Srathbogie Ranges Solo Trip Report VIC
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:59 am
It's about time I got around to posting about my last (and first for 2015) offroad trip, this one being my first solo trip in "unknown territory" that's longer than just a day trip.
It started out with packing at home and getting Ruby Scoo sorted for the trip - new gear such a Uniden CB given to me by a good mate Venom and some lights on the rear bar finally! Packing the gear in a different manner took a little longer than expected, plus there were expected storms in the area, this is what we saw from our backyard:
I decided after our later than expected departure time that we would head off after dark and have a bit of a solo night 4wd session - which was totally awesome. We fuelled up at Elmore Shell servo enroute to the Stratbogie Ranges. Start point was the northern end of Lightening Ridge. A few hundred metres up we aired down to about 20psi. There was one particularly challenging section of eroded granitic rock that was a decent amount of fun at that time of night before making camp at 2am - this pic is prior to making camp for the night:
The next day was a bit of exploring - not knowing what sort of tracks to expect, was hoping for some challenging stuff but the majoity of it could've been done in 2wd
This was an impressive boulder covered in moss on Lightening Ridge Tk:
We checked out a lookout on this track but it wasn't as spectacular as anticipated
Following some "old" logging tracks that were very tame (and disappointing) we came across this impressive gum over the road:
In this area we noted quite a number of trees that had been burnt out in two or more directions, creating a large number of tree like this one:
.
It started out with packing at home and getting Ruby Scoo sorted for the trip - new gear such a Uniden CB given to me by a good mate Venom and some lights on the rear bar finally! Packing the gear in a different manner took a little longer than expected, plus there were expected storms in the area, this is what we saw from our backyard:
I decided after our later than expected departure time that we would head off after dark and have a bit of a solo night 4wd session - which was totally awesome. We fuelled up at Elmore Shell servo enroute to the Stratbogie Ranges. Start point was the northern end of Lightening Ridge. A few hundred metres up we aired down to about 20psi. There was one particularly challenging section of eroded granitic rock that was a decent amount of fun at that time of night before making camp at 2am - this pic is prior to making camp for the night:
The next day was a bit of exploring - not knowing what sort of tracks to expect, was hoping for some challenging stuff but the majoity of it could've been done in 2wd
This was an impressive boulder covered in moss on Lightening Ridge Tk:
We checked out a lookout on this track but it wasn't as spectacular as anticipated
Following some "old" logging tracks that were very tame (and disappointing) we came across this impressive gum over the road:
In this area we noted quite a number of trees that had been burnt out in two or more directions, creating a large number of tree like this one:
.