Our little furry friend (at left)first appeared on YHA Bushwalking's program sometime in the seventies and was drawn by Ken McInnes, the then chairman of YHA Melbourne Regional Group. Around this time the MRG (the forerunners to Bushwalking) were looking to promote the activities through display posters and the like. One prominent display was at Flinders Street Station in a glass-fronted display cabinet. At the same time a change in the printing of the program took place from a spirit printer to offset printing which made the inclusion of graphics and fancy letterheads (using letraset) much easier to reproduce. It was decided that a logo was needed and Ken drew a furry figure which was an adaptation of the British cartoon Maximillian (at right) then published in Penguin books. Yeti was eventually drawn on to a stencil to which extra parts like a camera, skiis, ice axe could be added or removed. The name Yeti was suggested after he was drawn and Ken to this day uses a similar Yeti as his personal logo.