5th Jan 2013 Macedon Cruise

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:34 pm

Saturday the 5th of January saw our little cruise go ahead, we happened to have the weather on our side, a cooler day which was great.

We all met up at the location, unfortunately two late scratchings so we had six cars in total: Kustomchris, bathsoap (new member the night before!), Subaruby, Pezimm, Rodeo4Jake and myself.

As usual I neglected to get a group photo at the meet point

So I got half the group on the dry weather only section of Shannon's lane:

Shortly after Shannon's lane we made it into the bush to the start of the bush track. Kustomchris's H6 liberty looking mean:

Subaruby was in his lifted Gen 2 liberty on the first little climb:

Followed by Bathsoap in his impreza that he'll be looking into lifting at some stage:

The group on the seasonal track that follows the Macedon Range westish:

And at the planned destination for lunch - but all we did was talk:

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YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:37 pm

Subaruby got some group shots, once again I missed out - too busy chin wagging!

From here we said goodbye to Kustomchris and Bathsoap. Thanks for coming and making the effort guys! It was great to meet you.

Since the day wasn't over after more talk we headed out to the Memorial Cross:

From here we headed down the southern side of the mountain after scouting out other tracks that were closed. It was a good drive past some fabulous gardens, then onto another area at the base of the mountain that I had forgotten about. I had done some exploring in this area years ago, but I never remember it being this much fun nor having this much variety!

Finally a pic of Pezimm:

We had some good climbs etc. Pic will tell the story, it was great fun anyway!

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YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:45 pm

This climb was particularly interesting. This is Pezimm going down:

And Pezimm on his way up:

It was a good climb, I certainly enjoyed it. These next pics of Subaruby and Rodeo4Jake are from the other side, I think they show you just how steep it was:

Subaruby going down:

Subaruby going up - with the stock liberty 1.19:1 low range - I was impressed!

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YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:46 pm

Rodeo4Jake doing the same thing:

After all this fun (and more!) we headed for a cool one at the local that just re-opened in June 2012 after being closed for about 5 or 6 years!

I know I certainly enjoyed the day and didn't realise just how much I have missed/needed to get out again!

Thanks to those that made it, sorry to those that missed it - we'll have to organise another one

It was also great to meet some new forum members too!

Cheers

Bennie

Rodeo4jake · Post by **Rodeo4jake** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:23 pm

Cool pics Bennie, those ones of the hill climb capture how steep that was well.
If only we had time to do that every day.

Cheers

Kustomchris · Post by **Kustomchris** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:54 pm

Yeah, was a great day out.. Would have loved to stay longer but i had stuff that needed doing.

Cant wait for the next one

pezimm · Post by **pezimm** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:30 pm

It certainly was an excellent day out and it was great to catch up! Thanks El_Freddo for the usual great trip leadership!

I've got my photos on Dropbox, so PM me your email if you want to get access to them...

I will post some on here later on.

Cheers,
Pedro.

pezimm · Post by **pezimm** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:51 pm

The group heading out:

Where we stopped for a quick lunch:

El_Freddo getting to the top of the nice hill:

Once again, very nice to catch-up with old friends and meet new people as well.

Until next time!
Pedro.

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:48 pm

Very disappointed I missed the trip, will HAVE to make the next one!

Great to see some new faces hitting the tracks

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:32 pm

I'm bummed too....
With that hill with stock 1.19:1 low range and you stopped halfway ooh... not good.. but yeah good on you guys..
Cheers
AP

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:25 pm

NachaLuva wrote:Will HAVE to make the next one!

AlpineRaven wrote:I'm bummed too....

Thinking we could do the next one in March after the long weekend. The area I reckon would be somewhere around Trentham/Greendale in the Wombat area. I'm sure Rodeo4Jake and I can organise a good trip offroad for a day

^ Just thinking aloud at the moment, might speak with Venom and see when he'll be down so he can join us too.

Thanks for the feedback - you all know I love taking pics and writing trip reports etc. It's also the same for organising and leading these trips

Cheers

Bennie

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:13 pm

Or perhaps Bunyip? Some mighty fine tracks...even the easy ones are hard lol

Phasmid Tr, Gentle Annie Tr,.... hehehe

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:48 pm

NachaLuva wrote:Or perhaps Bunyip? Some mighty fine tracks...even the easy ones are hard lol

Phasmid Tr, Gentle Annie Tr,.... hehehe

Could do. Did you know there was a fire down there on Wednesday? Phasmid track came up while I was checking out the fire reports and came across the bushfire report.

Cheers

Bennie

hydrowill · Post by **hydrowill** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:20 am

Love the picture of all the subas in a row. Not one of them the same car but all a suby with a purpose

Will defs be there on the next one!