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Rubicon State Forest Trip Report

Rubicon State Forest an area most of us have not traveled before over near Marysville. Having it’s own Power Station – Rubicon Dam which also included a tramway which was in operation until the 1990’s when all terrain vehicles took over the work of the tram cars. Three impressive trestle Read more

Group photo at Mt Avoca

Moonambel Trip Report

The last drive for the year in 2018 was an absolute ripper, with a great turnout of 22 vehicles, and quite a few new members participating in their first club trip – base camping at the Moonambel Recreation Reserve for the weekend and driving through the Pyrenees State Forest. Day Read more

4wd coming through river crossing

Buckland Valley Trip Report

Buckland Valley up in the High Country, Melbourne Cup weekend was going to be 4 days of great campsites, tough tracks with steep climbs, with sensational views with still snow peaked mountains in the background, oh yeah and a total of 53 river crossings. We know Buckland Valley for its Read more

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Little Desert Trip Report

Little Desert National Park, another experience of the outback in Victoria’s Mallee region, with sand dunes, dry lakes, woodlands, scrub and wildflowers. It was the season for the wildflowers to be out but with the lack of rain they weren’t out in their abundance this weekend. Our trip leader Ernie Read more

Aerial group photo

Stringybark Creek Trip Report

The club’s September trip was to Stringybark Creek Campground near Tolmie for 2 nights of base camping and some scenic driving. Day 1 – Bendigo to Stringybark Creek Friday 7th September 2018 We left Bendigo with 3 vehicles on Friday afternoon, to meet another 8 vehicles at Benalla McDonald’s. We Read more

2018 snow trip group photo

Snow Trip 2018 Trip Report

Our yearly snow trip took us into the Buckland Valley via Myrtleford for a 3 night high country trip in early August. After following the snow report for the High Country for 2 weeks before the trip the forecast was looking amazing with up to 20-40cm of snow for the Read more

4wd driving through mud

Mt Disappointment Trip Report

One of our Winter Trips took us down closer to Melbourne to Mt Disappointment State Forest. Only being an hours drive from Melbourne and 2 hours from Bendigo, Mt Disappointment is a great spot for 4wding, and despite Seasonal Track Closures we still found lots of interesting tracks to explore. Read more

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Mt Wellington Trip Report

The weather report for the Queens Birthday weekend indicated the High Country was about to receive 20mm of rain on Friday – we had a wet and slippery trip in store for us. Day 1 – Bendigo to Low Saddle Camp Friday 8th June 2018 Leaving Bendigo on Friday afternoon Read more

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Running Creek Trip Report

This trip to Running Creek near Jamieson in the Victorian High Country was organised to take one of our sponsors, Paul Harrison (Harrison 4WD Centre) away 4WD’ing and camping for the weekend and show them what the club all about and what we do. That is – getting out into Read more