Track Conditions Around Licola
Not sure where to post this …but here it is!
Planning a few days riding north of Licola with Don, Bruce and a few other 'old hands' revisiting/checking out some old haunts…on the ‘old bikes’. Prior to our departure I am seeking any thoughts/input on what some of the tracks on our old hunting grounds are like these days...Butcher Country, The Caledonia down from Howitt Plains, DingoHill and Mt Margaret Tck..... Been 40+ years last visits to these. While always steep and rocky, with the 'occasional' river crossing, these days things seem to have changed somewhat due to the proliferation of 4WDs with the attendant bottomless wheel ruts in awkward spots a lot looser/chewed up surfaces in places, and rock ledges that didn't seem to be there back then! Forestry/DELWP/...have also seemed to have done a lot of realignment since my riding youth. I believe Dingo Hill ascent has been re-cut in parts due to switchbacks etc.
Any thoughts/observations appreciated before we once again head off into ‘the unknown’ (...and don't bite off more than we can chew...bikes and riders are no longer spring chickens...the 'devil may care' days of our youth since passed!)
Thanks, Kerry.
Ps. Have added a few pics of AMTRA rides around Licola area ‘back in the day’! (Circa 1975/76)
Butcher Country
On the Howitt Plains at top of Butcher Country on my trusty old Bultaco Alpina
Looking back down Butcher Country
Paul Ewbank, Ossa SDR, on Butcher Country
David Baxter, Yamaha RT2, crossing Macalister River below Butcher Country Tck
Laurie Power, PE 250, crossing Macalister River below Butcher Country Tck
Dingo Hill...Norm Watts' Howitt Devastator Enduro (Bultaco Matador Mk5)
Dingo Hill...Norm Watts' Howitt Devastator Enduro ...Roger Bowden on Suzuki RL250 Trials
Crossing the Caledonia River...Greg Williams' Matador Mk5
Helipad on Billy Goat Bluff Tck twds the Pinnacles...Leigh Bradstreet on left.