Binns Track ,old Andado road
Submitted: Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 20:48
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lockey lux
Just a quick questuion to any one that has been on the binns track recently as specially from Mt Dare to Alice it goes by the old
Andado road what is the condition of the road? am wanting go down there for long weekend and back to Alice via Finke and
kulgera is it too little or is the track good enough to do it. Plus is there much sand on the track and do Mt Dare have day passes to Dalhousie.
Reply By: rredbeak - Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 21:03
Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 21:03
hi lockey,we did the
bins track yesterday from
ross river
homestead to alice via the
plenty highway,at no stage would i call it a track but a really
well maintained gravel road used by many 2wd vehicles.im not sure which part of the track you refer to as it was our first encounter with the track.
we only found one issue with excessive sand on a river bed crossing but even 2wd cars were passing with ease.
hth..cheers..Rod
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Reply By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 21:38
Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 21:38
Did Mt Dare to Alice just a couple of weeks back.
Mt Dare to New
Andado lots of bulldust, some loose sand but towed a trailer through without too many dramas.
Andado to Old
Andado was excellent road. (
well worth the visit). Old
Andado back to Finke was excellent condition.
Finke up to
Chambers Pillar turnoff was the worst road I've need on for quite a while. It had been cut up by
the Desert Race. Very rough, severe corrugations, potholes etc..
Chambers road and the road from there up to Alice was quite good.
Dalhousie to Mt Dare was average. ($2.35 at Mt Dare)
Suggest go via
Kulgera rather than go on the Ghan track from Finke north.
Alan
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Follow Up By: lockey lux - Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 22:47
Monday, Jul 21, 2008 at 22:47
thanks for the reply only have 3 days from here in Alice so was thinking go down via old
andado to dalhousie and back via finke to
Kulgera and up the high way back
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Reply By: jdwynn (Adelaide) - Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008 at 00:54
Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008 at 00:54
Lockey
Alan H's account is excellent. We did it last week.
We went from Mt Dare through to Alice via Santa Teresa. Section north of
Old Andado Homestead is generally much better than southern section. Some long bulldust sections exist south of Santa Teresa but no drama's.
Note Mt Dare advised strongly against doing section north of Old
Andado - seems it was bad up to about a month ago when track was graded - their info had us anxious but was completely wrong (caretakers at Old
Andado said "we had better update them"....).
Enjoy, JD
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