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GRW: What's your earliest bushwalking memory?

I grew up in Tumut on the edge of the Snowy Mountains. For years, my father who was a local accountant, would drive the twisting dirt road from Tumut up to Yarrangobilly Caves. It was there, when I was only five, that I really began to experience the glories of the Australian bush – the kangaroos in the bush,

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