OverGrown Vic Tracks

Have you noticed that a lot of the less well known Vic tracks seem to be getting quite overgrown.








Currently I can only do day trips so we set out to drive to MtSunday then possibily continue on to Mt Skene in Vic high country but the amount of overgrown tracks and stray timber meant we proceeded very slowly and didn't make our secondary objective.

The amount of dead wood (no doubt from 2009 fires) that was hidden by dense re-growth was causing a lot of scratches and even meant that winch had to be used on relatively flat mud holes because the fallen timber didn't allow for a proper attack on the obstackles.



Getting to the Base of Mt Sunday is an easy run , but the short climb (1km) up to it via rock ledge and bush took over an hour.

From Mt sunday towards Mt Skene used to be a scenic drive most standard cars could do but now its constant sawn of logs covered by re-growth near 100% of the time bush scrapping both sides of car and then come the obstackles that are normally just fun when uncluttered.

We put a couple of hours into it before some of the guys with new cars had enough.

We turned around, headed down to Low Saddle then around Son of a Bitch Spur and Knobs track only to find they were as bad in places with blackberries added to the mix.





I remember driving to via Low Saddle up Mt Sunday road in a HK holden , admittedly a long time ago.






I always buy plain white paint cars so most of my scratches come out easily but the guys with metallic paint seemed to have a much bigger issue.