Powerline Track Sawyers Valley

When: 28th November 2010

Location: Sawyers Valley WA

Participants:

We arrived at the Sawyers Valley Hotel for a 9am start and the trip leader (Paul) gathered everyone around for a quick chat. A very short time into the trip we all stopped to put our tyres down (about a dozen cars in attendance). We were travelling along the power line track and got to the first real obstacle of the day, some deep ruts, when tail-end Charlie (Pat) got stuck going over the first bump in the ground. It was a fairly busy day on the track and there were immediately cars behind us waiting to pass us, one of them kindly pulled Pat backwards and then headed around and between our convoy to catch up with his friends.
It didn’t seem like we had gone very far when Piers got hooked up on a rock and held up the track for a while. Some manoeuvrings and guidance from the rest of the convoy and he was free and we were off again. We got to a steep hill and Paul made it up, but most others either didn’t try or didn’t make it! It was decided at this point to forgo morning tea and proceed along the track (which was fairly slow going, due to heavy traffic and lots of diversions to explore). 

Shortly after this we drove past a pit of cars, some stupendously stuck, but we proceeded past them as there was already a huge number of cars and helpers and ropes and spectators. 
Paul found an odd angle in a “little” rut which could easily have been bypassed, but why bypass a perfectly good opportunity to test out the car’s capabilities??   Just to be sure it really was an odd angle, Pat proceeded through as well.
The rest of the convoy found an alternate path.
We found a nice spot under the trees for lunch, had to sit in a few groupings so that everyone had shade but it was very pleasant. Lewis and John played some nice background music on the guitar while the rest of us ate.