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SA GREAT OUTDOORS Trail Stories from Across the State FREE SA GREAT OUTDOORS Trail stories from across the state A PANDEMIC PIVOT: THROUGH-HIKING THE HEYSEN BEYOND THE HEYSEN WITH CAMEL TREKS WALKING ON EYRE EXPLORING THE YURREBILLA FRIENDS OF THE HEYSEN TRAIL | SOUTH AUSTRALIA | ISSUE 157 | SPRING 2020 ALPANA STATION EST. 1878 David and Sally Henery of Alpana Alpana Station offers: Station Blinman offer a friendly, • Quality self-contained guesthouses: TRANSPORT flexible and accredited transport • Alpana shearers quarters (up to service to the best end of the Heysen • 14 guests) & Nungawurtina Hut SERVICE AND Trail: Wilpena, Blinman, Parachilna • bush retreat (up to 6 guests) Gorge Trailhead, for individual walkers • Powered sites with ensuite bathroom ACCOMMODATION or groups. Transfers to the Mawson • facilities for caravans/campers Trail and beyond also available. • Scenic bush camping areas ST NA AT A EST. 1878 I P O L N A JUST 5KM FROM BLINMAN BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL T: 08 8648 4626 Contact David and Sally Henery E: [email protected] IN THE FLINDERS RANGES PO Box 11, Blinman SA 5730 WWW.ALPANASTATION.COM 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 & • 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 About the Friends SPRING 2020 • 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS 2020 PATRON END-TO END WALK COORDINATORS PRESIDENT His Excellency the Melanie Sjoberg Honourable Hieu Van Le AC E2E10 Judy McAdam E2E11 John Babister VICE PRESIDENT HONORARY MEMBERS E2E12 Adam Matthews Greg Boundy Sadie Leupold E2E13 Vicki Barrett SECRETARY Thelma Anderson OAM E2E14 Mark Fletcher Julian Monfries Kath Palyga E2E15 Mark Curtis Richard Schmitz E2E-2 Julian Monfries TREASURER Arthur Smith PUBLISHED BY THE Stephen Salib-Brown Colin Edwards TRAIL DEVELOPMENT SECTION LEADERS FRIENDS OF THE HEYSEN Robert Alcock Hugh Greenhill TRAIL AND OTHER Colin Edwards OAM Barry Finn S1 Albert Schmidke WALKING TRAILS Dom Henschke Dean Killmier S2A Roger Dunn, John Wilson Richard Bourne W heysentrail.asn.au John Wilson Margaret Fletcher David Beaton S2B John Newland facebook.com/HeysenTrail John Babister Jack Marcelis S3&4 Hermann Schmidt twitter.com/HeysenTrail Paul Bond Julian Monfries (Wandergruppe Frances Gasson Bushwalkers) youtube.com/HeysenTrail SUB-COMMITTEE Simon Cameron S5 John Babister pinterest.com/HeysenTrail CHAIRS David Rattray OAM S6 Richard Webb TRAIL DEVELOPMENT Hermann Schmidt S7 Graham Loveday CITY BRANCH Paul Bond Robert Alcock S8 Ian Harding Suite 203, Epworth Building Liz O’Shea (WEA Ramblers) WALKING 33 Pirie St, Adelaide SA 5000 John Potter S9 Jerry & Michelle Foster Adam Matthews S10 Open Mon – Fri Kevin Liddiard Wayne Turner, OFFICE Peter Deacon 10:30am – 2:30pm HONORARY MEMBERS Dom Henschke S11&12 Dom Henschke, T (08) 8212 6299 (DECEASED) Colin Rozman, Rick Price MARKETING & E [email protected] Terry Lavender OAM S13 Hugh Greenhill MEMBERSHIP Jim Crinion (Mid North Branch) MID NORTH BRANCH Helen Morgante Neville Southgate S14-18 Arrangements T 0428 347 315 HONORARY Doug Leane currently under review E [email protected] MEMBERSHIP Fred Brooks OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Julian Monfries Jamie Shephard MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Terry Gasson RECONCILIATION MONDAYS Glen Dow SINGLE $25/year COMMITTEE Graham Loveday Neil Nosworthy FAMILY $40/year Anne Kirk TRAILWALKER Elizabeth Rogers SCHOOLS/ORGANISATIONS WARREN BONYTHON EDITOR TUESDAYS $60/year HEYSEN TRAIL Josh West Valerie Boundy Membership is valid for FOUNDATION Judy McAdam 12 months from the date EDITORIAL CHAIR Chris Porter of payment. SUB-COMMITTEE Neville Haar David Rattray OAM Robert Alcock SECRETARY Philip Bell WEDNESDAYS Neil Nosworthy Robyn Coburn Elayne Sanders Colin Edwards Vicki Cahalan MID NORTH BRANCH Tammy Main Gilbert Downs PRESIDENT Judy McAdam Jack Marcelis Garry Fieldhouse Liz Rogers THURSDAYS VICE-PRESIDENT Julie Stapleton Erica Gordon Kate Greenhill Greg Martin Julian Monfries Judy Szekeres SECRETARY WEBSITE EDITOR Sally Fieldhouse Jeremy Carter FRIDAYS Cathy Bowditch PUBLICITY OFFICERS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Erika Guess Garry Fieldhouse David Rattray OAM Julia McLachlan COUNCIL MEETING DATES Suzanne Mausolf OFFICE MANAGER Wednesday 16 September RELIEF STAFF Dom Henschke Wednesday 21 October Dom Henschke Wednesday 18 November BOOKKEEPERS Graham Loveday John Wilson Jack Marcelis Maria Newland Cover: The Flinders & Beyond Tina Behnke Camel Trek Team leaving Margaret Fletcher Waukawoodna Gap. Photo: Anne Kirk. Trailwalker welcomes photo submissions suitable for the cover of the magazine. Please email We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands we traverse along the your high-resolution image to Heysen Trail. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of Aboriginal peoples to [email protected] Country and pay respects to the cultural authority of Aboriginal peoples within the Country we walk. Contents Trailwalker Articles, reports and other submissions by members and interested parties are welcome and should be emailed to the Trailwalker Editor at [email protected] Deadline for the next issue (Summer 2020): 24 30 OCTOBER 2020 Adelaide Hills' The Trailwalker magazine is Yurrebilla Trail available by subscription or online at heysentrail.asn.au/ trailwalker and is published and distributed quarterly: 05 13 21 • Autumn (March) • Winter (June) PRESIDENT’S A COVID CATCH WALKING ON • Spring (September) REPORT UP WALK EYRE • Summer (December) MELANIE SJOBERG JULIE STAPLETON DAVID HOGAN The Trailwalker magazine We're walking and Members completed a David retells his has a typical distribution working again. catch up walk between experience helping of 1500, and an estimated Dutchmans Stern and Warren Bonython readership of approximately Buckaringa Gorge. and Terry Krieg twice that number. 06 circumnavigate Lake Eyre. Contributors are urged FRIENDS NEWS 15 to contact the Editor to 24 Keep up-to-date with what’s A PANDEMIC discuss their article prior to submission. The submission happening on the Trail. PIVOT: THROUGH- EXPLORING THE YURREBILLA deadline is usually the first HIKING THE Friday of the month prior to 07 HEYSEN PAULEEN BOND the month of publication. With an absense of TRAILTHINKER PAUL CONNELLY Views expressed in organised hiking, Pauleen QUIZ Paul dusted off his plans Bond, Anne Kirk and Paul contributed articles are to through-hike the Trail. Bond decided to hike those of the authors, and 10 Adelaide Hills' Yurrebilla not necessarily those of the 17 Trail. Friends of the Heysen Trail. THE TRAVAILS OF TREE PLANTING BEYOND THE 25 HEYSEN WITH ADVERTISING RATES NEIL NOSWORTHY (EX. GST) FLINDERS & AN OVERLAND Neil provides the Greening BEYOND CAMEL TRACK DIARY 1/8 PAGE Committee Report. $55 per issue TREK ADAM MATTHEWS 1/4 PAGE $80 per issue 1/2 PAGE $135 per issue ANNE KIRK Eleven members of Adam 11 Matthews' End-to-End FULL PAGE $200 per issue Anne travels north of the 12 group completed FLYER (supplied for insertion) VOLUNTEER Heysen Trail's Parachilna Tasmania's iconic $240 per issue PROFILE Gorge terminus. Overland Track. A commitment for 12 months EVE BUCKLEY 20 advertising (four issues) Eve shares her involvement 30 would attract 10% saving. as a Friends volunteer. TRUTH-TELLING: BLACK LIVES FAVOURITE Advertising specifications and MATTER SHORT WALK article submission guidelines 12 are available upon request or JON HOLBOOK MARK & MIRANDA WATERS ASK A HIKER by visiting Mark and Miranda The Long Ridge track in heysentrail.asn.au/trailwalker Chambers Gully. Which luxury item do you explore their links to the typically take on multi- reported massacres in the day hikes? Aroona region. President’s Report SPRING 2020 • 5 ReBoot – We're Walking and Working Again MELANIE SJOBERG 've felt strangely disoriented over Victoria and NSW remind us not to slide Sadly, the Friends has witnessed a the past two or three months into complacency. down-side as a small minority seem to (like many of you I expect) feel entitled to set up camp anywhere More generally, it has been heartening as we gradually adjusted to they like. Some of the small Heysen to see reports from many members isolation, physical distancing, hike-in sites have been vandalised, venturing back onto favoured local an acute awareness of hygiene and the and we've had complaints about a few tracks or discovering new trails. Idisrupted activities in our everyday vehicle campers that have disrespected lives. Thankfully, the whole community private property near the trail by accepted the need to adopt new “ leaving rubbish or building fires. practices, modify travel expectations Clearly, there is something and, together, stave off the most severe wonderful going on: effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. people are responding to “ As the SA Government and Health SA isolation by seeking out Importantly, it highlights announced an easing of restrictions, the experiences in nature. the precious and unique Friends began developing safe protocols nature of our Heysen Trail, to revive our Walk Programme and
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