Whats a trip report ?
Interesting day....... passed Lloyd heading the other way ( he made the tough call that his car problem would hamper others ).
Started off with the usual round of Emu / Interesting pies at Avoca with the weather looking average but not actually raining.
Had a brief explore on the way to Waterfall and headed off to do the "usual" suspects. It then began to rain.... so now
we know what happens to the red dirt of Avoca when its rains - it turns to red grease.
Halfway up our first track (Frazer) Alan reminded me why I modify.... a stock Roza on roadish tyres doesn't suit Avoca's red grease - uphill or down. I scrambled to the top ( fun fun fun..... ) to turn around to get back to Alan. Tied the rear of the Mouse to a tree and lowered him by winch as he was a bit concerned about angles and traction. By this stage the track was a small river
There's something weird about Avoca weather as well, get out of the car and it rains, get in it stops, although the hail we had
provided an unusual if cold diversion
Then looked at Old Bluff, if anything the hard line is significantly worse now and had to call that one off as Alan couldn't get enough traction to do the bypass.
Drove around to Slate Quarry, expecting the worst, but its easy now so finally got to the ridge top and went looking for easier stuff for a few hours.
Finally came back down the easy Old Bluff bypass (a bit of tree removal required - knew the chainsaw would come in handy ) which I think gave Alan some more white knuckles - steer and pray ( order debatable ) and back to Waterfall. As it was after 4 decided not to push our luck and headed back to Avoca.
So there we have it - might not rain that often in the Avoca region but it can turn an easy/medium trip into a medium/hard one in a flash. We kept it easyish but ........
