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Who can join?
Any one over 50 can join ARPA and can be a member of the ARPA Bushwalkers group.
ARPA Bushwalkers is part of ARPA (SA) Inc and is therefore only available to members of ARPA. Visitors are always welcome. You can come on two or three walks to find out what a friendly bunch we are and try the different grades. (Please don't start with an A grade walk!) If you decide to walk regularly with the Bushwalkers, you are expected to join both ARPA and the Bushwalking Group. ARPA Bushwalkers brings together over five hundred members who are walkers and lovers of the natural environment. Activities are arranged by a convener and a committee elected at the Group's AGM. A Bushwalkers' registration fee is payable on joining and is thereafter due on the January 1 each year. Download a membership form by clicking here. (Word doc)
Details of membership of ARPA can be obtained from the ARPA office at Level 5, 23 Leigh Street, Adelaide, South Australia, telephone 08 8211 9711; fax: 08 8211 9244.
The Australian Retired Persons Association (SA) Inc. was established in 1981 for the purpose of offering people aged over fifty a broad spectrum of information, learning, leisure facilities and many other services.
ARPA is a non profit, voluntary organisation with current active membership of over four thousand.
Talking Walking - A history of the ARPA Bushwalkers
The book was launched at the April Get-together. We hope it will bring back many happy ARPA memories and tell you something of the early days of our club. Each copy of the book costs $28 to produce. It would have cost far more without the hard work and skill of the book committee. The price to you is $20, because of generous donations from members and from the ARPA Bushwalkers’ Committee. Dorothy gave an especially generous bequest on behalf of her late husband, Albert, who was actively involved with the club and was the first Webmaster.
We hope that members will use the book to help raise the profile of the ARPA Bushwalkers, of bushwalking and of walking trails. You might even consider buying a spare copy to lend to friends who might join, to your local doctor, to the librarian at your local library, or to the local council when you are asking them to build more walking trails or fix existing ones.
Catering for a range of
fitness levels
There are four grades of day walks: D - duration of about 2 hours; C - duration of 3-4 hours; B - duration of 4-5 hours; A duration of 5-6 hours. Around 4-6 walks per month, per grade are led by volunteer leaders who plan and conduct the walk.
Bushwalking camps
ARPA
Bushwalkers holds a range of low cost camps each year. Members go to
caravan parks, residential camps, ski lodges or other
suitable accommodation and, for periods of six to seven days, go on day
walks.
Walking is supported by a social program.
Camps for 2008 included New Zealand, the Great Ocean Walk, Lamington
National Park, Mannum and Clare. In 2009 camps were held at Melrose,
Point Turton, the Great Dividing Trail and on the Bibbulmun Track in
Western Australia. A list of camps for 2010 can be found on the camps
page. Just
over 100 members have walked the 1200 km Heysen Trail from Cape Jervis
to Terrapina Waterhole in South Australia, over 70 the Great South West
Walk in
Victoria and seven the Hume and Hovell Track in New South Wales. Other
groups
have walked in Western Australia on the Bibbulmun and Cape to Cape
Tracks, on
the Larapinta Trail in Northern Territory and on a variety of trails in
NZ and
Tasmania. Keeping
in touch A
Bushwalking Newsletter is published quarterly in January, April, July and
October. The Newsletter is mailed to financial members. The program of
activities is published in the Newsletter, together with other topical
information and articles. The program shows the date, time and grade of the
walk, the leader, the area and the meeting place. ARPA
Bushwalkers is one of over twenty Walking Clubs affiliated to the Federation
of SA Walking Clubs (Walking SA). Our members are also involved in the
maintenance and upkeep on National and Conservation Parks and Walking Trails.
You
can contact us by calling:
John on 8398
3717 or send an email
Lorraine on 8278 6623 or
send an email