El_Freddo
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- Location
- Bridgewater, Vic
- Car Year
- 1988, 1990
- Car Model
- EJ22'd L series; Targa Brumby
- Transmission
- Locking FT4wd 5spd Manual, 4.111:1 diff w 1.59:1 low range & front OBX LSD ;)
Lerderderg 4wd day trip report - 24FEB19
To avoid further "clogging up" of 1WD_Foz's, the trip report!
Attendees: Nachaluva Matt - 2.2 equipped SF foz; "L series" Matt in his SH foz with 28 inch tyres; 1WD_Foz Nick - 2.2 equipped SF foz on “honourary” roadies; El Freddo Bennie - 2.2 equipped L series with custom box and roadies (Ruby Scoo).
We met up at the start of O'Brian's Rd at about 8am:
We cruised in, dropped on to an offroad track, got out of the way of an arrogant single vehicle charging up the track then I backed Ruby Scoo into a tree and cracked the rear right tail light. Nothing too serious, just frustrated at myself.
We did a couple of good long climbs that were a good warm up, then hit a number of "commuter" tracks: Nachaluva:
...until we hit digger's track. There were a number of holes with water in them, one in particular that Nachaluva had a crack at - and only cracked his exhaust in the mid pipe in the damage department:
https://youtu.be/WI1CM4FWXgY
video courtesy of 1WD_Foz
At another point on this track we dropped over this little rock step. It gave me a good opportunity to get some snaps of the foresters:
"L series" Matt:
1WD_Foz Nick:
"Forester action":
Nachaluva Matt:
Just before we crossed the river/creek at the bottom of the valley, we turned around to do a rocky climb on the track we had just come down. It was interesting how different it felt on the way up compared to the bouncy feeling experienced on the way down.
We hit the main road again then shortly up the track veered off to the blue gum track link shortcut, where I snapped a pic of this sign, as it is one of the good ones:
The annoying ones were the road closed to all vehicles other than management vehicles. The okay ones were the rare conservation zone road closed signs.
Then we had lunch on the shortcut track:
Then we were off to one of our old favourite set of tracks, or a track off ratcliffe to be precise - Number Two firebreak track. Near the start of the firebreak track:
Properly dropping into the valley. Someone had carved up that track in the wet, leaving some deep ruts to negotiate on the way down, worst section is up around the corner the vehicles just came down:
From the river it looks like this:
^ Just after it disappears into the tree canopy, it does a slightly greater than 90* right hand turn, maintaining the same steep gradient you see here, and it has a rocky outcrop with some small steps in it for good measure
I went first in Ruby Scoo - I assumed that we were going up it without too much thought, even after walking the track. I was still on road pressures as I'm tired of spiking/cutting side walls on roadies. They went well and didn't wheel spin much which I was happy with.
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To avoid further "clogging up" of 1WD_Foz's, the trip report!
Attendees: Nachaluva Matt - 2.2 equipped SF foz; "L series" Matt in his SH foz with 28 inch tyres; 1WD_Foz Nick - 2.2 equipped SF foz on “honourary” roadies; El Freddo Bennie - 2.2 equipped L series with custom box and roadies (Ruby Scoo).
We met up at the start of O'Brian's Rd at about 8am:
We cruised in, dropped on to an offroad track, got out of the way of an arrogant single vehicle charging up the track then I backed Ruby Scoo into a tree and cracked the rear right tail light. Nothing too serious, just frustrated at myself.
We did a couple of good long climbs that were a good warm up, then hit a number of "commuter" tracks: Nachaluva:
...until we hit digger's track. There were a number of holes with water in them, one in particular that Nachaluva had a crack at - and only cracked his exhaust in the mid pipe in the damage department:
https://youtu.be/WI1CM4FWXgY
video courtesy of 1WD_Foz
At another point on this track we dropped over this little rock step. It gave me a good opportunity to get some snaps of the foresters:
"L series" Matt:
1WD_Foz Nick:
"Forester action":
Nachaluva Matt:
Just before we crossed the river/creek at the bottom of the valley, we turned around to do a rocky climb on the track we had just come down. It was interesting how different it felt on the way up compared to the bouncy feeling experienced on the way down.
We hit the main road again then shortly up the track veered off to the blue gum track link shortcut, where I snapped a pic of this sign, as it is one of the good ones:
The annoying ones were the road closed to all vehicles other than management vehicles. The okay ones were the rare conservation zone road closed signs.
Then we had lunch on the shortcut track:
Then we were off to one of our old favourite set of tracks, or a track off ratcliffe to be precise - Number Two firebreak track. Near the start of the firebreak track:
Properly dropping into the valley. Someone had carved up that track in the wet, leaving some deep ruts to negotiate on the way down, worst section is up around the corner the vehicles just came down:
From the river it looks like this:
^ Just after it disappears into the tree canopy, it does a slightly greater than 90* right hand turn, maintaining the same steep gradient you see here, and it has a rocky outcrop with some small steps in it for good measure
I went first in Ruby Scoo - I assumed that we were going up it without too much thought, even after walking the track. I was still on road pressures as I'm tired of spiking/cutting side walls on roadies. They went well and didn't wheel spin much which I was happy with.
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