Shaw creek near Dingo Hill track in Licola - Place to Hit

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Shaw creek near Dingo Hill track in Licola

Dates: ASAP, but will the creek run in mid-summer?
Weather: Anything
Crew: Everyone
Key Tracks Hit: Dingo Hill Track
Vehicles Used: TBD
Distance Travelled: 300km one way, about 4 hour drive. 600km round trip.
Campsites: The one by the river on the bend of the road with the shot out yellow sign.
Fishing: Not sure if the river runs dr in peak summer, but it was running when we drove past this in winter sometime.
Gear Purchased:  tbd
Gear Review: tbd
Food: TBD
Report: Went 4wding one time up here and these dudes were camping in this spot. It looked like one epic beautiful place to camp. Need to go here one day!
Rating: Will be awesome.

Ross' Spot on Jamieson River - Place to Hit

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Mitchells Walking Track  https://www.google.com/maps/search/Marked+Location+Silvermine+Spur+Track,+Mount+Buller+VIC+3723,+Australia/@-37.307995,146.3349635,17z
Dates: ASAP
Weather: Anything
Crew: Everyone
Key Tracks Hit: TBD, unsure if you can drive in or not? Need to confirm.
Vehicles Used: TBD
Distance Travelled: 500km round trip. 250km each way.
Campsites: The one pictured here
Fishing: Definitely
Gear Purchased: TBD
Gear Review: TBD
Food: TBD
Report: TBD
Rating:TBD

Lighthouse Crossin Reserve - Place to hit

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Lighthouse Reserve
Dates: ASAP
Weather: Anything
Crew: Everyone
Key Tracks Hit: TBD
Vehicles Used: TBD
Distance Travelled: Expect 1000km round trip + adventures. About 480km one way from home.
Campsites: Somewhere on the boarder.
Fishing: Definitely.
Gear Purchased: TBD
Gear Review: TBD
Food: TBD
Report: TBD
Rating: TBD

Cathedral Ranges - Cooks Mill

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: Cooks mill cathedral ranges
Dates: 19th - 20th October
Weather: Cloudy and small showers
Crew: Toon, Jax, Billie, Sam, Willo, Mia, Liam, Hugo, Huggett, Mishka
Key Tracks Hit: N/A
Vehicles Used: Paj, Subi Outback, Nissan xtrail, Hilux
Distance Travelled: 200km
Campsites: Cooks Mills
Fishing: The river was golden ripe for fishing. Kids do not enable us to drop a line...
Gear Purchased: N/A
Gear Review: N/A
Food: Garlic Bread, Hot dogs, slow roasted lamb shoulder souvas, nachos, pancakes, bacon sangas
Report: Great overnighter. So easy to get up and out. Kids had a blast, must keep doing this.
Rating: 9/10. 10 if Ross could have made it.

Snow 4wding

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping 
Location: Warburton to Lake Mountain
Dates: 10/8/19
Weather: Cold. Winter blast from way down south had snow falling down to 500m.
Crew: Toon, Jax, Millie & Sam
Key Tracks Hit: Various. Explored all sort of tracks on the way towards Lake Mountian from Warby.
Vehicles Used: Paj
Distance Travelled: 200km
Gear Review: Cooper ST tyres are nearing replacement. The rear tred is low, made it tough to gain good snow traction.
Food: Stuff
Report: Epic session. First proper snow off-roading done. Headed off in search of snow because of the weather that hit Melbourne, there was heaps! Drove to Warburton up towards Donna Buang. Kepts going then hit some track through there. Then went off some track that was heading up towards Mt Strickland, and a few km's up that was a massive tree fallen over the road to turned around. Joined up with 2 other vehciles at that time and tagged along with them for the rest of the day. We then headed towards lake mountain and went off some tracks. Lots of tree fallen climbs required and lots of winching if you wanted to step it up. Decided to turn around and head higher. Found a deep rutted out track and did some driving and then the kids got out for a play. Got stuck and needed the maxtrax to get out of a pickle (faster than the winch!). After the kids had a play, I had to then head back home. On the way home, i saw some dude trying to flag down a car on Maroondah Hwy by Dom Dom Saddle Picnic area so i pulled over. He got his fancy merc stuck trying to do donuts! Haha. Winched them out of trouble - great way to close off a day off-road.
Rating: 10/10

Exploring Toolangi

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping 
Location: Toolangi area
Dates: 4/8
Weather: Drizzle
Crew: Tvb, Jax, Millie and Sam
Key Tracks Hit: Pauls Lane, Pauls Creek Track, Forest Road, Blowhard Rd, various tracks around blowhard.
Vehicles Used: Paj
Distance Travelled: 60km
Campsites: 
Fishing: 
Gear Purchased: 
Gear Review: Runva winch clutch is too stiff to disengage. Unsure on how to fix so that it can free spool out. Needed to use the "out" to get the winch out, much quicker to free spool but couldnt move clutch.
Food: Snacks
Report: Solid 3 hour session. Tracks were very slippery and most closed but surprisingly a lot open too. Some tracks were just too gnarly to go up unless there was a 2nd vehicle and probably no kids on board as getting stuck would have been inevitable. Did however get stuck in a mud pit and needed to winch out. Lucky i brought the recovery gear!  Needs to get out again!
Rating: 8/10

1 hour 10 min north

Type: 4wd'ing + hiking + camping
Location: 1 hour 10 min north  #28
Dates: 6-7 July
Weather: Perfect. No rain, no wind, sunny, but cold. Nothing a fire and warm clothes couldnt fix.
Crew: Toon, Jax, Billie, Ross, Ella, Alphie, LJ, Hugo.
Key Tracks Hit: N/A
Vehicles Used: Paj, Mazda, Subi
Distance Travelled: 220km
Campsites: #28. Solid spot, maybe one of the best in this area.
Fishing: N/A Closed season. River was awesome though and would be great spot to fish.
Gear Purchased: N/A
Gear Review: n/a
Food: Hot diggidy dogs, chips, stoner cones, lollies, chicken wings/legs, froot loops, bacon and eggs, pancakes.
Report: Was worried we would be amongst hoards of people given school holidays, but it worked out very awesome indeed. Great site, great times. Hugo's first time out, and the kid was a champ. Few tears from kids, meant the trip was pretty chill. All kids had fun, all adults had fun too. Need to keep arranging these! Ross' tent is massive, we all had a sleep over in that. Most dissapointing thing was the midnight chicken not up to scratch!
Rating: 9/10. Chicken was a let down.