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r o iitt C Canberra Bushwalking Club Inc GPO Box 160 Canberra ACT 2601 Volume: 48 www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org Number: 5 June 2012 In this issue 2 Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee 2 President’s prattle 3 Walks Waffl e 3 Training Trifl es 3 CBC Joins Facebook 4 Review: Helicopters in the Mist—A trek to Gokyo Lakes and Everest Base Camp 6 Return to the Victorian Alps 7 Easter in the Budawangs 8 Du Cane Range and View from Panekire Ridge, Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk Mt Olympus, Tasmania 10 An urban ramble through history 10 Membership matters GENERAL MEETING 11 Activity program 8 pm Wednesday 20 June 2012 15 Bulletin Board 16 Feeling literary? Walking the Great Walks of New 16 Wednesday walks Zealand Presenter: Nathan Holt ImportantImportant dates Between December 2011 and February 2012, Club member Nathan Holt crossed the Tasman to walk New Zealand’s eight Great Walks in one trip. What seemed like a good idea at the start turned out to be a wonderful 20 JJuneune experience full of scenery, sand, snow and sandfl ies. GeneralGeneral mmeetingeeti Main hall, 27 JJuneune CommitteeCommittee memeeting Hughes Baptist Church, 27 JJuneune 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes SubmissionsSubmissions closec for July it Committee business

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President: Phillip Starr [email protected] 0419 281 096 Treasurer: George Carter s CBC President I was invited to a meeting of Canberra walking groups, called by Bill Caddey, [email protected] Athe Walking Coordinator of the National Heart 6251 2130 Foundation, on 7 May. CBC Training and Safety Offi cer, John, also attended. The thrust of the meeting was to Walks Secretary: Rob Horsfi eld coordinate and encourage the various walking groups [email protected] to facilitate the public use of the Canberra Centenary 6231 4535 Trail after it is opened in 2013. Walking groups were also encouraged to ‘ground-truth’ the trail. Our Club General Secretary: Stan Marks will be providing several opportunities to experience [email protected] this trail during 2013 and there will also be some walks to ‘ground-truth’ the trail this year. 6254 9568(h) or 6274 7350(w) Details on the Canberra Centenary Trail can be found Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards on the TAMS website at http://www.tams.act.gov.au/ [email protected] live/about_our_directorate/community_engagement/ 6288 7863 or 0406 378 217 community_engagement_activities_and_events/can- berra_centenary_trails Training and Safety Offi cer: John Evans Our Facebook page is now up and running thanks to [email protected] Nathan Holt (see separate article in this issue). Check 6288 7235 or 0417 436 877 it out if you use Facebook. Conservation Offi cer: Nathan Holt You may be interested to know that our membership currently stands at 344. Of course not all of these conservation@canberrabushwalkingclub. members are still regular walkers but it is pleasing that org so many have an interest in our Club and its activities. 0414 628 429 This means that we have 344 recruiting offi cers. I believe that it is the responsibility of every member to Web Manager: David Briese promote our Club, whenever possible, with friends and [email protected] acquaintances. This can be as simple as pressing ‘like’ 6286 3479 on the CBC Facebook page. Editor: Alison Milton Would you like to learn or refresh navigation skills? This adds another dimension to your bushwalking experience [email protected] and I thoroughly recommend it. Rob and Jenny Horsfi eld 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w) will facilitate this again this year, probably around August/September. Look out for details in the next issue. Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas

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r Phillip Starr o [email protected] C President 6230 1081 or 0421 607 667 Social Secretary: Quentin Moran Causeway Hall - see story on page 10 [email protected] 6288 9840 Publisher: Tom George [email protected] 6257 0613 All members of the Committee can be contacted in one email to [email protected] CHECK IN: Ring Keith Thomas on 6230 1081 WEB SITE: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org

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Committee reports events are about map and compass, greater degree by removing a layer or the next three, the GPS, then there is two before climbing a hill, then putting to be an additional interest evening them back on during a rest at the top. A looking at the use of geometry and waterproof shell is a must. If you book technical drawing to represent stars, on a snow shoe or skiing trip, ask your sun or moon and determine direction, leader what special equipment and time, and latitude or identify a celestial clothing is needed. Don’t forget to keep object. Members may attend any or all up your water intake. fter bashing through fire- events and expressions of interest are All party members, particularly leaders, regrowth in the Namadgi on requested as of now. should review their knowledge of the the last few weekends I have A In the meantime, good walking! symptoms and treatment of hypo- the impression that it is now regrowth thermia. Be aware that wind and skin upon regrowth. Some of those tracks in g o r

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Rob Horsfi eld r r o C wetness increase the effects of cold air. massed Bitter Pea can be hard to follow. Walks Secretary At the eye-height of a wombat they’re I recently purchased a new base plate obviously well-trod, at shoulder-height compass, in the vain hope that it would not so. Running blindly into a fallen log improve my navigation. It sports a at shin-height helps cultivate the sense declination adjustment – so there’s of humor too. There’s plenty of water another thing to be aware of if you on the ground, still: the creeks are full, use someone else’s compass. It’s used muddy swamps and sloppy soaks. (It all to pre-set the grid-magnetic angle, so adds to the interest, don’t you know.) you don’t have to remember whether We were lucky with the weather, a little to GMS (grid-to-magnetic subtract) or drizzle but otherwise good days in good MGA (magnetic-to-grid add). But you company in good country. Our campsite ad you noticed that cooler would have to remember to reset it if at Pond Creek on the Coronet Peak trip weather is upon us? There was you were walking in another part of was a nice spot. One member read the Hfrost at 3 pm in the shade on Australia or elsewhere in the world, as “Truckie at Rocky Creek”, a great poem the south facing slope of Sentry Box the grid-magnetic angle varies. and the writer sang a nasal version of Mountain in mid-May. Winter walking “Shearing in the Bar”. Peter Conroy and Linda Groom are on crisp, frosty (even snowy) days is in- facilitating a Walks Planning evening The Activity Program for the month, vigorating, but we need to be equipped on 2 July. Tap into this if you want to June/July has a reasonable span, with for these conditions. draw on their experiences and those of good day-walks and snow-shoeing/ Extremities get colder quicker – gloves, other living legend navigators who will camping replacing some of the over- beanie and two pairs of socks should be present. This event is for everyone, night pack trips. The former are being be considered. A neck warmer can be particularly budding walk leaders. See run jointly with the Cross-Country Ski a fashion statement. It is a good idea the entry in the Walks Program for Club; a welcome liaison. Please refer to to layer your clothing. Several lighter details. John Evans’ “Training Trifl es” and the tops rather than one heavy jumper Cheers and happy feet. program, for details concerning Linda trap layers of air, which is warmed by

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r o John Evans C Evening, early July; a valuable evening. you can control your temperature to a Training and Safety Offi cer Every man and his dog that I meet lately has walked the Camino, from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Our recent journey there was a vicarious CBC Joins Facebook one through the medium of a fi lm, The In the November 2011 edition of it, Phillip Starr noted that the commit- Way. It captured the feel of the walk tee had decided to create a CBC Facebook page, and on 5 May 2012, and had a plausible story-line to keep the CBC Facebook page – Canberra Bushwalking Club – was born. it moving. The vistas were well-shot and the elements of the local culture The CBC Facebook page gives the Club an opportunity to create a engaging. One of our own who walked profi le in a different space, in addition to the Club website and the it last year spoke highly of it but said Club’s involvement in events such as ACT Heritage Week. that the 800 km of gravel road and path The CBC Facebook page will be used to advertise events like the release knocked his feet around and perhaps a of new activity programs, general meetings, and other Club events. It different choice of footwear would have is also a great place to post pictures and videos to show off some of the been better. wonderful locations that members visit on Club activities. We usually run a Navigation refresher As the page aims to promote the Club to new members and walkers, sequence each year in addition to indi- we want to keep the page topical, clean and family-friendly. vidual days for navigation tuition put on by some of our leaders. The sequence If you use Facebook, please ‘like’ the CBC Facebook page. This is planned for August/September and will help us promote the Club by making it visible to your friends on the details of dates and content will Facebook. The page is a work in progress – your comments, questions, be in the next issue of it. The fi rst four pictures and videos are welcome!

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Helicopters in the Mist: the Rescue from a village south of Lukla

eanne Aust realised a dream bordering Nepal and China including Everest (8,848 m), to see the south side of Mt (Tibet) spectacular. Lukla was a Cho-Oyo (8,153 m) Lhotse LEverest on her fourth visit delight with bakeries, pubs and (8511 m) and Makalu (8,481 to the mighty Himalayas. Her even a Starbucks with free wifi ! m). Daily temperatures were a fi rst trip to these mountains took little on the cool side. The tem- her to Ladakh in northern India. From Lukla their party travelled perature soared to a staggering On her second trip she walked north along the Dudh Khosi minus 15°C one day in Gokyo along the northern border of River to Namche Bazaar and township. Bhutan crossing 11 high passes. then up to Gokyo. En route Taking a break from walking in between Namche Bazaar and The party travelled over the Cho 2008 she pedalled a mountain Gokyo their party was snowed La pass and through the villages bike across part of Tibet. in for a day at Machermo. This of Lobuche and Gorek Shep was fortunately a site of a World to climb Kala Patar (5,545 m), Eager to return to this region, Expeditions permanent camp, which was the last vantage Leanne booked a trip with World which allowed them to rest up point from which they could Expeditions in 2011 to complete in relative comfort. see the summit of Mt Everest the Everest Circuit. Their party surrounded by peaks such as flew into Lukla from Kath- From Gokyo the party climbed Pumori, Nuptse, Changtse, Ama mandu. The news that Lukla has Gokyo Ri (5,360 m) to obtain Dablam, Taweche and Kantega. been rated as the world’s most outstanding views of Gokyo dangerous airport did nothing to Lakes and surrounding peaks. The following day the group allay her self-proclaimed rather This view is regarded as one trekked to Everest Base Camp. irrational fear of small planes. In of the best panoramas in the From Everest Base Camp it is spite of the risks she found the Khumbu. From the summit not possible to obtain views of fl ight parallel to the Himalayas four 8,000 m peaks can be seen the summit of Mt Everest as it

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Review of general meeting talk but no doubt lightened the mood among the group as they settled in for what was a spectacular helicopter ride over the ridges and gorges of central Nepal. However, the helicopters were not going to Kathmandu - instead they were taken to a small dirt air strip 30 minutes to the south where a fi xed wing plane was

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he mist quietly blows in and decade. I was delighted, however, Victorian bushwalking areas is now thickens, as the temperature to once more see the stunning rocky much less visited than three decades Tdrops further. We continue spurs plunging off Mt Buller, the ago. Indeed, I only saw one other climbing Rocky Ridge, and snow impressive sedimentary strata on bushwalker in four days. fl akes are now fl oating around us the Bluff and the sweet, clear waters and gently settling on Druidic black of the Howqua and Jamieson rivers. I pushed on with the occasional japaras. We reach the aptly named curse… until I trod on the copper- Refrigerator Gap—I shiver, too cold The walk started with a steep head. After 40 years of bushwalk- to bother trying to have lunch as the 800 metre scramble up Mt McDon- ing, I am still unable to maintain party’s stalwarts launch an assault ald, negotiating minor rock bands poise during such encounters. up the steep gully to the Bluff’s to add to the interest. The fi nish is I squawked involuntarily, then summit. just delightful, for this is a gem of a apologised to the young serpent—it mountain, with beautiful ledges and slithered away without rancour and I had succeeded in getting most of alpine wildfl ower meadows. I moved on more cautiously. New my clothes saturated the previous Year’s Day 2012 possibly held an night in the drenching rain, and I am From here my route followed the omen for the coming year, as a now absolutely frozen, my cheap Australian Alpine Walking Track more feisty tiger snake emerged Chinese disposals parka a sodden, for two days. The mountains—the next to the Chesters Hut watering useless mess. Morbid thoughts of Nobs, Square Top, High Cone and point that evening. dying of exposure spike my brain. Mount Clear—are still magnifi cent with their open snowgum wood- The next day I took the jeep track My first Melbourne University lands, and Mt Clear is crowned with to Bluff Hut and had a number of Mountaineering Club trip could broad alpine herbfi elds. But what pleasant encounters with four wheel well have put me off bushwalking surprised me was how subtle – read drivers. It is a fi ne ridge walk with for life. But, as luck would have it, unfollowable—the Alpine Walking panoramic views from the hill tops. the second day of that Easter trip Track was, for signifi cant stretches. dawned sunny and I fell in love with There are very long sections without The fi nal day, I was up early for a the heartland of Victoria’s Alps. So markers, which generally only con- further blissful walk through alpine this New Year I decided to nostalgi- fi rm you are on the track, rather than wildfl owers to Mt Eadley Stoney cally retrace that fateful university assist route-fi nding. The subtle pad and the Bluff itself. Then down the walk, some 35 years earlier. that is the track is often obscured by gully and back to Refrigerator Gap. the lush growth of alpine grasses, All these years later it felt a benign The conditions were very differ- and with each tree fall across the place, only disturbed by the graz- ent—it cracked 40 degrees on track, the pads fan out before fad- ing cattle—oblivious to the laws the plains and the area had been ing out all together. I pondered that prohibiting them from straying into significantly burnt over the last what had been one of the iconic the national park. g o r F

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fl owering Banksias with views of sandstone cliff-encased mountains. As I sat by a creek nibbling a gingerbread Easter rabbit, a whip snake poked its head out of the nearby ferns and looked me in the eye. When disturbed by a heavy foot fall it quickly retreated. We lunched under cliffs on a moss encrusted tributary of Kilpatrick Creek where 3 enormous felled trees once formed a bridge used during logging operations up to the mid 1900s. A side trip up Quiltys Mountain led to an aboriginal bora ground where stones had been arranged in the form of 2 elongated ovals about 20 m long sharing one long side, with lichen growing around the base of each stone, indicating that the arrangement had been there for a long time. We descended and re-gained the track. We encountered three other bushwalking parties on the 4WD track through The Vines and Karel, Mike, Rupert & Rene under Flat Top Mountain, Budawangs heard trail bikes at various times during the 3 days we were there. fter emailing a notice of inner part of each flower taking Three kilometres after crossing a walk in the Budawangs the form and colour of a wasp. the Endrick River, we pitched our 2 days before Easter, Keith Fungi growing from the base of tents near Piercy Creek under the A fl ight paths of fl ocks of yellow- Thomas and Rene Davies instantly trees stopped us again: Psathyrella had four more starters: Rupert echinata. tailed black cockatoos. Apparently Barnett, Cynthia Breheny, Mike several spots of rain fell during the Morriss and Karel Pelikan. We needed to remove some cloth- moonlit night. ing to cross Running Creek and On Good Friday, we drove 8 km then to enjoy lunch above it. Three By 7.30 on Easter Sunday morning SE of Nerriga and started walking more kilometres through the scrub we were up, up and away, walk- south down a 4WD track through and we were apparently on what ing along the clear, 4WD track, woodland to the foot of Flat Top was once a track but which will through white trunked eucalypt Mountain. We left the track to not be for much longer unless it forest and several species of wildly climb it. This included negotiating is cleared, burned or mega-fauna flowering banksias. A second a 2 m high wet concave cliff, which re-introduced. As we rounded crossing of the refl ective Endrick group effort made it possible for all Fosters Mountain, and having River was celebrated by consuming to climb to the top and enjoy views walked 14.5 km we made camp several varieties of Easter eggs of Square Top, Fosters, Quiltys and on the ‘track’ near a tributary of generously supplied by our leaders Round Mountains. Sallee Creek. A full moon fi ltered and by mid-morning our walk was light through the eucalypts. complete. Thanks to Keith and View craving satisfied, we con- Rene for another well planned and tinued through forests of scribbly Saturday morning brought more led adventure. gums where several wasp orchids walking along the ‘track’ through grew—Chiloglottis seminuda, the prickly Hakea and brilliantly

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Rupert Barnett n a mild Sunday morning in lapping lake, and our other evening early February this year a camp was made in a pocket of lawn Onumber of us sat at a table in hidden in a forest of celery-top the Botanic Gardens café. The sec- and pencil pines, tall Swamp and ond item for discussion was the news yellow-barked Mountain Gums. item that for the rest of the month Feature shrubs included the red- Canberra should expect showers seeded Mountain Rocket and red- on almost every day. And we (that berried heaths, with contrasts of is Michael, David, Alan, Marg and elegant columns of pandani (here Rupert) were all planning to soon go a heath, not a palm), and (would to Tasmania—what would it be like you believe) scoparia. This last is Climbing Falling Mountain there? So what to do? We did the the infamous acquaintance of off- sensible thing—we went! track walkers over much of alpine rock along a ridge, hazy plateaux Our intention was to walk near Lake Tasmania; it’s like walking into a with highlights of white, and distant St Clair on the Du Cane Range and pincushion wall, with pins—from horizontals where land, ocean, nearby Mt Olympus. For walkers the wrong side. Here it occurred as a and cloud were indistinguishable. they’re rough, rocky, the vegetation scatter of neat pyramids four metres Features included Cradle Mountain, often most unfriendly, and therefore high that testifi ed to long centuries the Mersey River’s course from the little visited. But that is a good of peace in this place. ‘Walls’; the nearby bulk of Mt Ossa thing; it is also alpine and for all or, if you turned around, Lake We had forests like this as we moved St Clair under Mount Olympus. their apparent toughness most of the above the Overland Track towards plants here are endemic Gondwanan Falling Mtn, but as we gained height The descent west was good training survivors, fighting a new battle it degenerated in both form and for the next couple of days. The top to hang on. So we were looking function, and the scoparia became of a slight ramp was innocuously forward to a rare experience, but… its usual low confronting self. Then grassy, then as it gathered speed it wot about that Tassie weather? came the big rocks, broken cliffs collected shrubs, then small boulders When we got there the forecast to climb through, even a detached that quickly became slabs of rock a was for a week of scattered show- camera to catch. But the top was half, then two, three, metres wide/ ers, and once on top we could see achieved, and a new peace found. long/deep. Between were deep gaps where one might slide (but gaffa tape them—always somewhere else. So We had lunch with a view over half we had fi ne mild days for the rock- does a great sewing job), jump or the state, with the mix of features even tunnel. One learns to trust one’s hops across the extensive fi elds of most high spots would offer in dolerite blocks, and gentle evenings footwear, and footwork too; isn’t it the next week—a scatter of rough wonderful what a fi t body can do? for camping. On a couple of these peaks, high dark cliffs over shadowy evenings we were on high tops valleys, long slopes of still-green And so the afternoon was absorbed with wide views and rich evening Deciduous Beech, tall columns of as we worked steadily west along tones; for two more we settled by a

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Sunset over Lake St Clair Creek on the Overland track the ridge, fi nding progress often Next morn is misty, colours light, lake, amongst more old pines. The demanding or sometimes easier and a sense of the ethereal as we track to it has always been slow and but never easy. So it was pleasing descend to a fl at of mostly rock, a is not now maintained, but with a towards its end to find a pool, km wide. It seems out of place until bit of patience it has got us here, grassy patches for our tents, and just one remembers that until recently and will lead back to Cynthia Bay beyond, the edge of a high cliff with an ice sheet was sliding over it, and the walk’s end. There’s a day a view stretching from Kia Ora Hut polishing, grinding, growling as before then though, which some at our feet to Barn Bluff, Cradle, and it became one of the glaciers that use to enjoy the resort while others the scattered shower over Western helped dig out the basin for Lake go alpine. So now, after a number Bluff. Later the sky became a wide St Clair over there. of attempts, I’ve at last reached spread of soft changing colours. Mt Olympus. It’s a rewarding ascent We pick up the cairned route that and another grand and different And so to Day 3 - through a saddle, leads to The Labyrinth. It is a maze view that includes Frenchmans Cap, under a bluff, fi nd the ‘bathtub’ on and we do miss a turn, but that just and yes, it’s worthy of the gods! Mt Massif and wonder how it was helps our appreciation of the details carved. Wonder more at the ancient of this plateau of endless tarns. And Tasmania offers a lot of unique cushion bushes nearby, four metres for us, on our nearly windless day, terrain like the Du Cane Range and across, a half high. Curse quietly as these reflect endless pictures of with it a wealth of special walking another bigger blockfi eld appears twisted Snow Gums, neat Pencil experiences, so I go back regularly. along Massif’s west side; in Big Pines, and a Pool of Memories that But the walks don’t have to be Gun Pass quietly hope that these gives many. Glowering beyond, but that demanding. So next year…… newish cairns will show an easier refl ecting in, are the dark hulks of Western Arthurs, or the new track route out. They do, to a second Mt Geryon and The Acropolis. to Frenchmans Cap? night on a high fl at with big views, gorgeous colours, and for me at last By the following eve we’ve been Meanwhile, we’ve not finished a chance to get close to the towers down to Lake St Clair to restock here yet—some of us are about to of Mt Geryon. from the ferry, passed around the head for the Precipitous Bluff, and end of Mt Olympus and are camped perhaps even Mt Ossa… behind a sandy beach by another Cushion bush The Labyrinth and Pool of Memory

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Jenny Horsfi eld

ast month CBC member they saw it destroying valuable land survived to provide much-needed Linda Groom designed a which supported dairy cattle and accommodation. They have since Lcreative urban ramble for market gardens. Now, as we see been demolished and brick cottages Tuesday walkers. When she found the increasing pollution of the lake, built. The area is best known for its she was booked to lead another we can be grateful that the wetlands community hall, which was built walk, I offered to take over. Eight are being protected and managed in 1926 by voluntary labour with people turned up at Grevillia Park to provide a filter for pollutants materials provided by the Federal on a perfect autumn day, and we entering the lake. Capital Commission. The building set off on the bike path towards is well-cared for and still used by Jerrabomberra wetlands. From The Causeway is a small enclave of Causeway residents for community there the ramble took us past the streets and houses that is unknown events. Causeway, then through the new to most Canberrans, and yet it Kingston Foreshore developments played an important part in the The Kingston Foreshore develop- to Telopea Park. We had lunch in city’s early development. In Burley ment is a contrast in scale and the Sculpture Garden at the National Griffi n’s plans, the Causeway was luxury, a complex, (still being built) Gallery before attending a talk on part of the lake design, support- of expensive but well-designed Eugene von Guérard’s painting of ing a railway bridge crossing the apartments with a future mix of Mt Kosciuszko. Molonglo River, used to carry shops and cafes at street level. To building materials into Civic. The me they represent an intelligent My particular interest in this walk great fl ood of 1922 destroyed the response to Griffi n’s plan for central was the insights it gave into Can- bridge, and the rail line across Canberra, which he envisaged as a berra’s early history. Jerrabomberra the river was never rebuilt. The densely-settled, European-style city wetlands, for example, was to have original cottages at the Causeway with mixed-use terracing border- been the site of Walter Burley were erected in 1925 to house ing many major avenues. Those Griffin’s planned Eastlake – a tradesmen and their families who in charge of the city in the 1920s generous expanse of water cover- came to work at the Power House found Griffi n’s ideas suspiciously ing the low-lying fl ats around the and other construction sites. Such ‘foreign’ and rejected them in Molonglo, which would balance settlements were only ever meant favour of a city ringed by spread-out ‘Westlake’ near Yarralumla. In the to be temporary, but as Canberra’s garden suburbs. end, Canberra’s bureaucrats decided fortunes declined with the coming not to proceed with this part of the of war and then the Depression, I can recommend this stroll for Griffi n plan. Among other things, these modest workers’ cottages everyone – the map is on the ACT Cycles and Walking Paths website. Photos including page 2) by Lake refl ections Annette Smith

Please ensure that you update any changes to your email address or inform the Membership Secretary. New members: Josie St Flour, Lee-anne Grunwald, Stewart Jones, Josephine Lamech, Lynne McVeigh, Anthea Murphy, David Ortiz, Vesna Ringuet Roger Edwards Membership Secretary

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Activity program Activity program Arrange for your Club-related activities to be included in the program with Rob Horsfi eld (Walks Secretary) Ph: 6231 4535 (h), Email: [email protected], Post: 11 Studley Place, Kambah, ACT 2903

Information for participants Distance and diffi culty Transport Distance: Costs are 40¢/km/car, divided equally among all participants. This (S) Short - under 12 km/day amount may be varied at the discretion of the leader, depending on the condition of the roads and other factors. The fi gures given (M) Medium - 12-20 km/day are for the car as a whole and then, at the discretion of the leader, (L) Long - over 20 km/day an estimate or range per person. Park admission and camping Note: In calculating distance, 1 km is added for every 100 metres fees are additional costs which leaders should list separately. climbed. Duty of care Terrain: Every person taking part in a CBC activity acknowledges that (E) Easy - fi re trail, tracks, beaches etc he/she does so voluntarily and that he/she may be exposed to (M) Medium - bush tracks, alpine areas, some scrub risks that could lead to injury, illness or death, or to loss of, or (R) Rough - much scrub, steep climbs, rock scrambles damage to property. Each person is required to sign the Club’s (W) Wet - compulsory swims, many river crossings ‘Acknowledgement of Risks’ form. Visitors are welcome to join (X) Exploratory trips. However walkers are strongly encouraged to join the Club after a maximum of three trips. Booking Contact the leader early rather than late. Book by Thursday For further information see: 2.00 pm for the following weekend (both one-day and multi-day www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org walks) so the leader has time to arrange transport. Check with the leader about: Check-in after walks Before a trip, leaders are to email or phone through the names X the need to carry water, tents/fl y, maps, etc of their party, and by 10 am the day after their trip report their X appropriate clothing, footwear safe return or trip cancellation, to the Check-in Offi cer, Keith X any precautions you might need to take for severe weather Thomas ([email protected], 6230 1081 changes. leave message if no answer). The Check-in Offi cer or the Walks Ask about anything you’re unsure of, especially if you are new to Secretary (6231 4535), not the Police or other bodies, should be the our Club. fi rst point of contact for worried relatives if you are late in returning.

Equipment hire Map scale is 1:25,000 unless otherwise stated Take advantage of the excellent gear that the Club has available for hire before lashing out on your own equip- ment. The Equipment Offi cer is Rob Horsfi eld, who can be contacted on 6231 4535(h) or to borrow the northside PLB, George Carter, 6251 2130. The equipment available and current rates per weekend/ week are set out below. Hirers are responsible for col- Wednesday 13 June: Wednesday Walk – lecting and returning the equipment. The hiring charge CBC – Medium (but not the deposit) is waived for members who are ‘fi rst Coordinator: Janet Edstein ([email protected]) time’ weekend walkers. A deposit of $20 is required and part or all of this will be Saturday 16 June: Murrumbidgee River refunded, depending on the condition of the items upon Corridor – Casuarina Sands to Kambah return and whether they are returned late. Pool – M/M Starting from Casuarina Sands, a walk following the Item w.e./week Murrumbidgee River corridor to Kambah Pool. About Olympus two person tent $15 / $40 14km in all. Car shuffl e required. Map: Cotter Dam/ Macpac Microlight one person tent $15 / $40 Canberra / Tuggeranong Leader: Nathan Holt 0414 628 3 season bag, mat and liner $10 / $25 429, [email protected] Transport: ~ Drive yourself Assorted packs $5 / $15 but tell me when you book if you need a ride. Trangia and fuel bottle $5 / $15 Saturday 16 June: Black Mt and Aranda Snow sleeping bag, mat and liner $15 / $40 Bushland – M/E Personal locator beacon – nil (see website for conditions) Meet at 9.30 in the car park opposite 160 Dryandra St, GPS – nil (see website for conditions of use) O’Connor. This walk traverses the Bruce Ridge then Check you have ALL the bits and pieces you need crosses into the Black Mt Reserve. Traverse the reserve, when collecting and returning gear. following the track part way up the mountain, then along the lake to Yarramundi Peninsula for lunch. Home via the cork plantation and the Aranda Bushland. All on track, about 5 hours walking. Map: ACT 1:100,000 Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), stan.marks@

Canberra Bushwalking Club it June 2012 – page 11 Activity program infrastructure.gov.au Transport: drive yourself but Sunday 24 June: The Perpendicular Slot, please book as usual; there may be someone from your Camel Rock, Churinga Head, Myall Ridge area who needs a lift. (Ettrema) – S/M–R Sunday 17 June: Settlers Track – S/E A fairly long drive (with early start) via Tarago and A delightful walk near Grassy Creek in southern Nerriga. There will be some scrub and scrambling but the Namadgi/ ACT visiting pioneer settlements, firstly walk is only about 8km long and has only short climbs. Brayshaw’s Hut and then onto Waterhole Hut and The views along the clifftops overlooking Ettrema Westerman’s Homestead. About 9 km return with some Gorge are excellent and we will have time for plenty of moderate climbing sections, all on track or fi re trails. stops to enjoy them and several interesting rock features Maps: Yaouk and Shannons Flat. Leader: Quentin along the way. The top of Myall Ridge is perched in the Moran, 6288 9840(h), [email protected] middle of the gorge. Maps: Nerriga and Touga. Leader: Transport: ~$66 per car. Limit: 12. Jeff Bennetts 0418 662 870, [email protected] Transport: ~320km return ~$128 per car, ~$32–$40 per Tuesday 19 June: More Boot and Bulbeck passenger Limit: 12 Sites at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve – M/M,X or L/R,ptX Wander around TNR looking for a number of sites documented in the Boot and Bulbeck 1991 Cultural Resource Survey and Conservation Plan. If time and inclination allow, investigate the bottom of the Snowy Corner footpad, or even up it to Mt Domain. Around 11+ (up to 23) km and 150+ (up to 1000) m climb. Map: Tidbinbilla. Leader: John Evans 0417 436 877, jevans@ pcug.org.au Transport: ~$5 per person. Further details at http://jevans.pcug.org.au

Saturday 30 June: Northern Monga Forest and Gilligooly Gully – M/M A circuit in the pleasant northern part of Monga State Forest. Approx 1 hr 30 minutes drive via Braidwood, leaving the cars just off the Kings Hwy. Walk up the Narranghi Fire Trail then off track to see some old gold mining trenches. Lunch in a grassy clearing at an abandoned homestead site. Climb Narranghi Trig (though its forested summit lacks views) then descend into the Saturday 23 June: Faunce Hill – M/E delightful Gilligooly Gully which has grassy patches, Faunce Hill is on the eastern side of the Queanbeyan ferns and 15 metre high wattles. About 4 hours actual River gorge on the northern end of Googong Dam. The walking covering 15 km, of which half is off track with walk is a mixture of on and off track, starting at the light to moderate scrub. Mostly gentle gradients except end of Wanna Wanna Rd (off Captains Flat Rd) thence the descent into the head of Gilligolly Gully which through open forest to the Hill and south to lunch on an drops 150 metres in about a kilometre. May need to open ridge before wandering back to the cars. Plenty of wade a shin-deep creek. Limit: 4 cars, due to limited variety and good views including Gingera and Bimberi. parking space. Map: Braidwood Leader: Linda Groom: About 5½ hours walking. A mixture of on and off track. [email protected]. Transport: $15 per person Map: Hoskinstown Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected] Sunday 1 July: Waterfall, Stockyard Creek Transport: $10 –M/R This trip is from Corin Dam via Stockyard Spur. It is a Saturday 23 June: Canberra Centenary pleasant spot. Map: Corin Dam Leaders: Jenny & Rob Trail: Section 1 – Parliament House to the Horsfi eld 6231 4535(h).Transport: ~$44 per car. Federal Highway – L/E,ptX CBC is involved with a number of other local walking Monday 2 July: Walks planning evening, organisations in promoting the Canberra Centenary 7.30 pm Trail, which will be offi cially opened next year. Come Ever wished you could fi nd someone who is a mine of and get a sneak peek, urban and urban fringe walking information about a walk you would like to do? The from Parliament House via a bit of Central Basin, Anzac walks planning evening is an opportunity to button-hole Parade, Mt Ainslie, Mt Majura to the Federal Highway. experienced leaders and discuss possible walks, with Help spot not fl ora and fauna, but loos, car parks and maps at hand. At Linda and Peter’s house, 96 Strickland features of interest to the general public. Around 20 km Crescent Deakin. BYO maps, supper provided. RSVP and a couple of hills to climb (500 m). Maps: Canberra to [email protected] or 6281 4917. RSVPs not and Hall. Leader: John Evans 0417 436 877, jevans@ essential, but priority access to cheesecake with chocolate pcug.org.au Transport: ~$5 per person, car shuttle & ginger crust will be given to those who RSVP. involved. Further details at http://jevans.pcug.org.au

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Activity program Tuesday 3 July: Mt Herlt granite slabs – The speaker is ecologist Dr. Murray Evans. Admission L/R,ptX to the talk is by gold coin donation; no need to book Walk to Rendezvous Creek from the Nursery Swamp for the talk. Transport: drive yourself, or catch Action car park. Climb through thick regrowth to the massive bus route 3 from Woden or Belconnen, alighting in Mt Herlt granite slabs on the side of the Mavis ridge. Daley Road, ANU. Map: Black Mountain Nature Around 15km and 800m climb. Map: Rendezvous Creek. Reserve Leader: Linda Groom 6281 4917 lbgroom@ Leader: John Evans 0417 436 877, [email protected]. gmail.com http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/ au Transport: ~$10 per person. Further details at http:// pdf_fi le/0016/13246/cnpmapblackmountain.pdf jevans.pcug.org.au Saturday 14 July: Mundoonen Nature Saturday 7 July: The Peaks of Goorooyarroo Reserve – M/E–M – S/E This reserve is just south of the Hume Highway between This walk on the northern fringe of the city traverses, Gunning and Yass. We will explore the reserve, which partly on and partly off track, a series of hills with is undulating with a cover of open forest. A mixture of spectacular views over the city and to the Brindabellas. track and easy off track. About 4 ½ hrs actual walking. Be at the parking area on the northern side of Horse Park Map: Gunning 1:50,000. Leader: Stan Marks 6254 Drive about 1.5km toward Gungahlin from the Federal 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected]. Hwy junction (Gungahlin exit) at 8.30 for this walk – and au Transport: ~$15 be home for lunch. About 4 hours walking. Map: ACT Saturday 14 July: Winter snowscape – 1:100,000 Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected] Transport: Painting and/or photography – S/E Why not create or capture your own Winter Wonderland drive yourself but please book as usual; there may be Snowscape, either with brush or camera. We’re planning someone from your area who needs a lift. a short trip to the Brindabella National Park, possibly Sunday 8 July:– Red Hill Nature Reserve – Top Crossing or the Sawmill ruin. Hopefully we’ll fi nd M/E–M snow on fl owering wattle or other Winter marvels to Starting from Deakin, walking to the summit of Red paint or photograph. Clothing suitable for snow should Hill, taking in the great views along the ridgeline to be worn e.g. boots, jumper, parka, long trousers, gloves Hindmarsh Drive. Follow the eastern and northern edges and beanie – if it is cold. Map: Umburra Leaders: Alison of the reserve back to the cars. About 10 km in all, fi nish Milton & Gösta Lyngå. Bookings to Alison 6254 0578(h), by lunchtime. Map: Canberra. Leader: Nathan Holt 6289 2717(w), [email protected] Transport: 0414 628 429, [email protected] Transport: Drive ~$24 per car, $6–$8 per person. yourself but tell me when you book if you need a ride. (13) 14–15 July: Beginners Snow Camp at 7–8 July: Mount Kelly–Mount Scabby – M/R Guthega – S/M Boboyan – Mount Kelly – Mount Scabby – Sams Creek. Two days of snow shoeing &/or cross country skiing Expect a cold night. If weather or snow conditions are in Guthega, with tours of Tate East Ridge and Guthega unsuitable, this walk will be relocated. Maps: Yaouk and Trig. This trip caters to those who have done overnight Rendezvous Creek Leader: Keith Thomas 6230 1081(h), camping before, but would like to learn to camp in the [email protected] Transport: ~$70 per car Limit: 8 snow. There will be time to take photos, do side trips (with day packs), or just sit and appreciate the beauty of 11 July: Wednesday Walk: Mt Palerang – M/M the Main Range. We’ll depart Friday evening at 4PM, Palerang is a mountain near the Great Dividing Range stop to hire gear if required, and then drive to Island Bend south of the Kings Highway (the pointy one on the right to camp for the night. Saturday morning we’ll drive the as you approach Braidwood). Access is via Captains Flat cars to Guthega and snowshoe / ski 1.5 km with overnight Road, Briars Sharrow Road, Plains Road, Hoskinstown packs to camp along Guthega River, near the log crossing. Road, Forbes Creek Road and Mulloon fi re trail to the The tours will be suitable for beginner snowshoers who ford over Mulloon Creek. On a clear day you can see are reasonably fi t, but will only suit cross country skiers Braidwood, the Budawangs and the Brindabellas. The with some experience of steep gradients. This trip will access ridges have moderate scrub, rock scrambles and be run jointly with the Canberra Cross Country Ski Club a rock climb. There are also a few kilometres of fi re Maps: Perisher Valley 8525–2S & Geehi Dam 8525–2N trail walking. Distance: 11.3km, Climb: 500m Map: Leader: Karen Cody [email protected] 0447 Bombay, Leader: Phillip Starr 6161 3835(h), 0419 281 268 628(m) Transport: Estimate per car (including 096(m), [email protected], Transport: ~ $10 parks pass) ~$140. per person. We will meet at Queanbeyan Swimming Pool, Campbell Street for an 8:30 am start. Thursday 12 July: Walk and talk: Botanic Gardens and Black Mountain – S/E Some exercise for both body and Brain. Rendezvous at the Botanic Gardens car park at 9.20 am. We will walk through the gardens and then, by a devious combination of tracks, around and over Black Mountain, returning to picnic on the Eucalypt lawns around 11.30 am. At 12.30 pm we will hear how our Club emblem is surviv- ing by attending a free talk in the Gardens Theatrette on ‘Saving the Northern Corroboree Frog in the ACT’.

Canberra Bushwalking Club it June 2012 – page 13 Activity program Saturday 21 July: Shannahan Falls Creek – about 450 m. Map: Rendezvous Creek, Leader: Phillip M/R Starr 6161 3835(h), 0419 281 096(m), phillip_starr@ Shannahan Mountain, Sh. Falls Creek, Horse Gully Hut, hotmail.com Transport: ~ $11 Mt Clear car park. A short car-shuttle is required. Map: Saturday 28 July: Square Rock and Smokers Colinton Leaders: Jenny & Rob Horsfi eld 6231 4535(h) Transport: ~$66 per car. Trail – M/M Square Rock is one of my favourite ACT walks. A track (20), 21, 22 July: Southern Highlands through bush from the Square Rock car park marks the bushwalking bonanza beginning of this walk to a group of boulders that are a Drive down Friday night to the Bundanoon YHA, where great place for lunch. Fantastic views on a clear day. On we stay the weekend. Mt Carrialoo (to be led by Barry the way back we peel off to join the Smokers Trail until Keeley on Saturday) is brilliant and if you like spectacular we come to Smokers Trail car park. Car shuffl e required. views and a bit of a challenge, you will love it. On Map: Corin Dam, Leader: Nathan Holt 0414 628 429 Sunday, we will walk the spectacular and beautiful Bargo or [email protected] Transport: ~ $10 Gorge, twice as deep and twice as wide as Boxvale, on Saturday 28 July: Mt Painter and Black Mt track. The YHA is a renovated early 20th century home of delightful ambience. Shared meal on Saturday evening. –M/E Meet 9.30 am at end of Frith St near electricity About 5 hrs walking each day. Maps: Bundanoon and sub-station. We will then car shuffl e to the start point Picton Leaders: Stan Marks and Barry Keeley. Bookings of the walk at the Pinnacle at the back of Hawker. The to Stan: 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), stan.marks@ walk traverses the Pinnacle and Mt Painter nature parks, infrastructure.gov.au Transport: estimate per person the Aranda bushland and frost hollow before ascend- ~$60, Accommodation: ~$60 for the weekend. ing Black Mt (lunch) and back to the cars. Finish by (20) 21– 22 July: Beginners Cross Country 2.30. Map: ACT 1:100,000 Leader: Stan Marks 6254 ski weekend 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected]. Two days of informal instruction and short ski tours au Transport: drive yourself in the Mount Selwyn/Three Mile Dam area, from Sunday 29 July: Mt Tennent – M/M – pt X accommodation near Adaminaby. Suitable for complete An early start from the Namadgi Visitors’ Centre to Mt beginners who are reasonably fi t, though people with Tennent for good views from the top, weather depend- several weekends cross-country skiing experience will ing. The walk is on track, quite a few steps, with a steep also benefi t. We have booked a cottage for six (1 Queen last km to the summit. I’d also like to divert off-track to bedroom and 2 x twin bedrooms) at Snowy Mountains look at the big scar on the side of the mountain (hence Alpine Cabins, 8 km from Adaminaby. Accommodation the part X). Map: Williamsdale Leader: Nathan Holt cost will be around $100 per person for the 2 nights; BYO [email protected], 0414 628 429 Transport: drive linen and food, including something to share for dinner. yourself – please advise if you need transport. Full, non-refundable payment for the accommodation please within a week of your signing up for the trip; Saturday 4 August: Wild Cattle Creek – M/M booking early will give you the best chance of securing This walk is south of Captains Flat in the Tallaganda accommodation. Alternatively you can book your own National Park. It is a wander, mostly off track, along accommodation in Adaminaby, or camp. BYO skis, ridges through light, open forest and along the wide stocks and boots (rent in Cooma). If there is insuffi cient open valley of Wild Cattle Creek and other watercourses. snow, we will do bushwalks in the area. Map (for About 10 km and 4 hrs actual walking. Return via the skiing) Cabramurra . Map if we end up bushwalking: purple eatery. Map: Tinderry. Leader: Stan Marks 6254 Tantangara. Leaders: Linda Groom & Peter Conroy, 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected]. [email protected], 02 6281 4917 Transport: au Transport: ~$20. ~$70 per person. This is a joint activity with the Canberra Cross Country Ski Club. Limit: 12. Sunday 5 August – Mt Wee Jasper – M/X Starting from the Fitzpatrick Trackhead near Wee Jasper, we’ll follow the Hume & Hovell Track to the summit of Mt Wee Jasper for lunch, a climb of about 700 metres, before heading back downhill. A new one for me but all on track – about 15 km in all. Map: Couragago Leader: Nathan Holt [email protected], 0414 628 Saturday 28 July: Nursery Swamp and 429 Transport: ~ $70 per car Nursery Hill – M/R Thursday to Sunday 9–12 August: Cross We will leave from the Nursery Swamp car park just country skiing 4 day trip off Orroral Road and follow the Nursery Swamp walk- A four day ski tour carrying packs and camping in the ing trail. From the end of the trail we walk off track to snow, probably from Munyang towards Grey Mare Nursery Hill where will have lunch. We will then return, Range, route to be decided according to snow conditions. off track, roughly parallel to the walking track we came in Requires prior experience with similar trips. Maps: on. We will turn back to meet the walking track at about Mount Kosciuszko & Khancoban or as advised. Leaders: its half-way point. From there we follow the track back Linda Groom and Peter Conroy conroygroom@gmail. to our vehicles. This walk is almost half on track while com or 02 6281 4917. Transport: $30 or as advised. the rest will be off track. If the going is too diffi cult or This is a joint activity with the Canberra Cross Country we are pressed for time we can return to the walking Ski Club. Limit: 8 track earlier. Distance around 15 km with climbs totalling

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Bulletin board Saturday 11 August: A ridge with a view – M/E–M Walk from the Spring Creek car park along a series of ridges through open forest to an unnamed grassy peak for lunch with spectacular views from Lake George to the Tinderries. Similar return. Part on and part off track, about 13km, 600 m aggregate climb and 6 hours actual walking. Map: Captains Flat. Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected]. au Transport: ~$40 per car, ~$15 per person. Saturday 18 August: Gorilla Rock, Booroomba Rocks – M/R We walk along the AAT from Honeysuckle Creek Camp Ground before heading off into the bush to Gorilla Rock for morning tea and then through bush to Booroomba Rocks with a steep climb and rock scrambling along the way. We will enjoy lunch, with great views, at Booroomba Rocks then return via walking track. Map: Corin Dam, Leader: Phillip Starr 6161 3835(h), 0419 281 096(m), [email protected], Transport: $10 per person. (17), 18–19 August: Royal National Park I have booked three cabins at the Ben Ricketts Reserve near Robertson and we will drive down on Friday night. On Saturday, we will do a spectacular and beautiful walk in the Royal National Park, from the southern end to North Era beach and return about 5½ hrs actual walk- ing. On Sunday, we will do the short but also beautiful walk (1½ hours) at Minnamurra Rainforest then visit the Illawarra Fly, a brilliant treetop walk ($22). Map: Otford Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), [email protected] Transport: ~ $60 per person. Accommodation: ~$60. (31 August), 1–2 September: – Bundanoon gourmet weekend – M/M Drive to Bundanoon YHA on Friday evening, our base for the weekend. On Saturday, we will walk to Bonnum Pic. Distance: 16 km Climb: 400 m, 5½ hrs walking. On Sunday, we will do the Four Lookouts walk, about 3 hours walking. Both have spectacular views and, based on previous experience, lots of wildfl owers. The YHA is a renovated early 20th century home of delightful 26 June to 20 July 2013: Kakadu – M/R/X/W ambience. Shared meal on Saturday evening. About 5 Three walks in succession in the South Alligator River hours walking each day. Maps: Picton and Mittagong. and Jim Jim Falls area – probably a 6 day walk around Leader: Stan Marks 6254 9568(h), 6274 7350(w), stan. Dinner Creek, a 6 day Koolpin Gorge to Gunlom walk, [email protected]. Transport: ~ $50 per and a 10 day circuit from Jim Jim Falls to Twin Falls person, Accommodation: ~ $60. and return. There is likely to be an option to do either the (7)8–10 September: Cloudmaker and Dinner Creek and Koolpin walks, or the Jim Jim/Twin 100 Man Cave – L/M–R walk, joining or leaving the group by public transport. Drive to Kanangra Walls Friday night for a three day walk Would suit people who have previous experience on with time to appreciate the comforts of 100 Man Cave several overnight ‘Rough’ grade walks and experience where we will camp for two nights. Mostly on track, but in walks of 5 days or longer. Rock scrambling, scrub with broken quartzite along some of the ridges, off track & possibly compulsory swims. Maps: El Sherana, near the Cave and a scramble off the end of the Walls. We Callanan, Koolpin, Goodparla and Jim Jim Falls, all will take day packs on the middle day to search for 1000 1:50,000. Transport. Airfare around $600, share of 4WD Man Cave on the eastern side of Ti Willa Plateau. Approx rental around $750 plus petrol. Leader: Linda Groom. 700 m ascent/descent fi rst and last days (not all at once). Expressions of interest to Linda 026281 4917, lbgroom@ Superb southern Blue Mountains views and early spring gmail.com Limit: 9. fl owers. Map: Kanangra Leader: Meg McKone 6254 5902(h) [email protected]. Transport: ~500 km return, $200 per car, ~$50 per person. Limit: 8.

Canberra Bushwalking Club it June 2012 – page 15 Feeling literary? Membership fees 2011/12 Item Single Household Have you had a great experience on a ClubClu walk? Been Hard copy it $46 $73 movedd to write about it, either inn proseproosee or verse?vve Felt the Electronic it $27 $54 urge toto see youryour name in print?printt? OrOr eveneven justjujus taken some great photo shots that youyouu wouldwoould likelikike tot share.shhare The CClublub welcomes contributionscoonnttributit ono s fromfromm membersmemb so why not write about an interestinginteresstting experienceexxperrieennce on a walkw or just an enjoyableable walk. Alternatively,Alteernatitivevely, sendsesennd in a photophoto or two with a Wednesday walks short paraparagraphgraph aboutabboout it/them.itt//theemm. Medium walks (M/M, M/M–R, L/E–M) are conducted The closinglosing datedatee forforo eacheaach issueissssue of itt is the dadatete of the 4th every Wednesday. Walks are conducted in turn by Wednesdaynesday ofof everyeveeryr month.moonthh. HandwrittenHaH ndwritten and posted mate- leaders from the CBC, Brindabella Bushwalking rial is acceptable,accepttabablee, butbubut emailememaia l iss preferred.prer ferred. We alsoa welcome Club and National Parks Association (ACT). Details photographs,graphhs,s preferablypreefeferar bly ass separatelysepaarately scannedscanne items or about destination and meeting place are emailed to digitall images.imaaggeses. WeWe cancan scanscacan originalorigginal photographs.photogra Contact: those on the Wednesday Walkers email list. Contact Ph 6254254 0578,0505787 , [email protected] @c@ annbeberrrraabushwalkingc Janet Edstein [email protected] to get your Post: 200 OO’Sullivan’SSulullilivvan Street,Street, HIGGINS,HIGGINS, AACTCT 2261561 name on the email list. Janet coordinates the CBC’s Alison Milton,Milto Editor contribution to these walks.

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