Correspondence, reports and diaries for the University of Queensland Bushwalking Club (UQBWC). This series contains the first annual report from 1950 which records the formation of the club. There are documents, correspondence, and reports relating to the Mt Barney Hut. Two diaries of outings and activities for 1994 and 1995 are present.

Box 1
Folder 1
Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing -- Fourteen letters from 23 Mar 1959 to 18 Jun 1968. Photograph from Orientation Week, 1977.

Folder 2
Annual reports, 1950-1965, (missing 1957, 1958, and 1964).

Folder 3
Presidents Report for 1958, 1964, 1966, 1966-67, 1968. Secretary's Report for 1965-65. Outings Officers Report for 1967. Most are handwritten.

Folder 4
Correspondence, field reports, Mt Barney hut documents, 1953-1970.
Mt Barney hut documents include: Report on the first building trip to Mt Barney to build the hut, 22 to 28 May 1954; 'UQBWC Policy on Huts etc. 1954'; rough drawing of hut elevation and floor plan; Report on hut construction, 12 to 14 Jun 1954; Report on Mt Barney Hut, 21 to 22 May 1955; letter to the secretary of the Brisbane Bushwalking Club updating them on the progress of the Mt. Barney hut, 5 Sep 1955; list of construction requirements; Letters between the Brisbane Bushwalkers Club and the UQBWC regarding the slow progress of construction, 25 Feb 1957, 3 Apr 1957; Progress report by D.S. Dunstan, 14 Apr 1957; Report on building trips to Sharney Shed, May 1958; report on aluminum for the Barney hut, 9 to 10 Aug 1958; letter from the club to the Youth Hostels Association of Queensland regarding repairs to the Hut, 3 Oct 1967; 'A list of Bora Grounds in South-East Queensland' compiled for the Directors of the Bornong Project by Elizabeth N. Marks, 14 Sep 1970

Item 5
Outings and activities diary, 1994

Item 6
Outings and activities diary, 1995

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Correspondence, reports and diaries for the University of Queensland Bushwalking Club (UQBWC). There are thirteen Annual reports, including the the first annual report from 1950 which records the formation of the club. There are documents, correspondence, and reports relating to the Mt Barney Hut that the Club constructed. Two diaries of outings and activies for 1994 and 1995 are present. There is a photograph album of activities of the club from the 1950s, comprising 147 black and white photographs, some yellowing with age, and 4 colour photographs. Most photographs have been pasted onto the pages, with captions.

Circulars, notices, membership forms, handwritten notes, programmes, and related material. Circulars and programmes from 1951-1963 are dated; others have day and month listed only. Activities detailed in these papers include day hikes, camping, slide nights or sessions, rock-climbing, suppers and training sessions on bushwalking and hiking techniques, regular meetings. Rucksacks were purchased by the club and could be hired by members. Regular bushwalking routes and sites included Mount Barney, Stradbroke Island, the Glasshouse Mountains, Enoggera Reservoir in Ferny Grove, Cunningham's Gap, Binna Burra, and Mount Lindsay. Some personal information about the members was shared, such as when members left or returned, or were married. The care and maintenance of Dryden's Hut on Mount Barney also regularly featured.