Bungalbin Hill to Mt Dimer track

Forgot to mention the track up to the top of Bungalbin Hill is a bit of a goat track and there is only room for about 2 vehicles at the top. Track up is definately out if towing.

Are you saying there is a track to the top of Bungalbin Hill? Or do you mean the Helena and Aurora Range?

Bungalbin Hill is in the Helena & Aurora Range. I've just checked my PLT file and the track into the hill petered out at its base the track up to the top of the adjoining hill is what we took at UTM 50J 7 51 69E 66 19 205N WGS 84 or 30 deg 31' 39.5"S 119deg 53' 03.5E

Rod if you send me an email I'll send you my file for that portion of the trip we did.

More room than for 2 vehicles up there. You drive up the saddle that crosses the ranges and besides the track heading down over the other side is a track up the ranges heading south end north. The southern one starts heading towards bungalpin and peters out with not much room. The one heading north comes to an open cleared camping area st the top

Hi Dunc,
I know where it is, its just that you said the track to the top of Bungalbin Hill and the last time I was there, there wasn't a track to the top of Bungalbin, but there is a track at the northeast end of the Helena Aurora Range going to the top of this range and it also has a large area to camp at ie at least a dozen unless its all changed in recent times.

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The one I'm sure you're referring to is the track that is on the NE section of the attached map.

We drove down off the saddle southwards and it was pretty rough about 20m from the bottom of the hill with a nasty ledge that had my mates Troopy at a very horrible angle.

On the western side of the map is a longer pink line that heads east that is the one I was referring to.

Hope that helps.

Wow! Thanks guys for all this wonderful info.

I'd be grateful for your PLT file as well Dunc. I'll pm my email to you.

We'll be out there over the long weekend (next weekend) & will let you know how the tracks were.

Many thanks once again.

Cheers

Hasn't changed rod I was there a couple of months ago

Paul there is a mountain of good camping spots to be found and the scenery in parts is very nice indeed.

One oddity on our October trip was the distinct lack of wild life. Not even a rabbit. Previous trip we saw a dingo, roo's, an emu and I think from memory a donkey. Guess the mining could be having an impact.

You dont usually see a great deal if wildlife. Not being pastoral land with water sources you see far less of the animals that breed to abundance with artificial water

that would be a very new thing then as it wasnt that long ago i went through there there were no gates let alone locked

having said that it barely surprices me as i could here a drilling rig somewhere and alot of those old mining areas are being revisited with the edna may mine at Westonia being one of the biggest.

I would have asked what sort of tenamant they have there because its a fairly reasnable bet it might have reverted back to an exploration tenament meaning they dont have exclusive access to it

could still be a mining tenemnet though

I supose i should get off my but and write to western 4x4

as they have had some success in the past in getting places to provide alternate routes/access



because that is a pretty major track to come accross especially from the East as ive done before and find it closed.

You didnt see who was in charge out there did you? I will flick them an email if you can reminding them thats a nationally pubblicised 4x4 route and alternate access should be provided

OK email sent to VECTOR RESOURCES suggesting they might like to organise alternate access through there given its importance in nationally promoted 4x4 track driving

and a copy of email sent to western 4x4 as well as a link to this thread

Well perhaps Vector Resources ought to contact people who make maps like Geoscience Australia (NAT Map), Hema & QPA, as well as Western 4WDriver, WA 4WD assoc, Exploroz.com, etc instead of just putting gates across what appear to be public roads and employing thugs straight out of the outlaw bikie gangs to police it.

I've had no response from western 4x4. That is an essential track
I urge you to contact them with your experience. Just google them and contact us. They got back to me within 48hours

I don't quite understand your post. Are you able to email to me your email to the company and their response, including their relevant email addresses. My email brownings at bigpond dot com.

Many thanks

OK ive forwarded you my coraspondance with them, if you scroll down you will see my email to them and above that is thier reply

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i also forwarded this to western 4wder and recieved no response

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Hi Guys,
I spoke to Nick from Western 4WDriver and he said that he doesn't use the Mt Dimer road in the Roly Dimer tour and it is not recorded in the trip notes. He turns left at the junction heading to the northern side of H&A .
Cheers,
Laura

this is a very small part of the email sent to me

-Please notify the 4WD club of my contact details-

in the context of the email I sent to them that would mean the exploroz comunity

so nothing was done which wasnt expressly requested by her in the first place

I actually asked her about that, but she was referring to one specific club and now due to the volume of abusive phone calls she's received she's really ticked off.

No one specific club was mentioned in my email to her. In fact no mention of any club was made. The only specific mentions was for the western 4x4 mag and exploroz website. So I took her reply to mean both if these.
In hindsight I should have published their contact details as found on the net
If theres any further issues I can forward all coraspndance but there shouldn't be as she did ask for her contact details to be distributed