Join Jose on the King’s Birthday long weekend for a classic club trip from the Great Alpine Road through the Nunniong State Forest to the Alpine National Park.

PLEASE READ THE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT FUEL

We will meet in the Caltex petrol station in Longwarry on Friday, June 9 at 6:30 pm and drive to the Tambo Crossing campsite on the Great Alpine Road. If we cannot fit all cars at Tambo Crossing we will camp a bit further along the Old Coach Road. THERE ARE NO TOILET FACILITES AT EITHER SITE. It will be a 3-hour drive from longwarry so we should depart at 7:00 pm at the latest. Note traffic to Longwarry may be (even) heavier than usual this Friday. If you prefer you can drive to the campsite on your own, but please notify the trip leader.

On Saturday we will drive north passing Mt Elizabeth and Mt Wong, ascend to Mt. Nugong and camp at the Bentleys Plain Campsite, which has toilets. Several of the tracks we will be do this day are rated Difficult/Very Difficult.

On Sunday we will come down the Nunniong Rd and take beautiful Leeds Tk up to the Splitters Range SF. From there we will drive Nort-East through The Sisters and Delgreaves tracks to Limestone Rd, ending the day at the Native Dog Campsite in the Alpine National Park (which has toilets). Again some tracks will be difficult/very difficult and if they are wet we may even require some winching.

On Monday we will exit the Alpine NP via Limestone Road to Benambra, where the trip will end at ~1:00 pm. It is a 5-6 hrs drive from there to Melbourne.

Full tank of fuel (and see “Additional Comments” below); food, water, warm clothing and camping equipment for 4 winter days; recovery equipment as per the club trip rules for Difficult/Very Difficult-rated trips (winch may be required), tyre deflator and compressor; UHF radio (preferably not just walkie-talkie). As mentioned in the trip description, we will camp the first night at a site without toilet facilities.