!!! WE DELIVER !!!!

glitch

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What a brilliant run into the bottom end of the ACT, a couple of GS's flew by...then it's off to the remains of the old Orroral Tracking Station, a leftover of NASA's involvement during the time of their early space flights.

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Someone else is watching nowadays...plenty of the buggers everywhere.

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We skip the road to Honeysuckle, another of the old Tracking sites...the bridge at Tharwa is closed, which is fine with us, we're by-passing Canberra to the West, anyway, Brindabella and Cotter Dam way...

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Canberra's "Needle" (TV-tower) in the far back...

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A bit of dirt, then some eerie twisties along the spine of a ridge into the barren, desolate landscape around Wee Jasper...the drought is aweful around here, the worst we'd see during our week.

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Back onto the dirt, the going is quite good, direction Tumut....and something solid's brewing overhead.

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How much fun can be had, when "waterproofing" the tent-roof with garbage bags during a gale...New Years Eve at Tumut.

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While looking a bit dodgy still, it's off towards Tumbarumba....this time not via Batlow, but some cracker-roads through the pine plantations towards Rosewood before the tiny single-laner into town...

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New Years Rodeo in Tumbarumba, the place is rockin'.

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glitch

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Paddy's River Falls...the road's a broken-up single-laner and steep at the end.

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A place we've often gone past with the start of the Elliott Way so close...

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Screaming the Elliott downhill

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The steep climb up from Tumut2 Powerstation was another scream....trying to keep the 110cc redlining in 2.gear 8) 8) ....that's a whopping 40kmh, folks :rofl:

Fuel transfer at Cabramurra, back-flooding one tank, while jiggling across into the other. Another spectacle that found the odd "admirer" :D

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Talking with the oldtimer in the shop, he pointed out a little known dirt-road across the top to Mt. Selwyn.
Heavy drizzle hit as we tried to dodge the fist-sized rocks at the start of it....the views were clogged by low clouds and we were glad to "get it over and done with"...perhaps another day...top-gear-redline across the Tantangarra-ridge from Kiandra to base-camp at Adaminaby.

Visitors for the night....the Rotel "Pigeon-Transporter"

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glitch

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Chequered skies for the tootle across to Jindabyne....the wind from the back blows us uphill to the Berridale turnoff,

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shortly after we duck into the road to Buckenderra, which turn out to only be a holiday resort.
Just short of the place, the Wainui Rd. sounded distinctly Kiwi-style...enough to have a go at it, as the general direction points towards Eucumbene Dam....and what a bewdy of a road !!

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And one for Marty :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Jumping the grid...

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Did you see THAT??? BOTH hoops off the deck....YEEHAA !!!

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WOT??? No pic? shite !!!...ah well, next one then...let's move..

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More Wainui Rd.

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Out the other end and Lake Eucumbene isn't far off

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"Single-laner" to the lookout :wink:

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Jindabyne was a quick refueling-stop for all involved, the National Park Ranger at the toll booth laughed her head off and let us through without fees...the stop at the little lake in Thredbo turned lengthy, due to more postie-enquiries by one of the council workers coming past on a WR250

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Then the long climb up to Deadhorse Gap

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...and some photo-goofing around up there.

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Time to hit the Alpine Way proper....the pics will do the talking

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Geehi Camp Area....and ready for the last leg into Khancoban

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Scammels Lookout, late afternoon light bathing the hills

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Rosie

Just through the door
Hey Pete,

Thanks for sharing...I'm really enjoying reading this. Sounds like you had a great time.

Did you stop at the Geehi camp area? I had a quick cool off in the water there before heading into Khancoban for the night. Vowed to return and camp there one day.
 

glitch

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Stopped at Geehi....but only for the refuel-procedure and a quick walk walk down to the river for a face-splash....never actually camped there.
Pretty vacant lot this time around, hardly any people around.
Good to hear you're enjoying the yarn....
 
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vbstubby

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Great stuff :chug:

Glad someone's getting out of the comfort zone of bigger equals better

And here I was worrying about downsizing to a DRZ400 :lol:

Fantastic pics too 8)
 

glitch

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vbstubby said:
Great stuff :chug:

Glad someone's getting out of the comfort zone of bigger equals better

And here I was worrying about downsizing to a DRZ400 :lol:

Fantastic pics too 8)

No probs with little bikes here, they're a shitload of fun.
That week started off as a "don't really know, what we're gonna do" as the bushfires had sort of thrown our plans....then this sort of grew from a joke....but jeez, it was an invaluable lesson towards next year's start of the Posties-to-Cape-York-bash :wink:
 

glitch

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There's just no way around the "Switchyard Special" for brecky at the Khancoban store...it's a tradition not to be broken, big bike or postie, doesn't matter.
But we might as well front up with bikes ready packed....

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A short, cruisy stretch along the valley floor....then the little postie groans at the sight of a 30km climb, the first of a batch of 3 towards Cabramurra.

Plenty of time this time around to not just blast through, but explore some many of the smaller tracks seemingly leading nowhere..... a whole leisurly morning of Alpine country MAGIC.

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Where IS that extra gear, 4 ain't enough !

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Along the road....

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One of the many tracks off the main bitumen

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Close to Cabramurra

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Redline-cornering on a CT110.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Across the top...

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!!! WE DELIVER !!! :wink: 8)

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Cabramurra

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Jiggle it, baby....refueling in the sticks

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glitch

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After a short break it's off for another bite on that dirt road across from Cabramurra to Mt. Selwyn and the possible find of the old Cabramurra airstrip, used during the construction of the town.

Cabramurra Dam/ Water supply....

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This time...views galore !!! :D

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Amazing where stuff can grow...

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Found the old airstrip !!!

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Up at Mt. Selwyn

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After a dry-roads-belting across the Tantangarra range (the little shitter tops at 95kmh, yeeha :lol: :lol: ) we're back at base camp in Adaminaby.

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Great item for travelling, no pegs needed, $7 from K-Mart Travel Dept....also doubles as ocky-strap and emergency guy-rope, holding down the shopping bags on top of the tent through the downpour in Tumut a few days earlier.

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A late stroll through Adaminaby...and an unexpected find of some Postie-kickstarter parts, Christ !!! :shock: :shock:
Yup, they're ours !!
The servo comes good with a new bolt and washer out of their box of bits, the bolt needs holding in though, to make sure it doesn't go walkabouts again 8)

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The hire-shop seems to run by Northern Hemisphere seasons :lol: :lol:

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....how many sheets of corrugated tin in one wall?
Local council works site....

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All ready to rock for tomorrow...it's off to Victoria.... Mt. Beauty area for some more exploring....


Taking it easy on the way across and sussing out a couple of tiny byways to add to future rides, we checked in under the trees of the, by now boiling Tawonga Caravan Park, right on the river.

Didn’t really feel like riding after a few hours in the cage and the tent-setup….but scrambled late for a quick bash up to Falls Creek.

Through some eerie burned out areas and extremely sparse traffic, the top greeted us with a couple of low-hanging black-bellies and some sparse spittles of rain… no use hanging around when the downhill leg was beckoning…and what a scream that turned out to be. :rofl: :clap:

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Aided by great visibility due to the sparse leaf-work after the long dry and the fires, the little 110s went for a lungful and gave it their ALL.

Being so light, they zip through corners anyway, but this was ridiculous, ....what a load of fun. Soon we caught the local tradies-ute, ladders on the rack and all, he didn’t make it hard…another ute a few corners later gave it a try…but gave up just when it was getting …hmmm…interesting, :lol: :lol: .... next was a Subaru that gave us a run for the money :evil: :lol: , but no match in the end…. a nice, sharpish righthander put that one home. :devil: :devil: :devil:
Last on the list was a Mazda3 just before town…game, set, righthander, done…wot, game finished? Bumma !! :shock: :shock: :D

What a hoot!!!! Yeahhhhh!
Just short of meltdown (or starting the next bushfire), the little screampots pulled into the servo…2 bikes, 3 tanks, $18…yup, enough leftover for some pub-grub. :thumbs: :thumbs:
 
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Grey Gentry

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Cough..Gee seeing all these great pics..means that I won't have to ride these roads and see them for myself...cough.
 
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