Vic High Country Trip 15 - 18 May 2015

Hey guys, will be heading to the high country next weekend for a 3 day trip.

Plan will be leaving Friday night around 6pm heading east and campimg around Licola.

From there rough plan will be to head up Dingo hill track, New Caledonia / Butcher Country track, Zeka spur track then head across to Wonnangatta for camp Saturday night. Hitting up some other tracks around Talbotville area aiming towards Dargo and head back to Melbourne monday morning.

Open invitation to anyone that wants to tag along and also to any suggestions for tracks to do in the area or campsites to stay at!

Given the terrain we will be tackling, vehicles we'll need to be well set up, reliable and have winches / recovery equipment etc

Hmm can't mate but if I was free I'd loved to have joined you. Same weekend as pizza night too

No worries mate, yeh I saw the pizza night invitation the other week, but I've had this penciled for a little while now.


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Really good trip that. Done it a number of times.
We normally head up billy goats, then back to licola and home. If your heading towards dargo. Randels track is worth doing.


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Really good trip that. Done it a number of times.
We normally head up billy goats, then back to licola and home. If your heading towards dargo. Randels track is worth doing.


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Thanks for the feedback, I'll check Randell out. I was keen to do billy goats (and still might ) we just didn't like the look of the amount of "main road driving" or retracking , that you had to do to get there and back!

If you head to dargo from wonnangatta you'll drop down onto the wonnangatta road from the Cynthia range. And will pass billy goats on your right a couple of Kay's down
Be a shame to drive past it and not up it. Even if you came back down to continue on to dargo.


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Just check seasonal closures, as some tracks have already closed for the winter.
And we want lots of pics.. Love that area.. Shame I'll be on the couch that weekend.

Would love to mate, haven't done much in the high country and I'm off that weekend, but it my sons birthday and I've got a house full of teenagers. Wanna swap?

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If you head to dargo from wonnangatta you'll drop down onto the wonnangatta road from the Cynthia range. And will pass billy goats on your right a couple of Kay's down
Be a shame to drive past it and not up it. Even if you came back down to continue on to dargo.


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Yep that's true, not sure if we'll head down Cynthia Range to Wonnangatta or stay the northern side of the river and do a bit more around Tallabotivlle area via Tea Tree range or Sarah Spur tk at this stage, but thanks for the feedback!

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Just check seasonal closures, as some tracks have already closed for the winter.
And we want lots of pics.. Love that area.. Shame I'll be on the couch that weekend.

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Will do Kat, Thanks!

This would be so awesome, but way too busy this weekend... And I don't trust my car to head up there. But have fun and as Kat said, photos and videos please to make the rest of us jealous.

Just a couple iPhone photos from the trip away, I'll load some more up later from the PC http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...015/05/179.jpg

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Some great shots there.

Great pics even though they are iPhone pics

Why would you go overseas when we've got this in our backyard.
Nice shots.

Yeah nice looks awesome. Good weather and a sprinkle of snow at howit hut ?

Nice. Almost makes me want to go for a weekend.

That is just awesome !! Jealous is a not adequate enough word....

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Why would you go overseas when we've got this in our backyard.
Nice shots.

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Exactely if those pictures cant sell Australia or Vic nothing will.
As there say in the "Castle" "why would you want to live anywhere else" lol

Wow! Just wow!

Some awesome pics there mate.

A panoramic shot from the look out on top of Billy goats bluff, unfortunately sun wasn't in a great location but will awesome views!

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...015/05/188.jpg


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Yeah nice looks awesome. Good weather and a sprinkle of snow at howit hut ?

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Yeh just the a small bit around the hut only. Most of the snow had melted around the tracks, with little rivers of water running down tracks making things very interesting at times!

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Really good trip that. Done it a number of times.
We normally head up billy goats, then back to licola and home. If your heading towards dargo. Randels track is worth doing.


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Thanks for the info on Randels Track, was definitely worth while - that and Conway Tk (I think) were good fun, with steep climbs and awesome views!

Thanks for all the feedback guys, was definitely a great long weekend away! Most of the tracks were in pretty reasonable condition, making it enjoyable driving with only a few white knuckle moments!

I keep going back and looking at those photos.... Just too stunning.

A couple more photos from the trip that I've finally got loaded to the PC

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Yeh I'm having a few issues loading them from my PC, I normally load straight from iPad / iPhone and don't have any issues

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Nice pic, I like it.

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These are GREAT shots.

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Yeh I don't what the problem is - I'm doing the exact same thing, but only sometimes it works!

Photo 4 - Wonangatta Station Homestead backyard

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Looks like if I load them up individually it works - just very pain fully slow!! And just for the record, no I'm not just trying to bump up my post count haha

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Photo 7 - Billy Goats Bluff

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Photo 8 - Billy Goats Bluff looking back towards Wannangatta I think

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