The annual Mountain Journal magazine is in the final stages of editing and hopefully will be out in time for the snow gum summit, which will happen in March in Jindabyne. Then we will start distributing it across mountain and valley towns between Melbourne and Canberra.

We are stoked by the articles and images that have been contributed. The theme is ‘the mountains are changing, are we ready?’ (details here). We are covering the good and the bad, the environmental, cultural and political changes.

There are stories from many well known mountain folks, including Bridie Lawson, Caro Ryan,  Darren Edwards, Dave Herring, Elyse Kochman, Grant Dixon, James McCormack, Jean-François Rupp, Kelly van den Berg, Lily Begg, Linda Groom, Mick Webster, Pauline Dowling, Peter Campbell, Rolf Schonfeld, Sam Beaver and Stephen Whiteside.

This is one last appeal to see if anyone is willing to assist us in printing the magazine.

The journal is a volunteer effort. But we need $5,000 to print the 1,000 copies we produce and distribute for free.

This year we haven’t been able to find a business interested in assisting with the print run costs, so we are going back out to the mountain loving community to see if anyone out there can help.

You can support the project here. You could become a ‘friend of MJ’ for $20 or contribute any amount you can afford.

Any funds received will go only into production. If we get more than the required $5,000 we will increase the print run accordingly.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any good ideas about possible funding sources for a grassroots, community-orientated magazine like MJ. Thanks!

Cam.walker@foe.org.au