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Reet Vallak Dear Reet, (Don't you just love personalised form letters?) According to my usually unreliable membership records your membership renewal form indicated that you are willing to lead walks. According to my equally reliable Walks Secretary records you have not actually programmed a walk this Club year. Now is a good time to start leading! Why now? For lots of reasons: - The programme for the period following this IT (ie. 16 June 1990 onwards) has plenty of gaps [In fact it is almost ALL gaps!]. You can select the dates you want without much competition; - Allan Mikkelsen and I have prepared a list of walks suitable for new leaders to lead - we can provide you with ideas it you need them; - We have also lined up a number of experienced leaders who can offer you help before, during, and after your walk; - As advertised in this IT (May) we have a walks planning evening scheduled for Tuesday 22 May 1990 complete with maps, suggestions for suitable walks, hints for new leaders, refreshments... This is an ideal chance to join the list of the club elite (ie. the leaders - MUCH more important to club functioning than minor officials like the committee), as you will have the company of sympathetic, like-minded companions plus experts available to offer advice; - If you don't feel confident about a particular aspect of leading, come to walks planning anyway. You may be able to team up with someone to co-lead a trip if their lack of confidence or available time complements yours. Or you may be able to resolve your problems with an experienced leader; - I spend most evenings and much of the day poised over the phone waiting for phone calls from prospective leaders, also I have access to the postal system and FAX, should you be unable to attend the walks planning evening; - By leading, you make sure YOUR sort of trip is on the programme. You also reduce the risk of having a Walks Sec. flatten someone in response to a remark like "'they' should have more walks like..." - If you and others who have expressed willingness to lead don't do so, we won't have a walks programme, so you will have wasted your annual fees! Finally, even if you don't yet wish to lead walks, please come to the Walks Planning evening anyway. As an interested walker your comments will help other leaders plan their walks. Alan Vidler Walks Secretary, CBC [also, Record Keeper!] phone 2545373(h), 2435315(w), FAX available - ring first WIIJIPAVA Liftlilt WWIIJNI.LE1T; P.O. Box 160, Canberra, ACT. 2601 Registered by Australia Post: Publication number NBH 1859 VOLUME 26 MAY 1990 NUMBERS It is with regret that we inform you that Greg Buckley died on 11 April while walking in Nepal. Greg was well known to Club members as an active walker, a Committee member and participant in many Club activities. He will be sorely missed. We extend our condolences to Greg's family. MAY MONTHLY MEE11NG WHERE? Dickson Library Community Room WHEN? Wednesday 16 May 1990, 800pm WHO? Rob Jenkins from the Australian National Parks and Wildle Service WHAT? Rob has spent many years in the Northern Territory and will present a talk and show slides on what to expect in the way of wildlife when walking in Kakadu National Park. Before the meeting, join Club members at 6.00pm for a vegetarian dinner at the Parakeet Restaurant in Ainslie. T shirts and badges carrying the Club's emblem, the corroboree frog, are available for purchase at Club meetings from the Social Secretary. PRESIDENT'S PRATTLE By the time you receive this IT the first Monolith Valley work weekend for 1990 will have been held, No doubt it will have been a great success with lots of work done and lots of good cooking, by Margaret Cole and her team, enjoyed. In spite of this we will still need your help on the weekend of 19 and 20 May. STOP PRESSI! WORK WEEKEND FOR4-5 MAY CANCELLED DUE TO HELTPCOPTER HELPING WITH WITH NORTHERN NSW FLOODS. WEEKEND 18-19 NOW EVEN MORE IMPORTANT - WE MUST ALL TURN UP AS LAST CHANCE BEFORE WINTER. David Campbell JUNE MEE11NG PREVIEW On Wednesday 20 June the Annual Club Auction will be held. Now is the time to sort through those cupboards and in the garage for the camping, walking or ski gear that you've outgrown or have not used during the last season and bring it along to the Auction. This event has always proved to be a good evening's entertainment. Further details will be provided in the June IT OBITUARY Greg Buckley Quiet and unassuming, Greg was an active member of the Club since 1987 Trained as an engineer, he loved the bush, the mountains and especially the Australlan Alps. On speaking with members of the Club who had walked with him, whether on walks he had led or those he had participated in, one hears of the special wry humour that he enjoyed sharing with them, a humour that often came out in explosions of joy, contrasting with his more usual quiet demeanour. A special element in Greg's make-up was his desire to contribute to the Club and to the environment from which he received so much enjoyment. I particularly remember his assistance in the planning and execution of the Monolith Valley Project, his coming out and /oining the A/pine Trekkers at Orroral Campground, and this year as the Club's Publisher, seeing that we received our copies of IT on time. I am sure that many of us who knew Greg recall a special incident which we will carry with us and by which we will remember him. Mine dates from that first work weekend in Monolith Valley, when I had been bullying people from the Long Gully Campground up into the Valley. When we got there, and out of earshot of the others, Greg chided me, pointing out that he found it best not to get upset with people. The concern that was expressed for other people and the considerate way he admonished me was characteristic of Greg David Campbell rl;i-] Now Members Juliet Fisher, Anne Eales, John Bennett, Glynis Kennedy, Beng Lee, Keith McLean, Lesley Gadzow, Elaine Hill, Sharon Kirkman, Monika Binder, Guy Rodgson, Michael Smedley, Rosie Oros. Prospective Members Paul Bannister 77 Hawdon Street Dickson ACT 2602 2576287(h) 2493848(w) Lesley Bell 1 Dash Crescent Fadden ACT 2904 2924360(h) 2775009(w) Ross Burke 7 Hooley Place Kambah ACT 2902 2316530(h) 2971090(w) Anita Cieslar 24 BlackaIl Avenue Queanbeyan NSW 2620 2991726(h) 2632065(w) Janet Duncan 19 Gamor Street Waramanga ACT 2611 2881398(h) Christine Dunn 9 Plummer Street Weetangera ACT 2614 2545443(h) 2474866(w) E.A. Janssen 1 1/27 Giles Street Kingston ACT 2604 2951 327(h) Aliceann Reilly 20 Ferrett Circuit Kambah ACT 2902 2314959(h) 2774668(w) Rhonda Smith 28 Gledden Street Chifley ACT 2606 2813098(h) 2488722(w) WALK SECRETARY'S WAFFLE My main statement is elsewhere - ie. Come to Walks Planning! I also repeat a theme I've expounded before - people should plan their activities on the grading and description of the walk, not on an assumption that certain leaders always lead certain types of trip, or that if a particular individual is going then the trip must be hard. Leaders grade their trips according to the guidelines published every month and most regular leaders lead a variety of trips and it is thus wrong to typecast them. Gradings are not perfect, people find different things hard, interpetation can vary, and a trip may be undergraded due to unexpectedly hea'vj scrub or inclement weather. Leaders try to be accurate in their gradings and I do discuss and/or change gradings before publication if I think they are too low. Also note that an E" component in a grading refers to easy terrairL not necessarily an easy trip. A M/E or L/E trip may be quite difficult for some people due to a long distance or substantial climb involved. If you think a trip has been undergraded, discuss the matter with the leader. If you still aren't satisfied, please contact me. Alan Vidler WAlKS PIRAAIAG CYCAIAG VYtI L'BLDT is approaching. This means we need YOU to help by leading trips. If you are a cross-country skier, lead some ski tours. If you are not, be aware that a high proportion of our regular leaders are, so they will not be leading as many walks over the next few months. This leaves two options - either: YOU help out; or opportunities for you and others to go on club walks are severely reduced. Please come to Walks Planning, even if only to lobby for the type of trip you like. WHEN: Tuesday 22 May, 1990, any time afer 7:30pm WHERE; 56 Woolner Circuit, HAWKER, Phone 2545373(h), 2435315(w) BRING; Yourself. Maps etc will be provided. Ideas, help, and refreshments will be available, but any you bring will be welcome. If hospitalised: Ring Alan Vidler with your walks before or during the evening. (or a similar qçuse} MINIMAL IMPACT BUSHWALKING The following paragraphs have been adapted from "Tread Softly - The Bushwalkers' Minimum Impact Code", a pamphlet produced by the Federation of Victorian Walking Clubs which was recently sent to the editors by their Hon. Secretary, and "Walking the Wilderness", a pamphlet published by the Tasmanian Department of Lands, Parks and Wildlife. Campfires Use astoveto cook Wherever possible use portable fuel stoves for cooking, because of the growing shortage of firewood around campsites in many popular walking areas - especially in the alpine and drier areas where growing rates are slower.