TRIP REPORTS
Not A Disappointing Wander
24 May 2020
Participants Member No. Vehicle Details
Ian Fieldhouse 1888 Mitsubishi Pajero Sport
John & Kristine Abfalter 1841 Mitsubishi Pajero GLS - 2012
Chris Randall 1591 Mitsubishi Pajero
David Boutchard & Virginia Gilhooly 1785 Toyota Landcruiser 200
Nas Foscarini 1933 Mitsubishi Challenger
Terry Barbie 1906 Mitsubishi Pajero
It was a cool but pleasant Sunday morning
when we met in Whittlesea in anticipation of
our first trip in a few months, not to mention
the first trip booked through Wild Apricot, the
new membership software.
Ready for Disappointment
The trip advert was A Disappointing Wander?
With plans for green and blue tracks with
perhaps a black one thrown in. The unknown
was the track conditions after 10-20mm of rain
in the past week.
We soon found out all about the track
conditions, attempting to pass through the
gate onto Phone Track we were held up for a
few minutes on a very muddy uphill corner,
which got everyone’s attention. Having
successfully got past the first obstacle, Phone
Track continued to throw some very soft
surface conditions at us, which saw our longest
serving member spend a short period off the
road and requiring some assistance to return
to the intended path.
Muddy climbs
We then headed down the far more pleasant
Harpers Creek Road, after which the plan was to
follow Escreet Road down to Sunday Creek
Reservoir, however as this was marked as black on
Newtracs and was clearly quite steep, we elected
to take a more sedate route along the main roads
and then Watering Creek Road that was marked as
blue, however this had been closed already for the
season (contrary to advice).
At this point David and Virginia found they had a flat
and short stop was had to switch to the spare.