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Canberra Bushwalking Club Newsletter Canberra Bushwalking 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: 11 In this issue December 2013 1 Happy Holidays and safe walking 2 Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee Important dates 2 President’s prattle 25 December 2 Conservation matters: Interested in environmental issues? Christmas Day 3 Walks Waffle 1 January 3 Membership matters New Year’s Day 3 Training Trifles 15 January 2014 3 Mapping Australia at the National Library Black Mt Peninsula BBQ 4 Review: Flinders Ranges 6–20 May 2013 4 Bulletin Board 22 January 2014 5 Activity program Committee meeting 12 Feeling literary? 22 January 2014 12 Wednesday walks Submissions close for February it Happy Holidays and safe walking Committee reports Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee President’s President: Linda Groom [email protected] prattle 6281 4917 Treasurer: Julie Anne Clegg hat do Committee members do when they are Wnot walking? Lots! The results of some of the [email protected] Committee’s work are easy to see – the Walks Secre- 0402 118 359 tary compiles the activity list, it is edited and printed, great speakers are booked for our monthly meetings, Walks Secretary: Lorraine Tomlins the Stretch Your Legs statistics are updated online for [email protected] all to see. But other tasks are less visible – tracking our income and expenditure, keeping the membership 6248 0456 or 0434 078 496 database up to date, checking that each activity has General Secretary: Gabrielle Wright ended safely, dealing with the interesting forms needed [email protected] for Australia Post ‘print postings’, and submitting the reports to the Office of Regulatory Services that keep 6281 2275 us going as an incorporated association. Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards In addition, in November, Committee members reached [email protected] an agreement with the BBC and NPA on improved safety procedures for Wednesday walks, organised a hawk- 6288 7863 or 0406 378 217 weed work day with the ACT Parks and Conservation Training and Safety Officer: John Evans Service, agreed to increase the First Aid subsidies next financial year, designed a new trip list to incorporate [email protected] emergency contact numbers, and made progress on a 6288 7235 or 0417 436 877 Leaders Register and a promotional brochure. Conservation Officer: Cynthia Burton The Committee is also preparing a Club response to [email protected] the ACT Government’s Draft ACT Trails Strategy. Club members are welcome to send any comments to 0488 071 203 Conservation Officer Cynthia Burton. To see the draft, Web Manager: David Briese go to http://www.timetotalk.act.gov.au/ and follow the link to the Trails Strategy. The deadline is 20 December. [email protected] g o r F e e r o b o r r o 6286 3479 Linda Groom C President Editor: Alison Milton [email protected] 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w) Conservation matters Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas Interested in environmental [email protected] issues? 6230 1081 or 0421 607 667 Social Secretary: Quentin Moran The CBC is looking for a new conservation [email protected] associate to assist the Committee’s conser- 6288 9840 vation officer. This role is very interesting Publisher: Tim Wright and not time-consuming. It involves as- sisting the Committee to identify/monitor [email protected] local environmental issues of interest to 6281 2275 CBC members and representing the Club All members of the Committee can be contacted at conservation events from time to time. If in one email to you are interested, please contact Cynthia [email protected] Burton: [email protected]. Check in: [email protected] Cynthia Burton Web site: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org Conservation Officer Front cover photo/sketch composite: Sketch by g o r F e e r Cynthia Breheny, photos by Alison Milton o b o r r o C Page 2 – Canberra Bushwalking Club it December 2013 g ro F e re o b ro r o C Committee reports Walks Training Waffle Trifles ummer is always a wonderful ne of the satisfactions of multi- day pack walking is that you very self-respecting bushwalker Sseason for walking and the current O is attracted to maps. They can Activity program has a large range of are totally reliant on the gear you E carry. Your enjoyment (and party bring back to life great trips un- trips from which to choose. We can dertaken, pose challenges about have lighter packs with less need for cohesion) is maximised when you get the balance right between pack unexplored country, and often have warm clothes and rain gear. If it is too a strong aesthetic or historical ap- hot there are a number of opportuni- weight, comfortable gear and ap- propriate food. Trial and error is the peal, as in the early sketch maps of ties to head to rivers or alpine areas to the Budawangs. cool down. In addition, there are trips best teacher and I’ll keep learning which start earlier or later in the day till I hang up my boots. For this reason you’d be wise to to escape the worst of the heat. Current advice is that pack weight find a few spare hours this summer should be no more than ¼ of your and book a place at the National On the current program there are Library’s ‘Mapping Australia’ already some longer trips being body weight and that heavy items should be packed reasonably high exhibition. My advice is to book at advertised for later in 2014. Expres- the opening or closing session, as sions of interest for some of them in the pack and as close as possible to your back. (Want more? Old, but anywhere in between would prob- need to be with the leaders quite ably be very crowded. early in the new year so get out your still relevant theory at http://www. calendars and start planning. bushwalking.org.au/FAQ/FAQ_Pack- This fascinating exhibition follows Theory.htm) over 2,000 years of mapping his- Finally, if you are a walker who wants tory, tracing the grand narrative of to improve their navigational skills The Club has light weight gear for hire and experienced walkers would the discovery of our own continent. one good way is to have the map spec- Many of the maps are sourced from ified for your walk and keep it out of be happy to make some suggestions – just ask them. You can improvise the library’s own collection but as your pack (in a good waterproof map well, some of the great museums case) while you are walking. Once too – an empty wine cask bladder is perfect for end of day camping and libraries of Europe – in London, your leader has outlined the proposed Venice, Paris, the Vatican – have route, try to predict the country you water, rather than a heavier com- mercial water bag. made priceless maps available, are about to go through and match up many never having been exhibited the contours with the on-the-ground The summer holiday period is abroad before. There are beautiful topography. Also estimate how long perfect for multi-day trips and walks mediaeval manuscripts and maps it will take the party to reach certain of all sorts. Don’t forget to make depicting the religious world-view landmarks like track junctions, spurs allowances for the heat. A fly net of that time, and as well, Indigenous and saddles. A good rough guide is could be a handy and light addition bark paintings with their stunning that a party walking on a track will to your summer gear. depiction of the southern night sky. be doing about 4 km an hour but you can revise this throughout the walk in CBC “Stretch Your Legs” events The exhibition allows the visitor to the light of the party and the terrain. are closing in on all 88 ACT trigs. closely follow the historical rival- To date, 221 different members ries of Portugal and Spain and of Happy holiday season to all. have walked with 46 different the Dutch and English, with many leaders. Two members have walked sea-charts on display that were used g o r F e Lorraine Tomlins e r o b o r r o C with at least 20 different leaders. Walks Secretary in their exploratory and trading Eighty-three different trigs have ventures. The western coastline of been ‘bagged’. Six members have the Great South Land was closely Membership visited at least 40 different trigs. mapped by the Dutch, but there We have had an excellent year, were puzzles about the final extent with walk leaders, participants and and shape of this southern conti- matters the Club committee fulfilling their nent. It was left to the remarkable navigators of France and England in duty of care to each other in terms th Please ensure that you keep the of training and safety. 2014 will be the late 18 century to finally map Membership Secretary informed even better. the Australian continent as we now of any changes to your email know it. The exhibition concludes address. I wish you a happy Christmas and with the great achievements of great walking! New members: Vincenza Falzarano, Matthew Flinders in circumnavi- Penny Lockwood, Rivera Morton, Cheers and happy feet. gating and mapping the continent, Lesley Thompson, Deddo Wolthof and naming it: ‘Terra Australis’ or g o r F e ‘Australia’ e r o b o r John Evans r o C g o r F e e r o b o r r o Roger Edwards C g o r F e Training and Safety Officer e r o b o r r o C Jenny Horsfield Membership Secretary Canberra Bushwalking Club it December 2013 – page 3 Review of general meeting talk Review: Flinders Ranges Bulletin Board The Bulletin Board is for members 6–20 May 2013 to advertise (at no cost) goods for sale, private trips or other personal bushwalking-related matters.
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