ADVENTURE
Snowy Mountains high
As you sit and listen to 73 year-old Clydie Miller tell stories of the
old days on "Boonoo", your imagination soars with every twist and turn
in his tale.
Story and photos Freda Nicholls
As you sit and listen to 73 year-old Clydie Miller tell stories of the old days on "Boonoo", your imagination soars with every twist and turn in his tale. Bushfires, panicked horses on ice, being trapped by early snow falls, droving sheep and cattle along rough steep tracks into the impressive mountains that now form part of the great Kosciuszko National Park. Stories and tales that only someone like Clydie could have lived through. His ragged tanned face lights up with laughter remembering old ways and old mates, all long since passed, but still there to be savoured in his memory. The memories of a Snowy Mountains man.
"I
left school in April '45, and started work with the Lindley family just
after, goin' up to the mountains that spring." he explains. "I spent a
lotta years in the mountains. And I've worked for the Lindleys for four
generations." he proudly states. Clyde worked over his long career in the
mountains for both the Lindleys and Ruby Cochrane of Yaouk, NSW, whose
uncle Lachlan some claim may have been the inspiration for Banjo Paterson's Man
from Snowy River. 
Full story: OUTBACK Issue 34 April/May 2004
