Thursday, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:19
Can't comment on that area really, and hadn't thought of it as a contender for the discussion, as I haven't been up there since I was a kid.
I was thinking more of
places further south like Toolangi, some
places up in the high country that are well trafficked, bits of the
Otways, Mt Dissappointment, Gippsland.
Many of the
places with major damage problems are close to large rural centres or cities and therefore are subject to the regular abuse by some less responsible clubs and the predominantly
young, predominantly male, predominantly spring/body lifted with big muddies, and often overpowered vehicles - a combination of or all of the above.
There are still many clubs that have either a club mentality that the muddier the better and bugger the consequences, or a small group of members that think that way who are never pulled into line.
I know of one club that did a trip earlier this year into Toolangi within a week of the area getting 150mm plus of rain, in basically stock vehicles. A recipe for getting stuck and increasing damage on very soft and wet tracks (and maybe having to make a few chicken tracks worse) if there ever was one. I know that the VAFWDC took a fairly dim view of it - and the club proudly claims to be Tread Lightly affiliated and aware.
Dave
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