Glasshouse Mountains Day Trip - 13th Sept
Posted: September 14th, 2014, 10:14 pm
We had another perfect day for a 4x4 trip this Saturday. It was sunny all day without being hot and there was very little dust around. I am a bit unfortunate to be writing this trip report because Mark and Arie were the last two club members to arrive i Morayfield, but they decided that they would rather go to see Aries dad than go to Glasshouse and have to write a trip report. Coming along on this trip we had
Capella_Ben
BenJancz and his nontourage
Dalmatian
Dave
John
Anton and Co
Scott and Co
Jason and Co
We headed off from the Roadhouse on schedule after a quick repair to Tim's car. The repair was just painting over some rust but i'm counting it and Tim owes me a beer.
First stop was to let our tyres down and lock the hubs in. It was at this point that i noticed there was absolutely nothing wrong with the bolts on my left hub and they needed no mechanical attention again....at all.
It was not long before we came across our first challenge, the Glasshouse Classic. There were alot of runners jogging along the first track we went down, several of them stopped to ask questions like "is this the right way" and "are there many people in front of me" etc etc. You can see a couple of joggers in the pic below. I was definately not trying to take a picture of them and my sole focus was on Daves car.
Daves car did not make it through the bog holes so we burned and abandoned it.
OK thats not really Daves car, its one of two we found burned out during the day, there is a pic of the other one a bit further down. As you can see it was in a pretty remote place and whoever was driving did a good job to get a soft roader that far in down the track shown below.
We ended up doing a bit of a loop and found ourselves back at a point where I had a little bit of trouble on the last trip. 80 Ben decided to prove how much more capable an 80 series is and the proof is in the pic below. To his credit he did show good judgement to winch himself out of the bog hole and not into and through it like someone else in the club who drives a red Holden.
We then drove down a few of our more well traveled paths to our lunch spot. To get there we had to drive over a couple of humps, the pic below being the first one and was not too hard to navigate
The second hill was a bit of a challenge and was handled by three drivers in three different methods.
#1 slow and steady
#2 Super safety first winch attached
#3 Complete disregard for safety flat out. (highlight of the day that NOBODY CAUGHT ON VIDEO)
Dave was in the car as passenger and will never be the same. Tim may have just been in a hurry to reach our lunch spot
After lunch we headed off to our next spot via the power lines where we decided to do a spot of reverse snatch recovery practice
Lets get away from these power lines and into some more interesting stuff. Everyone turned their nose up at the next bog hole, imagine cleaning that gunk from the underside of your car.
It was not long after starting to travel down our new track that we came across an interesting section. After a bit of testing it was decided that it was not deep at all and had a nice hard base.
But Dave decided to plow through it as fast as he could anyway
At the next obstacle after checking we decided that it was "not deep at all and had a nice hard base" blah blah blah whatever
There was "not alot" of water ingress into Daves car so all good. We decided anyway that we had enough mud and wanted some technical driving and we all know that that can only mean one thing "Pumpkins Peril". A couple of drivers were navigating Pumpkins Peril for the first time and still did a great job getting to the top.
and then back down to our next challenge
via another burned out car.... Falcon, Camry, Commodore ??
It was getting a bit late in the day so 80 Ben and Tim were the only two drivers confident of making the top without a tonne of winching especially over this hump
After that we all felt exactly how i feel about this trip report and decided to air up and head home.
Another great day at Glasshouse, cars of all standards, plenty of options to suit all drivers, and the Frontera still lives
BTW Dave the CD you gave me has a crack in it.... no idea how that could have happened out 4x4ing
Capella_Ben
BenJancz and his nontourage
Dalmatian
Dave
John
Anton and Co
Scott and Co
Jason and Co
We headed off from the Roadhouse on schedule after a quick repair to Tim's car. The repair was just painting over some rust but i'm counting it and Tim owes me a beer.
First stop was to let our tyres down and lock the hubs in. It was at this point that i noticed there was absolutely nothing wrong with the bolts on my left hub and they needed no mechanical attention again....at all.
It was not long before we came across our first challenge, the Glasshouse Classic. There were alot of runners jogging along the first track we went down, several of them stopped to ask questions like "is this the right way" and "are there many people in front of me" etc etc. You can see a couple of joggers in the pic below. I was definately not trying to take a picture of them and my sole focus was on Daves car.
Daves car did not make it through the bog holes so we burned and abandoned it.
OK thats not really Daves car, its one of two we found burned out during the day, there is a pic of the other one a bit further down. As you can see it was in a pretty remote place and whoever was driving did a good job to get a soft roader that far in down the track shown below.
We ended up doing a bit of a loop and found ourselves back at a point where I had a little bit of trouble on the last trip. 80 Ben decided to prove how much more capable an 80 series is and the proof is in the pic below. To his credit he did show good judgement to winch himself out of the bog hole and not into and through it like someone else in the club who drives a red Holden.
We then drove down a few of our more well traveled paths to our lunch spot. To get there we had to drive over a couple of humps, the pic below being the first one and was not too hard to navigate
The second hill was a bit of a challenge and was handled by three drivers in three different methods.
#1 slow and steady
#2 Super safety first winch attached
#3 Complete disregard for safety flat out. (highlight of the day that NOBODY CAUGHT ON VIDEO)
Dave was in the car as passenger and will never be the same. Tim may have just been in a hurry to reach our lunch spot
After lunch we headed off to our next spot via the power lines where we decided to do a spot of reverse snatch recovery practice
Lets get away from these power lines and into some more interesting stuff. Everyone turned their nose up at the next bog hole, imagine cleaning that gunk from the underside of your car.
It was not long after starting to travel down our new track that we came across an interesting section. After a bit of testing it was decided that it was not deep at all and had a nice hard base.
But Dave decided to plow through it as fast as he could anyway
At the next obstacle after checking we decided that it was "not deep at all and had a nice hard base" blah blah blah whatever
There was "not alot" of water ingress into Daves car so all good. We decided anyway that we had enough mud and wanted some technical driving and we all know that that can only mean one thing "Pumpkins Peril". A couple of drivers were navigating Pumpkins Peril for the first time and still did a great job getting to the top.
and then back down to our next challenge
via another burned out car.... Falcon, Camry, Commodore ??
It was getting a bit late in the day so 80 Ben and Tim were the only two drivers confident of making the top without a tonne of winching especially over this hump
After that we all felt exactly how i feel about this trip report and decided to air up and head home.
Another great day at Glasshouse, cars of all standards, plenty of options to suit all drivers, and the Frontera still lives
BTW Dave the CD you gave me has a crack in it.... no idea how that could have happened out 4x4ing
