Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc Bulletin #99 May 12 2015

Members and Guests Night May 21

Thursday 21st May  7 PM at the Thurgoona Community Center.

This is a good chance to catch up with other club members and find out what they have been up to - bring a guest or friend they will be very welcome. 

For participants in the Larapinta track walk starting June 6 this is a great opportunity to get together to sort a few things out.

We have a DVD to show called Beneath the Razorback,  this was made after the 2003 fires that ravaged the area. The story focuses on the gold mining efforts of the 1950's and beyond and goes for about 45 minutes. The photo below isn't quite from the 50s but it is 40 years ago and it is the razorback and one of the walkers is a current member of MVB!

• There will also be a slide show organised by Lin Starke highlighting club activities.
• Peter will give a very brief talk on dehydrating food for backpacking.
• A small supper, with tea and or coffee will be provided

And speaking of hydration and exercise..according to Coach James Fisher you should

Drink Before You’re Thirsty!!

Thirst is an early symptom of dehydration. By the time the thirst response is activated, you’re already 2 to 3 percent dehydrated. This will diminish high-intensity endurance by 10 percent. Start your walk, paddle, cycle or ski hydrated by consuming up to 600ml of water about 2 hours before exercise.  During the activity, a good goal is to drink up to 300ml of water or sports drink every 15 to 20 minutes. Recover by drinking up to 500ml of water or sports drink every hour for a few hours afterwards to fully rehydrate. ( And dont stray too far from the toilet! ed note)

Event reports

There are five new event reports available on the website - you may like to check them out - click on any of the photos to read an event report

Harrington Track on the Upper Upper Murray on May 3 led by Iris Joss from Corryong

The Flaggy Creek gorge walk on May 9 led by Tony Marsh

Manjar Trail Kosciusko National Park led by Iris Joss

Forest Camp Easter Warby Ovens National Park led by Tony Marsh

Mitta Mitta River Day Paddle March 22 led by Sasho Dillow

Welcome to new  members

Iris Joss, Sharon Roberts, Carmen Huser and Stephen Gulliford - membership steady on 108

We are thrilled to have new members from the Upper Murray / Corryong district since Easter 2015. You will notice events led by Iris Joss and Barbara Williams on the program in the future and president Jan Douglas joined Iris on the recent long day walk along Harrington track and Barbara and Lee joined the Flaggy Creek walk on May9.

Website Upgrade

The ordeal of upgrading the website to work properly with the latest version of Joomla has finally been successfully negotiated without loss of any historical data - all events, reports, forms, subscriptions and even records of bookings (potentially required for insurance claims) have been moved to the new system. We haven't lost any members along the way either although those involved in the 5 month upgrade process were sorely tested. Security considerations were the main driving factor - the club takes its responsibilities seriously in regard to privacy of members data.

Whats On!

At The Rock Nature Reserve Categories: Day Walks

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  Members and Guests Evening

  From May 21, 2015 7:00 pm until May 21, 2015 9:00 pm

  At Thurgoona Community Centre Categories: Meetings
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  Going North for winter

  From May 22, 2015 8:00 am until June 27, 2015 6:00 pm

  At Albury Categories: LongCarTours
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  Ross Lookout, Burrowa-Pine Mountain NP Grade 4 Day walk

  From May 23, 2015 8:00 am until May 23, 2015 3:00 pm

  At Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park Cudgewa Categories: Day Walks
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  Eldorado to Mt Pilot Walk Grade 4 Day Walk

  From May 23, 2015 8:15 am until May 24, 2015 5:00 pm

  At Chiltern Box - Ironbark National Park, Chiltern VIC 3683 Categories: Social , Carcamping , Day Walks
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  Warrumbungles: Breadknife & Grand High Tops Walk

  From May 24, 2015 9:00 am until May 24, 2015 6:00 pm

  At Warrumbungles National Park Categories: LongCarTours
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  Larapinta Track Northern Territory Grade 4

  From June 06, 2015 6:00 am until June 14, 2015 7:00 pm

  At Alice Springs, NT Categories: Backpacking
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  Murray Valley Bushwalkers 2015 AGM

  From August 14, 2015 6:30 pm until August 14, 2015 8:30 pm

  At Thurgoona Community Centre Categories: Meetings , Social
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  Kangaroo Hoppet. Cross country ski races on Saturday 22nd August 2015.

  On August 21, 2015

  At Falls Creek Nordic Bowl Categories: CrossCountrySkiing
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  Otway Fly - Otway Lighthouse Grade 3

  From September 07, 2015 7:30 am until September 13, 2015 5:30 pm

  At Cape Otway Categories: Day Walks
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  The Grand Traverse NZ Grade 4

  From November 09, 2015 7:30 am until November 14, 2015 7:00 pm

  At Queenstown NZ Categories: GuidedExtendedWalks
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  Mt Field NP Tasmania Base Camp Grade 3

  From December 27, 2015 7:00 am until January 02, 2016 5:00 pm

  At Mt Field National Park Categories: Base Camp cabin accommodation

Committee for 2014-2015 - email them for any assistance you may require

You can catch up on committee deliberations at any time from the minutes on the website

Catch you on a club event soon!

regards

Tony Marsh and Peter Presutti

Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc Bulletin #96 Dec 12 2014

Don't forget to check out our huge range of pics on Flickr LINK

Welcome to new members

Helene and Roxy Van Zetten, Peter Alexander

First of all lets start with the big finale ******* Christmas Party

This year the party will be at Jan's Abode 10 Freyers Road Corowa on Friday evening 19th Dec 2014 about 5:30 ish onwards

Plenty of ground to camp on if one wants to stay the night. (many thanks to Jan for offering - much appreciated).

The club website details the location and other details LINK

And what a year we have had, our numbers are back up to nearly the 100 mark. big boost from the Canoeing activities.

Doing a recap for the year. where to start.

in no set order yet...

 We have added a new menu to the Programs Tab  ***  List of Events 2014 Check it out ** outstanding range.

To comment and or highlight all would be a monumental task and i am not going to attempt this.

Jan , Tony , Jean , Louise  traversed some very spectacular section of the Kosciusko National Park, I went with the team to make transport easy on their return home.  12 hour drive for me   from Albury to Guthega around to Jyndabyne and dropoff at Mt Sewlyn.  and for me a drive home via Cabramurra Corryong and home. Photos

Numerous day walks out and about Chiltern and Beechworth.

The North East Towns walks has progressed to Eldorado ( big last day 25km all up with side visits to Tin Mine and Barry Falls.

Mick led a group to Ropers Hut and we left Tony and his sister Jean there,  Neil and I drove in to the Mulhauser Spur Camp and walked up to the Long Spur to meet them and drive home.

Sahso and Tony bewildered in the Budawangs National Park

Oh so many trips to Falls Creek snow fields giving our new snow shoes a good workout.

Some of our very keen hikers tried to rename a mountain to Pain Mountain. (actually a monolith bigger that Uluru and located in the Corryong area).

and the next day ventured to Bluff Falls and onto Campbell lookout, absolutely amazing terrain. and so close to home.

I missed out on an interesting section of the Hume and Hovell Walking Track from Henry Angel track head Tumbarumba.

Several folk ventured on to MacAlister Springs in November and set up their tents in the snow ( it was reported that a certain Range Rover was idled for several hours one morning to keep the humans warm ).

A group went onto Mt Bogong for an overnight camp in March to help the Mt Beauty Lions Club ** great weekend I would say.

Hans has had a large variety of walks into Nail Can Hill, Mt Buffalo, and the Tallangatta Rail Trail to mention a few.. well done Hans.

Must thank our past and present committee for supporting the club.

Now for some more mundane club info-

Emergency Contact Person

Reminder for all members to check and update if required their Emergency Contact person details - this is completed by logging in to the website choosing the Members, My Profile menu path and Edit Your Details. As always contact Tony for help with logging in. Please advise us if you have made a change by email to website.mvb@gmail.com or SMS 0417441137

Emergency Contact Medical Information

Reminder also for all members that its club policy to carry a personal health document when on a club event - very important click the photo of Hans modelling the key tag solution for more info

Jan has a bunch of tags as used by Hans in the photo, email Jan to arrange for some....

Club Assets

The club has acquired a diverse range of equipment as follows and is maintaining a spreadsheet to track the whereabouts of equipment

Spot1 - alert and emergency beacon device
Spot2 - alert and emergency beacon device
GPS - hand held Garmin Etrex 10
Silva Ranger Compasses x 2
Battery Charger and 4 rechargeable batteries for the GPS ( Eneloop Batteries )
Toilet tent and throne
Maps of Murray River - laminated
SnowShoes1 - received a good workout this winter
SnowShoes2
First Aid kit 1 - comprehensive including snake bite bandages
First Aid kit 2 - comprehensive including snake bite bandages
First Aid kit 3 - comprehensive
Dry bag - for canoeing
Mobile phone - for canoeing  04
Throw ropes x2 - for canoeing
One of the first aid kits with a space blanket
Whistles x 2
BBQ kit

What We've Been Up To

Where does one start.....

Most recently

Web:www.bushwalkingvictoria.org.au

Keeping Up to Date with MVB Events via Email

If you go to Blogtrottr.com and copy and paste in the address of our List of Events page which happens to be

http://mvb.org.au/index.php?option=com_rseventspro&view=rseventspro&Itemid=1126

and put in your email address you will be automatically email notified every time a new event is added to the calendar.

Membership

Thanks to those members who have subscribed again - we greatly appreciate your support. The new membership system is working well - you should be notified by email 1 month before expiration, on the actual day your membership expires and another one in the month post membership expiry.

The largest cost we incur is insurance renewal - we had to provide an estimate a few months ago of the number of members we will require insurance for and of course based our estimates on the number of financial members at that time. Members are our life blood. You can help us meet the insurance bill by renewing your membership.

If you are unsure as to when you are financial to you can login to the website and access your profile to find out. If you need help send Tony an email or give him a ring. Please contact Tony if you are experiencing any issues with renewing your membership.

To renew choose the Join, Renew Membership now menu path.

Please note that renewing members should complete and submit an annual acknowledgement of risks form. This only needs to be done once and then this releases you from having to sign a risk form for each event. If you've recently renewed and missed the acknowledgement of risk form you can find it here

Whats On!

Kick Start with Canoeing - the club has some beaut canoe events coming up, apart from our regular Thursday evening session with a BBQ that is being heavily patronized (6 events, 73 paddlers), there is a weekend at Cameron's Bends - Ovens River with Tony , and the Christmas Paddle form Weir Wall down down to Noreuil Park with Sasho.

Just scroll down and take a peek - and of course clink on an event to join.....

Catch you on a club event soon!

regards

Peter Presutti and Tony Marsh

Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc Bulletin #93 August 20 2014

Annual General Meeting done and dusted

Well after a shaky start, ( no Keys to centre ) our agm kicked off with supper first under a bush shelter,  for the serious business of the meeting we adjourned to the veranda of the Hall in sun, some 17 plus members attended and voted in the new committee.

Welcome to new Members, Cheryl MaCarten  And Sasho Dillow as committee Members, Michelle Crofts as Treasurer,  Jan Douglas another term as President, Lin Starke another term as  Secretary. OH and myself PP as Events Coordinator..

Mick Webster's topic will be help over for another event/agm.

You can also access the club rules or constitution here

What We've Been Up To

• The recently acquired snowshoes (courtesy of a funding grant received from Albury City Council) are getting a really good workout still .

• Sasho put on skis again after a 35 year gap and promptly skied 26km - wow I say and congratulations

• The Smollett Street Noodle Trolley (Proper Name Eludes me ) has been getting some patronage lately with Birthday dinners. These are very pleasant social evenings for sure.
• Hans has been busy with Wild Flowers on Nail  can Hill.  another gem for Albury Wodonga. Mostly Hans' walks are on a Tuesday.
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Some recent event photos

Falls Creek and Mt Hotham,

These snow resorts have seen our members enjoing  the Snow,   either on Skies and ( New Ones ) and our new Snow Shoes..

Keeping Up to Date with MVB Events

Lots has been happening as usual! Given that creation of bulletins is just a tad irregular and that many events are posted with short notice here are some tips to stay up to date with whats on offer and whats been going down.

The Event Calendar on the website always contains the most up to date listing of events - if its not on the calendar it doesn't happen! There is a mini calendar on the clubs homepage and a larger version of it available under the Program, Event Calendar menu item

The clubs Flickr website has an extraordinary photo documentation of our events - we are rapidly approaching 6000 photos - photos are ordered by event date and name in albums - here is a list of all photo albums.

All the photos you see on the website and in bulletins are actually stored on Flickr and just easily linked to. What an incredible resource for documenting our activities this is!

The clubs Facebook site - we have 97 Likes and hope to get to the 100 mark before the AGM - members often post photos and commentary live during club events. Its a fantastic way of interacting with our members and friends.

We also have a site on Youtube for posting videos (abseiling at the moment) and our events are also made available on Ecoportal

Membership Renewal

Thanks to those members who have subscribed again - we greatly appreciate your support. The new membership system is working well - you should be notified by email 1 month before expiration, on the actual day your membership expires and another one in the month post membership expiry.

The largest cost we incur is insurance renewal - we had to provide an estimate a few months ago of the number of members we will require insurance for and of course based our estimates on the number of financial members at that time. Members are our life blood. You can help us meet the insurance bill by renewing your membership.

If you are unsure as to when you are financial to you can login to the website and access your profile to find out. If you need help send Tony an email or give him a ring. Please contact Tony if you are experiencing any issues with renewing your membership.

To renew choose the Join, Renew Membership now menu path.

Please note that renewing members should complete and submit an annual acknowledgement of risks form. This only needs to be done once and then this releases you from having to sign a risk form for each event. If you've recently renewed and missed the acknowledgement of risk form you can find it here

Walking the Overland Track in Winter

Still here in case you missed it in last bullitin

Club members Ray and Jill Hancock recently completed the Overland Track - Jill's blog contains lots of photos and great commentary - click here for access to Jill's Winter Walking blog

Whats On!

Sun Aug 31 Baranduda Gully Walk led by Pete Presutti

A fabulous range to explore Baranduda, Tony's play ground,  there are so many gullies to walk up..Neil and myself have walked up most of the ones surrounding the village.  Join in for an interesting walk about 7 km loop

Meeting at 10:15am at the Car Park Baranduda Store

click here to join this event

Sun Sept 7 Flaggys Creek Walk - led by Neil Brown

Click here for more details and to join this event

Sun Sept 14 Along the Ridge - Grade 3 Walk in Chiltern Mt Pilot NP led by Mick Webster

Click here for more details and to join this event

Sun Sept 21  Another leg of the North east Towns Walk  CFA Track to Eldorado led by Peter Presutti - leader Tony Marsh

Click here for more details and to join this event

Sat Oct 18 - Sun Oct 26 Warrumbungles National Park Hans Kaspers

Join us for a week of camping, (or staying in a cabin or motel in Coonabarabran). Plenty of walks available, and plenty of opportunities to sit and do nothing.click here for more details of this event and to book in

Sat Nov 1 - Tues Nov 4 McAlister Springs Car Camp Trevor Potts

A fantastic opportunity to see this incredibly beautiful part of Victoria 

click here for further details and to join this event

November 20 to 30 Great Ocean Walk - Peter Presutti

Note - This walk might get move to late February 2015..

Join in for a great adventure, hiking the Great Ocean Walk ( GOW ) starting at Apollo Bay and finishing at Gibson Steps - this event is currently a backpack but may morph into a car camping week - Peter is happy to talk to anyone interested in how to make this event work for them

Click here for more details of this event
 

Catch you on a club event soon!

regards

Peter Presutti and Tony Marsh