Peter Woolley Collection The Rucksack Club walk 1947

Peter Woolley sent some amazing photos from a walk in 1947 by his aunt and uncle who were members of the Sydney Rucksack Club.

The Rucksack Club walking party transfer from rail to charabanc, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
View of Cooma Township, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Pounds Creek Hut, from the slope opposite, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection. 
Pounds Creek Hut, currently the sleeping quarters of Illawong Lodge, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Unnamed taking in the vista of Albina Lake, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Grey Mare Hut with yards, this may not be the current building, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Looking over the Kerries Range toward Mt Jagungal, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Mawsons Hut, Mt Jagungal in the distance, 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Tin Hut on the Brassy Range 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.
Alpine Hut, since destroyed by fire, note the ski run on the slope above 1947; Peter Woolley Collection.

Report on Frank & Jack's workparty February 2017

Trevor Clement sent in this report on their recent workparty at Frank & Jack's Hut in Namadgi National Park

Frank and Jack’s hut in Namadgi is only 2.7kms from the Yankee Hat car park and, as such, received a great number of visitors. The hut is in reasonable condition although there are a number of maintenance issues identified at a joint KHA and ACT PCS site visit in late 2016. As the new KHA caretaker I developed a plan to address the maintenance issues in a phased approach.

Aust. Alpine Club: Article on the Kiandra to Kosci. crossing

The Australian Alpine Club have posted some interesting heritage articles on their website including:

Two Tin Huts & a Heroic Snowy Mountain Crossing [takes you to the AAC's webpage]

These mention articles for the Australian Ski Yearbook which KHA has in it's collection.

You can peruse them at the following links:

Australian Ski Yearbook Articles

Australian Ski Yearbook - ACT, Victoria and Tasmanian Articles

Wind damage to Old Currango Homestead - Feb 2017

On Saturday evening, 11th March, a wind storm hit the Currango area bringing down trees & damaging Old Currango.

* Three sheets of iron on northern verandah have completely gone

* Two sheets of iron on north-east corner of verandah have gone exposing old original shingles

* Chimney upright posts have been snapped off at the ground causing the chimney to collapse and making it unsafe.

 Of major concern is three 3 metre lengths of iron have gone to the wind from the main north-west roof over small bedroom, exposing large area of original shingles, a large number of which have unfortunately been lost. The whole main part of the roof including shingles, was also forced up and lifted.