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4WD Monthly, Watagan Night Run
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:02 am
by brighty
G'day,
Just quick question... am interested in finding some more trying tracks within the wato's and after seeing these pics in the latest 4wd monthly... looks great. Any chances of some locatins or track names???
Cheers.
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:18 am
by Daisy
Re: 4WD Monthly, Watagan Night Run
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:16 pm
by Old Yella
brighty wrote:G'day,
Just quick question... am interested in finding some more trying tracks within the wato's and after seeing these pics in the latest 4wd monthly... looks great. Any chances of some locatins or track names???
Cheers.
The tracks we went on were Slippery Rock road and Rope road. Slippery Rock is just up from Martinsville and Rope is in the northern end off the main trail and connects onto George's road.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:34 am
by brighty
cheers for that,
do you know of any other similar tracks within a reasonable distance to the central coast... in the wato's or else where????
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:16 am
by Bush65
It's not strictly slippery rock road, but an unamed track that is not shown on the maps. Turn left off slippery rock road if you are coming from the martinsville end of slippery.
From martinsville head north along owens rd for approx 2k. Turn left onto slippery rock rd (GDA94 map coordinates 351510E 6343050N) (not signposted) opposite horgans lane (don't recall if its signposted either).
About 2k along slippery rock rd turn left (GDA94 map coordinates 350100E 6343970N). This track comes out on watagan forest road at GDA94 map coord 348550E 6344660N. If you stayed on slippery rock rd it comes out on watagan forest rd at GDA94 350820E 6347350N near turn to boarding house dam.
There are harder and easier tracks in watagans.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:30 pm
by 4sum4
in the third edition the turn of from slippery is a black doted line
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:05 pm
by Bush65
4sum4 wrote:in the third edition the turn of from slippery is a black doted line
Sorry, I know the black dotted line on the 3rd edition map that you are refering to and that is not the turn. You need to go about 450m further (northward) to make the correct turn.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:54 pm
by Old Yella
Bush65 wrote:It's not strictly slippery rock road, but an unamed track that is not shown on the maps. Turn left off slippery rock road if you are coming from the martinsville end of slippery.
From martinsville head north along owens rd for approx 2k. Turn left onto slippery rock rd (GDA94 map coordinates 351510E 6343050N) (not signposted) opposite horgans lane (don't recall if its signposted either).
About 2k along slippery rock rd turn left (GDA94 map coordinates 350100E 6343970N). This track comes out on watagan forest road at GDA94 map coord 348550E 6344660N. If you stayed on slippery rock rd it comes out on watagan forest rd at GDA94 350820E 6347350N near turn to boarding house dam.
There are harder and easier tracks in watagans.
It is actually the original Slippery Rock road, they use to drive logging trucks up and down this
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:36 am
by Bush65
Old Yella wrote:Bush65 wrote:It's not strictly slippery rock road, but an unamed track that is not shown on the maps. Turn left off slippery rock road if you are coming from the martinsville end of slippery.
From martinsville head north along owens rd for approx 2k. Turn left onto slippery rock rd (GDA94 map coordinates 351510E 6343050N) (not signposted) opposite horgans lane (don't recall if its signposted either).
About 2k along slippery rock rd turn left (GDA94 map coordinates 350100E 6343970N). This track comes out on watagan forest road at GDA94 map coord 348550E 6344660N. If you stayed on slippery rock rd it comes out on watagan forest rd at GDA94 350820E 6347350N near turn to boarding house dam.
There are harder and easier tracks in watagans.
It is actually the original Slippery Rock road, they use to drive logging trucks up and down this
Thanks for that. It is a very old logging track more likely first used by bullocks.
Someone I went to school with had relatives that were timber cutters in the Watagans and one still had bullocks in early 60's.
Do you know what made the deep narrow grooves in the rock (in places along centre of track)?
The width of the grooves could indicate wire rope, but the funny thing is some grooving is in hollows. Maybe it was some device used for braking on decent with a load of logs.
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:42 pm
by Old Yella
no idea what caused them, I was thinking maybe the wheel ruts from bullock wagons locked up sliding down those hills
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:24 pm
by golly_01
no of anywhere on here were i can download a printable map of the watagans ....
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:14 am
by Old Yella
buy one from a camping store
