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Title: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Robert James Crisp on May 21, 2012, 05,16:39 AM
Queen's Birthday weekend.Get in before the tracks are closed.Mostly level 2 riding.Where too will depend on the weather and the river conditions.One plan is to do Razor track and then follow on to Wonnangatta station.Fuel range needed will be about 100 km.Camping will be on the club property.BYO fuel/food and fizzy drinks.Post up your intention here or pm message.


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on May 22, 2012, 09,50:45 AM
Might come for just a day or two, let us know more about planned rides and what day time etc Thats if its possible this early on


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Tim Dykes on May 31, 2012, 12,16:33 AM

Hi Rob

I was up there last weekend and as you know it was wet, all the fire wood was wet and getting a good fire going was a pain as there was very little dry firewood in the firewood shelter. Yes the firewood shelter that some DH dropped a tree on >:( that left it all bent and now with a hole in the top of it just off centre where the wood is stacked.

Anyway I've spilt about a little more than three wheelbarrow loads of wood that's stacked in the firewood shelter away from the hole for the long weekend.

If that can be replaced after your weekend then there will be something for the next time someone is up there and if they do the same, and the same, that way every time there will be stack of dry wood just like it use to be years ago.

I hope to get up there, maybe Sunday, but yet again daughters and basketball...

Oh and I forgot to turn off the water  ::) but that shouldn't be a problem this time of year.
     


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Robert James Crisp on June 03, 2012, 11,14:06 AM
Myself & the Hobbit will be getting to the block about 6.00 pm Friday.Shaun will be arriving early Saturday morning.Saturday's ride will leave the block about 10.00 am and be going into Wonnangatta.After Wonnangatta we will make a decision about heading straight back or going up Water Spur depending on fuel/energy/time etc.

Sunday (9.30am)will be a ride up Schultz on to Gunn's and then into Harrietville for lunch and fuel.The return trip will be along Paddy's and back to camp.

Shaun will be heading home Sunday evening so a decision will be made then weather we will stay the night/ride Monday depending on any other people being there. 


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 03, 2012, 11,47:52 AM
I am on a DRZ400 and on this bike i am comfortable on L2 rides when it gets to L2 plus I am not so comfortable man handling the Drz. I am asking if I will be ok on your planned rides. If you are all clubman riders I am happy to give it a miss as I dont like to hold better riders up on proper enduro bikes. Happy to do short stints of single track or gnarly hills but I wear out quick if it goes like that all day. Honest truth answer appreciated.

 ps happy to bring a chain saw for firewood if that helps.

Count me in for Sat 10am start sounds good if it works out


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: emu on June 03, 2012, 11,59:24 AM
Hi, i rode  shultz, water spur , wonangatta and razor twice in the last 2 weeks and can't get enought of it.
Will come up early on the sat to join in the fun and meet you all.
Cheers
Ken


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Wiggy on June 03, 2012, 12,29:42 PM
I am on a DRZ400 and on this bike i am comfortable on L2 rides when it gets to L2 plus I am not so comfortable man handling the Drz. I am asking if I will be ok on your planned rides. If you are all clubman riders I am happy to give it a miss as I dont like to hold better riders up on proper enduro bikes. Happy to do short stints of single track or gnarly hills but I wear out quick if it goes like that all day. Honest truth answer appreciated.

 ps happy to bring a chain saw for firewood if that helps.

Count me in for Sat 10am start sounds good if it works out

Rob and Dougie (Hobbit) run a pretty cruisy ride, you'll be fine on your DRZ.


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Robert James Crisp on June 03, 2012, 07,16:15 PM
Me & the Hobbit are riding XR's and as Wiggy says it will be a cruisy ride.You will be fine.There shouldn't be any single trail unless we're lost ???.Anyone who wants to blast past can wait at the next corner.
I allready have the chainsaw packed.


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 04, 2012, 11,47:43 AM
I will be there on the saturday unless it rains cats and dogs, i will leave my chainsaw at home then, hate sharpening it anyway. thanks for the low down.


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 07, 2012, 12,10:27 PM
I am allowing 2 hours to drive from Wodonga to Abbeyard ( 1 hour to Myrtleford then 1 hour to property) I will leave at 7am to arrive at 9am. cheers Glenn


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Robert James Crisp on June 07, 2012, 07,06:06 PM
See you there


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 09, 2012, 10,35:12 PM
Thanks for letting me tag along on this ride really enjoyed the high country and wonagatta station. Great bunch of guys to ride with. On saturday we had to change our rout due to multiple trees over razor track and the river crossings just got deeper and deeper until we decided carrying the bikes over on our shoulders would not be fun and turned back to camp for a beverage. ps Cruisy ride = ice y water up to your crotch.   

Let me know next time you go for a ride, I be there


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Tim Dykes on June 10, 2012, 01,41:17 AM
Thanks for letting me tag along on this ride really enjoyed the high country and wonagatta station. Great bunch of guys to ride with. On saturday we had to change our rout due to multiple trees over razor track and the river crossings just got deeper and deeper until we decided carrying the bikes over on our shoulders would not be fun and turned back to camp for a beverage. ps Cruisy ride = ice y water up to your crotch.   

Let me know next time you go for a ride, I be there

Just a normal day out in the High Country, Douge is the problem when it comes to the river xings! :P


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: emu on June 11, 2012, 01,16:09 AM
I had a great weekend, there were a lot of trees down after last weeks storm which made razor and shultz tracks difficult if not impassable.

We still managed to clock up 150k's for the 2 days and i had my fair share of fizzy drinks.

Thanks Tim for leaving some firewood for us to burn, and i am sure we replaced most of it ::)

Thanks crispy doug shaun and glenn, will catch up next time





Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 11, 2012, 02,48:04 AM
glad we did not do any extra trails as I had about 1 litre left in the drz,

Here is the link to the spot tracker I am not sure if it will work I am not up to how all features work.

https://login.findmespot.com/spot-main-web/locations/history.html

I think it worked? just click on top right hand square to tag all locations then click on show on map then you can zoom in and move around even change to sat view or map view. If you look at the sat view and zoom in on billabong it shows where we stopped at the old homestead and tag 21 shows the deep river crossing that we turned around at, earlier on it shows where we went up razor and turned around after trees blocked the track.

Was working now its not I am not having much luck sharing spot tracking device info with family and friends. I can view maps myself create a shared page email it to friends but it never seams to work?

here is the link it gave me to share: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0bEyrDWOqBndmbuhbkPZ7jH2aJdPMXMJj

or http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=038Wufop4zZtnQJqLSYfANBYYfcYGnJo5


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: emu on June 12, 2012, 11,27:19 AM
Hi Glenn,

That last link worked but it's a shame they don't have more detailed maps.

Cheers
ken


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: Glennboy on June 12, 2012, 11,40:15 AM
yes not really impressed with the google maps, that hema one you emailed is much better. It looks better than the rooftop maps I have. Where do you get the hema maps?


Title: Re: Abbeyard/High Country.
Post by: emu on June 13, 2012, 09,04:35 AM
You can google hema maps or try ozi explorer and they will have a link to hema.

I use ozi explorer software on my gps and have aust wide maps fom hema on cd that are fully interactive with ozi software, i use my laptop to set waypoints calculate distances etc and then transfer the information to my gps.