MVB Bulletin # 46 Nov 27 2012
Baileys on the Murray
The Bailey family has boosted MVB Inc membership by 4 taking our financial membership to 80 the highest its been since we kicked off in July 2011 - three family members enjoyed the paddle last week in great weather and river conditions. Click the photo for more pics of this event.
And the paddle last thursday was filmed by a crew from MediaKing who are promoting outdoor activities in general on the Albury city Council website
Whats On, Nov 27 to Dec 4
Wed 28 Nov Evening Walk Nail Can Hill
This is the second in the series of club activities to be filmed by the MediaKing crew - please join Hans for a Nail Can Hil stroll this Wed afternoon and help promote the club and outdoor recreation.
This is the first evening walk for the summer and hopefully will be followed by many more.
Thursday 29 November After Work Canoe the Murray
This Thursday is going to be HOT HOT HOT!! - what better way to cool off than a relaxing after work paddle full details here - choose the Join link to come on board for this paddle and bbq.
Jan Douglas will be leading the third paddle for the season starting at Doctors point and finishing at Noreuil Park. Meet at the boat ramp at Noreuil Park at 5.30pm. There will be a BBQ afterwards cost $3. Bring a salad to share and enjoy the company of your fellow paddlers after canoeing on the river. If you are coming please let Tony know in plenty of time to organise transport and also iif you are or are not staying for the bbq for catering purposes.
Dec 1-2 Mt McLeod Overnight Hike
Six members will be carrying backpacks and camping overnight at Mt McLeod in the northern extremity of Mt Buffalo National Park - this walk is a preparation for the Tasmania Overland track walk in Feb 2013 and as a lot new gear has been purchased and the weather looks like being challenging we should have something interesting to report in next week's bulletin!
Dec 2 Easy Abseil at the Albury Quarry
Looking for some excitement on a Sunday arvo? then join Neil for a blast at the Albury Quarry - there is a guaranteed adrenalin rush in this really safe and professionally led thrilling activity.
full details here - click the photo to go to Neil's fantastic new website
Upcoming Events
Easy Abseiling at the Albury Quarry on Sunday Dec 9 with Neil Brown
Xmas Easy Walk and BBQ
Join Hans for an after work easy Nail Can Hill walk on Wed Dec 12 followed by a bbq and festivities at Hans place in Albury
Promotion of Club Activities
We have agreed to participate in a couple of photo and video capture sessions during a few club events for the purposes of promoting outdoor activities in general on the Albury city Council website. This is to be conducted by Kylie King from the local media group MediaKing.
At the moment this is planned to occur
- at last thursday's Nov 22 after work canoeing event - completed!
- during an evening walk on Nail Can Hill next Wed 28th November led by Hans
- at an abseil event of Neil's on Dec 2
This is a great opportunity to showcase the club. Please join us on one or more of these activities. If you would prefer not to be in photos or film that's fine we can arrange that. Thanks to Nicole Stephens from the MVB committee for liasing with Kylie King to make this happen.
Since the last Bulletin....
Beechworth Historic Park
This trip started out as a recce for a possible Abseil site at The Precipice and turned into a 7.5 km walk on single and vehicle access tracks in the Beechworth Historic Park - click photo for more pics of this walk.
Lake Kerferd to Lake Sambell Sunday 25 Nov
Five members walked 13.2km from Lake Kerford to Lake Sambell return with a side track to look for Geocaches and the Heaven and Hell tunnels - Irene has been there and amazingly has returned to tell us what its really like! Click above photo for more pics of this great event.
Hans wrote:
"We had a wonderful walk today: 5 people enjoyed the walk from Lake Kerferd to Lake Sambell, where we had lunch with the local geocachers, walked around Lake Sambell and on the way back we visited the "heaven and hell" tunnels. Hell is full of water, and heaven is a rather dark place. Glad to see that nowadays people carry torches on my walks!!!!!
At the "heaven & hell" tunnels, the shorties (Neil, Sonja and Irene) traversed the darkness of heaven, while Chris and I searched for the cache, not easy, because the heavy tree cover played havoc with the GPS, but eventually we found it before the three shorties emerged from heaven! So geocaching didn't interrupt any activity, but kept the non-partakers of the activity occupied (a win-win!)."
Editors note: Great to hear that "shorties " get to go to Heaven after all - but putting Neil, Sonja and Irene in the shorties group .....hmmm where does that leave me!
Next committee meeting will be held in December at a venue and time to suit - more details in the next bulletin but if you have any issues you wish to have addressed contact any of the committee members
Tony Marsh
President
Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc
MVB Bulletin # 45 Nov 20 2012
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Whats On, Nov 20 to Nov 28
Thursday 22 November After work canoe the Murray
Tony will be leading the second paddle for the season starting at Doctors point and finishing at Noreuil Park. Meet at the boat ramp at Noreuil Park at 5.30pm. There will be a BBQ afterwards cost $3. Bring a salad to share and enjoy the company of your fellow paddlers after canoeing on the river.
Sunday 25 Nov Easy Walk and Geocache
Hans is leading an easy walk from Lake Kerferd to Lake Sambell Beechworth with yes you guessed it - some geocaching along the way just so you dont get bored!
Wed 28 Nov Evening Walk Nail Can Hill
Hans is leading an easy Nail Can Hill evening walk and yes once again you can be sure there will be some geocaching along the way. This is the first evening walk for the summer and hopefully will be followed by many more.
Welcome to New Members
The newest member for MVB Inc is Michelle Bailey who with her son joined the first paddling event for this season on Thursday Nov 15. Welcome to the club Michelle.
Promotion of Club Activities
We have agreed to participate in a couple of photo and video capture sessions during a few club events for the purposes of promoting outdoor activities in general on the Albury city Council website. This is to be conducted by Kylie King from the local media group MediaKing.
At the moment this is planned to occur
- at this thursday's Nov 22 after work canoeing event
- during an evening walk on Nail Can Hill next Wed 28th November led by Hans
- at an abseil event of Neil's on Dec 2
This is a great opportunity to showcase the club. Please join us on one or more of these activities. If you would prefer not to be in photos or film that's fine we can arrange that. Thanks to Nicole Stephens from the MVB committee for liasing with Kylie King to make this happen.
Successful Funding Submission
The committee will meet to discuss deployment of the funds we have recently acquired from this submission - for more info see this news blog entry - feel free to add your comments to the blog item and we can consider suggestions. Blogging by the way is a recent feature of the website and is designed to foster and encourage discussion on all aspects of the club. If you are just too busy to make it to a club event to let us know how you feel you can still have your say via commenting on blog entries or starting a new one. When you are logged in to the website the system will fill out your name and email address when you choose to make a comment.
Since the last Bulletin....
Woolshed Falls to Beechworth
This walk on Nov 15 apparently included a reptile encounter - read about it in this blog item
Did you know that the risk of snake bite while bushwalking is really quite low? - yes you do need to be aware of what to have with you and what to do in the event of snake bite but guess what the chances of being in a car accident while driving to and from a bushwalk are much higher than getting bitten by a snake!
Dragon Boat Training
Took place on Nov 18 with Claire Sandford - here is an event report
High Country Rail Trail Geocaching
Parts 3 and 4 were held on Sat 17 Nov - Hans reported that an amazing 30 caches were found by 3 members that day. This takes the total number of caches found so far by Team MVB to 96!
Tony Marsh
President
Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc
MVB Bulletin # 43 Oct 29 2012
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Happenings
Leadership weekend
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October.
Thanks must go to Tracey-Ann Hooley for very informative weekend workshop in leadership, Tracey-Ann a volunteer from Victorian National Parks Association travelled up from Melbourne on saturday morning and met with 12 enthusiastic club members. This is a great way to learn new skills in leadership for bushwalking or in your everyday life, at work etc. I am sure that those who attended can attest to the benefits they gained.
Flinders Ranges
Four members are currently visiting the Flinders Ranges South Australia. A fantastic time is being had by those that are enjoying the many sights that this region has to offer including Wilpena Pound click on the photo below to see where they have been
Koetong State Forest
Iris Joss took 4 members on a delightful walk in the Koetong State Forest on Saturday with many wildflowers and the amazing Lake William all added to the enjoyment and interest of the walk click on the photo below to see a slideshow of the walk.
Emergency Contact Policy
As part of an ongoing assessment and review of safety procedures the committee meeting held Thursday Oct 6th decided to implement a new Emergency Contact procedure. The first part is to ask members to add an appropriate Emergency Contact Person's name and phone number to their membership details.
The easiest way to achieve this is for members to login to the club's website and add the new information to their own profile. If you haven't logged in for a while then you may need to obtain a username/password reminder - this can be done automatically from the Login block on the home page. You can instigate that procedure by choosing the Forgot Login option under login box on the home page
Once you can login with the username and password provided by the system you can add your Emergency Contact Persons info by editing and saving your profile.
You can follow these instructions to achieve this. More details of the new policy will be included in the next bulletin.
Whats On, Oct 29-Nov 5
Mid week walks
Tuesday 30 October.
Peter is running a walk at Nail Can Hill This is a walk to explore a possible Abseil site. Mostly of track with some possible rock scrambling. Meet at the entrance to the Cemetery and Crematorium on the corner of Silk Lane and Jupiter Street in Lavington at 12 noon.
Click on the link to see all the details.
After work Canoeing first for the canoeing season
Thursday 8 November.
The weather looks good at this stage for our first after work Canoeing event. Tony Marsh will be leading the trip down the river starting at Doctors point and finishing at Noreuil Park. Meet at the boat ramp at Noreuil Park at 5.30pm. There will be a BBQ afterwards.
Click on the link to join this event or contact Tony
BBQ will follow the after work canoeing. Bring something to cook on the barbie and some salad and enjoy the company of your fellow paddlers after canoeing on the river.
Click the photo below for Canoeing pics.
Future activities start planning !!
Source of the Murray Dec18-22
Mick Webster is leading a walk to the Cowombat Flat area to visit the headwaters of the Murray or Indi as it is known. This will be a pack carrying event - click here for more details
Backpacking in Tasmania
Backpacking the Overland track in Tasmania- February 19 - 27 - for more details click here or contact Tony.
Photo Collections
Neil has done a great job organising the club's photos on Flickr into Collections of each event type. Click the photo below to go to the Abseiling collection.
If you are interested in learning to Abseil or you already have some experience now is the time to contact Neil to find out more. Click on the MVB Abseilers link for abseiling events and Neil's contact details.
Note to leaders when making changes to activities
If you make a change to your activity eg. change of date or more information etc can you email Hans once you have finalised the changes. Our system automatically unpublishes your activity from the calendar with each change made. A quick email to Hans will see your activity back on the calendar.
Tracey Barkley,
Secretary,
Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc.
MVB Bulletin # 44 Nov 12 2012
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Our club aims to be inclusive of all ages, fitness levels, gender and ethnicity. And as Christmas approaches we dont just get excited about the prospect of festivities but also about the amazing range of activities this club has on offer over summer. If youve been thinking about getting active again now is the time to take the plunge! Come and join us on a fun event soon!
Reminder re Emergency Contact Details request - thanks to those members who have responded to our request - its really not that hard to do - you can follow the instructions at the end of this message - or if that looks too daunting or you get stuck simply phone or email it through to any of the committee members to get your profile updated.
Welcome to New Members
The newest members for MVB Inc are Kim Seaton and Lyn Hayes - they joined Iris Joss's day walk in the Koetong Forest recently.
Successful Funding Submission
MVB have been advised we will receive $1350 from the Federal Government to help defray the costs of volunteers in our organisation - more info in this news blog entry
Since the last Bulletin....
Nail Can Hill exploratory
Dragon Boat Training
On Nov 4 and 11 with Claire
Wild Horse Creek
Nov 10 and 11 Peter and Neil completed an overnight walk out to Kelly Hut, Track 107 and camped overnight at Wild Horse Creek
High Country Rail Trail Geocaching
Hans, Irene and Chris Causevic and Tony on Nov 10/11 completed parts 1 and 2 of the new series of 109 caches by walking from The Stump hotel at Bandiana to Bonegilla last weekend - en route we found about 25 caches.
Timberline Trail Huon Hill
Thursday Nov 8 Neil and Peter pioneered a new route up Huon Hill
Flinders Ranges
Four members completed a 10 day trip in the Flinders Ranges South Australia based at Wilpena Pound
Whats On, Nov 12-Nov 18
Click here for a website summary of upcoming events
Mid week walks
Tuesday 13 November.
Peter is walking from Woolshed Falls to Beechworth
Thursday 15 November
Hans is walking Part 3 of the HCRT series of geocaching
After work Canoeing
Thursday 15 November - full details here
This time we will paddle -we hope! Jan Douglas and Neil Brown will be leading the trip down the river starting at Doctors point and finishing at Noreuil Park. Meet at the boat ramp at Noreuil Park at 5.30pm. There will be a BBQ afterwards.
Click on the link to join this event or contact Tony
BBQ will follow the after work canoeing. Bring something to cook on the barbie and some salad and enjoy the company of your fellow paddlers after canoeing on the river.
Sunday 18 November
Easy abseil
Sunday 18 November - full details here
Click the photo below to go to the Abseiling collection.
If you are interested in learning to Abseil or you already have some experience now is the time to contact Neil to find out more. Click on the MVB Abseilers link for abseiling events and Neil's contact details.
Dragon Boat Training
Sunday 18 November with Claire Sandford
Future activities start planning !!
Mt McLeod Backpack Dec Dec 1-2
Source of the Murray Dec18-22
Mick Webster is leading a walk to the Cowombat Flat area to visit the headwaters of the Murray or Indi as it is known. This will be a pack carrying event - click here for more details
Backpacking in Tasmania
Backpacking the Overland track in Tasmania- February 19 - 27 - for more details click here or contact Tony.
Emergency Contact Policy
As part of an ongoing assessment and review of safety procedures the committee meeting held Thursday Oct 6th decided to implement a new Emergency Contact procedure. The first part is to ask members to add an appropriate Emergency Contact Person's name and phone number to their membership details.
The easiest way to achieve this is for members to login to the club's website and add the new information to their own profile. If you haven't logged in for a while then you may need to obtain a username/password reminder - this can be done automatically from the Login block on the home page. You can instigate that procedure by choosing the Forgot Login option under login box on the home page
Once you can login with the username and password provided by the system you can add your Emergency Contact Persons info by editing and saving your profile.
You can follow these instructions to achieve this. More details of the new policy will be included in the next bulletin.
