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June Newsletter 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: 5 June 2013 GENERAL MEETING 8 pm Wednesday 19 June 2013 In this issue 1 Sharing experiences Common foot problems 2 Canberra Bushwalking Presenter: Allan Donnelly Club Committee 2 President’s prattle Allan Donnelly will give a presentation on Plantar fasciitis - a very common foot injury - including the nature of the injury and how best to treat it. 2 Simulacrum: competition 3 Walks Waffle The hall, Hughes Baptist Church, 3 Training Trifles 3 Proposed Introduction of 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes Recreational Hunting in (The Hall is accessed via the car park - left side of the building as NSW National Parks you face the main entrance) 3 Spending proposals 3 Membership matters 4 Kanangra weekend Also some leaders of walks in June/July will be on 4 Mother’s Day at Black hand with maps to answer your questions and show Range you walk routes etc. .. including maps of Kakadu 5 Review: Great Victoria which show some approved walking routes - this is a Desert special opportunity as there is no published source of 7 Activity program information on these routes. 11 Bulletin Board 11 From the Archives 12 Feeling literary? Sharing experiences 12 Wednesday walks ave you had a great Hexperience on a Club walk or been on an interesting trip or trek in past years. Important dates Why not share your 19 June experience with General meeting a presentation at a Club general 26 June meeting. Please Committee meeting email the Club Social 26 June Secretary: socsec@ Submissions close for canberrabushwalkingclub. July it org who can help if you need equipment Committee reports Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee President’s President: Phillip Starr prattle [email protected] 0419 281 096 ave you considered becoming a walk leader? Are you Treasurer: Julie Anne Clegg Hlacking confidence and slightly terrified at the mere [email protected] suggestion? 0402 118 359 ounds like me three years ago when I first joined this SClub. I had not previously been a bushwalker and had Walks Secretary: Linda Groom absolutely no knowledge of navigation. Being eager to get [email protected] the most out of my new pastime I participated in the annual 6281 4917 Club Navigation Course. There was absolutely no intention to start leading walks. After all I was a mere babe in the woods. General Secretary: Tim Wright A little while later the not so subtle hints began. The sug- [email protected] gestions that I should start leading walks fell on deaf ears 6281 2275 for some time. There was however a wish to put something back into this Club that was giving me so much enjoyment. Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards After much encouragement and a fair bit of self-examination [email protected] a flicker of desire appeared. 6288 7863 or 0406 378 217 Joint leadership with experienced leaders was the starting point followed by sole leadership. I started leading walks Training and Safety Officer: John Evans on trails and gradually graduated to off track by sticking to [email protected] ridges and recognisable land marks such as streams. Now I 6288 7235 or 0417 436 877 will happily head into thick bush. It was easier than I thought it would be and my confidence gradually improved. Conservation Officer: Nathan Holt The best way to build confidence is to have a go. I have been [email protected] leading walks for two years now and still have very much to 0414 628 429 learn. I have made mistakes but I have learned from them. I recognise my limitations and there is no expectation that I will Web Manager: David Briese become as competent as the living legends of our Club. [email protected] I like my newfound confidence and I love contributing to the 6286 3479 enjoyment of my fellow walkers. I get to pick where to walk Editor: Alison Milton and enjoy pouring over maps planning new walks. In fact I feel that I am gaining more than I am contributing. [email protected] 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w)) Who said that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks? This old dog is having a great time. Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas g o r F e e r o b o r Phillip Starr r o [email protected] C President 6230 1081 or 0421 607 667 Social Secretary: Quentin Moran [email protected] Simulacrum Simulacrum: a slight, unreal, or vague semblance of 6288 9840 something. A new competition! Below is a simulacrum Publisher: Gabrielle Wright of an elephant seal. Prize to anyone who can identify [email protected] where this is located. Answer next month. 6281 2275 If you have a simulacrum photo, please send it to the Editor and we All members of the Committee can be contacted will publish it. A in one email to chocolate frog to [email protected] both sender and solver: if you CHECK IN: Ring Keith Thomas on 6230 1081 attend a general meeting to collect WEB SITE: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org your prize. Photo submitted by Eric Pickering g o r F e e r o b o r r o C Page 2 – Canberra Bushwalking Club it June 2013 g ro F e re o b ro r o C Committee reports which are occasionally visited by the Club include South East Forests Walks Training NP and Wadbilliga NP. Waffle Trifles Spending proposals A short article has been written to ave you ever found that the he Club currently has about help you set up and use the basic $27,500 in the bank, and is Hterrain on a walk was not what functions of your GPS. It contains T you expected? operating close to the budgeted screen shots from Garmin eTrex 30 forecast. The Club’s grading system for and Garmin Oregon GPSs, but the terrain (Easy, Medium, Rough and principles apply to all GPS. Access Yearly expenses are less than Wet) is meant to help you decide the article via the Training and $10,000, the greatest expense whether you would be comfortable Safety button on the Club’s web site being a fee (for membership and with a walk, but there can still be and see item #29. insurance) paid to Bushwalking some surprises. To help walkers NSW of about $3,000. The fee See the separate note in this it for is directly related to the number understand what these gradings an update on the proposed recrea- mean, there will be a new web of members of the Club. Other tional hunting in NSW National significant costs are for meet- page added to the Club site. It will Parks. contain photos of terrain typical of ings and the it. each of these gradings. CBC ‘Stretch Your Legs’ events Membership fees more than continue. To date, 156 different cover yearly expenses. If mem- We need your help to gather suitable members have walked with 23 dif- photos. Please email them to me ber numbers should drastically ferent leaders to 21 different ACT fall, so would annual expenses. (walksec@canberrabushwalking- trigs. Check out your progress via club.org) by 31 August with a brief the Special Events button on the So the money held in Club bank caption such as ‘Easy: track across Club’s web site, and click the Cen- accounts and term deposits is Bushfold Flats’. tenary Events page link. If you don’t way in excess of the Club’s There will be a prize of bushwalking know where the participating trigs yearly operating costs. food – the winner’s choice of home- are, have a look at the map which you can access from the Events Any suggestions for purchases dried fruit or home-baked tararua or other outlays should be biscuits – for the best photo. page, click the ACT Trigs tab, then the link to the map. passed on to the Treasurer. Here is an example to inspire you. Proposals will be considered for inclusion in the budget for next g o r F John Evans e e r o b o r r o C g o r F Linda Groom e e r o b o r r o C Training and Safety Officer year. The budget will be ratified Walks Secretary at the AGM. g o r F e e r o b o r r Julie Anne Clegg o C Proposed Introduction Treasurer of Recreational Hunt- ing in NSW National Parks Membership our Committee has been Yclosely following the NSW matters Government’s decision to allow recreational hunting in 77 NSW National Parks and has contributed to the debate in a number of ways. Please ensure that you keep the Implementation has been delayed Membership Secretary informed on several occasions. As soon as of any changes to your email controls and a commencement date address. are publicised we will let you know. New members: Ken Brazel, Rod We are working with Bushwalk- Craven, Penny Daniel, Mel Hunt, ing NSW to develop appropriate Lindsey MacDonald, Angela practices. Areas to be opened for Naumann, Roselyn Tabone, Rodney recreational hunting that are regu- Stuart, Teresa Zarlenga larly used for Club walks include g o r F e e r o b o r r Roger Edwards o Brindabella NP, Kosciuszko NP C Rough: rock scrambling after pass- (excluding ski fields), Morton NP Membership Secretary ing packs, Budawangs and Tallaganda NP. Other areas Canberra Bushwalking Club it June 2013 – page 3 Trip report Kanangra weekend 9–11 March 2013 On Monday we packed our tents his is where Australia emerged We rejoined the Kanangra Circuit and drove to Gillespies Lookout.
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