Licola v2

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Licola
Dates: 23rd - 26th Jan 2015
Weather: Perfect.
Crew: Toon, Willo, Ross, Sharp-Paul
Key Tracks Hit: Caledonia Tk, Dingo Hill, Mount Margaret Tk, Howitt Plains Rd
Vehicles Used: '05 Paj, '04 Pathfinder
Distance Travelled: ? 1000km?
Campsites: Wellington River Camping Area
Fishing: N/A
Gear Purchased: N/A
Gear Review:  N/A
Food: Damper, Chook, Stew,
Report: 9.5/10
Rating: Awesome area. Pinnacles Lookout was fantastic. An amazing amount of tracks, fishing, hiking, and exploring to be had in this area. You could explore for years. Got stuck on Caledonia track at some serious bog hole. Ross winched me out again. Pathfinder 2, pajero 0. Klop was fun!
Would have loved to have hit billy goat on this trip. That would have made it a dick prenokke 10/10.

Little Desert National Park

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Little Desert National Park
Dates: 29th - 31st Aug 2014
Weather: Perfect. 25 and sunny
Crew: Ross + Toon
Key Tracks Hit: Everywhere. The whole park. Moffat Tk was the best, as was the Northern Border Tk
Vehicles Used: 2004 Nissan Pathfinder, 2005 Pajero
Distance Travelled: 1000km
Campsites: Broughtons Waterhole
Fishing: N/A
Gear Purchased: N/A
Gear Review: N/A
Food: Roast Chicken + veg, Damper,
Report: 9/10
Rating: Great area! Lots of easy 4wd sand tracks to explore and learn how to drive this stuff. Heaps of wildlife, most notably emus. Fantastic place to explore. Moffat Tk had a decent waterhole that i got stuck in the mud at. Rosco snatched me out! Cheers mate!

Cathedral Ranges

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Cathedral Ranges
Dates: 20 Nov 15 - 22 Nov 15
Weather: Showers day 1 to clearing day 3. Top of 24, low of COLD at night.
Crew: VB Family + Olive Family + Buckets Family
Key Tracks Hit: Various unknown pine trails
Vehicles Used: GLX '05 Paj
Distance Travelled: 300kms
Campsites: Cooks Mill
Fishing: 1 x rainbow along river by Cooks Mill
Gear Purchased: N/A
Gear Review: Flaming Coals Spit - Cooked the pork shoulder to perfection over a couple of hours on a light bed of coals. Attached to a small waeco battery pack. Worked a treat.
Food: Pork Shoulder, Damper, Roast Breaded chicken, Pancakes, Hot dogs, Snags
Report: Quick drive up towards Cathedral Ranges via Black Spur which was all fogged up. Stacks of 4wd tracks between Narbethong and Marysville. Got into the range and set up camp in slightly dreary conditions. Good night by the campfire. Next day cooked some damper and just chilled out. Had a fish, caught a small rainbow and then went for a small 4wd around the area. Not that many 4wd tracks to be had, but lots of hiking to be done in this area. Headed home the following day on a lovely arvo.
Rating: 7.5/10

 

High country

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: alpine national park
Dates: cup weekend 2015
Weather: Showers and thunderstorms
Crew: VB family
Key Tracks Hit/Missed: billy goat bluff, crooked river, blue rag range
Vehicles Used: Mitsubishi Pajero glx
Distance Travelled: 950kms
Campsites: talbotville (or thereabouts - on crooked river)
Fishing: N/A
Gear Purchased: diy roof rack, anaconda eski, Kodiak Canvas
Gear Review: DIY roof rack worked a treat! Saved myself $1000 to make it. Easy job with buying stuff from Bunnings. 

Eski did the job. Packs well in boot. 

Kodiak Canvas tent is awesome. Great size, it rained for much of the trip and kept us dry as. Doesnt take too long to dry out in the morning before packing up too, which is a relief given its canvas to avoid mould upon packing up.
Food:  roast chicken, breakfast burritos, damper, snags, chicken sandwiches, hard boiled eggs.
Report: Got to Dargo in good time. Place was packed full of 4wd'ers ready for weekend. Drive into talbotville campsite pretty straight forward, just a downhill descent for 40 minutes. Talbotville pretty full, so crossed crooked river and found a clearing to camp at. Bloody left tent pegs at home, but luckily nearby campers helped out and have a bunch of pegs. Chilled out. 

Next day crossed crooked river. Great fun track. BOM had the river depths at 1.9m, car went through fine even with no snorkel. Got to bully goat, air down to 24psi. Paj crawled up billy goat, got good views of the pinnacles. Headed back down billy, onto crooked river and back to camp. Kings well bridge could be a nice campsite too.

Next day packed up and headed towards blue rag. Weather was crazy, climbing up into the clouds visibility was maybe 20m! Blue rag is an awesome track.
Rating: 8/10