Bushpigs & Sunrises_05_Jindabyne-to-Jingellic

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Prologue https://www.austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises__-00_prologue.7196/


Day1 https://www.austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_01_mirboo-to-bruthen.7197/

Day2 https://www.austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_02_-bruthen-to-marlo.7198/

Day3 https://www.austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_03_marlo-to-cann-river.7200/

Day 4 https://www.austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_04_cann-river-to-jindabyne.7201/

Day5 https://austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_05_jindabyne-to-jingellic.7202/

Day6 https://austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_06_jingellic-to-eskdale.7203/

Day7 https://austouring.com/index.php?threads/bushpigs-sunrises_07_eskdale-to-mansfield.7204/

Day8 https://www.austouring.com/index.ph...rises_08_mansfield-buller-sterling-loop.7205/

 

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Once more luck held and while overcast and a bit foggy in spots, there was no rain in sight.

Settling on "option#3" route for the day over brecky, there was a good mix of open country gravel and sealed twisties at hand, something more relaxed than the rather intense bush-tracks thus far....

Option #3 : 330k’s Snowies High Plains
fuel in Adaminaby!! Currently no fuel Cabramurra!!
Wainui Rd/ Eucumbene, Yaouk loop, Twisties to Kiandra, Mt. Selwyn/KingsCross and Cabramurra historic Snowy-Hydro airfield, more twisties towards Khancoban, backroads GregGreg + River Rd. gravel to Jingellic Pub.

Morning fog on the Wainui Rd. (Eucumbene-> Buckenderra)

The roadworks on the Bobeyan Rd. to Shannons Flat were quickly forgotten on the Yaouk loop...sublime as ever.

Just mind those downhill cattle grids with the deeply washed out trench after....up for a brown-skid-polka?

 

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Prime shots from the Yaouk Rd. above Adaminiby....Snowies and Mt. Koscie in the background/ haze, town just on the bottom-right somewhere, the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee only 5k's back....God's own country!

I wasn't going to move from that spot until I had a shot of everyone.

Took forever, as the Hima had thrown the rear exhaust bolt and the entire exhaust system was now "flappin' in the breeze", hanging just by the 2 header bolts on the cylinder head!!
Luckily Squiz had some spare hardware for another bush-fix.

 

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Outstanding!!!!

 

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Gorillas In The Mist?

 

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A slow-ish 60/80 kmh run across the Tantangaras for the turn off at Kiandra, then a deliberate disregard for the "CLOSED, Construction Site" signs and barriers to maybe sneak past to the bottom of the Mt. Selwyn Skifields Carpark for a gravel run across to Cabramurra, checking out the old Cabramurra Airstrip used through the original Snowy Hydro Scheme construction of the 1960s.
No go! Go the long way around.

Something a bit personal as we still have longterm clients well into their 90s, who spent years in the Hydro-migration camps in Bonegilla (Lake Hume/ Albury area) or built the clock-tower in Jindabyne through the construction of town at the time, living and sleeping in their cars for 9 months/ year for the sake of making a living in their new country.

The concreter who did all the foundations, slabs, drives etc in our place in Kilsyth in 2000ad, had also done the entire concrete work, ski-lifts, huts, admin-center, power-works, drainage, culverts and endless other stuff for nearly 3 years during the initial Mt. Selwyn Alpine Skifields construction (Graham also bought a 650Pegaso as a spin off....and was part of the very first 6-peaks ride in 2001, turning the trip into his 2. honeymoon by inviting the crew to his wedding on the very first day of the ride at his new place in Eildon)!

Over The Shoulder....Rides through the Decades

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Back to 2022....
Another "lousy lunch spot" at 3-Mile Dam

https://jingellicpub.com.au/

 

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"Get outta da way, peasants!"


Don't eat this at home






I think I was leaning over here

 

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I rode the gravel from the Cabramurra airstrip down toward Khancoban on your recommendation Pete. The corrugations shook the terminals off my battery. But it was a very pretty ride.

 

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I rode the gravel from the Cabramurra airstrip down toward Khancoban on your recommendation Pete. The corrugations shook the terminals off my battery. But it was a very pretty ride.

You wouldn't recognize the place right now.... it's a major construction zone and as busy as a poked-at wasps nest, not too many weeks left before the white stuff shows up again.

 

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The old airstrip has become a dump for the dead timber cleared off those sites they're working on.

Sorry sight: Tumut Pond Dam and bushfire ravaged National Park
Now it's fairly easy to follow the run of the road, something not seen before.

All hat's left of Bradleys Hut :-(
They even had to fence off the lewftover fireplace and chimney so the vandals wouldn't tear it down.
Pathetic.

Upper Murray Valley near Tooma, about an hour later.

Happy to report that the beer is as cold as it ever was at the Jingellic Pub.... and nice to see the old Publican still around.