Canberra Bushwalking Club Newsletter
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
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: 53 www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org Number: 1 February 2017 GENERAL MEETING 7:30 pm Wednesday 15 February 2017 In this issue 2 Canberra Bushwalking Olympics, Tsylos and Rockwall Club Committee 2 President’s prattle Trail, three hikes in the USA and 2 Positions vacant Canada 3 Walks Waffle 3 Membership matters Presenter: Linda Groom 3 Training Trifles Nine CBC members hiked these areas last August–September; they 3 Bulletin Board encountered stunning alpine scenery, bears, hunters, windfalls, a wild fire 4 Canyons of the Blue and giant mushrooms. Mountains 5 Manuka honey The hall, 5 Alternate walks Hughes Baptist Church, 6 Activity program 6 Wednesday walks 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes 13 Feeling literary? Also some leaders of walks in the current and next month will be on hand with maps to answer your Please note the questions and show you walk routes etc earlier start time of the general meeting, on a trial basis. Important dates 15 February General meeting 29 March Committee meeting 22 February Submissions close for March it Committee reports Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee President’s President: Lorraine Tomlins prattle [email protected] 6248 0456 or 0434 078 496 elcome to a new year of bushwalking and outdoor Treasurer: Julie Anne Clegg Wactivities. I have just returned from a challenging [email protected] 4-day long weekend pack walk to the Tuross Gorge and surrounds. It is a wonderful area and with friendly 0402 118 359 companions and brilliant weather, it was the best of Walks Secretary:John Evans what bushwalking can offer. There was no thought of anything else but how I was going to get through the [email protected] creek or up the next incline. I hope your bushwalking 6294 8232 or 0417 436 877 over the holiday period has given you some wonderful memories too. General Secretary: Cynthia Coppock I want to also mention that the long standing and very [email protected] appreciated Editor of our newsletter, Alison Milton, 0408 266 501 or 6270 9010(w) has indicated to me that she is looking for a different Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards challenge and won’t be seeking re-election at the next AGM. So, the Club is now looking for a new Editor [email protected] for the newsletter. Please check out the advertisement 6288 7863 elsewhere in this it and give it some consideration. g o r F e e r o b o r r Training and Safety Officer: David Dedenczuk o Lorraine Tomlins C [email protected] President 0417 222 154 Conservation Officer: Cynthia Burton Positions vacant [email protected] 0488 071 203 Editor Web Manager: Andrew Meers fter 10+ years I have decided that it is time to step [email protected] Adown from the CBC committee and will not be re-nominating at the next AGM. xx I am saddened by the demise of the printed newsletter, Editor: Alison Milton but for various other reasons have decided that while I [email protected] have greatly enjoyed producing the newsletter, it is time 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w) to hand over the mantle to someone else. Now in an electronic form, it will be up to the new Editor Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas to decide what format they would like to use, but the [email protected] Club does have a licence for the current software I am +64 27 535 6176 using and I am happy to give some handover training. Social Secretary: Jenny Horsfield While I will not be renominating at the September AGM, I am hopeful that the position can be filled any [email protected] time before this. 6231 4535 Please call or email me at any time if you are interested in Publisher: David Williams taking on this role. It is really very interesting and reward- [email protected] ing (or I wouldn’t have kept nominating for so long). All members of the Committee can be contacted Auditor in one email to committee@canberrabushwalk- ingclub.org he Club is in need of an auditor starting from the T2017–2018 financial year. Our long-time auditor, Check in: [email protected] John Kyatt, is no longer able to do this for us, and while Web site: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org we have a volunteer for the 2016–2017 year, they are not able to continue in this role for future years. Please contact the President if you are able to fill this role. The nomination needs to be confirmed at the September AGM. g o r F e e r o b o r r o C Page 2 – Canberra Bushwalking Club it February 2017 g ro F e re o b ro r o C Committee reports Walks Training Bulletin Board The Bulletin Board is for mem- Waffle Trifles bers to advertise (at no cost) goods for sale, private trips or trust you are enjoying your sum- ummer in Canberra and the bush other personal bushwalking- I mer walking. We can beat the Sis hot, hot, hot. There are a few hu- related matters. The Club is not heat by going high, wet, short or mans walking through the local bush, involved in, takes no responsibil- early. Make sure you carry plenty but there is also a lot of activity in the ity for, and does not endorse, of water. natural world. Birds are everywhere, the activities or goods advertised as are insects. Butterflies abound. here. Hence, if people participate This month’s Activity program In the hot sun, reptiles are in their in any activities advertised here, is again jam-packed with a huge element. Vegetation is growing and, they do so as private individuals, variety of walks and other activities. though the spring peak has passed, not as members of the Club, and If you are free on Wednesdays, many flowers are still blooming. will not be covered by the Club’s insurance. try one of the walks offered in A walker, as he or she walks through either the easy–medium grade or the hot summer bush, might choose medium–hard grade. If you would Notices for the Bulletin board to look at the plants, or peruse the should be emailed to the Walks like to receive detailed Wednesday birds among the trees. A walker’s Walks notifications, access your Secretary: walksec@canberra- ears might attune to the many sounds bushwalkingclub.org CBC member profile and tick the of the bush – from the diverse bird box. calls to the croaks of frogs; from the Hone your navigation – go After work walks remain very chirruping of crickets to the racket rogaining! popular and many new members of the cicadas. Even the plants are Rogaining is bushwalking that join after enjoying them. Why not voicing themselves, as heard in the emphasises navigation and strat- invite your friends to come along eerie ancestral whispering in the egy. You can be as competitive or with you? casuarinas, or the violent crack of as relaxed as you like. The 2017 limbs falling from the eucalypts. ACT rogaining calendar is now There are some wonderful over- A walker’s nose might detect the out at www.act.rogaine.asn.au night trips advertised, particularly strong aroma of oils among the For further information, contact over the next long weekend, and peppermints. As walkers, we know Jonathan Miller on 6161 5131 the popular sub-24 hour walks are how the resident plants and ani- Feb 2017: New Zealand – on again this year. mals change from place to place, tramping Enjoy your walking and happy feet. with elevation, or with aspect. We watch our surroundings, as the bush Expressions of interest are sought for a loop walk; Young g o r F John Evans e e r o b residents warily observe the walkers o r r o C Valley, Gillespie Pass, Wilkin Walks Secretary coming through. Valley. Then Routeburn track for A walker might, or even should, multi-day camping at scenic Lake choose to avail herself or himself Wilson via Valley of the Trolls, day of one of the many fine naturalist trips climbing Mt Erebus, pt1647 publications that will throw light and pt1807 (scrambling), return Membership on what can be heard or seen. There via Routeburn track. Distance: are wonderful publications on local Medium. Trip grade: Medium– matters fauna, including the birds, insects, Hard. Leader: Trevor Carr reptiles and butterflies. There is [email protected] 0421 788 554. This trip is listed on the Please keep your email address much literature too, on the local flora. How wonderful it is to relax in Coast and Mountain Walkers club up to date via your membership program. page on the website. Contact the our homes on an afternoon when it Membership Secretary if you is too hot to walk, in company with Gear for sale?– place an ad! need help. a good natural history and vicari- If you have any old equipment ously increase our familiarity with you no longer want, why not place New members: Roger Cobcroft, our little bushland friends. an ad here to either sell or give it Anita Davis, Rob Gill, Peter away. Harding, Sarah Liston, Elizabeth Bushwalking exercises not only Please include personal the body, but also the spirit, and contact details and asking McGrath, Moira McLaughlin,Karen price. Moore, Stephen Orchard, Parissa rekindles our sense of a place in this Poulis, Trudi Sherring, Sivacharan natural world. In this heat, I recom- Sivarajan, Ricky Somerville, mend walking slowly, carefully Timothy Walsh, Imaina Widagado – listening, looking and smelling the vibrant bush of the ACT.