Tuesday, Jul 08, 2008 at 21:52
Thanks for the offer John, but it's ok.
I signed up last Friday as we were going to be leaving the next day, but since
membership took a few days, I worked around it by transferring the co-ordinates of the major turnoffs into the gps manually by hovering the mouse over the map, and noting the co-ordinates that way.
It was enough for us to find our way there and back. Fortunately the parts of the track that I didn't mark, NPWS have signposted, so we managed to get there and back ok.
I got a very messy tracklog on the Garmin Vista going there (partly because I'd planned to go straight onto Minuma Range off of the Krawaree (snowball ?) Rd, and found that trail is now gated, and had to backtrack back up to Middle Mountain Track to enter that way - which incidentally is the way the person who recorded the plotswap mentioned above, had used (I knew I should have stuck to his route).
However, on the direct return trip I recorded a fairly clean log all the way back from
Bendethera to Qbn McDonalds (even Maccas coffee tastes good after 3 days out
camping).
It was that tracklog I was mostly after, a nice clean one to follow from
Canberra to
Bendethera via Captain's Flat, Krawaree/snowball Road, Middle Mountain Road, Minuma Range FT, etc.
So now I have a reasonable one myself. Though my friend's vehicle had some issues with the thermo-electric fan conversion he'd done, so with all the getting out and doing trackside repairs, there were some times when the GPS unit ended up face down, so may have lost signal for small periods of time while we were stopped, but shouldn't have effected the accuracy of the log.
So thanks again for the offer, but I've now got what I needed.
Mind you, I make the same offer, if anyone would like a Garmin Vista Tracklog of
Bendethera to Qbn Maccas, that they can play in the reverse direction if they want to go TO
Bendethera, I'm also happy to send it to anyone who'd like it. The route certainly seemed the most direct way to get there from
Canberra.
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