News Archive
Annual K to K in a day - records broken!
Sunday 5th saw an intrepid group of 14 leave Kanangra Walls at 6am,
waved off by their support crew. Their numbers grew to 15 when they
were joined by Ken S at the Coxs River (after he started at 2.30am from
Leura!). This makes Ken's 15th K2K, with David T completing his 14th.
In the group there were 9 K2K virgins who put in a great effort. 9 of
the group came in under 12 hrs and everyone was home by 12hrs40min. It
was lovely to see old friends Tony and Gail C at the gate to welcome
the walkers at Narrowneck gate and the support girls reported the
mountain bikes as a much more enjoyable way to see Narrowneck. Awesome
effort for Simon and Clare who finished in 10hrs45min. We think that
makes Clare's time a women's record that will stand for some time.
Check out the photo gallery,
not that they had much time to stop and take a photos! They were on
their feet for the entire time and only off them for 1 x 10min break at
the top of Yellow Dog.
Annual 6 Foot Track in a day - success!
The 22nd running of this trip was very successful this year. On
22nd August, we had 14 walkers including 6 Prospective Members. All
performed well on this 45 km walk with 1000 metres of climbing. Skye
O'Donnell supported us and met us at 3 places on the track with extra
drinks and food. The weather was perfect and everybody arrived at
Caves House between 5 and 6 PM. At Caves House all enjoyed the
traditional wine and cheese on arrival, the 3 course dinner in the
Grand Dining Room, a good sleep, breakfast in the Grand Dining Room and
all returned to Katoomba on a hired bus on Sunday. Check out the Photo Gallery
Lake Macquarie Rogaine
Congratulations to Vivien de Remy Coucelles and Emmanuelle Convert.
They accumulated 950 points for 26th place in the 12 hour event.
Oxfam Trailwalker Sydney 2009
Congratulations Clare Holland (Team: Striders Green Goddesses) on coming in 18th place in 16h 57m (1st Womens team overall) and to Helen MacDonald and Mary Hosford (Team: Tight Tushies)
home in 23h 31m. Well done! It's not too late to sponsor them either
- just follow the links to donate to the great work of Oxfam here and
overseas.
Also members Sue Bucknell, Caro Ryan, Mark Dabbs, Rob Barrie, David
MacIntosh, Skye O'Donnell and Ian Thorpe were also involved as support
crew with Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue Squad, who provide teams of people to help with track support, first aid and retrieval of injured walkers.