Yowie Rocks track
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Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha)
Just got back from travelling the
Yowie rocks Track which leads from the Evanston
menzies road to Koolynobbing. It goes via several
granite roaks with soaks past some great bushland and onto the
Helena and Aurora Ranges with
Bungalbin Hill a feature. I Started off on Friday about midday and camped at Currara soak. In the morning doing a sidetrek to a ridge that features the second highest point on the kalgoorlie mapsheet. Ended up getting bogged at the end of the day at a
Granite outcrop. Whinch couldnt pull me out and had to resort to physical labour and the highlift jack and hublifter for a recovery. That night it really pored And I awoke to find about 80% of the track filled with 3 inches of water not including long stretches of deep bog holes. The bush tyres I got recently really shone as although they are bald they still have big mud busting lugs left on the side and managed to get me past the Hunt ranges where things were (a bit) drier so it was through the abandoned mt dimer minesite and onto the helena aurora ranges where I spent time poking about till dark. wanting to get back at a reasnable time today I pushed on past koolynobbing and
southern cross and spent the Night at Keeling? rocks where there is a flume built from the rocks to a
dam built in the early 1900s.
If any one is intrested in more info of this fairly remote area I took some wayponts of most of the significant features. you would however have to be prpared to get freindly with the overgrowth in parts and change the odd flat if running radials