Thought you were staying till this morn??????Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
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Thought you were staying till this morn??????Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
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Left early ? So say it was a successful recci run?
We would have had to leave at 7am and it's only 2 hours to home so just drove home. Great trip!
Deep Creek 4 is in my top 3 hardest tracks, Deep Creek 1 is the coolest track I've done. We liked it so much we did it twice.
Can't wait for next timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
These photos were taken from the bottom of trig track, awesome campsite!
How's dc4 compare to brewery when we done it at Xmas or Barclay river Jeep track?
Glad it was a good trip shame I just couldn't stretch this one. Hopefully next time
Not quite as hard as brewery, not as technical but just as steep with some big steps.Quote:
Originally Posted by matfew
We also did trig track which was a lot of fun! Except for Steve who drove the fire truck with no power steering.
Had a smashing time yesterday great tracks great weather great friends and catching up with cameron
from ballerat thanks to rossco ,cameron,steve for your help this morning had a dream run home this arvo
lost about a billy full of water on the way home the little 4potter never missed a beat never got hot purred
like a kitten all the way
@rossco the more i think of it yep the shocks are furberd to soft
@winnie where going to do it again mate
as for rest of you will have to wait to see what happens on track 4
Roofy you are a devil :) . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by roofy
Just got home, thanks everyone for a great weekend, great company, great weather great camp spot and fire. Some awesome tracks, some challenging sections to say the least. Deep ck tracks were pretty cool, finally made it there. Definatly have fuel pump issues after driving back, better look into it soon. . . I'll chuck some photos up shortly.
Sounds like a good weekend.
Thanks to Winnie for being a great trip leader,
Commiserations to Roofy and Jane-O,
Apologies to Cameron for calling him Rossco.
Fantastic w/end, not many pics as we were all too busy. But will chuck up some tomoz.
Glad you had no dramas getting home Roofy. Bloody tough car that one!!
Ohhhh NOOOO looks like it's time for a 12mm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rossco
Great trip guys and nice and close to home
I heard Roofy was planning on trading the GU in for an even tougher GQ :)
Yeah maybe!! Have to get onto it soon, l'll try and track down the leak first, or maybe just a new one!.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
Thanks for being a great Navi. did a bloody good job, and glad you made it home all good too Roofy.
Yeah let us know how you go with it.
Was my pleasure, was great driving with such a small crew and we had a good pace all day, covered some ground!
mate if she was any tougher she,d eat rocks for brekkyQuote:
Originally Posted by nissangq4.2
Shit weekend obviously as there's no photos....C'mon Roofy I'm sure you have a pic or two to show:)
sorry mate ive got nothing rossco has a few as for the rest will have to waitQuote:
Originally Posted by nisshead
Just chucked them up onto the computer, I'll try and get some up tonight, if not it could be weeks!!!
Sorry to hear about the news Roofy, chin up mate!!
I know its tough but GU's don't like eating rocks I'm lead 2 believe :tease:Quote:
Originally Posted by roofy
I got in about half an hour ago. Great weekend, really worth the drive across. Actually, I think I could say it was awesome. :)
Really appreciate all the effort and hospitality shown by the whole group. None of you knew me, but I felt welcome and comfortable and I no longer even drive a Patrol! Pity Lucus couldn't stay for a drive, but was still good to catch up. Special thanks to Rossco for co-ordinating and getting it off the ground and for him and Winnie for choosing some great tracks. We had great weather, I think in the wet it would be a pretty scaring place.
We had a big day yesterday (Saturday). With the morning and afternoon runs we did almost 150km. Was too busy driving, so didn't take many photos either. I have a few and will check them in a bit. Hopefully there will be a couple worth posting and one or two vids for deep creek.
Have to sneak in how well the Jack did. Front Elocker is awesome. I could quit work and drive around up there forever, except I'd have no way to pay the bills. :)
alls good mate could have been any of us i got the short straw this timeQuote:
Originally Posted by ab
Ha Ha, maybe you should be apologising to Rossco for doing that. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by katwoman
Roofy, it was sad to see what happened, but I was so impressed with the attitude from both you and Jane. Very good example to the younger blokes (me included!). Still hoping it works out well going forward. Would have to agree with Rossco on the shocks. It makes so much sense, seeing how much it bounced.Quote:
Originally Posted by roofy
Thanks also to you Rossco, good to spend the weekend with you. Hope to try and keep up again sometime soon. :) Hope you get the pump sorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rossco
Thanks Winnie to you for leading yesterday. Have to give Amy some praise too. I was amused to see her get out several different times with such a great smile after you'd pretty much just driven up or down some cliff, giving it "full berries". Great that you can enjoy those things together. When are you gonna get her Patrol? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
x2 the Jack did awesome, drove everywhere with ease. . . There is a thing to be said about lockers, they do make a HUGE difference. Certainly could drive around up there for a bit, there are heaps of tracks to explore.Quote:
Originally Posted by cgm
Its funny, before I met her and before she bought her current statesman, she was tossing up between that car and a GQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by cgm
Her dream car is a TD42 GU
Until I look for some photos, here is an overview of where we went:
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This was the Trig Track section. The switchbacks, which are circled were pretty fun (unless you were driving an old firetruck with no powersteering!):
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The profile gives an idea of the altitude differences (this was from the afternoon section):
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I forgot to look at my map tracks afterwards... Damn we did some awesome tracks... I will have to wait until Amy gets home to post some of her photos as she was taking a few throughout the day.
Anybody get photos of DC1?
Hey guys here is some of my pics
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Deep Creek no 1.
Add more when I get home so Chris can look to.
Sounds like it turned out a good trip despite whatever happened to Roofy. Hope all is ok mate.
A few photos:
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Looking across to trig tk.
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Camp spot at the bottom of Trig tk. . . Nice swimming hole
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Lots of switchbacks
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A bit disappointed with my photos. Did too much driving and didn't get time to take enough. We did about 10 hours of driving on Saturday. I have a few scratchy windscreen videos from my phone. They need editing to just show a few relevant bits, might get them up tomorrow. This is about all my remotely useful photos:
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Great pics guys, I need to get over for one of these soon.
My small contribution
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it will blow your mind the sheer size of the high country and of course the beautyQuote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
Here are a few videos. Mostly just ordinary quality windscreen vids from my phone. I've tried to trim a heap out of them as they were a bit too long and boring. Probably still a bit too long and boring, but gives you a bit of an idea.
Going from the track sign down to the crossing for Deep Creek No.1 Track.
http://youtu.be/j8bkExOwvw0
Going through the crossing and climbing out for Deep Creek No.1 Track. The crossing itself was pretty cool. We drove along the creek bed for quite a distance, almost like driving through a small tunnel. There was a bit of a step out of the creek, but you can't see it on the video. There were rocks already built up by someone else to drive up it. The track up was very steep, but has just opened after maintenance, so was straight forward.
http://youtu.be/xVyWie2FA3Y
I debated if I would publish this one. The trucks are a fair way off in the distance, but you can kind of make them out. The scream from Winnie on the radio, after making it up, was cool so I decided I would put it up. :) As usual, you can never get a feel for how steep it really was from the video. Winnie was first and you only see a bit of him as a dot in the distance, but the scrambling and dust gives you an idea of what was going on.
http://youtu.be/-2zkp3PG6-k
This is the close up view of my drive up. Right at the end, you can't quite tell on my video, my right front wheel rode a mound and my left front took some very high air and then I dropped significantly. On the video Winnie had it looked kind of cool.
http://youtu.be/0_FUrRvdzd4
The Little Red Firetruck. What a beast. :) Glad it wasn't me, as there was no power steering. Steve took a rest in the afternoon. Ha Ha.
This was doing the switchback section on Trig Track. I think there was more than 10 of them.
http://youtu.be/iFwvKesqOqc
Finally a quick view from the switchbacks on Trig Track, looking back where we had come across from the other side and back to the switchbacks themselves.
http://youtu.be/ryQ_HHl0EEY
Yeah, we did about 10 hours of driving on Saturday and looked at only one part of a speck of it. There were heaps more tracks in that area that we never went near and it is just one tiny bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by threedogs
You are also not wrong TD about the beauty of it. This was my first visit and it was awesome. We were also just doing some fairly focused driving, but there must be so much history about the area. Would love to do some drives visiting and investigating some of the history up there. Need more time. :) Back to reality now, stop dreaming about 4wding the rest of my life and go to bed so I can go to work tomorrow!
How many of the jerries you end up using ?Quote:
Originally Posted by cgm
Good videos Cameron, I will upload the videos I took from the top of that hill.
Seeing how easy Rossco and Cameron climbed that hill, makes me want a locker even more!