With two local track sessions this weekend, its easier to post them as a combined trip report.

Saturday 1400
The Razorback was Saturday afternoons session – 7 vehicles met just off the side of the cemetery carpark before dropping air pressure and heading off road. A quick educational session on reverse recovery starts for those keen to learn a new trick getting out of sticky situations safely, and up the hill we went.

Meandering along the top of the ridgeline is a relatively slow journey, with some steep ascents and descents, a couple of precarious off camber sections – enough to thrill everyone in the vehicle. when we reach the fence line near the shooting range we stopped, turned around and went back the way we came. Sadly, the timing was 15minutes off the afternoon jet arrivals, and by the time they were landing, we were regrouped at the edge of the Transport Hall of Fame and about to head home for the evening.

Sunday 0900
10 vehicles met at the end of Stephens Road, and proceeded along the local tracks east of the Golf Course Estate. Upon reaching a nice hill climb, 4 elected to make the loose, wheel lifting scramble to the top and met the remainder of the group at a track intersection not far away. The intersection posed a challenge for one Jeep, high-centreing itself on a nasty washout. Once the group was recovered and moving again, we visited Tin Can Hill, a site of an old gold mining facility near Alice Springs, and then onwards to the tracks north of Undoolya Road, and the potbelly lookout, where our 10 vehicle trip was met by another, and became a convoy of 11. 1200 rolled by and we made our way out to the road to return home for lunch. No incidents, nothing broken, and home in time for a Sunday Roast for lunch.

Location

alice springs