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Trip Notes
Stories: Hiking around Innsbruck
Stories:
War memorials; Old boots can bite
Obituary: Colin Watson Life member & Past President CMW
FIRST AID KIT - WHEN DID YOU LAST CHECK YOUR PACK?
A blast from the past -
Bush Club fashions
On Walking Pace… a reminder
Book review:“Adventures, Friends and Memories” by Springwood Bushwalking Club”
Stories and photos: Leaders Dinner, Bush Club on wheels - the first year, Not all thieves are stupid
Vale John Wilson
Ode to a Bush Club Venture OR The almost Makalu Trek
Trip notes: The Northwest Circuit, Stewart Island, NZ 2017
Trip Notes: Hiking in Japan - October 2016
Hiking Resources for loan
A bushwalking proposal for the Shoalhaven region
How to Sh..t in the Woods
AGM
1st December 2016
Trip notes: Tour de Mont Blanc, Kyrgyzstan – a walking destination?
77th Bush Club birthday
celebration photos
Progress Report on Implementation of Bush Club Refresher Group Recommendations
Accidents do Happen - what can you do about it
New claim procedures for the Bush Club's personal accident insurance
Flora and Fauna:
Watch out for: Diamond Python
Vale Heather Roy, Brian Packard
Story: THE PRESIDENT OF THE BUSH CLUB GAVE THE PRESIDENT OF THE RAMBLERS A BLOODY NOSE!
VERY PUNNY
Trip notes: Le Chemin de Stevenson - GR70 -
Le Monastier to St Jean-du-Gard; Canberra’s Centenary Trail -
oblique angles on our capital; The Three Capes Walk Tasmania
Stories: The house is on fire!
Book reviews: "The Summit of Her Ambition -
The spirited life of Marie Byles" Anne Mcleod; "Exploring the Jagungal Wilderness"
Robert Green
Vale Warren Irish,
Jan Roberts
Stories: The search for Evan Hayes' plaque: Blast from the past - gentleman assaulted at Bush Club meeting; Something about islands - Part 2 - Malta
Report: Leaders' Thank You dinner
Leading walks: why bother
Information: for leaders, members and prospectives; Dealing with Bush Club incidents on the track
Stories: My toughest walk yet - 7 girls and a guy in the Pyrenees; Wendy's Secret Garden; Something about islands - Visiting Sicily, Malta, Gozo, Comino
Vale Angelika Langley
Information:
USI - Unique Student Identifier
Congratulations Michael Keats OAM
AGM 2015 Summary and President's report
New Life members: Kaye Birch, Ian Edwards,
Bill Macks
Stories: Snakes Alive; Amazing travels of
Michael Pratt; Flashpoint
Summer Walking Tips
Trip notes: The Great North Walk: Magic of Southern France; Blo’ Norton Hall Norfolk, UK
A cautionary tale
Trip notes: Lovely Lake Rhona, Tasmania
Sex Offenders Register -
New Policy
Book review: Wollemi National Park -
The Complete North-South Traverse
Stories: ANZAC Dawn Service at Splendour Rock: Our Highest Mountain – Or Is It?;
An Old Dog Learns New Tricks - report on a first-aid course for bushwalkers; Man of Faith and Commitment -
The late Father Frank Bendeich
Trip notes: Wet and wild in Coopracamba NP; From Mt Blanc to the Matterhorn;
Australian Alps Walking Track (AAWT)
Welcome new president Cavan Hogue; farewell outgoing Lynne Outhred
Story: Bushwalkers - Lest we Forget
When things go seriously wrong - emergency services for bushwalkers
New life members
Trip notes: Barrington Tops NP
Bush Club orienteering contest, 50 years ago
Interview: Jim Lawler - Fifty years of leading Walks
Vale Beverley Purkis
Book Review: The Gardens of Stone National Park and Beyond Volume
5, Michael Keats
Drinking fluids? Does it matter?
How did Katoomba get its name?
Trip notes: Receding glaciers in Patagonia
Poles?Yes or No?: Perils of Poles
First 10 years: How the Bush Club began - a story from the archives
Book Review: Bush Club Leaders, Michael Keats
Vale Joan Hannan
Missing Koalas Found
Bill Macks Walks Go On
Trip notes: Patagonia; Doubtful Sound, NZ; Mt Ruapehu, Trevor, Rogo
and a French lady
Hydration - tongue in cheek treatise for Suckers
Selection of people for overseas trips; What happens if leader is injured?
Vale Alex Colley OAM
Annual Leaders' Thank-You
Centennial Park - The ‘People’s Park’
Trip notes: Summer in the Snowy Mountains
Walks leader training; Bushwalking etiquette; What happens when a walk
is cancelled?
Vale Barbara Guest
Stories: Six degrees of Separation under a Gum Tree; Birdwatching in
Bhutan; Facelift for Grand Old Icon, the Hydro Majestic
Trip notes: Dolomites, Mt Blanc…and More; This is Summer? Walking
in the Austrian Alps
Words of Warning: If in doubt – check with leader; On Walking
Pace…
Stories: Conscript Pass Thornleigh
Book Reviews: The Gardens of Stone National Park and Beyond
Volume 4, Michael Keats and Brian Fox
700th member comes through the door
President's report from 2013 AGM
Committee members 2013-4
Stories: Garrawarra Hospital; Chip off the Old Block - John B S Hungerford
(‘B’ for Blaxland)
Book Reviews: Understanding the Weather, John Martyn, STEP
Inc.; Top Walks of NSW, Ken Eastwood
Trip notes: Walking in Italy; The Case of the Dribbling Leopard –
Walking in Namibia and Botswana; Cotswold Way from both ends; Australia’s
longest Climb
Interview: Morrie Donovan…a man who loves wild water
Trip notes: Up and down Mt Kinabalu, Borneo: Wollemi NP - Henry Creek
Pass to Rock Island; Tales from the Coast to Coast
Interview: Melissa Newman
Stories: The people you meet…; 200 years and just as spectacular
- crossing the Blue Mountains; Ghosts of Pulpit Hill; Superman and Lois
Lane Get the Gong; How would this look in the tourist brochures? - from
El Camino
75 National Parks…here we come
Trip Notes: The Dolomites; Across the Alps from Germany; England's
Coast-to-Coast
Book Review: The Gardens of Stone National Park and Beyond Volume
2 By Michael Keats and Brian Fox
Stories: Pleasure Trove of memories - The Garden of Peace at Stanwell
Tops; Humble histories of the safety match, tea and call of the cooee
Vale: Trude Kallir, Bill Capon, Peter Caldwell
Interview: Carol Henderson
Track Notes: Holbeachs Descent
Stories: Bushfire - teenagers' nightmare; Tarro's ladders - rung above
the rest
Events: Bush Club 73rd birthday party; and coming - Our Diamond Jubilee
Re-think on snakebite treatment
Trip Notes:
Bush Odyssey - 12-day trip to Kosciuszko
Trip Notes: Luxury in the Pyrenees (Etchers) - separate tales from weeks (groups) 1 and 2
Interview: Cynthia Brew
A bit about Lockley Pylon
Does size matter? Well, height does… How high is Mt Kosciuszko?
The good old bad days - Firearms in the Blue Gum Forest
Trip Notes: Across the Alps; Exploring the Scenic Rim; Kosciuszko NP - Orange
Hawkweed Eradication Program
Interview: Ray Mathieson
Book review: The Gardens of Stone NP and Beyond by Michael
Keats and Brian Fox
Stories of new Life members: Ron Mead, Pam Orgam, Marion Woof, Lena
Willemse, Alan Mewett
A brief history of the Blue Gum Forest - Bushwalkers' Mecca
Track Notes: Landslide Gully
Trip Notes: West Highland Way and Great Glen Way (3 groups - 3 versions)
Interview: Adrian Cooper
Marie Byles' birthday
Track Notes: Wild Dog Wanderings - in search of Granite Falls
Trip Notes:
Kokoda Track; In Patagonia
Interview: George Daniel
Recollections of Wilf Hilder
Final President's Report from outgoing Bush Club President Bob Taffel
Track Notes: Grand Traverse - Greenstone and Routeburn tracks, South
Island, New Zealand
Interview: Ken Lowe
Vale Wilf Hilder
Results of membership survey re Walks Reports in our newsletter
Track notes: Survival on Tasmania's South Track; (And a different perspective);
Croajingalong National park
Book Review: Field Guide to the Bushland of the Lane Cove Valley
Snakes above the snowline in Kosciuszko National Park
True Tales of a tail
Vale Keith Morris
Trip notes: Cape-to-Cape Walk - South Western Australia: A walk in Nepal
Interview: Michael Keats and Steve Murray
Vale Penny Lewarne and Terry Davis
Bushwalking books: Field Guide to the Bushland of the Lane Cove Valley;
Shoalhaven and Illawarra Bushwalking Guide
Track notes: Mt Airly Trip notes: Larapinta
Interview: Brian Corlis
Book review: Paddling around NSW
Awards for Life Members: Arthur Cunningham; Trude Kallri; Jim Lawler; Heather Roy; Ray Mathieson
Trip notes: Kilimajaro Trek
Interview: Alan Mewett
About dehydration
Changes to walks' requirements and gradings
Track notes: Croagingalong walk; Murdoch's Creek to Baal Bone Point via Coco Creek; Parramatta River Walk
Notes on a Wild Aid First Aid course
Interview: Bill Macks
Three perspectives of El Camino de Santiago
Maureen's Meander to Melbourne (MMM) section 12
Bush Club Insurance Policies
Kelly Rees' bushwalking books for loan
Book 'review': The Upper Grose Valley - Bushwalkers' Business
Vale Ruth Milton
Bush Club's 70th Birthday celebration
Trip notes: Japan's Kita Alps
Interview: Dave Dash
Leeches and their use in medicine
TIE walks: what are they?
Details for the 70th birthday celebration
More bushwalking etiquette
First Aid in the bush
Calling for help [Navigational points and pointers]
Training day notes: Abseiling day
Track notes: A wet walk in the Wild Dogs - Splendour Rock
Interview: Pam and Jim Lawler
MMM Stage 15: Sussex Inlet to Burrill Lake
Vale Vi Giles
Safety in the bush
Trip notes: Maureen's Meander to Melbourne (MMM) - Nadgee Howe Wilderness Walk
Hunting in State Forests
Interview: Trude Kallir
Book Review: The Passes of Narrow Neck
Your first pack walk
Trip notes: Edenderry Falls and Edenderry Pool
The Joys of Canyons (Liloing down the Wollongambe)
Interview: Zol Bodlay
Walking notes: Popran National Park (South Section)
Vale Jim McCabe
2008:
Summer 2008/2009
The joy of leading a walk (By a first time leader)
Vale Beth Radford
Trip notes:South Korea - a walking and cultural adventure; Gourmet tavellers in Pays Basque - a week at 'Etchers'
Walk descriptions: Walks into History - Mt Solitary and Miners Pass, Rennies
Tunnel and the Aerial Walkway, Lions Head and Kedumba Homestead, Airly
and Torbane shale mining areas, Lost City, Marrangaroo Creek; Mt Murray Anderson or 'Neil's Nose'
Interview: Mike Pratt
Bushwalking etiquette
Changes to our abseiling policy
Trip notes: Tasmanian adventures
Vale Pearl Gillott and Henry Roda
Interview: Pam Organ
Track Tales: Otford to Bundeena
Vale Pat Lane and Margaret Cunningham Top
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