In 2014, over 90,000 Victorians participated in Premier’s Active April and enjoyed the benefits that come from increased physical activity. )

Visit the Active April website from the weblink or paste (https://www.activeapril.vic.gov.au/ ).

Register with the team identified as the-regular-walker and up to 9 other teams of your choosing.

Each and every individual that registers for Active April gets a package of Special Offers just for signing up, plus the chance to win some great prizes!

The whole family can enjoy Active April. Check out the Events page for events in your area and start getting active today.

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

Murray Valley Bushwalkers Inc Bulletin #95 Nov 12 2014

A big welcome to our new Committee for  2014-2015 - email them for any assistance you may want

President            -   Jan Douglas president.mvb@gmail.com

Secretary           -   Lin Starke secretary.mvb@gmail.com        

Treasurer          -   Michelle Crofts treasurer.mvb@gmail.com 

Events              -   Peter Presutti events.mvb@gmail.com     

Assist. Events    -   Sasho Dillow sashdow@hotmail.com 

Assets              -   Cheryl McCarten assets.mvb@gmail.com

Welcome to new members

Leaders Meeting Nov 7 Report

You can access minutes of the meeting here. Some of the areas that were discussed included a review of our safety and first aid procedures

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 as well as an article on the website with links to photos and help documents - LINK

Spot1 - alert and emergency beacon device
Spot2 - alert and emergency beacon device
GPS - hand held Garmin Etrex and carry pouch
Compasses x 2
Battery Charger and 4 rechargeable batteries for the GPS
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
Throw ropes x2 - for canoeing
One of the first aid kits with a space blanket
Whistles x 2
BBQ kit

Christmas Party

This year the party will be at Jan's Abode  10 Freyers Road Corowa on Friday evening 19th Dec 2014  - 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

What We've Been Up To

 Where does one start.....

Most recently

Mount Granya Car Camp Day Walk

Mt Granya in a few hours and hot.. followed by a walk along Koetong Creek on Sunday. Only Sasho and Tony ventured on this weekend, and I believe that dinner on Saturday evening was a gourmet extravaganza,  including prawns, trout and baked potatoes.

check out the pics on our Flick Photo Album  (many thousands of photos stored there, now a great asset/resource )  LINK

Hume and Hovell Walking track.

This weekend covered the Henry Angel Track head and the Lake Mannus area.  from the photos I've seen this was really a remarkable weekend,   check out the pics on Flickr.

Photo of Vera crossing Tumbarumba Creek.

Burrowa Pine Mountain National Park

Another great destination,  Jan Tony and Sasho had a grueling walk up to the summit of Pain Mountain,  some interesting history about this Monolith includes that its 1.5 times larger than Uluru.

The following day I joined them for a walk to Bluff Falls and a scramble up to Campbells lookout - oh what a trip..

 Not sure about their firelighting skills   (your'e not supposed to see the fire in the background).

This photo has nothing to do with Burrowa - but how versatile are our members.

Canoeing

Plenty of Canoe Thursdays - 6 already with a total of 73 participants and summer is just starting to get underway, with Pizza to follow and/or BBQ,   truly a great refreshing activity. Thanks to Dave from the Canoe Guy for his support.

An interesting email from Bushwalking Victoria

 Hi everyone

This email is on behalf of our Bushwalking Tacks and Conservation.

Volunteer Track Ranger Program

YOU NEED TO BE QUICK WITH THIS ONE.

Parks Victoria Mt Beauty are running a Volunteer Track Ranger program starting in the coming summer season. This gives volunteers the opportunity to be part of a project in the High Country and to explore remote trails and campsites while helping Parks Victoria during their busy time. 

Volunteer track rangers provide a presence along key hiking and camping areas, mainly on Mount Bogong and Mount Feathertop and possibly on tracks on the Bogong High Plains.

They're looking for people with hiking and camping experience in remote mountainous areas, so good fitness levels are necessary. Volunteers may apply as couples or singles and the main dates are the New Year period, the Labour Day long weekend and Easter.

If anyone would like a volunteer role description or further information, please email iris.curran@parks.vic.gov.au or phone Parks Victoria Mt Beauty office on (03) 5754 4693.

Kind regards

 Patsy Scales

Office Manager

Telephone:  (03) 8846 4131

Email:         admin@bushwalkingvictoria.org.au

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