Snow 4x4 tracks in Victoria

[Crackles]

The road closure issue at Skene has come about due to naive fools attempting to cross the mountain with little or no driving skill, ill equipped vehicles & insufficient food & clothing to spend a night if caught out. Put this together with the fact the emergency services have had trouble getting to them left has meant little choice but to close it due to liability.(What if the next person stuck died?) Simply put our access to Skene has been limited due to a couple of idiots following their road navigators & ignoring the signs, not the Police, not the Council, DSE or Parks.
While you can bash the Association/clubs as much as you want, if it wasn't for their last minute intervention there wouldn't be access available to anybody. Go to NSW to see what happens when people winge but don't act. They close just about everything & what is open you pay to see!

stop funding these pigs and they will not have the resources to impact our accessability to tracks

Actually works the other way. When land managers have no money it is far cheaper for them to close a track than it is to maintain it & keep it open

maby we could get 4wd vic to asign a club each weekend as a roster to set up an inspection point at either end of the road

Other than the fact many in a vain attempt to keep tracks open are busy doing track clearing, hut restoration, camp host & fixing up damage from wankers who vandalize the bush, humour me with a reason why clubs should sit up at Skene copping abuse so that non members who are too tight to pay & too lazy to help should have access to the hill
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just looked on the mjoc website and there are no snow trips, are there going to be any

While most trip leaders have been preoccupied with Jambo, I'll certainly be posting one up. Might even camp up on top in igloos if there's some intrest

[flexytj]

great work from the einstiens that came up with this initiative , now the ill equipped will venture to more remote and harder to get to mountains for there snow drives and be placed in even more danger instead of going to a popular mountain where there chances of recieving assistance from other passing 4wders is greatly reduced .

unless jamiesen licola road is gated i people that make navigational mistakes like the incident with the sat nav that sort of thing will still happen .

[Tasar]

MJOC Mt skene trip will be posted soon for 14/15th August 2010
we must register every vehicle so must book if you want to go

Well said crackles - look forward to seeing your igloo trip posted soon

[flexytj]

is it just jamiesen licola rd that is closed or the other tracks on the mountain too

[Crackles]

is it just jamiesen licola rd that is closed or the other tracks on the mountain too

Well there's the rub. The closure from what I can gather is by the Mansfield Shire which includes the Licola road over to Connors Plain. Neither the Wellington Shire nor the DSE have closures on side tracks like Lazarini's, Barkley River jeep track or Selma Road.(Not on any seasonal closure list).

[zerosecta]

All I have to add to this thread is a request...

If there is going to be a day trip or over nighter with snow driving involved then please send me an invite - apart from having a hand rather than electric winch I think my JK should be able to keep up.

One more thing - I'd prefere not to have to join a club to come along if it can be helped.

Cheers

[MissionMan]

Originally Posted by zerosecta

All I have to add to this thread is a request...

If there is going to be a day trip or over nighter with snow driving involved then please send me an invite - apart from having a hand rather than electric winch I think my JK should be able to keep up.

One more thing - I'd prefere not to have to join a club to come along if it can be helped.

Cheers

If I go, it will be a day trip in fairly mild conditions because I have a KK and I don't trust snow driving on difficult tracks because their are so many unknown's under the snow that have potential to damage the vehicle. (even with under body plates)

I don't think I'll be going anywhere near conditions that require a winch but I have a mate with a properly kitted out 4x4 and I have all recovery gear other than a winch.

I also have a baby due 29th July so it will be some time after that when my wife gives me leave.