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CANBERRA BUSHWALKING CLUB lIE N EWSLETTER P.O. Box 160, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601 Vol 11 June 1975 Na 6 Regist.red for posting as a periodical Category B. Price lOc June Meeting: Wednesday 18th June at the Land Use Research Meetings Rotm, COS Q I O R00 0 , Black Nouht&in, at 7.45 pm. Business: General Meeting, Walks Reports. avid Lewis tetefãn ndrthg&ter. of laMn and sea will be gitin"a taut with slide s; on his experiences sailing ..solo 'around Antartica A ôhilly Word from the Pro sident WOG WOG There has been some good news at last. The IPWS have negotiated with the owner of Wog Wog for the construction of an access corridor to enable access to the park from Wog '<C Wog. GUDGENBY With the continued political infighting it would appear that the land swap issue with the extension of the ACT borders has receded a little. Should it again appear that the Kelly-Gudgenby National Park is to be a piece in a a political game then we have been assured by the politicians that "there will be a period of public information and participation. We will 'await thi.era o nbl±cnformtion and participation-with g'ead intfét -Black NountEUnRd prazer Islafi aèajpa±ently'as4dc1ated iith:some bygone age'! - Our' tñanks to Joan and her helpers for a good weekend at Franklin. Je are nurrently investigatizg the various maC. azines of bushwalking clubs threughout Austra,lia and should any members be receiving magazines from their home State we would be isterested in having a look through them. Many of our members will be watching weather maps rather closely now. If last year was the emperor year this year may well be the igloo year., if bulletin from the Kosciusko Huts Association are any indication. Page 2 IT June 1975 Photographic Competition - AUGUST 1975 It is planned to have our annual photo competition at the August General Meeting0 This will necessitate a closing date for the Competition at the July General Meeting, so start getting out all your prize photos now! and sort them into the following categories. COLOUR SLIDES 1. Bushwalking ) Ski Touring ) Australia Other e.g. Town and Country, Portraits, Overseas trips BLACK -• and WHITE Bushwalking mounted or unmounted Unrestricted) on 10 x 8 or 15 x 12" If thei'e is sufficient interest then there could be a mount4,g night for the Black and Whiters. Contact Rene Lays0 The winning photo in each category will be awardeda prize. Should the entry justify it there may be some encouragement awards. CONDITIONS -Each transparency should be mounted, titled, and spotted. The spot should be in the bottom left hand cornerof the mount as viewed from the hand. Also your name, category If the photo 1, 2., 3. etc, No ptbize will be awarded in anyone category if the standard is not sufficiently high. Please leave out previous entries in club competitions. WALKS REPORTS Mt. Franklin Weekend 17 - 18 May. Forty-six people went to Mt. Franklin, and, as far as we know, forty-six people returned. Some hardy souls with a masochistic bent decided that cold mist and rain previded ideal walking weather, and walked dn over Tidbinbilla, down to the Cotter where they found four huts previously unknown to the Club, and up into the mist shrouding Mt. Ftanklin. Nevertheless, they seemed happy to be greeted with mugs of hot cabbage soup when they reached the hut. Meanwhile, a Prominent Member decided that the best way to spend a chilly evening was to sample the goodies., Page 3 IT June 1975 and then spent a considerable period of time thinking about it under the table. The rest of us enjoyed the soup, casseroles, cakes, ice cream and wine that Joanand, her helpers.had provided. After dinner, the dancing became wilder, until the hut could conta:n us no longer and the hardier souls stripped the willow outside. Later still, a touch of decorum was added to the proceedings by dancing a minuet to the strains of Abdul and other similar ditties0 On Sunday morning we breakfasted a:, the reiins of the previous night's meal (fancy curry, chocolate, cake and gluhwein for breakfast?) and some members proved they could mix socialising and bushwalking by finding their way 6own to Ginini Falls. Mousynoan Mt. Scabby, 'Mt0 Kelly but not quite Gudgenby Hilt 24-25 May (Majority report) We started out with 17, and from the beginning it was clear that we were not going to remain as one group of 17, but were going to disperse ourselves as widely as possible through as much bush as possible in as sbort a time as possible. It started when Gary, Bob, and Marguerite decided to bypass Gudgenby Hill to th.e north rather than to the south as the rest of us intended; moreover : the party crossing through the saddle to the south of Gudgenby somehow split into 3 parties; and what's more, one of these parties split again when two of its members turneJ to go back due to illness0 Thus, at this point of time., the original 17 people were now, walking in 5 distinct groups. A brief reunion was held 'at the bottom of the climb to Scabby'. But, as.always when cJ.!imhingis involved, the party, once.again became very widely spaced. We plodded up.the open slopes towards the top of Scabby pausing to admire the view of Kelly obtained when the wooded hillside gae way briefly to a sphagnum. swamp. We arrived at one of the several peaks of Scabby to be rewarded by the superb panorama of much of the surrounding country. From here, some of the party braved the cold west winds and did .a circuit of all the pealçs of Scabby, while others headed along the ridge towards Kelly :in'search of adampspot. We found a saddle, about a third of 'tie way between'" Scabby and Kelly, complete with lake 4 and es'ablished'camp. Miraculously,, all the remaining 15 members'of the party found their 'way to the same campspot. Next morning we awoke to find that the higher peaks, including Kelly, were now snow-capped. It was cold and snowing intermittently as we set out for Kelly, and by the Fage 4 IT June 1975 time we reanhed the top, through inch-deep snow for the latt few hundred feet the visibility had fallen to about 20 yards0 Alas for the views we had hoped for! Nairigatihbecaiae more problematical in these conditions, and two of the party headed off in the Wrong direction; they were not seen again till after dark that night having pioneered a new route out from Kelly0 Given the alternative of pushing on along thefl ridge to Gudgenby in freezing c6nditions and with a less--than-- even chance of a view or taking the easy way out down Sam's Greek we opted fbi? the latter0 Four of us lingered for a while hoping that the two strying members might turn up. but evidently their travels had load them far afield by this time and after an hour or so we gave them up for lost and set off in the footsteps of the rest of the party0 After follcwing down Sam's Creek ) we passed through the same saddle that most of us had come through on the previous day. Scattered over a period of about 3 hours, in dribs and drabs., and oppearing from various directions, all 15 of us arrived back at the cars and went hone0 Jenny Bauer Nt Kelly - Ninority reoort It was B, 00 00 cold windy and I was frostbitten so damn I'm off leaving the others to find thefr own way0 Rene also following so off we go losing attitude rapidly and getting warm- great but we've left everyone else behind - who cares there's the hill ahead0 I'll be charitable; get up there first and have a billy boiling for the rest0 Scrub rocks - never seen anything like it ma blizzard0 Fire won't start cooees all round but no one fronts up so off we go - scrub hellish thick but we drop into &mm's Creek - Furry no track!! Scrub getting thicker, steeper - God I'm hungry, cold, wet also lost0 Compass left behind - map falling apart0 Tired we're so tired we keep falling down - steeper, roughet lonelier. Re-assessing the situation we missed Sam's Creek nolth either to the or south by one Or two creeks 0 We came out north of the cars or Tantangara danwards, Eventually we're out on easierground heightened expectancy cleared area ahead do we get hone tonight or an extra day 1 s walk to Adaninaby. No Fine Trees!! Oh Hell!!! weare'nt near the cars then,. ,. Fage5 IT June1975 Food - Soup 9 a potato', an onion, chocolate, corn Finkes, stinging nettles; Food for a day anyway. DeTihitely no Pines but lots of kangaroos. Darkness - Mi Fines at last and back to the cars and a good hot fire. A. Hobbs Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges EveninR on St, Na's Peak' The Pound looks softer now, though the brittle scrub matches that of Tasmania and only a few bare rocks betray cavernous Edeowie Gorge0 To the west Heysen's • Elder;ts Range is masked in evening shadow; on the plains lies the salt white expanse of Lake Torrens and cars squirt thili trails of dust into the quiet air0 From the Found a range snakes northwards where it eventually fades, with rest of the mountains, into the pale sky.