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Was a good day, bloody hot though and my lackl of tolerance to heat was put to the test especially with no ****ing aircon(it works, but useless
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Got to the park around 7:15 or thereabouts, ran into Darren, Greg, Kelvin and Gregs son Nick in the Sierra. The track into Cityview is just a warm up for thing to come, not terribly hard but still could be a bit tricky if you're not careful.
Anyway, we were all keen for a bit of a play, Greg had to hang around to assist harry with the DARE so Darren, Nick, Kelvin and myself went for a bit of a explore down to the creek track. I remember this track being quite a challenge but the recent deluge has made it truggy territory and a bit much for us mere mortals in full bodied rangies (and Suzuki) so we scratched that idea. We retreated back to the top near the campsite when Dave rocked up in Gumboot. off for another explore and did the loop track, not too hard but a bit of a tricky creek exit for some of the less modified (or straight paneled) LR's would be the sticking point, not for us in old dunga Rangies (and Suzuki
)
We had a play in the playground at the bottom of the hill, drove to the top where kelvin decided to have a bit of as crack at the rock step near the big rock (not my favorite obstacle, I have bad memories of that when Cityview was previously opened). Kelvin gave the rangie a slight nudge, but didn't crack it instead busting the yoke on the uni at the transfer case end. This put a dampener on the morning but luckily darren, dave and Kelvin went for a bit of a search up to the owners shed where luckily there was a rangie driveshaft. Got a hold of it, threw it on the Rangie with some aggravation (it wasn't playing the game put lightly) and off Kelvin went without incident for the rest of the day
Bit more of a play then Darren decided to take us over to the other side, plenty of dead ends, tracks that went nowhere but still worth a look around. Greg and Gaz in the XJ (disco was not at his disposal according to Gaz) caught up with us and we decided to wait a few minutes for them to catch up and continue on that way. The park has plenty of potential at this stage but some new tracks need to be cut out as well as traffic to get the tracks to a driveable standard 9going through long grass not knowing where what is can be interesting). After some u-turns we drove up the ridge track (I think that's what it's called) which lead to a great view of Brisbane and surrounding areas could be seen through the hazy skyline but the breeze was the best part since the heat was unrelenting all day
At this stage, we had enough and decided to head back to the campsite and have a couple of beers before heading home.
Apart from the horrid heat it was a good day, would be better to explore in a cooler time of year (can't wait for winter). Thanks to Darren for leading us astray and everyone else for there company of course.
Trav
Originally Posted by DRanged
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