and many other adventures in remote places. Most of her trips have been described in the magazine, but they will not have been read by more recent members. It is regrettable that the A.B.C. deleted a good deal of her writing on bushwalking, which would undoubtedly have had a wide appeal to the many thousands of bushwalkers, but we may hope it will appear in another book.
+The book is much more than a chronicle of adventures. It is very well written. The A.B.C. describes it as "filled with thrills, romance and challenges as she recalls her childhood, her career, marriage and adventure. It is presented with extraordinary immediacy and peopled with men and women who have been her companions in entertainments and danger. It also reveals a personality of warmth and charm whose sense of fun and abundant enjoyment of life characterise all her experiences."
+Dot's love of the natural environment recurs in every page. It is therefore not surprising that, even before she joined the Club and was influenced by the eloquence of her close friend Myles Dunphy, she was a keen conservationist. Her work for the SBW is well known to Club members, but they may not appreciate her ever willing and generous support of wilderness conservation.
 Nor perhaps do members of the SBW fully appreciate Dot's gift to adventurers. Colin Putt concluded when presenting the Australian Geographic medallion:-
-"She initiates adventure, not only for herself, but also for many others. She involves, encourages and teaches others who, but for her leadership, might never get into adventuring at all, and leaves them, scores or hundreds of them, capable and innovative adventurers in their own right. She has made us what, we are."
-The book "THE BAREFOOT BUSHWALKER" will be available in the clubroom at $24.95.
+"She initiates adventure, not only for herself, but also for many others. She involves, encourages and teaches others who, but for her leadership, might never get into adventuring at all, and leaves them, scores or hundreds of them, capable and innovative adventurers in their own right. She has made us what we are."
-W 31 it- -I*
-THE CHINESE DID IT FIRST
+The book "__The Barefoot Bushwalker__" will be available in the clubroom at $24.95.
+=====The Chinese Did It First.=====
 Camp stoves are becoming more popular as our concern about environmental damage increases. But the Chinese were conscious of the need for fuel conservation many centuries ago. In an old painting is depicted a young girl brewing tea at a picnic. Simple equipment - in fact, I think I could make it myself..:.
-February 1991 The Sydney Bushwalker, Page 5
+=====Crikey Canyon - And Beyond.=====
 by Bob Hodgson
 Some canyons achieve notoriety by their human traffic, sheer size, or spectacular scenery, but Crikey, I'm sure, was named after the sounds echoing up and down the canyon as intrepid abseilers struggle to regain their composure at each belay point. A succession of indescribably awkward take-off points has even the most experienced and graceful exponents of the art reduced to blubbering riovices - jamming feet, grinding over rocks, and slipping upside down. iFortunately it is quite dark, so that the rest of the party hardly notice.
  It was these fond memories that drew me to revisit