Victorian High Country Revisited

This entry is part 11 of 20 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #47

Back in issue #40 Hopper tackled a solo mission to the Victorian mountains, only to find smoke from the fires which decimated the state at that time robbed him of some of the high points. He thought it was worth another try.

Awesome, uninterrupted views.

Due to some pandemic or other it’d been 12 months since my last foray into the Victorian High Country. With my permit to enter the home of our southern neighbours in hand, I left home as four Black Cockatoos noisily demolished the bottlebrush tree outside the garage.

Cruise control kept things steady as I made my way through Marulan, Braidwood, along a few kilometres of the Kings Highway, then on to Tudor Valley Road and Majors Creek. A few road-closed signs had been moved aside on Mountain Pass Road and plenty of traffic had been through, so I puttered on. All was good up the rutted, twisty climb until I pulled up at a serious rock fall with big trees across the track. Trail bikes had been going through, but it looked really risky on a big bike. There was a track about 400mm wide which sloped to a huge drop, so I decided to be sensible and made a U-turn to head back to Braidwood and picked up Cooma Road.

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