Avoca River

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Avoca River

Postby mylux » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:15 pm

Hi all,
Just got back yesterday from Basins Hut. :D :D
We left on Wednesday arvo with pissing down rain all the way up till turnoff to Coleridge.
Fine and dusty all the rest of the way to Glenthorne/ Basins Hut.
River is real low but the track on sides of the river has been washed away in places.
The fulla that owns the station now is really pulling out all stops with new fencing everwhere (about 4 or five gates to open and close now) :( :(
New shingle road in to where the gate old gate on stopbank was, and we were talking with the excavator man and he said that the shingle road will continue through to "The Retreat" and a all weater acces road is going to be bulldozed all the way into Basins Hut. :shock: :shock:
So next time I'll leave the 4 x 4 at home and take in a Car :( :( :(
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Re: Avoca River

Postby stealth » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:33 am

looks like a good wee trip.

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Re: Avoca River

Postby mylux » Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:06 pm

Yea its not too far, bout and hour and half to Glenthorne then approx 2 hours into Basins hut.
We normally head in there about 3 times a year (reasonable spot for hunting)
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Re: Avoca River

Postby mrbean_andrew » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:05 pm

CUTC tramping club is heading in to Avoca Hut tommorow with2 trucks - Aim for as far as poss - to get water tank etc into the hut. Hope to get past Galilee Creek - but here there are Debrie and boulders around the place. will update when back.

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Re: Avoca River

Postby niblik » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:11 pm

mrbean_andrew wrote: Aim for as far as poss - to get water tank etc into the hut. Hope to get past Galilee Creek - but here there are Debrie and boulders around the place.


sounds good!!
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Re: Avoca River

Postby rokhound » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:02 pm

I have driven to within 100 mtrs of Avoca Hut, the last 1km is really good, but it is pretty uneventful to there, although a nice trek up the rivers etc.
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Re: Avoca River

Postby rangimotors » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:06 pm

cool pic's guys looks a good spot. Been eyeing up that area for a hunting trip for a while but would be a foot mission.

So I take it the new truck being new and better will make it the full distance Rok? From all reports it sounds like this is the calm before the storm for builders (before people can rebuild) must be time to complete the finishing touches :mrgreen:
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Re: Avoca River

Postby rokhound » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:11 pm

rangimotors wrote:cool pic's guys looks a good spot. Been eyeing up that area for a hunting trip for a while but would be a foot mission.

So I take it the new truck being new and better will make it the full distance Rok? From all reports it sounds like this is the calm before the storm for builders (before people can rebuild) must be time to complete the finishing touches :mrgreen:


The last time was at the height of Xmas break a few years back (4 or so), The last climb up a bit of rise in the river (about 3mtrs or so) had us heading towards some fernery and the place was packed. So in the interests of tread lightly, we backed off. The other boys who were there put on a good show though, I think Turoa may have been one of them :wink: :wink:

Just told FCC to stick up their arse rather than have stick up mine. So yeah, there will be some hours put in on the Mutt so I can get it out and thrash the shit out of it :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: Avoca River

Postby niblik » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:14 pm

rokhound wrote: there will be some hours put in on the Mutt so I can get it out and thrash the shit out of it :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


rock rash me thinks? 8)
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Re: Avoca River

Postby rangimotors » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:24 pm

niblik wrote:
rokhound wrote: there will be some hours put in on the Mutt so I can get it out and thrash the shit out of it :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


rock rash me thinks? 8)

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On topic: how was the hunting in there guys?

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Re: Avoca River

Postby rokhound » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:27 pm

Some pics of our trip.


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Re: Avoca River

Postby mrbean_andrew » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:02 am

We only got as far as Galilee Creek on sat 2nd July 2011.
no track across that creek, though the track after that looks fine.
Something big would get past maybe! or moving lots of rocks.
Lots of snow on valley floor.

and there is no all weather road still.

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Re: Avoca River

Postby mylux » Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:27 am

We just got back from another trip up to Basins Hut. :D
The weather was magic and rivers were low.
We carried on up the Avoca a bit but with four kids in tow didn't want to push it too hard.
Camped close to the hut and had the whole place to ourselves :D :D
They haven't put in all weather track and things still the same up there :D
Will post some pics soon.
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Re: Avoca River

Postby mylux » Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:39 pm

Outta the way sheep shagga !!!!

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Re: Avoca River

Postby ClassicCruiserSpares » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:10 pm

Looks like you had another good trip up there, good to see the lux up and running and drivable. Weather looks mint.
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Re: Avoca River

Postby Jafa » Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:07 am

rokhound wrote:Some pics of our trip.

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Ahh yeah, good times :D
First time I fell in love with a 233:1 crawl ratio :mrgreen:
I think I can safely blame Mike for causing me the rockcrawling disease :lol:
Love to get back up the Avoca again, this time get past the hut :D
Maybe next Xmas, when all the boys have their wrecks fixed/finished/sorted.....
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Re: Avoca River

Postby mylux » Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:13 am

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:Looks like you had another good trip up there, good to see the lux up and running and drivable. Weather looks mint.

Yea the lux is finally going 8)
No real dramas except the missus managed to turn the amp into a smoking wreck by playing the music too loud :lol: :lol:
Good trip all round and looking forward to a few good trips this coming year :!:
New house is sorted and work is flat out so looks promising to be a great new year.
Woo Hoooooooooooo :D :D
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Re: Avoca River

Postby SupraSurf » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:10 pm

Jafa wrote:
rokhound wrote:Some pics of our trip.

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Ahh yeah, good times :D
First time I fell in love with a 233:1 crawl ratio :mrgreen:
I think I can safely blame Mike for causing me the rockcrawling disease :lol:
Love to get back up the Avoca again, this time get past the hut :D
Maybe next Xmas, when all the boys have their wrecks fixed/finished/sorted.....


Aww shucks.... thanks Jafa :-)
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Re: Avoca River

Postby tomsoffroad » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:18 am

Sadly I laugh at this old stuff... drool at MTB pics now



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Re: Avoca River

Postby Jafa » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:27 am

SupraSurf wrote:Sadly I laugh at this old stuff... drool at MTB pics now


Hi Mike! long time no hear! Funny you should mention the MTB's, I have been playing around on one of these for a while now, downhill is such good fun, not so keen on the up lol, but a primo singletrack DH is worth it. I cant believe the gnarly places you can ride one of these things :lol: Wellie has heaps of MTB tracks, get out most weekends for a blast, love it! so much so that I haven't even got the Jalopy out at all last year lol. That said though, I've made a new years resolution to use it a lot more, after all the time I put into it.....
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