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don't miss our next adventure. Just out at the Lakes. Gonna get to the fourby track in a
couple of K's. I've done this one a few times, the weather's been terrible so
I'll see how we go. Maintained by the eastern suburbs
four-wheel drive Club the track I'm taking is a loop covering just under 200
kilometers including the travel from Perth. Taking Great Eastern Highway I
take the right-hand turn at the Lake Road house and travel a dozen or so
K'ss to the start of the track.
Sticking to what are normally well-maintained forest tracks I soon
discovered, with the recent rains have left parts underwater and other sections
criss crossed with ruts cut into the track by running water.
I know a lot of people have got their opinions, they don't feel the need to air down if their is no extreme sections or soft sand.
The reason why I still air down is simple factors small sticks that can
damage your tyre. If you've got less pressure in your tire like anything like a
balloon if it's got a lot more air in it it's more likely to pop. So I still air down
You know,
it's a good excuse to get out of the car, have a walk around.
We just pulled off the road and we're having a barbie. Just cooking off the remains of the last Barbie. I don't know quite
what I had on there to make it that smoky but it is a nice day, probably
in the high teens low 20s at the moment. Earlier on I was talking about
tyre pressures and reducing them every time you leave the blacktop and (sorry
the boys are going nuts in the background there) there's a couple of
other reasons why it's a good idea to always air down off-road and the first
is it reduces tyre wear as simple as that and the second and possibly more
important reason is it doesn't destroy the track as much as when you've got
your tyres fully inflated so if you drive a track regularly it's in your
best interest and it preserves it for the next lot that come through and if
we all follow that principle then the tracks should remain open.
I've done this trip twice before both times in the dryer months and both times
with other vehicles. I've never had any problems driving off-road here that is
until today.
Now I always take recovery gear with me on every trip however no matter how much
I persevered with the max tracks, shovel and the jack they were all not enough to
get me out of this soft muddy bog hole. I was stuck, apart from my four year old
boys I was alone and to make matters worse I had no mobile signal and no
response on my UHF.
That was a bit of a messy bog. I should have filmed it, kind of missed the whole
lot. Fortunately we weren't too far away from a
main road. We took a walk up there and a nice guy,
Keith. Legend, saw us and he turned around and he gave us a snatch out so we're
back on our way, calling a day today, my confidence has been a little bit
shattered. So we're heading back to the road and we're gonna call it a day and
do it another day (one of the boys wants me. Catch ya!
Back again to try this trip, exactly the same spot where we were stuck yesterday.
That was my diff dragging and this is fairly solid it doesn't it looks fairly
muddy but it's sort of rocky, not only was I stuck in it with the mud sucking
me down but I was hung up on both my diffs.
Nganguring road borders the northern edge of the National Park and is part of
the original road to York, surveyed by Philip Chauncy in 1846 Chauncy was
also responsible for recording almost all of the Aboriginal place names in
this region during a survey. With the orders from John Septimus Roe he set
out with a local indigenous man. Unfortunately he did not record the
actual meanings of any of those names and they remain a mystery to this day.
Early settlers lost hundreds of sheep in this area when driving their flocks
through to York, the cause was York Road poison one of the gastrolobium pea plants that
are common throughout this region.
Well once again it looks like this track is beating me. I don't have diff lock.
I'm not lifted. Pretty much stock standard apart from my tyres and this is all
that's causing me to not be able to go any further and the reason is, is because
I'm lifting two wheels so the minute that I attempt it I just loose traction and
i'm just stuck up, hung up in the air, so bit of a shame but hey nice day out.
Bit bigger than a puddle, so when you get to one of these things the important thing to kind of do is
obviously check how deep it is with a big stick so let's go do that now.
Left side is fairly sort of soft so I'm gonna try going the right side and I can
actually get my right hand wheel on the side of the road. I'm by myself, normally
I'd go through this and have a bit of fun but if I get stuck I'm pretty
screwed so let's give it a crack.
Nothing to it.
Not a bad sport, I'll keep going though, oh we'll check it out by air.
So as you've probably gathered i'm just one up today so I'm sending snapshots to my
wife my beautiful wife Lawry, hi honey, whenever I have signal because I'm with
good old Vodafone and if you'rel with Vodafone you'd be well aware that once you sort
of get off the main road or anywhere out of the city really or even in the city
coverage is pretty poor. So whenever I manage to get a bar I send her a picture
she knows my last location and my intended route that I'm taking so as
long as I can stick to that route if I do end up in trouble hey I might spend a
night in the bush but who doesn't want to spend a night in the bush.
On the homeward stretch now. Nice track a lot of it's forestry track.
In summer this is quite an easy track. I've done it twice before and it was a
walk in the park it would be somewhere id bring somebody that had never been off-road.
During winter, different story.
It's got sections that are, they're not extreme they just, you need
another car there just in case and I've done this whole thing by myself and I've
run into trouble twice and if I'd had another car with me it wouldn't have been an issue
at all, a quick snatch, and it'll have been all good.
I got stuck on the first day
and it cost me of walk up to the road to get help.
Half of it at the moment is washed out. In winter it's a little bit more of a
challenge it's not massive. It's taken me three days to do this. No way
whatsoever should this track taking three days. I've just
erred on the side of caution because I was by myself if you were with somebody
else it is a one day track. It might take me a little while but I will trip
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