FREE COVID-19 UPDATE Friends Respond to the Pandemic FRIENDS 2019 IN REVIEW MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF WALKING WHAT HIKING TAUGHT ME ABOUT ISOLATION TERRY LAVENDER CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIP FRIENDS OF THE HEYSEN TRAIL | SOUTH AUSTRALIA | ISSUE 156 | WINTER 2020 BuildingBuilding friendships, friendships, confidence confidence & camaraderie& camaraderie amongamong women women as aswe we explore explore the the world world together. together. 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About the Friends WINTER 2020 • 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS 2020 PATRON END-TO END WALK COORDINATORS PRESIDENT His Excellency the Melanie Sjoberg Honourable Hieu Van Le AC E2E10 Carol Homewood 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 MAINTENANCE SECTION LEADERS FRIENDS OF THE HEYSEN Robert Alcock Hugh Greenhill TRAIL AND OTHER Colin Edwards Glen Dow S1 Albert Schmidtke WALKING TRAILS Dom Henschke Barry Finn S2A Roger Dunn Dean Killmier S2B John Newland W heysentrail.asn.au Carol Homewood John Wilson John Wilson S3&4 Hermann Schmidt facebook.com/HeysenTrail Margaret Fletcher David Beaton (Wandergruppe twitter.com/HeysenTrail John Babister Jack Marcelis Bushwalkers) Julian Monfries S5 John Babister youtube.com/HeysenTrail Paul Bond Frances Gasson S6 Richard Webb pinterest.com/HeysenTrail SUB-COMMITTEE Simon Cameron S7 Graham Loveday CHAIRS David Rattray OAM S8 Ian Harding CITY BRANCH TRAIL DEVELOPMENT Hermann Schmidt (WEA Ramblers) Suite 203, Epworth Building Colin Edwards Robert Alcock S9 Jerry & Michelle Foster 33 Pirie St, Adelaide SA 5000 Liz O’Shea S10 Wayne Turner, WALKING John Potter Kevin Crawshaw, Open Mon – Fri Adam Matthews 10:30am – 2:30pm Kevin Liddiard Peter Deacon OFFICE S11&12 Dom Henschke, T HONORARY MEMBERS (08) 8212 6299 Dom Henschke Colin Rozman, Rick Price E [email protected] (DECEASED) S13 Hugh Greenhill MARKETING & Terry Lavender OAM (Mid North Branch) MID NORTH BRANCH MEMBERSHIP Jim Crinion S14-18 Arrangements Helen Morgante T 0428 347 315 Neville Southgate currently under review E [email protected] HONORARY Doug Leane MEMBERSHIP Fred Brooks OFFICE VOLUNTEERS MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Julian Monfries Jamie Shephard MONDAYS Terry Gasson SINGLE $25/year RECONCILIATION Graham Loveday Neil Nosworthy FAMILY $40/year COMMITTEE TRAILWALKER Anne Kirk Elizabeth Rogers SCHOOLS/ORGANISATIONS EDITOR TUESDAYS $60/year WARREN BONYTHON Josh West Valerie Boundy Membership is valid for HEYSEN TRAIL Judy McAdam 12 months from the date FOUNDATION EDITORIAL Chris Porter of payment. SUB-COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN David Rattray OAM Robert Alcock Neville Haar Philip Bell WEDNESDAYS SECRETARY Robyn Coburn Elayne Sanders Neil Nosworthy Colin Edwards Vicki Cahalan Tammy Main Gilbert Downs MID NORTH BRANCH Judy McAdam Jack Marcelis PRESIDENT Liz Rogers THURSDAYS Garry Fieldhouse Julie Stapleton Eve Buckley VICE-PRESIDENT Greg Martin Erica Gordon Kate Greenhill WEBSITE EDITOR Julian Monfries Judy Szekeres SECRETARY Jeremy Carter Anna Ciccarelli FF Y Sally Fieldhouse T O OU MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY N R FRIDAYS U N PUBLICITY OFFICERS O E C David Rattray OAM Cathy Bowditch X S Garry Fieldhouse I T D Erika Guess ‘ % W OFFICE MANAGER ’ E COUNCIL MEETING DATES Julia McLachlan N 10 E E K Dom Henschke M E Suzanne Mausolf N O Wednesday 20 May D W E R R O F Wednesday 17 June BOOKKEEPERS RELIEF STAFF Wednesday 15 July John Wilson Eve Buckley Cover: The wide open spaces of Dom Henschke Morialta Conservation Park may Maria Newland Tina Behnke Graham Loveday be the perfect place to practise Margaret Fletcher Jack Marcelis self-distancing. Photo: Josh West. Trailwalker welcomes photo submissions suitable for the cover of the magazine. Please email FOR ALL OUR UPCOMING WALKS, TRIPS AND EVENTS your high-resolution image to We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands www.bigheartadventures.com.au [email protected] we traverse along the Heysen Trail. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of Aboriginal peoples to Country and pay respects Our office is currently closed temporarily due to COVID19. to the cultural authority of Aboriginal peoples within the Country we walk. We continue to operate remotely and will offer our local walking events and trips in South Australia as soon as distancing restrictions lift. Contents Trailwalker Articles, reports and other submissions by members and interested parties are welcome and should be emailed to 06 the Trailwalker Editor at What's the state [email protected] of Play in SA? Deadline for the next issue (Spring 2020): 31 JULY 2020 The Trailwalker magazine is available by subscription or online at heysentrail.asn.au/ trailwalker and is published and distributed quarterly: 05 12 19 • Autumn (March) • Winter (June) PRESIDENT’S THE END-TO- BOOK REVIEW: • Spring (September) REPORT END STORY THE WAYS OF THE • Summer (December) CONTINUES BUSHWALKER The Trailwalker magazine MELANIE SJOBERG has a typical distribution The Friends respond to JULIAN MONFRIES MELANIE SJOBERG of 1500, and an estimated the COVID-19 Pandemic DEAN MORTIMER Melanie investigates how readership of approximately Following on from the the role of a bushwalker twice that number. 06 'Original End-to-End Walk' has developed. article from Autumn Contributors are urged Trailwalker 2020. FRIENDS NEWS 21 to contact the Editor to discuss their article prior to Keep up-to-date with what’s THE TERRY happening on the Trail. 14 submission. The submission LAVENDER deadline is usually the first THE MENTAL CHURCHILL Friday of the month prior to 07 AND PHYSICAL FELLOWSHIP the month of publication. HEALTH EFFECTS TRAILTHINKER BEN TREWREN Views expressed in OF WALKING QUIZ Ben investigates ways contributed articles are DR HELEN DONOVAN those of the authors, and to develop, manage and 09 Helen highlights the promote recreational trails not necessarily those of the mental and physical and outdoor pursuits. Friends of the Heysen Trail. VOLUNTEER benefits of walking. PROFILE 25 ADVERTISING RATES RICHARD WEBB 16 (EX. GST) A NEW SHADE Richard shares his WHAT HIKING OF GREEN: 1/8 PAGE $55 per issue involvement as a TRAMPING Friends volunteer. TAUGHT ME 1/4 PAGE $80 per issue ABOUT DEALING TE ARAROA 1/2 PAGE $135 per issue FULL PAGE $200 per issue WITH SOCIAL KIRBY DRAPER 10 ISOLATION FLYER (supplied for insertion) With only nine days $240 per issue FRIENDS OF THE JOSH WEST remaining, Kirby had to depart the Te Araroa. HEYSEN 2019 IN Trail Ambassador Josh A commitment for 12 months REVIEW recaps his experiences advertising (four issues) with social isolation on 28 would attract 10% saving. MELANIE SJOBERG the trail. Melanie recaps the A WEE TOUR Advertising specifications and Friends of the Heysen's OF BEN NEVIS article submission guidelines involvement in 2019. 18 are available upon request or by visiting ASK A HIKER SEAN BENZ Sean couldn’t help wonder heysentrail.asn.au/trailwalker What is your secret why the UK doesn’t have scroggin ingredient? its own grand tour around its highest mountain. President’s Report WINTER 2020 • 5 The Friends respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic MELANIE SJOBERG hat a start to 2020: trains, lines to enter supermarkets outdoor community and group activity. first bushfires with sanitiser for shopping trollies At this stage, the DEW suspension of devastating vast and many businesses closed. Strange volunteer activity is still in place. The areas on Kangaroo it may be, but most of us recognise public pronouncements reinforce that, Island and the east there is a driving imperative to protect for widespread community safety, we coast; then extensive restrictions across the community and our health service must practise hygiene and physical Wthe community in response to a global capacity that underpins the call to distancing for an extended period pandemic. It seems we’re exhausting isolate and stay home. The Friends Council and Committees the thesaurus: unprecedented, Sadly, in light of ongoing public health will discuss options for our activities extraordinary, unusual, unexpected, requirements, the Friends Council in light of the announced easing of unrivalled, and exceptional… and made the difficult but necessary restrictions and any requirements and creating terms like ‘new normal’.