Heels 1976

Conclusion

Conclusion

The equation Equation. DSd describes how charge is developed on a tramper during leatherwood-tramper interaction. It may help trampers avoid some unfortunate side-effects of traversing some hill country.

However, nothing is known of the maximum charges or charge rates or the decay of such charge accumulations. Nevertheless steps are being taken to install charge neutralisers at main road ends, and in strategic locations on the tops, of the Tararuas at least. These will be totally unobtrusive, and obviously more desirable than wholesale destruction of our native and intrinsically beautiful leatherwood areas.

J.R.Keys ( Technical Institute of Tramping Sciences.

Acknowledgements are due to members of Vuwtc for their sometimes willing, sometimes unwilling cooperation in the field; to Mr B.A.Sissons who refereed this work; and to Whatneys Hyperbolical Association for Research in the Realms of Yokels, for financial support.