Re: Hike Report

Growning? That's a new word (or am I just not with it these
days?).

We are having a weekend hike this weekend - at long last we
have enough takers to make it worthwhile! We were supposed to
be doing a walk in Bungonia Gorge (halfway between Canberra
and Sydney, Australia), but the girl who was organising this
one has injured her ankle, so we are going to do one a little
closer to home and wait until she heals. This is good for me,
because at the moment I am not physically capable of walking
any distance, and there are no "short cuts" in Bungonia Gorge.
The hike we are now doing finishes up at a camp ground, so I
can just drive on in there and meet them with a hot billy of
tea.

I'm really looking forward to spending the night out of doors
- it's been sooooo long!

Take care all

YIS

Joanne Healy
Venturer Leader
North Kambah Nudgee Venturers
(Canberra, Australia)
joanneh@ccmail.idp.edu.au

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Subject: Hike Report
Author: explorer-net@scouter.com at INTERNET
Date: 8/10/97 8:12 AM

Hi All

Seeing you all seem to be very quiet I thought I would report on a wee hike
that I have just completed with the Venturers. The Hike is for the
Venturing SKills Award, the first thing that every Venturer should do. It
is also the only badge that I insist that a Venturer does.

At the moment it is a stagger here and a stagger there, with a grown or
two, plus some aching muscles which have been slightly over stretched.

Anyway on with the story, The hike was from Cunningham Gap to Spicers Gap
and onto Lake Moogerah, all west of here (Brisbane, Australia). Cunninghams
gap is 90 minustes away, and we manage to start hiking by 9am. First effort
was to climb Mt Mitchell which we did in a couple of hours and looked over
the plains. Cunningham Gap is at the foot of the Great Dividing Range, and
the lookout vantage point was looking east. The view was slightly smeared
because of the control fires that were in the area. Er then back tracked to
a ridge line where there is no establised track and bush bashed for a couple
of hours or so until we cama across a particular track. This Particular
track was first built by convicts in the 1840's, but there is only one mile
of the track which is recognisable with "whoaboys" and "macadamising". We
went to the Governor Chair Lookout and eventually arriving at Spicers Gap
camp ground at roughly 4 pm. I should point out somewhere, here is as goood
as place as any, that there was 4 Venturers with me, whom I was struggling
to keep up with, pretty normal, I think it might be because I had the
heaviest pack, Oh well some one has to be a hero and today I nominate me
(hehehe grin).

Today, the second day it was all pretty boring walking along rads to Lake
Moogerah where we were eventually collected. Now I just hobble around the
house and make growning noises for a week or so.

Cheers


Mark

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