Mountain Trails Club (New South Wales) Explained

The Mountain Trails Club of New South Wales was an Australian conservation and bushwalking group.

The club was founded in 1914 by Myles Dunphy, Roy Rudder and Herbert Gallop^[1] Membership was by invitation only, and women were not permitted to join; the club espoused "a doctrine [of] manly and wholesome recreation".^{[1] [2]} The Mountain Trails Club's work resulted in the formation of other bushwalking groups, such as the Sydney Bush Walkers Club, also founded by Dunphy.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: John Dargavel. Fashioning Australia's Forests. 1995. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-553526-6. 75.
2. Book: C. Michael Hall. Stephen J. Page. The Geography of Tourism and Recreation: Environment, Place and Space. 9 May 2014. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-04156-4. 124–.
3. Book: Drew Hutton. Libby Connors. History of the Australian Environment Movement. 13 April 1999. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-45686-9. 66–.