Rascal Lodge in Jindabyne, New South Wales | Community organisation

Rascal Lodge

Locality: Jindabyne, New South Wales

Phone: +61 499 047 077

Address: 7 Banjo Paterson Crescent 2627 Jindabyne, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.rascal.asn.au

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23.01.2022 This gives you an understanding of the magnitude of the fires.

20.01.2022 The Roof of Australia is open for the Australia Day Long Weekend! Thanks to recent cooler weather and heavy rainfall across much of the region, National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) have announced that hiking access to the Main Range, including Mt Kosciuszko will open from Wednesday 22nd January! This follows the NPWS announcement on Sunday that the Thredbo Valley Track from Thredbo to Gaden Trout Hatchery (TVT) and parts of the Kosciuszko National Park are now open f...or day use as well as numerous lakes, campgrounds and activities within the The Snowy Mountains Region. Please check the latest updates from NPWS and RFS as to what is open / closed and please respect the restrictions that have been put in place. The NPWS announcements have come at a welcome time as The Snowy Mountains gears up for the Australia Day Long Weekend! We ask that you take your time and stop by the towns in our region to support and discover the local businesses that make The Snowy Mountains what they are. You may just find your new favourite cafe or local drop! From tomorrow, Thredbo Resort will be open for full summer operations including the Kosciuszko Express Chairlift with hiking access from Thredbo to Mount Kosciuszko, the Thredbo Mountain Bike Park, the Thredbo Leisure Centre, golf, tennis, bobsled and Thredbo retail and food and beverage venues.

20.01.2022 A new outdoor equipment outlet coming to Canberra worthy of support for its focus on extending the life of equipment.

17.01.2022 RASCAL and Covid-19 The RASCAL committee is monitoring the ongoing status of the COVID-19 pandemic and is working to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our members and their guests. The situation is changing rapidly and the advice and restrictions around how to manage the issue are becoming increasingly strict. While the committee recognises that RASCAL lodge is a year round venue, we may need to provide some restrictions around lodge access to ensure we do not unduly expose ...people to COVID-19 and that we are compliant with whatever restrictions and guidelines are in place at any time. To ensure we are doing the right thing by our members and the people of Jindabyne, the committee has taken the decision to close the lodge to new bookings as of today. We will be reaching out to anyone with a booking in the next 6 weeks to talk through the impact to the booking. Beyond the 6 week period, we will be monitoring the spread of the virus and the advice being provided by the government and will adjust our position in line with the best advice available at the time. Please contact our Office Manager (Lee-Ann Swift) at [email protected] or the President (Colin McLean) at [email protected] or on 0414 146448 if you have any questions about this.

15.01.2022 Four Mile Hut destroyed (apparently) Births and Death Notice Bush Telegraph 9/1/2020 Four Mile Hut (1937 to 2020),... Refuge, Inspiration, Companion, Symbol, Museum, Quiet Place. Dear 4 Mile, We are mourning your loss. You have always been open, welcoming and free You have warmed our hearts, bottoms, fingers and toes You have taken us back to harder, quieter, simpler times You have passed on the spirit of Bob Hughes - miner, skier, hut builder, gentleman You have kept alive important old tools, tales and traditions You have inspired us to wax lyrical, sing you a song and record your life You have sheltered birds, mice, lizards, wombats and people of all ages, sizes and creeds You have given us a quiet space to contemplate and clarify the road ahead You have seen, felt and heard everything but kept your silence and asked for only a few repairs in return. 4 Mile Hut was on 4 Mile Creek, 4 miles from Kiandra, a township also obliterated by recent fires. It was built by Bob Hughes in about 1937, in part from slabs at the Elaine Mine. It was smaller than Henry Thoreau's famous hut at Walden in the US, about the size of a small master bedroom with one four pane window, a wooden floor, a very tall iron chimney and many artefacts and wooden boxes preserved from the past. Its unique, almost iconic feature was hundreds of rusty strips of iron fastened over many cracks with flat head nails and leather washers. After the end of grazing it was used by bushwalkers, ski tourers and occasional horse riders. In recent years it was sought out by people walking from Walhalla in Victoria to Tharwa near Canberra on the 700 km AAWT. The Nordic Ski Club (NSC) have looked after it for the last 30 years after I and others did the first restorations in 1978 and 1981. The club rebuilt the chimney twice, replaced some slabs, restored several posts, kept it spick and span and restocked the wood supply. One of their members, Bob Guy, wrote a superb song about Bob Hughes and a girl called Lilian wrote an evocative poem about the hut. People have scattered sacred ashes there. It survived the big blazes of 1939 and 2003, many small blazes in between, but could not quite dodge the fierce blast of 2020. The hut has featured in books by Pauline Downing, Matthew Higgins, Harry Hill and others including me with Huts of the High Country first published in 1982 and still in print. It has featured in a KHA huts film and in many short videos. I have almost finished a 50,000 word hut life story and now have the difficult emotional task of writing about its fiery end. I felt an urgent call to visit the hut before Xmas and was glad I did. The mountains were cool and green! I believe there are many people who in the fullness of time would like to see it rebuilt and restored as authentically as possible. Please pass on and publish if you see fit. Yours, Klaus Hüneke (spelt the old German way) with friends and extended family

15.01.2022 The terrible fire situation has lead to the closure on KNP

12.01.2022 NPWS staff wrap Valentines Hut, keep up the good work.

07.01.2022 This report just in from NPWS on huts in the wildfires. Huts lost Delaney, Sawyers Rest House, Happy, Brook, Wolgals, Kiandra Court House, Patterson’s, Mathews..., Round mountain, Bradley and O’Brien’s and 4 mile. Broken Dam survived, putting dozer rings around where we can. Will try and wrap Wheelers and Gooandra. There are aerial photos showing Brooks still standing, so we assume that it is severely burnt.

06.01.2022 Kosciuszko A Great National Park A new book on the history of the Snowy Mountains and especially Kosciuszko National Park tells the story of how the park, against the odds, was established and protected for all Australians to enjoy. Kosciuszko: A Great National Park tells the story of land use transformation, from exploitation of the mountains for mining, logging, grazing and tourism developments to a focus on protection and conservation. Authored by conservationist Dr Graeme Worboys and alpine historian Deirdre Slattery the new book examines the history - and the people who made it - of one of the great national parks of Australia, and indeed the world.

03.01.2022 Christmas 2019 at Rascal