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Bushwalking News Victoria September 2011 Bushwalking News Victoria September 2011 Crossing a fallen tree—how it’s done (Photo: Barbara Hohmann, Boroondara Bushwalkers) Contributions Inside this issue... Email or post news, views, club Walking and Talking with your Sun and Moon ....................................7 profiles, articles, photographs, sketch- President............................................ 2 Challenges: es and letters on any Green Walks in the Park .................... 2 Upstream 50km, Sat 18 Nov ........8 subject of interest to bushwalkers (subject to editorial approval) to: Bushwalking Environment: Walktober .....................................8 Track clearing/conservation [email protected] Federation Day Walk, Sun 23 Oct ......8 projects ........................................ 3 or Melbourne Walking Club - Pioneers 24 Moorhouse Street Goldfields Track maintenance of Bushwalking - Exhibition .................9 day, Sun 14 Aug .......................... 3 Camberwell Victoria 3124 Schoolgirl Missing on Mt Erica............9 BEC report ................................... 4 Deadline for the October edition: Push to Allow Commercial Wilderness First Aid Course, Monday, 12 September 2011 Development in Victorian National 14-16 Oct .......................................... 5 Parks (reprinted from The Age) ........10 The statements and opinions Discount for Bushwalking Victoria Re-opening of Wilsons Prom ............11 expressed in articles are those of the Members ............................................ 5 author and do not necessarily Regent Honeyeater Project ..............11 Bushwalking Tips represent the views or position of : Who’s Who at BWV ..........................12 Bushwalking Victoria. Snakebite ointment breakthrough 6 Editor: Joslin Guest Looking after gortex ..................... 6 Issue No. 218 Bushwalking News Victoria September 2011 WALKING AND TALKING WITH YOUR PRESIDENT Kakadu Bushwalking Review ed. These two tracks are priority tracks, to be opened as Clubs will have recently received an email from Russell part of the 22km Everard Circuit Walk. Willis of Willis’ Walkabouts in Darwin concerning a survey Our money will fund up to 12 days of works in September being conducted as part of the bushwalking review of and October led by a CVA team leader in partnership with Kakadu. Russell is a member of the project steering Parks Victoria. Volunteers working under the team leader committee for the review, as is Bushwalking Australia will contribute a maximum of 132 volunteer days to the president (and former Bushwalking Victoria president), project. Bushwalking Victoria members will be welcome to David Reid. They have developed the survey to obtain the participate as volunteers in the project without needing to views of bushwalkers who have been to Kakadu or who pay the usual volunteers’ fee on CVA projects. For more have planned trips there. information or to participate as a volunteer, go to Bushwalking in Kakadu has very special memories for me. www.conservationvolunteers.com.au I was one of 12 members of my club, CAEX. who in June The Bushfire Recovery Fund was established by 1987 were among the first groups that did one of Russell’s Bushwalking Victoria in the aftermath of the devastating Kakadu circle trips, a 16-day walk from Koolpin Gorge to Black Saturday bushfires in February 2009. Bushwalking Twin Falls, Jim Jim Falls, Graveside Gorge, the Victoria and some member clubs contributed to the fund, escarpment and finishing at Gunlom Falls. This, my first and proceeds from the sale of the 2010 Bushwalking trip to the North, sparked not only a love affair with the Top Victoria calendar were also put into the fund. End but also one of the heart, as it was on this trip that my Bushfire Recovery Fund proceeds were used for the very now wife and I became ‘an item’. successful Project 2000 organised by Bushwalking As it happens, I am writing this column in Darwin where I Victoria’s indefatigable Conservation Projects Officer, am visiting one of my brothers; and a couple of days back Steve Robertson, in the Yarra Ranges National Park in I visited Russell to reminisce about our 1987 trip (and two November 2009. A contribution from the fund was also subsequent trips into the Kimberley with Russell) and made to the Marysville Triangle Heritage Association for discuss the survey and the Kakadu review. As Russell’s the cost of signage on the Marysville Trail Project. email states, the review is an extremely important How much bushwalking is worth to you? opportunity for bushwalkers to influence the development of policy concerning bushwalking opportunities in Kakadu, My last column outlined some of the issues faced by and decisions made here are likely also likely to influence Bushwalking Victoria and bushwalking generally, and our decisions in other parts of the country. ability to attract both financial and volunteer support to represent the specific interests of bushwalkers. I closed I strongly encourage anyone with an interest in my column with an invitation for feedback and suggestions bushwalking in Kakadu to complete the survey. If the on the issues and ideas I canvassed. In the three and a survey doesn’t provide the space or opportunity to say all half weeks since the August edition of Bushwalking News that you want, please email Russell directly at Victoria was published online (distribution by email and [email protected] mail was a little later) I have received only two responses, Bushwalking Victoria Bushfire Recovery Fund Project one from an individual and one from a club. I am pleased to announce that Bushwalking Victoria has Hopefully this lack of response doesn’t indicate a lack of entered into an arrangement with Conservation Volunteers interest and concern by Bushwalking Victoria members, Australia (CVA) to fund from our Bushfire Recovery Fund a but rather that they are discussing the issues raised and project in the Kinglake National Park, 98% of which was drafting responses. burnt in the Black Saturday bushfires. The project is to A PDF version of my column from the August edition of construct a new section of the Shelley Harris Track linking Bushwalking News Victoria is available at Jehoshaphat Gully picnic area to Jerusalem Track. The www.bushwalkingvictoria.org.au/forms/BWV_Support.pdf new section will be outside the stand of Mountain Ash that was killed by the intense fire. If resources permit, a new Chris Towers alignment of a section of the Bundy Track that links Everard Track to Old Kinglake Road will also be construct- GREEN WALKS IN THE PARK: VOLUNTEER LEADERS WANTED Green Walks in the Park aims to get more people walking, more often, in more local, state parks and bushland reserves. The first Green Walk was held at Pipemakers Park in Maribyrnong on Thursday 11 August. The program urgently needs volunteers who are able to assist us with programs beginning in September. To find out more and to assist as a walk leader or assistant leader, contract Bushwalking Victoria. Leaders and assistant leaders need to be bushwalking club members and have the ability to adapt their communication to suit a broad audience. Most walks would be considered Easy grade and cover about 4km. 2 Bushwalking News Victoria September 2011 BUSHWALKING ENVIRONMENT Track clearing/conservation projects Please contact Steve Robertson (Bushwalking Victoria Conservation and Tracks Project Officer) on 0438 267 129 or via email at [email protected] to register your support or for any further information. Sunday 16 October 2011 To clear 2009 post-fire re-growth from the 6.5km track. Activity will also Freemans Mill Walking Track, Bunyip include re-aligning a section of track, track marking and step placement. State Park NOTE: This activity replaces the Cora Lyn Big Tree event previously advertised. Saturday 19 November - Sunday 20 Northern walking tracks — in partnership with Parks Victoria and Friends of November 2011 the Prom — we will improve walking tracks in the northern section of the Wilsons Promontory park. Complimentary camping for both Friday and Saturday nights will be available at Stockyard at the entrance to the park. Sunday 11 December 2011 TEN volunteers required to complete the annual sweep of the track from the Condons Walking Track, Yarra Ranges top (the easy way). This track was adopted by Bushwalking Victoria National Park (Vicwalk) for annual maintenance. Friday 27 January - Sunday 29 January This ever popular annual weekend for 30 volunteers should be on again in 2012 2012. Stay tuned for final confirmation of this event — and then get in quick! Alpine Restoration in the Alpine (The weekend involves staying at Falls Creek and enjoying the mission of National Park search and destroy sallow willows.) Goldfields track maintenance day, trees still need to be Sun 14 August removed or will need to be negotiated Volunteers came from VMTC (4), around. Maroondah (3), Melbourne Bushies (2), Essendon (2), West Gippsland Walkers (1) Steve will attend to Boroondara (1), Waverley (1) and a the final sections by fabulous 9 from Koonung. himself, doing all the The Big Peninsula loop section of the necessary chain Goldfields Track has been closed for two sawing, track years as a result of the 2009 fires and clearing and track subsequent storm damage. It is a very marking. He beautiful loop, only a few kilometres from promises that the Warburton. Near the track start is the picturesque and track will be clearly marked by mid September, at which historic Big Peninsula Tunnel, a small river diversion time it will be officially open to the public again. tunnel dug in 1864 on the upper Yarra River by alluvial Steve says ‘Well done, group’ and greatly appreciates the gold miners to provide access to the bed of the Yarra huge effort everyone made on this activity: a TOTAL of River. The site is listed in the Victorian Heritage Inventory. 218.5 volunteer hours. It is only one of the walk’s attractions. Like all board and convener positions at Bushwalking Our aim was to clear, clean up and mark the closed part of Victoria, Steve Robertson is himself a volunteer. We the track, and to assess the rest of the track.
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