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Download Spring 2019 TRAILWALKER The Friends of the Heysen Trail SOUTH AUSTRALIA SPRING 2019 Issue 153 FREE Wading Through Canyons National Parks of Southwest USA We Can’t Stop Here! The Heysen Trail Beyond Parachilna? PLUS • The Camino Inglés • Cleaning Gore-Tex Jackets • Botanic Thoughts on Mt Remarkable PRINT POST APPROVED 100002147 Building friendships, confidence & camaraderie among women as we explore the world together. SMALL GROUP WALKS AND MORE EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN SINCE 2008 • Bibbulmun Track Sections - WA • Flinders Ranges Walking Holiday - SA • Camino Pilgrimage - Spain & Portugal • Women’s Outback Camel Trek - SA • Top End Explorer: Arnhem Land, Kakadu & Litchfield - NT • Kangaroo Island Walking Tour - SA • Kilimanjaro - Full Moon Summit Trek • Arthur Wainwright’s UK Coast to Coast • Wild Untamed Borneo • Treasures of Morocco • Other great walks, activities & adventures... www.adventurouswomen.com.au [email protected] Ph: 1300 388 419 LL of FAM HA E • • 2 6 0 1 1 0 7 2 CERTIFICATE of • • 2 5 EXCELLENCE 0 1 1 0 8 2 Friends of the Heysen Trail members receive a 10% discount Published by the Friends of the Heysen Trail & Contents Other Walking Trails Magazine of the Friends of the Heysen Trail Issue 153 Spring 2019 Suite 212, Epworth Building 33 Pirie St, Adelaide SA 5000 Phone (08) 8212 6299 Web heysentrail.asn.au 5 Email [email protected] 20 Facebook facebook.com/HeysenTrail President’s Report How to Care for Twitter twitter.com/HeysenTrail Melanie Sjoberg YouTube youtube.com/HeysenTrail ____________________________ Gore-Tex Pinterest pinterest.com/HeysenTrail Tracey Evans gives good 7 advice on Mid North Branch cleaning your Phone (08) 8841 3450 Black Jack Cabin Gore-Tex jacket. Email [email protected] Paul Bond demonstrates what 300 hours of voluntary labour ___________________________ MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION can achieve. Single $25 per year Family $40 per year ____________________________ 21 & 22 Schools & Organisations $60 per year Membership is valid for 12 months from We Can’t Stop the date of payment 11 & 12 TRAILWALKER MAGAZINE Here! Restoring Mayo Jim McLean investigates Deadline for the next issue (Summer 2019-2020): extending the Heysen Trail from Hut Parachilna to Mount Hopeless. Friday 1 November 2019 Paul Nicholas Views expressed in contributed articles explains how ___________________________ are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Friends of the he supervised Heysen Trail. a team of 25 & 26 The Trailwalker magazine is unemployed and homeless men available by subscription or online at in restoring Mayo Hut in 1988. Wading Through heysentrail.asn.au/trailwalker ____________________________ The Trailwalker magazine is published Canyons quarterly: Izabela Buick • Autumn (March) 13 recommends • Winter (June) the national • Spring (September) First Aid Kits parks of the • Summer (December) Judy McAdam Southwest USA. The Trailwalker magazine has a itemises ___________________________ distribution of 1500, and an estimated what should readership of approximately twice that be in your number. personalised first 27 Articles, reports and other submissions aid kit. by members and other interested The Camino Inglés parties are welcome and should be ____________________________ Kevin Liddiard emailed to the Trailwalker Editor at takes the six-day [email protected] ‘English Way’ The submission deadline is usually the first Friday of the month prior to the 15 pilgrimage from month of publication. Volunteer Profile Ferrol to Santiago Dean Mortimer is our next de Compostela. ADVERTISING RATES (Ex. GST) volunteer to be profiled for this 1/8 page vertical $55 per issue ___________________________ 1/4 page $80 per issue regular feature. 1/2 page $135 per issue ____________________________ Full Page $200 per issue Flyer (supplied for insertion) 29 & 30 $240 per issue 17 Tasmania’s Mt Field A commitment for 12 months advertising (four issues) would attract 10% saving Botanical Thoughts National Park Advertising specifications and Mike Joyce describes a one-day on Mt Remarkable walk with everything from article submission guidelines are Mary Lane continues her series available upon request or by visiting remnant snow to rainforest. heysentrail.asn.au/trailwalker on native plants along the Trail. TRAILWALKER SPRING 2019 3 About the Friends of the Heysen Trail Patron His Excellency the Honourable Honorary Members Hieu Van Le AC Sadie Leupold Jack Marcelis Thelma Anderson OAM Julian Monfries Council Members 2018/19 Kath Palyga Terry & Frances Gasson Melanie Sjoberg President The Friends of the Heysen Trail Richard Schmitz Simon Cameron Suzanne Matthews Vice President & Other Walking Trails Arthur Smith David Rattray OAM Julian Monfries Secretary Colin Edwards Hermann Schmidt OFFICE Stephen Salib-Brown Treasurer Hugh Greenhill Robert Alcock Suite 212, 33 Pirie Street, Robert Alcock John Newland Glen Dow Liz O’Shea Adelaide SA 5000 Greg Boundy Neil Nosworthy Barry Finn John Potter Phone (08) 8212 6299 Colin Edwards Robyn Quinn Dean Killmier Kevin Liddiard Web heysentrail.asn.au Dom Henschke John Wilson John Wilson Email [email protected] Carol Homewood David Beaton Honorary Members (Deceased) Open Monday to Friday Council Meeting Dates Terry Lavender OAM Doug Leane 10.30am – 2.30pm Wednesday 18 September 2019 Wednesday 16 October 2019 Jim Crinion Fred Brooks Neville Southgate Jamie Shephard VOLUNTEERS Wednesday 20 November 2019 Mondays Sub-Committee Chairs Trailwalker Editor Greg Martin Graham Loveday Colin Edwards Trail Development Neil Nosworthy Peter Larsson Walking Editorial Sub-Committee David Rattray OAM Office Elizabeth Rogers Robert Alcock Judy McAdam Helen Morgante Marketing & Philip Bell Liz Rogers Tuesdays Membership Robyn Coburn Julie Stapleton Valerie Boundy Julian Monfries Honorary Colin Edwards Chris Caspar Membership Tammy Main Judy McAdam Warren Bonython Chris Porter r Heysen Trail Foundation Website Edito David Rattray OAM Jeremy Carter Neville Haar Chairman Wednesdays Neil Nosworthy Secretary Membership Secretary Robin Bodycomb Vicki Cahalan Mid North Branch David Rattray OAM Gilbert Downs Garry Fieldhouse President Office Manager Jack Marcelis Kate Greenhill Vice President Dom Henschke Sally Fieldhouse Secretary Thursdays Hugh Greenhill Section 13 Leader Bookkeepers Eve Buckley Sam Nichols & Publicity Officers John Wilson Erica Gordon Garry Fieldhouse Maria Newland Julian Monfries Nimer Kaur Judy Szekeres Maintenance Section Leaders Tina Behnke Albert Schmidke Section 1 Fridays Roger Dunn 2A Cathy Bowditch John Newland 2B Erika Guess Hermann Schmidt 3&4 Julia McLachlan (Wandergruppe Bushwalkers) Suzanne Mausolf John Babister 5 Relief Staff Richard Webb 6 Graham Loveday 7 Eve Buckley Ian Harding (WEA Ramblers) 8 Colin Edwards Jerry & Michelle Foster 9 Dom Henschke Wayne Turner, Kevin Crawshaw, Graham Loveday Peter Deacon 10 Jack Marcelis COVER PHOTOS: Dom Henschke, Colin Rozman, Robyn Quinn The amazing Rick Price 11 Dom Henschke 12 Antelope Canyon Hugh Greenhill (Mid North Branch) 13 by Izabela Buick, Daniel Jardine 14 and the view from Ron Capel (ARPA), Don McDonald 15 Patawarta Hill by Julie Starkey, Gary Wright 16 Jim McLean. Michael Kerin, Neil Finlay 17A Trailwalker welcomes submissions from Simon Cameron 17B readers of photos suitable for the cover of David Henery (Alpana Station), the magazine Gavin Campbell 18 4 TRAILWALKER SPRING 2019 President’s Report Heysen Trail Funding Boost from the State Government hat good news for the Friends of the Heysen Trail and Friends Heysen Trail! Many of Parks groups around Deep Creek to Friends have expressed outline the key elements of his plans. He their enthusiasm for gave a commitment that there would be Wan announcement in the June State close collaboration with the Friends as Budget that $6m will be allocated for important stakeholders in the project. enhancements to the Heysen Trail and Members will be kept informed as Deep Creek Conservation Park over the details and timeframes are developed next three to four years. through the consultation process. We know the Heysen Trail is an It is encouraging to hear that the adventurous bushwalk recognised Minister is genuinely engaged with around the country, and among overseas promoting parks and trails. This outcome long distance walkers. Now this funding indicates he is prepared to support boost has the potential to build on that ideas from Friends’ groups and local record and attract new walkers to the communities. region and the Trail. The Friends follow in the footsteps of Representatives from the Friends have conservation activists and visionaries Melanie Sjoberg worked closely with Yankalilla Council, who have long advocated for the Deep Creek Rangers and some local preservation of natural spaces for businesses for close to three years, bushwalkers, birders, flora and fauna consulting with the local community observers, or those who may just wish and walking groups. We developed a to sit among trees. We understand that proposal to highlight the exceptional dedication to nature-based projects walking experience along that wild is not just good for the environment; south coast research increasingly shows that being section of the in nature is critical to strong physical The Best of the Yorke Heysen Trail and and mental wellbeing. Importantly, this generated ideas project affirms years of dedicated work to connect with by hundreds of Friends’ volunteers accommodation, walking, publicising and keeping the food and Trail alive. transport aiming to
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