Cowombat Flat Walk

Thanks for the info Alan. 40k's in a day would be a bit hard for us. We will hopefully get some more info soon. Thanks again BB

I think Cowombat Flat Tk may be a shorter route than McFarlane's Flat Tk.

Both are old vehicle tracks. You could ride a mountain bike along it if you don't think you can walk there and back.

Both tracks were closed by Vic under pressure from NSW to create a wilderness area. Ron Moon claims that the consultative committee was told, "You can have either Davies Plain or Cowombat Flat for 4WD access, but not both; the other will be a wilderness area." They chose Davies Plain.

G'day Brian and Des

I got the gate locations from parks website which states there is a locked gate on Macfarlane Flat Track at the Cobberas Track intersection, by the map mentioned above it's about 10 km in to Cowombat.

As said never been in this way only Limestone - Black Mountain which is 20 km, this takes us about 6-7 hours to walk in. (Avg about 3kmh) Thats with packs on for a weekends stay. So to walk in and out this way in one day is not really feasible, even with only day packs it could take 5 hours at 4kmh one way.

From the Macfarlane end it still could take 3 hours at approx 3kmh. Thats 6 hours of walking alone, stay 2 hours at Cowombat, total 8 hours = a big day, if you not use to it.

Have thought about the use of my mountain bike to access Cowombat from the Limestone end. The idea was to have a base camp at the locked gate and then ride in and out in one day.
The reason against this is I perfer to stay at Cowombat instead of Bulley Creek as it's one my favourite campsites, and to carry all the gear neccessary on the bike would prove difficult because.......
To keep the track open due to the track being closed to vehicles they use a dozer(Assuming) so large rocks are left on the track which would nessitate in carrying the bike and gear for some distance. That is not fun, been there done that before.. (This is probably the main reason for me not taking the bike)

Also I would assume that they would bulldoze the track from one end to the other so Macfarlanes could be in the same state( Remember I,ve never been that way)

Hope this helps with your planning.
Regards
Alan