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Jamieson-Licola Road

Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:29

scratcher1

Heyo.

We made a trip to Mt Skene on the weekend. Knowing the Jamieson-Licola road was of questionable openess, I phoned the DSE and they told me it was OK as far as Skene (from Jamieson), but the bloke (who was very helpful) hadn't been past there so wasn't sure if it was OK through to Licola.

We decided to take the XD falcon instead of the Triton, and luckily we did! Check the photo, we had about 20cm room above the car..

This is about 14km down from Mt Skene towards Jamieson.

Interestingly, the "Road Closed due to snow" sign is still up at Jamieson.

Just wondering if anyone knows what the other half of the road is like, from Licola to Skene? We are heading back up there end of December, but they are doing salvage logging around Mt Sunday Road, so it's a bit dicey driving up there around the trucks....
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AnswerID: 274752   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:37

scratcher1 replied:

Sorry - That could be a bit confusing. What I'm saying is that this weekend, we went from Jamieson - Mt Skene and back. I am insterested going from Licola to Mt Skene now... and was wondering if anyone knew the road condition.
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AnswerID: 274757   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:39

Member - joc45 (WA) replied:

Nasty!
Went through there Feb last year, there was a sign up "Road Closed". WTF? Backtracked till I got a signal on my CDMA, and rang the shire. They didn't know why the sign was there, said it'd be ok to go thru. Road was fine! Just someone had forgotten to remove it.
Gerry
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FollowupID: 538463   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 16:05

Truckster (Vic) posted:

road closed sign is a perm fixture... never removed...
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FollowupID: 538483   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 18:03

Member - joc45 (WA) posted:

Yeh, I'd thought of just driving on past it, but in WA, one can get very hefty fines for ignoring the signs. I got the woman's name at the shire just in case I was apprehended.
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AnswerID: 274794   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 15:48

Crackles replied:

Previous posts have asked whether it's worth taking a chainsaw to the Vic High Country. I think your photo Scratcher answers that question particually as they are falling all the time after the fires. A touch lower and one would have been looking at a 5 hour drive to get around that :-)
Cheers Craig.............
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FollowupID: 538486   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 18:14

Mike Harding posted:

About three months ago my sons and I removed around 10 trees in a 3km stretch of little used track in the High Country - chainsaws a necessity - younger son complained he couldn't listen to a complete track on his CD player without stopping to remove a fallen tree :)

Mike Harding
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AnswerID: 274799   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 16:02

brackets replied:

Was up there on the weekend road is being replaced in several spots about 3km up from Licola
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FollowupID: 538462   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 16:03

brackets posted:

Sorry, and is obviously closed to traffic
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FollowupID: 538560   Submitted: Tuesday, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:59

scratcher1 posted:

Ahh yes, I have heard of that... though was told by Wellington shire that people can get around via the "low road".. wondering if that's target creek - link road - licola road way... Again, not sure if it's any good for a 2WD.
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AnswerID: 274800   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 16:02

scratcher1 replied:

need a bloody big chainsaw for that one!
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FollowupID: 538494   Submitted: Monday, Dec 03, 2007 at 18:48

Crackles posted:

That's not a tree..........that's just a bit of kindling to get the fire going ;-)
Now this is a Bloody big tree!
That may look like a small saw but its a Stihl 056 Magnum with a 28" bar & took about an hour for the club to clear it off :-)
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