Participants: Stamps,
Malcolm, Rick, Craig & Michael as tail-end Charlie
Guests: Daniel
Sunday
26th February
2011
We all met at the car park opposite the Calex service station cnr Uduc rd &
South West hwy ready to set off at 9.15am as planed. Paul welcomed all
members and visitors and carefully explained the planned activities, routes,
convoy and communication procedures.
A short distance down the road we turned off onto the gravel and headed into
the hills, as the road had plenty of corrugations Paul suggested we air down
early to smooth out the ride.
It wasn’t long before we came to our first obstacle a log across the road,
most of the group go around but Daniel decides on a different strategy try
and go over it but unfortunately becomes
wedged on top, Craig was directly behind so he was able to quickly winch
Daniel off the log and back onto the track.
On the last trip in this area Paul had come across a large hill that we were
now heading for one small problem the track we were on was closed to all vehicle so we all turned around to find an alternative route. It took
us about 30mins and we were at the top of a very large hill, half the group
lead by Paul started to walk down the steep track to make a plan for the
decent, when the group came back we all decided that this hill was not worth
the risk today. We managed to turn around making the group in reverse order
so Michael became trip leader with Malcolm giving directions to the next
hill he had marked on his GPS, This was deep rutted track down into the
valley. Once at the bottom we lopped back to rejoin the powerline track a
few kms down we turn off a track to our left just before the next junction
we meet up with Landcruser Club fortunately they were coming in the opposite
direction, once they have passed we head along the fence line adjacent to a
farmers property which we follow back to our lunch spot in a wooded and
shady area.
After lunch we head out the back of this area down a very scratchy track
with loads of over hanging dead tee-trees which leads to a excellent hill
climb, halfway up Ben who is driving Malcolm's car gets bogged and requires
a pull from Craig, apart from this we all manage the climb. Once at the top
we regroup head down the hill past the lunch area and onto a track that
heads back to the main road where we air up at about 2.45pm before heading
home.
Thanks Paul for another good “Lock and Lifted” trip.