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CANBERRA BUSH WALKING CLUB INC NEWSLETTER r GPO Box 160, Canberra ACT 2601 VOLUME 32 FEBRUARY 1996 NUMBER 2 PRESIDENT' S PRATTLE questionnaire along with the Club's Christmas to report that we have had Oopsl I got it wrong in the last IT. The General 4 guuu ICSpUHSC. .JIUU iiieiueis we ôsiceu to ICL meeting is held on the third Wednesday and the Committee know if you come in contact with Committee meetings held on the fourth landowners. Wednesday of the month. Please check the Later in the year Aug 24th-25th, this Club is Activities Program for the correct dates. Thank hosting the AGM of the Confederation of you and my apologies for the conifision. Bushwalking Clubs of NSW and the reunion of This year is a leap year and we are planning a all the clubs that make up the Confederation. I super party to celebrate. This will be held at the hope that you will be free and able to participate shearing sheds at Wee Jasper on Feb 24th and in the weekend's events. 25th. The Committee is hoping for a big turnout This IT is a joint effort by David Truman and and would also like to see the members who Frank McKone. This is part of the handover aren't active but like to keep in contact. Like the foreshadowed at the AGM. I would like to thank 30th Anniversary reunion a few years back. David for producing the IT. David has continually In December I attended a seminar on the striven to produce a high quality newsletter that Management of ACT and Southern NSW details the Club activities and interests with his National Parks. Nothing was said then about the own style of editorialship. consultant's report. for the ACT Parks and Janet Edstein P Conservation Service: Marketing Strategy and Options Plan (aka User Pays Report). If implemented, the report's recommendations may add considerable cost to all bushwalkers (park use Wee Jasper February Leap Year fees + camping fees) and has other ramifications. Weekend (24 & 25 February) Because of this issue's importance, Brian Weir from the Environment and Land Bureau will be Arrangements are well in-hand for this epic event?!? addressing the March General Meeting on this Here's a more detailed rundown of the anticipated report. All club members should be aware of the sequence of events: possible implications, so please read Brian McLeod's summary in this IT and phone me for a Some of the organisers arrive Friday night to set up the copy of the report if you nçed more detail. Shearers quarters, collect firewood, choose sites for camp fire/s for the camp ovens, and the trestle tables We are trying to up-date the "Green Book". Long for dinner the next night, etc. Saturday morning the standing policy of our Club is not to cross private last of the organisers will arrive, so that they are on property without specific permission. site to help campers & Shearers Quarters residents to Unfortunately our list has become out of date as get settled and later on to chop vegetables etc for the magnificent banquet arranged for the properties change hands. We sent out a evening. Canberra Busfiwalking Club IT February 1996 page 1 February. All drivers will be provided with a mug map Anytime from the Friday night to Saturday lite or instruetions to get them to the camp ground. Mug afternoon, we expect the rest of you to drift into camp, maps will also be available at the February General and until late Saturday afternoon, you are on your own Meeting. to do any of the following: * Take a guided tour of Carey's Caves (Entry Fe) Come along and support this special Leap Year § Take a guided tour of the Wee Jasper Pub Event!!! § Go Li-loing along the Goodradigbee River (BYO Li-b). Members of the Committee who wish to Costs: Camping Fees $4 pp/ night, Shearing remain anonymous, guarantee lots of fan and Quarters $Spp might, Transport Fees $10.00 excitement and not much danger of bodily harm. pp and Dinner Cost $10.00 pp (Couples will § Take a fishing rod and go fishing in the wherever possible be nominated as drivers and Goodradigbee River or Lake Burrinjuck. Another will only incur accommodation and dinner unnamed member of the hard working committee costs) will attempt to catch breakfast for his loved one on Kathryn Brooks, Social Secretary P Sunday. By the time you've returned and spruced up for dinner, COMING SPEAKERS we hope to be organised enough to provide the following menu: FEBRUARY (Wednesday 14) A glass of Punch to wash away the trail dust LEN CROSSFIELD on impressions on a Hot Home-made Vegetable or Pumpkin Soup with Journey to Antarctica Hot Crusty Buffered Damper from the camp ovens Len's presentation will include information and slides Choke of Beef Lamb or Chicken with a multitude on how Australians Survive in Antarctic Stations and of good Aussie Vegetables all cooked in the camp also some rare photographic slides of Heard Island. ovens in their own juices Hot Apple Crumble and Cream Len was fortunate enough to be selected by the Plunge Coffee and Real Billy Tea (not the gum Australian government to participate in a six week leaf van ely) journey to undertake a research project on their behalf in Antarctica and has some remarkable insights into the If you own recorders, guitars, banjo's or gum leaves to lifestyle in this fascinating and remote region. provide musical backing for a campfire singalong later on in the night, please bring them along. MARCH (Wednesday 13) BRIAN WEIR, Manager of Eco-Tourism in The following day at approx 10.00 am, we have two National Parks of ACT has offered to present walking options on offer: information on the Marketing Strategy and Options We hope many § Alan Vidler will lead a walk to the top of Mt Plan for Namadfl National Park. Wee Jasper. This is quite a long climb, just a small members will have read this report prior to this part of the flume & Hovell Trail, and offers meeting. magnificent views of Lake Burrinjuek. MIE BRIAN MCLEOD'S talk on Will Walk Leaders § Brian McLeod will lead a beginners/fim Need to be Certified In the Not Too Distant abseiling group into Devil's Punchbowl (a collapsed Future? will be presented at a later data cave system, just out of Wee Jasper). Group/s will However, see the article in this issue of IT for more abseil into the caves, then climb out to the top for information and discussion. another abseil. All in all, quite a busy couple of days. There are just a APRIL (Wednesday 17) few housekeeping items you need to be aware of TED WILTSHIRE on Dispelling the Myths on Participants Please Note: BYO chair, crockery Medical Treatment and Outcomes in the including a soup bowl or mug, cutlery, self-catering all Australian Bush: other meals. Anyone who has a gas lantern on a stand Ted spent several years on the oil rig "The Southern for mood lighting during dinner, please bring it along. Cross" attending to the medical needs of the crews. Kathryn Brooks is taking all bookings, but Doug He has also worked throughout the Northern Territory Wright will be collecting Accommodation and Dinner monies, preferably at the next General Meeting on 21 Canben'a Bushwalking Club IT Febnioty 1996 page 2 for St John's Ambulance and has an amazing collection If you have an idea for an article, or a short pithy of facts and stories guaranteed to entertain. comment, give me a call and I'll write it up for you. It can be anonymous or if you want your name on it, I'll His presentation covers dispelling the myths relating to cheek the final version with you before publication. injuries and deaths from invenomation (snake bites etc), the legalities relating to treating injuries, You can contact me by improvisation when treating accident victims in remote phone: 254 5902 (after 7.30 à.m. please) areas, and demonstrations on bandaging etc. fax: 205 7745 He will have a range of medical kits and medical e-mail: frankinckon4yeg. apc.org supplies from St John's Ambulance on display (and for Frank McKone sale for those interested in topping up their existing P medical supplies) and will advise on the essentials in a basic kit for the thy bushwalker and more sophisticated kits for those embarking on long treks. CONSERVATION NOTES Kathryn Brooks, Social Secretary P How was your Old Year/ New Year break ? Lots of walks, parties etc., Did you plant a tree. Well, the last WALKS SECRETARY'S WAFFLE few weeks of 1995 brought a nasty shock, our local version of that feral group, the economic rationalists Just a quick reminder. Chris Roper is doing the and commercial interests have struck again, in the program for the March IT, so send your trips and form of a document called "ACT Nature Parks and things to him. Also the closing thte for trips is the National Park (i.e. Namadgi) Marketing Strategy Committee meeting advertised in IT. Enjoy your and Options Plan". Over the next few pages I try to walking and slip slop slap) give all our readers an overview of this unpleasant Paul Rustomfl P document, allegedly developed in consultation with users of these thcilities. MEMBERSHIP MATTERS The first time that most of us knew about the Options Prospective new members: Ruth Nuttall - Red Hill; Plan was when an article appeared in the Canberra James Golden - Lyneham; David Hugill - Kambah; Times just prior to Christmas - talk about "stuffing Meredith Batten - Narrabundah; Stthnie Pidcock - up" Christmas, t'were enough to give one heartburn.