Canberra g o r F e e r o b o r r o Bushwalking C it Club newsletter Canberra Bushwalking Club Inc GPO Box 160 Canberra ACT 2601 Volume: 50 www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org Number: 1 GENERAL MEETING February 2014 8 pm Wednesday 19 February 2014 In this issue Traversing the High Weald Landscape Trail 2 Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee Presenter: Gabrielle & Tim Wright 2 President’s prattle Tim and Gabrielle Wright, when planning their visit to England in August- 3 Walks Waffle September 2013, were looking for a 7 day self-guided walk within easy 3 Membership matters commuting distance of London, travel with a day pack, overnight at hotels 3 Training Trifles or B&Bs, to linger in villages if they wished. They decided the High Weald landscape trail, an area of high natural beauty, traversing Sussex and Kent 3 This is IT from Horsham to Rye, was what they were looking for. 3 Sharing experiences 4 Smiggins Holes – The hall, Gunuma Lodge trip 5 Pictorial Smiggins Holes Hughes Baptist Church, – Gunuma Lodge trip 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes 6 Exploratory walks in the southern highlands 7 Activity program Also some leaders of walks in the current and next 11 Bulletin Board month will be on hand with maps to answer your 12 Feeling literary? questions and show you walk routes etc 12 Wednesday walks Important dates 19 February General meeting 26 February Committee meeting 26 February Submissions close for March it 10 March Canberra Day Committee reports Canberra Bushwalking Club Committee President’s President: Linda Groom prattle [email protected] 6281 4917 Treasurer: Julie Anne Clegg n 20 December I met with the presidents of the [email protected] OBBC and NPA, David Wardle and Rod Griffiths. Over coffee we had a friendly and useful discussion. To 0402 118 359 ensure that Club responsibility for Wednesday walks is Walks Secretary: Lorraine Tomlins clear we agreed that ‘the club that is responsible for deal- ing with any insurance issues arising from a Wednesday [email protected] walk is the club that the walk leader was representing 6248 0456 or 0434 078 496 when they led the walk. As an example: if a walk is advertised as Wednesday Walk ... Leader: Peter Wellman General Secretary: Gabrielle Wright for BBC, then the BBC is responsible’. We also agreed [email protected] to set up a small working group to prepare a cross- 6281 2275 reference between the three clubs’ grading systems, so that Wednesday walkers can easily understand gradings. Membership Secretary: Roger Edwards NPA gratefully accepted our offer to encourage CBC [email protected] members to assist with around three of their conservation 6288 7863 or 0406 378 217 work parties each year. Watch future its for details. Training and Safety Officer: John Evans We also agreed to swap each club’s responses to the ACT Draft Trails Strategy. This usefully allowed us to [email protected] check that the CBC response was in line with the other 6288 7235 or 0417 436 877 clubs. Cynthia Burton produced an excellent CBC Conservation Officer: Cynthia Burton response to the strategy, which is now available on the CBC web site under Members -> other documents. [email protected] g o r F e e r Linda Groom o b o r r o 0488 071 203 C President Web Manager: David Briese [email protected] 6286 3479 Conservation matters Editor: Alison Milton he CBC has put in a submission to the [email protected] TACT Government on the Draft ACT Trails Strategy 2013-2023. The Club supported the 6254 0578(h) or 6289 2717(w) need for a trails strategy and made suggestions Assistant Walks Secretary: Keith Thomas for improvement of some aspects of the draft strategy. A copy of the submission can be found [email protected] on the CBC website under ‘Club documents -> 6230 1081 or 0421 607 667 Submissions’. Social Secretary: Quentin Moran The Committee is also very pleased to welcome [email protected] Cynthia Breheny and Nathan Holt as the Club’s new Conservation Associates. 6288 9840 Cynthia Burton Publisher: Tim Wright Conservation Officer [email protected] 6281 2275 All members of the Committee can be contacted in one email to [email protected] Check in: [email protected] Web site: www.canberrabushwalkingclub.org g o r F e e r o b o r r o C Page 2 – Canberra Bushwalking Club it February 2014 g ro F e re o b ro r o C Committee reports This is IT Walks Training n 2011 the Canberra Bushwalk- Iing Club celebrated a milestone of 50 years. While the Club had Waffle Trifles been in existence for 50 years, the same could not be said of the Club’s newsletter. This did not eventuate hanks to many experienced until 1965. ith February and March TClub members, your commit- Wwe are hopefully entering tee has developed a comprehensive The first newsletter simply con- a cooler time when walking will 2014 Training Program. Please sisted of the walks program. The be a bit easier and more pleasant. check it out on the website by click- March 1965 newsletter included Also coming up are some long ing the TRAINING AND SAFETY some information on the monthly weekends and holidays that could button. Do let me know if you have talk and other events. provide great opportunities to go further ideas or needs. a little further afield both in walk By May the newsletter had acquired location and duration. The Can- Snakes love summer! Does your a ‘letterhead’ and the Club’s current berra Day weekend is especially first aid kit include a long, wide logo of the corroboree frog. attractive for walking because we compression bandage? Some The story is that although a competi- Canberrans have all of NSW and Club members carry compression tion was run to name the newsletter Victoria without holiday crowds. A bandages with printed rectangles on no suggestions were agreed with the little later in the year in April, but them. When applied at the correct decision to simply call it IT. The something to keep in mind, is the pressure, the rectangles stretch in November 1965 newsletter was close proximity of Easter and Anzac one direction to become squares. the first to introduce this new name day holidays. This could provide an Contact Allan Donnelly (a Club with the headline ‘This is IT’, with even better chance for an extended member) via www.bungendorepo- some variations on the theme in bushwalking holiday. Finally I had diatry.com.au for supplies. Wear later editions. the opportunity on a CBC walk to full-length gaiters, as you can’t do the One Tree Hill section of the see where your feet are going in Over time the capitalisation of the Centenary Trail. It is about 20 Km thick scrub. Scrub gloves (thick name seems to have come into long and finishes in Hall. It was very gardening gloves are great), as well question, perhaps due to the now enjoyable with nice forested sec- as providing grip confidence when common capitalised IT referring to tions and great views of Canberra. swinging through tight regrowth, Information Technology, therefore I encourage you to walk it. could also protect you from biting rendering the syntax to be more and stinging things. commonly portrayed as the low- g o r F Lorraine Tomlins e e r o ercase it. b o r r o C Walks Secretary Several highly experienced Club members are conducting river Interestingly, it wasn’t until 1969 crossing training on Saturday that the then Editor introduced the afternoon 15 March. See the Activ- ‘volume’ starting at Volume 1 but by ity program for details. I’ll certainly May 1971 the Editor amended this Membership be there (perhaps with PFD as I to reflect the actual chronology and don’t like water). labelled this issue Volume 7. matters CBC “Stretch Your Legs” events So here we are now in 2014 starting have visited all 87 ACT participat- Volume 50, celebrating 50 years of ing trigs. To date, 240 different the CBC newsletter. Please ensure that you keep the members have walked with 54 Membership Secretary informed different leaders. 3 members have of any changes to your email walked with at least 20 differ- address. ent leaders. 87 trigs have been Sharing experiences New members: Stuart Coulson, ‘bagged’. 8 members have visited at Vincenza Falzarano, Alexandra least 40 different trigs. The events ave you had a great expe- McAndrew, Jeffrey Perry, Bob finish on 11 March. See http://www. Hrience on a Club walk or Salijevic, Lesley Thompson, Deddo canberrabushwalkingclub.org/events/ been on an interesting trip or Wolthof ACTCentenary.html for details. trek in past years. Cheers and happy feet. Why not share your experi- g o r F e e r o b o r r o Roger Edwards C ence with a presentation at a g o r F Membership Secretary e e John Evans r o b o r r o Club general meeting. Please C Training and Safety Officer email the Club Social Secretary: socsec@ canberrabushwalk- ingclub.org who can help if you need equipment Canberra Bushwalking Club it February 2014 – page 3 Trip report Smiggins Holes – Gunuma Lodge trip 27 December 2013 to 1 January 2014 here were 11 CBC members the Geehi Valley and to the Grey This was a pleasant walk through Tand 3 friends, making a party of Mare Range. In the late afternoon open alpine herb fields in perfect 14, who enjoyed a program of day the barman of the Guthega Hotel weather.