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Canberra g o r F e e r o b o r r o Bushwalking C it Club newsletter Canberra Bushwalking Club Inc GPO Box 160 Canberra ACT 2601 Volume: 49 www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org Number: 9 October 2013 GENERAL MEETING 8 pm Wednesday 16 October 2013 In this issue 2 Canberra Bushwalking Kakadu Club Committee Presenters: Cynthia Burton & Linda Groom 2 President’s prattle 2 Walks Waffle Cynthia Burton and Linda Groom will give a presentation on the Club’s recent trip to Kakadu - a large and diverse national park and an amazing 3 Training Trifles place to bushwalk with its beautiful creeks and waterfalls, magnificent rock 3 Serenity among the rocks formations, cool rainforests and ancient history. 3 Membership matters 4 AGM 2012–13 reports Auditorium (not the usual hall), President’s report Hughes Baptist Church, 5 Walks Secretary’s report 5 Treasurer’s report 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes 5 Spring is here (Note change of venue: Please ONLY use the front main 6 AGM outcomes 2012-13 entrance) 6 Bulletin Board 7 Activity program Also some leaders of walks in the current and next 11 CBC Xmas Party month will be on hand with maps to answer your 12 Feeling literary? questions and show you walk routes etc 12 Wednesday walks Important dates 16 October General meeting 23 October Committee meeting 23 October Submissions close for November it 1 December Xmas party g ro F e re o b ro r o C Committee reports Committee reports Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee President’s Training Serenity among the President: Linda Groom prattle Trifles Tom Gosling rocks [email protected] 6281 4917 lthough soaking rains t the AGM on 18th September, John Evans described ommittee members are often Aduring the week made Treasurer: Julie Anne Clegg Phil Starr’s great contribution to the Club during his Caway. For safety reasons, it is for some slightly rough going A critically important that walk lead- [email protected] two years as president. I would like to add my personal by car, the views of Palerang ers direct their pre- and post-trip Mountain were superb on 0402 118 359 thanks to Phil for seeing me through my first year on the Committee and for being such a wise and diplomatic details to check.in@canberrabush- Saturday 21 September when walkingclub.org Walks Secretary: Lorraine Tomlins leader. He has set a very high standard for me to live up to! , rather than to the two parties of 10 walked to Check-In Officer’s personal email [email protected] Serenity Rocks in Tallaganda A warm welcome to Lorraine Tomlins, who returns to the address. A number of committee State Forest. 6248 0456 or 0434 078 496 Committee after many years absence. Lorraine’s extensive members monitor the generic check. walking experience will make her a very knowledgeable in@... email address. The walk was organised by General Secretary: Gabrielle Wright Walks Secretary. I’m very grateful that Julie Anne, Tim and Stan Marks, who came to say A hugely successful annual NavEx, [email protected] Gabrielle, Roger, John, Nathan, Quentin, Alison, David hullo at the usual meeting spot and Keith have agreed to continue on the Committee. conducted by Rob and Jenny Hors- on Captain’s Flat Road at 8.30 6281 2275 field, has concluded. It comprised but unfortunately couldn’t The 2013/2014 Committee has already set to work. Mem- 7 sessions, culminating in an over- Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards participate further due to his bers can now add their emergency contact details to their night trip to Sentry Box Mountain temporary hip problem. Stan [email protected] profiles (CBC home page -> Your membership -> Edit in the southern ACT. There were handed leadership over to 6288 7863 or 0406 378 217 Profile) and I encourage you to add this information ‘just 60 attendances across the sessions. Linda Groom and myself. in case’. The Committee, using Alison Milton’s expertise, If you are into GPSr and PCs, the Training and Safety Officer: John Evans has also started work on her great suggestion that the Club training notes for session 7 are After Forbes Creek, the road was a leisurely lunch in the sun, looking [email protected] have a promotional brochure. available on the Club web site, Training and Safety Button, Train- rain-damaged, particularly on the out towards Palerang. 6288 7235 or 0417 436 877 It’s the Committee’s job to keep all the Club’s structures ing Notes tab, item 37. Watch for hairpin bend as it enters the forest working so that you can experience safe and enjoyable and deeper into the forest. To save From the south, Palerang has less Conservation Officer: Nathan Holt the annual NavEx in the Activity of the familiar double hump shape walking and other bush activities. Please reward our program next year, along with Jeff a couple of kilometres of fire trail [email protected] efforts by joining walks. Whether you are enclosed by bashing, the cars went further you see from Kings Highway, Bennett’s training day in the first with a more symmetrical Fuji-like 0414 628 429 Monga rainforest or gazing at blue distances from the quarter of 2014. than on previous walks Stan has summit of Jagungal, you will feel a sense of achievement led, parking not far from Mulloon silhouette. In the rain-cleaned air, it Web Manager: David Briese and privilege. Your walk leader gets a message Creek. was sharply defined. g o r F e e r to the Check-In Officer that your o b o r Linda Groom r o [email protected] C Fortunately Linda had emailed Lunch over we returned to the President trip’s return has been delayed by cars by 3.30 pm and headed home, 6286 3479 24 hours. Who should be informed? everyone to bring sandals, as the creek bed is quite pebbly and the grateful that the earlier rains had Editor: Alison Milton Who is your emergency contact? given way to a beautiful day. On the See President’s prattle for further creek was flowing strongly. The [email protected] mildly calf-numbing crossing was return walk I learned that the word Walks Waffle details. “gullible” has been apparently been 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w)) followed by a few kilometres of fire CBC “Stretch Your Legs” events deleted from the Oxford Dictionary. t’s great to see the weather warming up and the days trail, leading to a footpad, which Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas are reaching new heights. To date, winds uphill through increasingly Distance was an easy 12 kilometres. getting longer. This means daylight saving will be start- Many thanks to Stan for his leader- [email protected] I 201 different members have walked pretty forest. ing soon (6 October) and the current activity program has with 38 different leaders. Seventy- ship in absentia, and to Linda for 6230 1081 or 0421 607 667 some walks in the afternoon/evening to take advantage of six trigs have been ‘bagged’. The beginning of the track follows leading the way. the extra light. So check out the program and remember a watercourse and was swampy Social Secretary: Quentin Moran that you can always contact the leader if you will have Cheers and happy feet. underfoot. It then leads through a [email protected] difficulty getting to the starting point of a walk that has tract of eucalypt that has regener- g o r F e e r o John Evans b o r r o 6288 9840 a drive yourself designation. It is a wonderful time to be C ated from clear felling many years Membership enjoying the bush made even more attractive with spring Training and Safety Officer ago to extract oil – the trees are uni- Publisher: Tim Wright wild flowers. formly spindly having resprouted matters g from stumps. o r Lorraine Tomlins F e e r o b o r [email protected] r o C 6281 2275 Walks Secretary The kilometre or so Please ensure that you keep the before Serenity Rocks Membership Secretary informed All members of the Committee can be contacted Notice of Motion: results is extremely pretty of any changes to your email in one email to The amendments to the Club’s Constitution and Standing with some outstand- address. ingly tall trees and a [email protected] orders as published in the August it were moved and New members: Jackie Bestek, accepted with the exception of Section 6.2 of the Stand- fern-covered gully. CHECK IN: Ring Keith Thomas on 6230 1081 Cassie Chien, Sue Colwell, Darren ing orders. A small change in wording was moved and The parties reached the top within minutes Robinson, Jamie Smith, Fisher WEB SITE: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org accepted so that 6.2 now reads ‘The Club’s ‘Guidelines for Zhang Leaders’ are to be provided to Club activity leaders. Club of each other, and set- tled onto the rocks for g o r F leaders are to be advised that they are expected to take the e e Roger Edwards r o b o r r o guidelines into consideration in conducting their activities.’ C g o r F e Membership Secretary e r o b o r r o C Page 2 – Canberra Bushwalking Club it October 2013 Canberra Bushwalking Club it October 2013 – page 3 g ro F e re o b ro r o C Annual General Meeting reports Annual General Meeting reports • All other Club documents have individual because the continuing has taken on Janet’s role during her task of editing in a creative, tactful been reviewed and updated where success of our great Club has been, long overseas absence, John Evans and always professional way.