Towing a camper in the Victorian High Country

first off you need to find out what tracks are open .
after all the rain in recent weeks some are to remain closed till they are
repaired .
mechpete

Murray the track from King Billy to Howitt is currently closed.

Wonnangatta Valley Access (From the Parks Vic site)
King Billy Track (Final section of access route into Wonnangatta Valley from Mansfield Closed – Entry routes into the valley from Dargo, Licola and Myrtleford/Bright are Open) Note that the Brocks Road – Bluff Track circuit in the Mt Buller area remains Open. Expected Re- openning Date: To Be Confirmed.

As with all High Country routes how hard they are depends on how much rain/snow has fallen. Currently the Trek would be very difficult with rivers up to 1m deep with some hills being cut up badly & very slippery making towing extremely difficult. When the route does open, the areas of concern are the switchbacks & steep clay hill on Zeka Spur, the Wonnangatta River crossing at the end of the Valley, the very steep climb up the Wombat Range & the final climb up to Blue Rag. (As Blue Rag is a one way track, many people drop their campers off at the Dargo road & pick them up on the return run)
The Kimberly it's self will be more than capable although their long drawbars do tend to belly out on the sharper erosion control ditches. You haven't mentioned your tow vehicle which is probably more important. A full sized 4x4 preferably with mud tyres & lockers is ideal when tracks are wet.
If travelling alone I wouldn't recommend towing by yourself either.
So yes when the route opens it can be done if well prepared but it may be very difficult. I myself recommend base camping with trailers & doing day trips from a central location.

Towing accross one of the HC rivers recently.

G'day Murray
Towed once in there and would never do it again. Not so much because of the difficulty angle but due to the camper limiting what you can do and being inconvenient. We had to base camp and do day trips which meant covering more kms than would have been the case with a tent - often having to come back to camp the way we went out. Next time it will be tenting for us as I believe we could have seen a lot more country that way in the time we had available.

Hi Murray, hope you like curves as the Vic HC has them in abundance. If you feel a bit queasy then make sure you have a good supply of carsickness tablets. We went to Howqua Hills in January for a week and it hit 43 degrees. But this year it's a La Nina so we are likely to be dodging the storms. Crackles' pic looks impressive at first glance, but the trailer left wheel is in a bit of a hole - the fourby is practically high and dry. But it is more fun to ford a deeper crossing than a drought stricken trickle. Enjoy the trip... W

I was just there last week and although the rivers are up I made numerous high crossing in my 4.2 lifted 2" Gu patrol and would have done so with a trailer. However, due to the narrow tracks etc, I wouldnt have gone down the tracks that said 'rd closed' as there is no way of turning around.

I can assure you that it will be a little while before anytone gets through the King Billy track at the Macalister River. There has been a landslide where there is not only mud across the track but some very very large tress.. we thought we'd give it a go so drove for 2 hrs to get there only to find there was no way even the most modified vehivle was going to clamber over a 'pick up sticks' macramae of 3m tree truncks 3t boulders and mud etc. it will require an excavator to spend a day getting there and then a couple of days work to clear it.

Basin Rd to the East of Pineapple Flat Camping area is also 'closed' but we drove it ok, granted some pretty deep crossings but nothing your 200 serious coiuldnt handle, trailer included.

There has been a lot of work done on the roads since the storms so most are open and in fact in pretty good nick. to their credit, whoever is running the repirs was proactive enought to put up signs well in advance ie, not just at the last intersection before the closure but we had plenty of notice to decide not to waste our time 'trying' to get through.

I suggest the KK will be ok. steer clear of the black diamond tracks and dont bother attemptingthe closed tracks and it wil lbe fine.. have a great time