Towing in the High Country

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MB

As best I remember they built Zeka Track (winding) as a 2wd almost recovery type road and then closed Zeka Creek Track. Severe drop in/out followed by the boggiest overgrown scrub creek line track ever known, Malaysian jungle style!

---

You have my attention!!

The spur track is a boring painful example of wrapping everything in cotton wool. There is one nightmare hairpin and a creek crossing that's short and deep from memory. Melb to Geelong freeway would be more of a challenge to you!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MB

As best I remember they built Zeka Track (winding) as a 2wd almost recovery type road and then closed Zeka Creek Track. Severe drop in/out followed by the boggiest overgrown scrub creek line track ever known, Malaysian jungle style!

---

I remember when you came down Zeka Creek tk and were confronted with a mud track 150m wide with 50 sets of wheel ruts heading across the valley floor for the first 500m. At that stage the Spur track was still tricky but a safer bet than the creek track. It was a total lottery is you picked the right set of ruts as they were all deep and your couldn't climb out of them once committed.

I've got a complete set of CV's for the GQ , have been told with an auto you'll never break one .

I've never heard of the Zeka Creek track, sounds like it was a good one! Wish it was still around by the sounds of it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MB

We were just whippersnappers with the old man but does anyone out there remember the old old Zeka Creek Track ?

---

I did drive the Zeka Spur Track some years ago before Parks graded it. It is a highway now compared to what it used to be. The Zeka Spur Track branches off into the Zeka Creek Track about 2/3 of the way down. Can't remember what that was like.

There were the creek and spur tracks in the mid '80's. The creek track became chewed up from the challenge and preferential traffic, and the spur track was already in as a bypass for management vehicles. Eventually parks closed the creek track and then after the spur track started to degrade, they did a re-alignment to get all traffic off the valley floor - how it is today. the valley has recovered undergrowth wise, but fuel load is way up with the removal of cattle grazing.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by PBBIZ2

There were the creek and spur tracks in the mid '80's. The creek track became chewed up from the challenge and preferential traffic, and the spur track was already in as a bypass for management vehicles. Eventually parks closed the creek track and then after the spur track started to degrade, they did a re-alignment to get all traffic off the valley floor - how it is today. the valley has recovered undergrowth wise, but fuel load is way up with the removal of cattle grazing.

---

Yep - the grass in the Wonnangatta is very high at the moment. There is a lot of regrowth happening - which I suppose is what Parks want. In years to come it will all be wooded. I guess that was how it was before they cleared it for a cattle station.

Here it was gents
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2017/04/50.jpg
Over 600m drop down from its highest point at the Zeka Spur Track junction to the valley floor below on the creek.



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BillsGU

... the High Country is no place for towing.

---

Amen to that.