The Bush Club is an Australian
bushwalking
A hike is a long, vigorous walking, walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century. Long hikes as part of a religious pilgrimage have existed for a much longer tim ...
club founded in 1939 in
Sydney
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,
New South Wales
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, Australia.
History
The club was founded by
Marie Byles
Marie Beuzeville Byles (8 April 1900 – 21 November 1979) was an Australian conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales (NSW), mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker, feminist, journalist, and an ori ...
and
Paddy Pallin
Frank Austin "Paddy" Pallin (1900 – 3 January 1991) was an Australian pioneer bushwalking and camping equipment retailer. He is best known for the ''Paddy Pallin'' chain of outdoors equipment stores he founded and as a founding member of th ...
in 1939.
The club differed from others because it did not organise walks that took more than a day. These walks which did not involve overnight camping meant that recent European immigrants could join in, even though some of them needed to report to the authorities each day.
See also
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Sydney Bush Walkers Club
The Sydney Bush Walkers Club is a bushwalking club in Australia.
Formed in 1927 by Myles Dunphy at the behest of the Mountain Trails Club, the group was originally called the Waratah Walking Club, but was renamed early on. Unlike its predecesso ...
*
Caloola Club
The Caloola Club was a bushwalking and outdoors activity club that was based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, founded in 1945 and active until 1963, when it merged with the National Parks Association of N.S.W. The club was an influential part ...
References
Sources
* {{Cite web, url=https://www.latrobe.edu.au/education/downloads/2009_conference_slattery.pdf, title=Bushwalking and access: Byles, Dunphy and the Kosciusko Primitive Area debate 1943-6, last=Slattery, first=Deirdre, date=15-18 April 2009, website=, publisher=La Trobe University - Fourth International Outdoor Education Research Conference, pages=5, 6, archive-url=, archive-date=, access-date=
External links
Bush Club website
1939 establishments in Australia
Sports clubs and teams established in 1939
Sports organizations established in 1939
Hiking organisations in Australia