Climies Track and Pieman Heads. October 2018

[taslucas]

Last weekend I got to jump in as passenger to drive the iconic Climies Track.
The track is on the west coast of Tasmania, about halfway down and connects the two tiny shack communities of Trial Harbour and Granville Harbour. The track can be done in either direction and we did it from south to north (Trial to Granville).
Leaving Burnie at 6:00am we made good time and after a couple of short food and refuel stops got to trial at around 9:00am.

The last stop before either Granville or Trial is the town of Zeehan. It's a tiny town but has a supermarket, takeaway shop and two 24hr self serve/card only fuel stations.
The Climies Track is about 17kms long. This took us 6.5hrs going at a leisurely pace with lots of quick stops and a few sections needing spotting.
Vehicles were:
td42t GQ on 35" tyres and 3" lift,
4.5lt petrol 100 series on 35" tyres and 4".
Zd30 GU with 33" tyre and 2"
4lt petrol jeep with I think 32" tyres and 2"
3l td Hilux Dual cab on 32" tyres and small lift.
3l td Hilux Dual Cab twin locked on 32" tyres with 2" lift and 1" body lift (the lead car and my ride).
2.8l aftermaket td Hilux flat tray with 35" tyres and big lift.
And the most surprising was a 2018 bt50 dual cab with 2" lift, rock sliders and Stock factory all terrain tyres.

The track has fairly varied terrain considering its short length and that its a coastal track. It's very rocky with some sections being all solid rock. Lots of washed out gravel sections with deep ruts. There's hill sections and creek crossings where wheel placement is key. There's a few bottomless black bog holes and a pretty bad orange clay bog right at the Granville end.

The weather was good on the day. It had rained on the days leading up to the trip so the bogs were full but the ground was mostly dry. We had one brief shower which made the rocks very slick on one hill climb.

All vehicles made it through easily and we only needed to winch and snatch through one particularly bad bog.
Note that there arent many winching options apart from attaching to another vehicle.

From Granville we continued north to the Pieman River Heads. These tracks are sandy with lots of soft dune sand, beach driving, black bogs (which can mostly be driven around) and some rocky rutted hills.

We got into Pieman Heads around 6:30pm.

Climies is an absolutely awesome track. A definite must do. I'd say the requirements are a decently set up 4wd, a good driver, attention to weather and you'd really want at least two vehicles as there's not a lot of winch options.

Pieman Heads from granville is a very beautiful place and a lot easier drive than climies but it's still a very remote place.

[taslucas]

Pics to come.... Apparently my image files are too big [emoji53]

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[taslucas]

I cannot upload pics from my phone. File size too big. What to do?

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[mudski]

I cannot upload pics from my phone. File size too big. What to do?

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Can you reduce the pic sizes on your phone first?

[MudRunnerTD]

I cannot upload pics from my phone. File size too big. What to do?

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Can you reinstall Tappa mate. i never have an issue uploading from my phone to Tappa. Its the only thing i use and its the Only time i use Tappa is to upload photos.

I use Tappa on an Android and it will let me upload in groups of 9 pics. But i can do 9 + 9 + 9 into a single post though

[Rossco]

This one is in the list 4 sure, can't wait to do it one day and looking forward to the pics.

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[the evil twin]

Easiest way IMHO is to message the pics from the phone to your email... the message app will ask you what file size you want to send

[taslucas]

Can you reinstall Tappa mate. i never have an issue uploading from my phone to Tappa. Its the only thing i use and its the Only time i use Tappa is to upload photos.

I use Tappa on an Android and it will let me upload in groups of 9 pics. But i can do 9 + 9 + 9 into a single post thoughTried that, no good. I think my new phone takes massive pics

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[taslucas]

OK, just emailed to myself (no option to resize either) and still no luck.


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[Rossco]

You trying tappa? I had problems when I tried uploading pics downloaded from slr on my tablet, seemed to work when I attached as an attachment but didn't like it if I chose the gallery option.

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[taslucas]

Trial Harbour rd76673

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[taslucas]

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[taslucas]

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[taslucas]

Granite Creek waterfall crossing (Google it with drone footage) 766857668776688

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[taslucas]

Heading into granville harbour and then north towards the Pieman River 76689766907669176692

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[taslucas]

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[taslucas]

Heading into conical Rocks area 7669876699767007670176702

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[taslucas]

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[MudRunnerTD]

Just Awesome mate.

Can you screen shot a bread trail on google maps or something to show where this is in Tassie.

[taslucas]

Into Pieman River Heads 76706767077670876709767117671276713

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[taslucas]

And back to granville harbour the next day. How good is their sign [emoji38]7671476715767167671776718767197672176722

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[taslucas]

Pink line was day one. Blue line was heading back out on day two.
Climies track is between Trial harbour and Granville Harbour.
Good gravel roads into both trial and granville.
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[Plasnart]

Awesome pics mate, the scenery!

[Rossco]

That is wicked, can't wait to get down there one day. . Looks like 4wd heaven.

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[Cuppa]

Good stuff!
I saw the Climies Track turn off as we drove into Trial Harbour with Tvan attached. MrsTea thought my suggestion that we turn off & take a look was stupidity. In hindsight & looking at your pics she was probably right. Not the sort of track to be tackling solo, let alone towing! That was after we put the wind up ourselves driving the Montezuma Falls track (without Tvan) between Roseberry & Zeehan.

[taslucas]

Yeah probably a wise choice cuppa!
I'm guessing you did Montezuma track down hill? It would be crazy hard uphill in the wet.

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[MudRunnerTD]

Looks SIK!!!!!!!!!

[taslucas]

Looks SIK!!!!!!!!!It was!!! [emoji16]

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[Cuppa]

I'm guessing you did Montezuma track down hill? It would be crazy hard uphill in the wet.



It was certainly wet! Not sure about up or downhill. We had both. Went in from near the Renison Bell mine between Rosebery & Zeehan & came out the same way. Left the Tvan in the mine car park. 14km each way. Parts of it were the hardest 4wd I've done. I reckon we'd still be there if we didn't have the diff lock. I felt the Chris Boden book (4wd tracks in Tasmania 4th edition) we bought on the Spirit was out of date & that the level of difficulty harder than the book said. Problem was that by the time we found that out there was no way to turn back other than at the 10km mark (Junction with Ring Road I think) & at the end.

[taslucas]

It was certainly wet! Not sure about up or downhill. We had both. Went in from near the Renison Bell mine between Rosebery & Zeehan & came out the same way. Left the Tvan in the mine car park. 14km each way. Parts of it were the hardest 4wd I've done. I reckon we'd still be there if we didn't have the diff lock. I felt the Chris Boden book (4wd tracks in Tasmania 4th edition) we bought on the Spirit was out of date & that the level of difficulty harder than the book said. Problem was that by the time we found that out there was no way to turn back other than at the 10km mark (Junction with Ring Road I think) & at the end.Ahh yep, I was talking about the ring river part. That's a lot worse than the Montezuma bit. Chris's book is probably not out of date, i guess just highlights the fact that we're used to wet tracks here and the difference between wet and dry can be huge.

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[taslucas]

And just locked in Mt Huxley track and Montezuma / Ring river in November [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

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[Baby Daddy]

Nice report... if you loced climies you should do lake cumberland track... by far my favourite...

[taslucas]

Yep, cumberland is booked in early next year

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[GU CAMPER]

Hey Lucas. Might have to drop over and say gday one day soon. Living in Sheffield now. Hoping to do a west coast trip soon in the new wagon. Cheers Andy

[Cuppa]

Hey Lucas. Might have to drop over and say gday one day soon. Living in Sheffield now. Hoping to do a west coast trip soon in the new wagon. Cheers Andy

Hi Andy, how long you been in Sheffield. Could have called in to see you if we'd known - went to the steamfest there earlier this year. Especially enjoyed the 'Emporium' shop in town.

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[GU CAMPER]

Hey Cuppa
Only just moved here a few weeks ago
If you are ever down here again drop over
Cheers Andy

[threedogs]

taslucas you're one lucky guy having access to that in your back yard
very lucky indeed. We only have the High country Grrrrr lol
Must get over there one day soon

[taslucas]

Hey Lucas. Might have to drop over and say gday one day soon. Living in Sheffield now. Hoping to do a west coast trip soon in the new wagon. Cheers AndyYeah man too easy. Likewise, I'll let you know next time I'll be over your way!

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