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Sydney Bush Walkers and Northern Rivers Bushwalking Club become Informally Affiliated

10th Sep 2010

The committees of the SBW and NRBC have recently agreed to form an unofficial affiliation between the two clubs, in order to promote interaction for the mutual benefit of both club's members. The connection allows for cross-promotion of events, walks activities and news between the clubs. For further details of what the affiliation entails, please click to read the following document - SBW and the Northern Rivers Bushwalking Club Informal Affiliation (PDF 74 KB).

Wild Endurance - Amazing Results from SBW-ers

100km Wilderness Endurance Race

Well done to all the amazing SBW participants in the 2010 Wild Endurance event. This event raises money for the Wilderness Society whilst pushing people to their limits.  Here are some results!

100km Teams:

• Clare Holland (Team: iRun) - 3rd team overall and 1st mixed team 16hrs 36min

• Helen MacDonald (Team: Happy Feet) - 5th team overall and 1st female team 19hrs 59min

100km Relay Teams (i.e. 2 x 50km legs):

• Jodie Dixon, Sandra See, Rod Wales, Marcia Kaye, Vivien de Remy de Courcelles, Emmanuelle C.
  (Team: SBW Wild Cats) - 9th overall - 20hrs 7mins.
• Karen Kool, Tony Montgomery, Pam Campbell, Helen Isaac, Claire Harding, Gloria Roberts (Team: SBW Trekkers) - 26th overall - 34hrs 08mins
• Rory Fagan and Andrew Vilder (Team: Wombats) - made great time to half way point at 10hrs 39mins and unfortunately had to pull out.

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.