Originally Posted by
Brian Hjelm
Can you drive all the way over Spicer's yet? I went up there in 2003 but only as far as the picnic spot below Governor's Chair. The Parks people had put up a locked gate across the road to stop access to the top section. I went all the way up, along with a schoolmate in 1956. We rode our pushbikes from Brisbane to Pozieres via Spicer's and home via Cunningham's Gap during the August holidays. Stayed at his wrinklies orchard in between rides. We had to carry our bikes over damaged & burnt bridges on the top section. Some work must have been done after that as I went all the way up and over in 1965 with another friend in his early sixties Falcon station wagon. Bridges were dodgy looking, I recall, but we managed to get over them. The well off to the east on the first section past the old pub site is now full of soil.