TR: Mt Cole 01-03 June 2012

[El_Freddo]

G'day all,

Venom organised this trip but unfortunately his liberty still isn't back from the panel shop.

We secured a hut at Mugwamp's - it's smaller than ditchfields but was also un-available when Venom rocked up in his stolen pimp mobile.

After a lot of talk on Saturday night, and rocking up late we started the day by observing some H6 p0rn:

I should also mention who was there: Pezimm rocked up for the day on Saturday morning as did Benji in his "new" rangie; Venom was subi-less Dulagurl, myself (and better half - not Ruby Scoo) and my dad in his Rangie - his first outing! We also had a visitor... more on that later.

While waiting for Dulagurl to check out the track a head I snapped this image of the two rangies - They look quite impressive when there's more than one of them!

And here's Dad on his first 4wd outing in the Rangie:

We hit up "that" track, only went down it as we had another group line up so we were going to come back to do it later - but by then it had been raining, we thought it better not to have a stab at it. Dulagurl having a go:

Pezimm:

Wheel lifting:

Ruby Scoo:

Dad in his Rangie:

Benji's Rangie:

The crew on Ben Nervis Rd on the way to lunch:

And our visitor - Tweety!

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[El_Freddo]

^ EA81'd Panther trike

Tweety even dragged the guppy camper up here! ^ This was Sunday morning before we saw him off back home. I think Tony enjoyed the 4wd'n in Ruby Scoo we did on Saturday arvo... maybe, but he did have a smile on his face so I guess that's a good thing!

The rest of Sunday we tried out some tracks that were closed the last time we were here. We ended up taking a track off Big Rock Tk and ended up finding this old growth stringy bark - awesome tree to see and wish there were more of them left all over this great country of ours:

We found an interesting little track that at the end turned out to be very interesting - at least in terms of what happened with Dulagurl! I tried this line out with Ruby Scoo but it didn't work, the step was too tall:

It looked like we were headed to the top, it was also cloudy up here and the bracken was pretty tall too!

Dulagurl:

And this is where Dulagurl's immobiliser's remote wouldn't work, even the back up unit was no good - we were parked too close to the interference created by the substation and tranmitters etc. A push down the hill had us clear of the interference and we were good to go again:

From here we cruised around looking for tracks - not doing a very good job of it, no pics from here. Venom had a drive of Ruby Scoo and might have caught the L series bug...
We went back to mugwamps camp, had lunch, packed everything up and headed home after trying to find the elusive "hanging rock".

On our way home I was intrigued by a wind generator that looked like it was from another planet it was so big. Unfortunately the pics of that didn't come out so well (below), the one on the right looked HUGE!:

The sunset was alright for a pic:

I personally would have loved to have kept 4wd'n for longer but alas life way from the fun has to continue.

I think we really need to work on more pics next time!!

Cheers

Bennie

 

[tempo]

Nice!!!!

 

[Kevin]

Thanks Bennie - does look like fun was had by all.

 

[Darkanion]

Looks like a lot of fun!

 

[MY07Foz]

Great trip report, Bennie!

 

[NachaLuva]

Looks good Bennie, shame no-one went back up "that" track. Some of the other tracks looked good, shame I missed it

 

[mr turbo]

Great report & pics El_Freddo

Looks like a great & enjoyable time was had by all :ebiggrin:

Regards
Mr Turbo

 

[carljwnc]

Excellent report and photos Bennie!!! Tweety is sweet.:ebiggrin:

 

[mr turbo]

Tweety is sweet.:ebiggrin:

It sure is
Me want, me want !!

Regards
Mr Turbo

 

[El_Freddo]

Looks good Bennie, shame no-one went back up "that" track.

We were going to head back there, we didn't do it at the time due to another group of 4wd's bumping up behind us. The plan was to head back there later but as it turned out we didn't get there before the rain set in - after that we called it a write off and continued else where...

You were missed too Nachaluva! I'm keen to see this new confidence you have from your Gentle Annie antics!

And thanks to everyone else that's commented - I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did while we braved the cold! Good times had, I still want to be headed out this weekend but there's a couple of things stopping us from doing this

Cheers

Bennie