Perth meet-up today- trip report

Submitted: Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 00:04
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Well Bundy and Rick decided to camp out to night so I'll give a brief summary of the days events. Most of us met up in Byford for the drive down to Dwellingup and Nanga. Met the others in Dwellingup 7 vehicles all up. Matt acted as tour guide and impressed us with his knowledge of the area. He soon had us in Low range and up a slight to moderate challenging hill. I was pleased to say that my Terracan cruised up easily dumping the sand from last weekends fun up in the Pinjar dunes as I went.

The other guys with the higher vehicles as you'd expect cruised up also.

Directly opposite where we came out on a main track was an extremely deep and rutted track that only Ross in his lifted cruiser could tackle. Alas he managed 1/2 way up before he had to reverse back down and suffering some minor panel damage. I would of been lucky to get 10 foot up the track let alone 100m like Ross managed. The video turned out well and will post on YouTube sometime tomorrow.

From here Matt found us another hill to climb this time far more challenging with not all of us having a go. Getting to the top wasn't so bad just had to pick the right line, climb over deep ruts and dodge rocks and trees. what goes up must come down and automatics are just not built for comfortable crawling down steep slippery hills. Needless to say the brakes got a fair bit of use. Only bashed the back diff once.

After that bit of fun we meandered around the tracks having fun in some deep puddles. Word of warning here some of the puddles in Nanga at the moment can be deadly. A couple looked very innocuous but in fact where very deep and if hit at speed would do some serious damage to your vehicle and possibly you.

We had lunch at an idyllic spot except previous campers instead of carting there rubbish out had tried to burn it hence the site took on the scene of a rubbish tip.

One of our group bagged up the worst of it for proper disposal.

As the sun set the majority of us headed back to Perth. Leaving Darren aka Bundy to freeze his what knots off over night.

BTW Tom's Crossing is closed.

Excellent day guys thanks to Bundy for the organisation and Matt for his navigation. Great to meet up with a welcoming like minded group of people, who just wanted to meet new people and get out there and have fun.

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Reply By: mike w (WA) - Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01

Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01
sounds like a good day,

alas, next time
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Reply By: Rossco td105 - Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:06

Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:06
Thanks for posting the report Duncan,

Will add my thanks to Darren for getting it set up and Matt for getting us around the Dwellingup bush Lane Poole area. Great drive and good that all who came could drive it safely (with some trickier tracks for those who wanted).

Great to meet some like minded people getting out and enjoying some of the great bush we have down there.

Going to start cleaning the mud out today and buff out the scratches down the passenger side.

Catch everyone for the next one... Collie? Hope we'll get a few more joining in as well.

Ross and Jo.
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 17:45

Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 17:45
Posting hyperlinks used to be easy so sorry about the huge URL you'll need to cut into your address bar to view the video of Ross yesterday.

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Reply By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 17:47

Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 at 17:47
The URL didn't stay with my above comments. Oh well
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Follow Up By: briggzee (WA) - Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:16

Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:16
Duncan, excuse my ignorance but how to I get to view the video. Also was there any other photos worth looking at? My photos turned out to be too dark.
Ta, Craig
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:26

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:26
Craig I'll email you some of the photos I took. Non really of the action. One of the Paj going up the first hill and some of the tracks + river and bridge scenery.

Send some of your's back to me and I'll have a go at brightening them up.
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Reply By: briggzee (WA) - Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09

Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09
I'll second the thanks to Bundy for organizing the day and Matt for the navigation. We had a great day and even managed to find our way home OK.
We look forward to other EO trips. Craig and Dale
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Reply By: Rossco td105 - Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 22:30

Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 22:30
G'day all,

Did some searching on you tube and found the link for the harder hill climb, pretty slippery track... that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

" target="EOF" class="lbg">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMChBgUC6E

Cheers for uploading it Duncan,

Rossco.
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Follow Up By: Rossco td105 - Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 22:33

Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 22:33
Retry link,

" target="EOF" class="lbg">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMChBgUC6E

Might have to cut and paste...
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:03

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:03
" target="EOF" class="lbg">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMChBgUC6E

Hope that works I cut it out of my URL.
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:06

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:06
The url contained a malformed video id.
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:07

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:07
Sorry
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:12

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:12
Site Link

Try it via the Terracan Forum it worked yesterday.
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:16

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 00:16
Working now.
Sorry for all the messing around I'm virtually a YouTube virgin, as is obvious.
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Reply By: Matt(WA) - Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:12

Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:12
Had a great day guys, took a bit to clean the car but its all worth it in the end. Also looking foward to Collie.
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Follow Up By: Member - BUNDY BOY (WA) - Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 at 22:47

Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 at 22:47
hi there all ......been away this week and of again on Sunday ....glad to hear everyone had a great time.......im trying to get all the pics together so i can post them.......hay Dunc great vid....just as a note ...rear of my truck was nearly made two foot higher thanks to my son the spotter......lol but we saved the carnage...for another day ......pics to follow .....am looking at 3 weeks for the collie trip
Cheers Darren
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