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The History of UQMC by Subject

The UQBWC, UQRCC and UQMC history is very rich and has many trips documented in so many magazines! But what is you are looking for a specific topic, for example the Barney Hut or trips to other countries? It might be hard to spit through all the documents.

Luckily we made it easy for you! You can now search by subject, country and location. You will be able to see all the topics and a glance :)

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Australia

Overseas

General

Australia

Mount Barney

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
The Hut	The history of the Barney Hut	A. Rosser	Volume 1, Page 2
	Architecture of the Barney Hut	E. Tesche	Volume 2, Page 8
	The Epitaph of a Hut	D. McPhee	Volume 3, Page 13
	Masochists, Sadists, etc.	R. Reiser	Volume 7, Page 5
	The Hut Continued	B. Baker	Volume 7, Page 16
	Homeland	E. Tesche	Volume 7, Page 34
Trips	The Impossible Trip, Easter 1960	J. Hutton	Volume 2, Page 6
	Eagles Ridge at Night	W. Bolton	Volume 2, Page 38
	A Weekend on Mt. Barney	R. Cox	Volume 3, Page 61
	*Mt. Barney – for the Aristocrats	J. Minter	Volume 4, Page 24 (Reprint Volume 9, Page 4)
	Climbing with Cox	K. Warner	Volume 5, Page 62
	Mt. Barney Legend	D. Klingner	Volume 5, Page 64
	A Long Abseil	G. Hardy	Volume 5, Page 69
	The Barney Peaks in a Day	T. Cassidy	Volume 6, Page 54
	*First Ascent of East Wall – Mt. Barney	J. Tillack	Volume 9, Page 2
	*Mt. Ballow	R. O’Donnell	Volume 9, Page 10
Mt. Barney Misc.	Dairy Store	A. Rosser	Volume 3, Page 22
	The Barney Worshippers	Anon.	Volume 4, Page 50
	Written on a Trip	R. Timmins	Volume 5, Page 35
	Navigation with Don. Lost in the Bush	A. Brooks	Volume 5, Page 67
	A Letter to U.Q.B.W.C.	J. Hutton	Volume 6, Page 12
	Incident on Eagles	R. O’Donnell	Volume 6, Page 57
	Through the Looking-Glass	R. O’Donnell	Volume 7, Page 27
	Three Plus One	D. Cooksley	Volume 9

Border Ranges

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Border Ranges	A Tour of the New England District 1958	J. Carter	Volume 1, Page 15
	Lamington Nat. Pk. Black Canyon Feb. 1959	K. Scott	Volume 1, Page 27
	The Ascent of Vidler’s Chimney	J. Stephenson	Volume 1, Page 28
	My Most Unforgettable Trip	D. Abraham	Volume 4, Page 20
	Extract from a Letter	W. Cameron	Volume 4, Page 39
	Stay, Stay Brief Tourch	B. Baker	Volume 4, Page 44
	*The Land of Waterfalls	J. Hutton	Volume 5, Page 29
	*Springbrook	T. Vollben	Volume 6, Page 62
	Tweed Ranges, a Scungy Trip	K. Taylor	Volume 7, Page 45
	The Widgee Trip	K. Grimes	Volume 7, Page 93
	A Trip to Pt. Lookout and the Stinson	J. Eberhardt	Volume 8, Page 11
	Somewhat I Wander	K. Taylor	Volume 8, Page 21
	*South Running Creek	N. Kelk	Volume 9
	Stinson Revisited	M. Shield	Volume 9

Main Range (and District)

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Main Range (and District)	Easter Through walk 1959	P. Reimann	Volume 1, Page 7
	The Impossible Trip Easter 1960	J. Hutton	Volume 2, Page 6
	Swan Ck. – Cunningham’s Gap	P. Reimann	Volume 2, Page 19
	My First Throughwalk Easter 1961	B. Madsen	Volume 3, Page 31
	Stretcher Patient	N. Eberhardt	Volume 4, Page 18
	Emu Ck. to Cunningham’s Gap	R. Timmins	Volume 4, Page 37
	First Ascents of The Steamers 1950	R. Waring	Volume 5, Page 3
	*The Main Range	J. Hutton	Volume 5, Page 7
	Trip to Condamine Gorge	D. Hitchcock	Volume 6, Page 69
	Along with Main Range with a Maniac	R. Prentice	Volume 7, Page 73

Red Rock Gorge

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Red Rock Gorge	*Red Rock Gorge	K. Grimes	Volume 6, Page 65

Scenic Rim

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Scenic Rim	*A Walk Along the Scenic Rim	B. Anderson	Volume 3, Page 27
	*Highlights of the Border Ranges	J. Steele	Volume 6, Page 73

Wyberba

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Wyberba	*Wyberba, the Granite Country	S. Tucker	Volume 8, Page 3

Boonoo Boonoo

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Boonoo Boonoo	Bookookooara, Wallaroo, Boonoo, etc.	W. Wilmott	Volume 6, Page 30
	*Bookookooara, Boonoo Boonoo Area	W. Wilmott	Volume 7, Page 8

Nimben

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Nimben	The Nimben Peaks	G. Goadby	Volume 5, Page 38

Nandewar

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Nandewar	*The Nandewar Ranges	D. Townsend	Volume 8, Page 68

Auburn Gorge

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Auburn Gorge	Auburn Gorge	H. Kershaw	Volume 9, Page 55

Glass House Mountains

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Glass House Mountains	East Crookneck	P. Conaghan	Volume 2, Page 24
	Those Strange Peaks	G. Baines	Volume 2, Page 41
	Antics in Etriera	G. Grigg	Volume 3, Page 39
	Some Less Frequently Tried Scrambles	A. Frost	Volume 6, Page 49
	The Initiation of a Kiwi – Glasshouses	A. Robinson	Volume 6, Page 52
	Climbing with Conaghan	E. Cais	Volume 7, Page 20
	Early Ascents of the Glasshouses	F. Whitehouse	Volume 8, Page 72

Many Peaks

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Many Peaks	*The Many Peans Range	T. Brown	Volume 5, Page 56
	*The U.Q.B.W.C. 1966 Trip	R. O’Donnell	Volume 8, Page 56

Eungella

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Eungella	*Eungella National Park	M. Brooks	Volume 9

Coalstoun Lakes

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Coalstoun Lakes	Coalsstoun Lakes – Mt. Walsh	K. Warner	Volume 4, Page 5

D’Aguilars

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
D’Aguilars	The Ugly D’Aguilars	I. Crellin	Volume 8, Page 49

Conondale Ras.

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Conondale Ras.	Neglected Northern Hinterland	I. Crellin	Volume 9
	Booloumba Creek	D. Townsend	Volume 9

Carnarvon Gorge

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Carnarvon Gorge	Why Go South?	D. Clague	Volume 3, Page 10
	The Carnarvon Ranges	N. Eberhardt	Volume 5, Page 24
	Wonderful Carnarvons	M. Moses	Volume 6, Page 20
	Carnarvon National Park	J. Siemon	Volume 6, Page 21
	Carnarvon Creek Gorge	R. O’Donnell	Volume 6, Page 23
	Aboriginal Art of the Carnarvon Gorge	R. O’Donnell	Volume 6, Page 25
	*Sandy Creek	J. Siemon	Volume 7, Page 70
	*A Return to the Carnarvons	G. West	Volume 7, Page 110
	Carnarvons Revisited	M. Moses	Volume 8, Page 40

Salvator Rosa

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Salvator Rosa	*Salvator Rosa	M. Shephard and S. Curtis	Volume 7, Page 97
	*Sandstone Gorges	K. Grimes	Volume 9

Galah Gorge

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Galah Gorge	Galah Gorge, Hughenden	J. Milne	Volume 9

Fraser Island

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Fraser Island	Fraser Island	D. Straker	Volume 8, Page 26
	Fraser Revisited	N. Gough	Volume 9, Page 52

Hinchinbrook Island

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Hinchinbrook Island	Hinchinbrook Island	J. Comino	Volume 1, Page 24
	Hinchinbrook Island January 1960	K. Scott	Volume 2, Page 2
	*Hinchinbrooks Island, 1953	G. Broadbent	Volume 6, Page 2
	A Banksian Throughwalk	A. Rosser	Volume 6, Page 6

Cape York

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Cape York	*The McIlwraith Ranges of Cape York Peninsula	W. Wilmott	Volume 9, Page 72

Centralia

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Centralia	The Birdsville Track	A. Rosser	Volume 5, Page 50
	Central Australian Expedition	D. McPhee	Volume 4, Page 30

Snowy Mountains

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Snowy Mountains	The Snowy Mountains for Summer Bushwalking	N. Stevens	Volume 2, Page 35
	Kosciusko in Winter	J. Elliot	Volume 3, Page 19
	To Australia’s Highest Hill	N. Eberhardt	Volume 6, Page 44

South Australia

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
South Australia	South Australia’s Flinders Ranges	K. Harrison	Volume 9, Page 76

Tasmania

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Tasmania	Why Tasmania?	R. Ewer	Volume 2, Page 14
	South West Tasmania	B. Davis	Volume 2, Page 29
	The U.Q.B.W.C. Winter Expedition to Tasmania	R. Cox	Volume 3, Page 34
	*Geryon Traverse	P. Conaghan	Volume 3, Page 43
	*Traversing the Western Arthurs.	P. Conaghan	Volume 4, Page 8
	South West A – Heybob	G. Grigg	Volume 4, Page 41
	Dawn – and the Time Before	P. Conaghan	Volume 5, Page 46
	A Fair Land	J. Siemon	Volume 7, Page 24
	A Bushwalker’s Paradise – Please go South	R. Leavy	Volume 7, Page 50
	Federation Peak – Do it Yourself	J. Holmes	Volume 8, Page 18
	*S.W. Tasmania – Port Davey to Macquarie Harbour	E. Wright	Volume 9, Page 78

Overseas

New Zealand

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
New Zealand	Boswell’s Holiday Camp	G. Hardey	Volume 3, Page 41
	HEIL Die Alpen!!!	M. Rich	Volume 3, Page 50
	Mt. Aspiring in a Weekend	B. Smith	Volume 4, Page 15
	Tutoko	B. Yule	Volume 4, Page 46
	Mt. Aspiring	G. Grigg	Volume 6, Page 32
	*Hitchhiking Around New Zealand	R. O’Donnell	Volume 9
	*Milford Track Expose	C. Brown	Volume 9
	Climbing in New Zealand	C. Murray and J. Holmes	Volume 9

Antarctica

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Antarctica	*Antarctic in Summer	B. Smith	Volume 3, Page 17
	*Snow Cave	J. Stephenson	Volume 5, Page 15
	*Sledging Journey, Amundsen Bay to Mawson	I. McLoad	Volume 7, Page 38
	*V.U.W.A.E.	T. Haskell	Volume 7, Page 106

Papua, New Guinea

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Papua, New Guinea	Climbing Mt. Wilhelm	M. Pemberton	Volume 5, Page 41
	Papua and New Guinea	R. Smith	Volume 8, Page 35

France

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
France	A Fortnight in Chamonix	M. Pemberton	Volume 5, Page 41
	Some Letters from R.T. Cox		Volume 6, Page 34
	*More Stories from Ron Cox – Adventures in the French Alps		Volume 7, Page 77

Other

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Other	A Welsh Weekend	P. Reimann	Volume 3, Page 6
	On Mountains and Men (Himalayas)	D. Clague	Volume 4, Page 16
	Switzerland	P. Reimann	Volume 6, Page 40
	*Backpacking in the High Sierra (U.S.A.)	J. Steele	Volume 8, Page 8
	Mr. Sir Donald and Other Places (Canada)	R. Waring	Volume 8, Page 44
	The Drakensberg: A Brief Description (S. Africa)	J. Hirsch	Volume 9

General

Technical

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Technical	Artificial Climbing	R. Cox	Volume 2, Page 23
	Edible Plants in the Rain Forest	D. Herbert	Volume 3, Page 48
	Food for Bushwalkers	F. Hutton	Volume 3, Page 57
	First Aid	B. Baker	Volume 6, Page 59
	Cold Climate Research in Clothing and Survival	I. Crellin	Volume 7, Page 57
	So! You want to be a Bushwalker	R. Timmins	Volume 8, Page 23
	Boots and Billies	A. Hardy	Volume 8, Page 42

Philosophical

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Philosophical	A Letter to the Editor	R. Cox	Volume 1, Page 10
	Trips that Failed	K. Scott	Volume 1, Page 11
	A Tribute to Queensland	K. Scott	Volume 3, Page 26
	On Mountains and Men	D. Clague	Volume 4, Page 16
	The Club	D. Potts	Volume 5, Page 2
	On Liberty	B. Baker	Volume 5, Page 22
	On Leaders	C. Curtis	Volume 5, Page 27
	Of Other things	D. Clague	Volume 5, Page 74
	Bushwalking and Life	R. Leavy	Volume 6, Page 77
	It Can’t Happen Here	E. Hergerl	Volume 7, Page 32
	Help!	J. Siemon	Volume 8, Page 2
	Why do you Bushwalk?	K. Grimes and P. Hayden	Volume 8, Page 30
	Our Heritage	N. Kelk	Volume 8, Page 48
	On the Graded Track	G. Tweedale	Volume 9, Page 19
	Fear	S. O’Donnell	Volume 9, Page 94

Poets

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Poets	Conn’s Plains	K. Scott	Volume 1, Page 22
	Envoi	K. Warner	Volume 2, Page 35
	Rainforest in North Queensland	E. Bernays	Volume 4, Page 14
	Elergy Written on the Kidney Lawn	A. Brooks	Volume 4, Page 37
	Rain Forest	L. Harrison	Volume 4, Page 40
	A Night on Battleship Spur	P. Leask	Volume 7, Page 55
	From Castletower	C. Brown	Volume 8, Page 7
	The Party	P. Leask	Volume 8, Page 34
	A Bushwalker’s Song	G. West	Volume 8, Page 51
	Antarctic Beech	M. Meadows	Volume 9, Page 23

Speleology

Section and subsection	Title	Author	Magazine Volume
Speleology	Into a Sunless Land	D. McPhee	Volume 2, Page 21
	The Chillagoe Limestone Caves	K. Harrison	Volume 6, Page 44
	*Conservation of Caves at Mt. Etna	M. Graham	Volume 6, Page 65
	Conservation of Caves, Mt. Etna, C. Queensland	R. Headland	Volume 9, Part 87
	First Descent of “Piglet Help! Help!”, Mt. Etna	P. Caffyn	Volume 9, Part 91