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