In those days, aspiring scramblers in the state had a choice of just one venue – Moorebank near Liverpool – and its days were numbered. Then Mount Kembla in Wollongong opened and the sport received a much-needed shot in the arm and a major influx of competitors.
Up in the hills west of Sydney, members of the enthusiastic Hawkesbury club, which officially had its headquarters in Richmond at the foot of the mountains, were eyeing a virtually impenetrable area of scrub that could only be reached by a fairly perilous track that wound down to Tootie Creek in a Crown Recreation Reserve. Eventually, a plan was hatched to
