cairns greater region riders

[lookfar]

Be out at work...

Got carbies to re-build too....


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[galbo950]

Thinking about doing a day trip next Thursday. Leave Koah around 8am, head down Clohesy River Road then see wherethe day ends. Should be back by mid afternoon, any takers?

[Kenno]

Thursday 9th sounds good at this stage.
If it's raining I'll trailer up the range.


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Cheers
Ken

Originally Posted by galbo950

Thinking about doing a day trip next Thursday. Leave Koah around 8am, head down Clohesy River Road then see wherethe day ends. Should be back by mid afternoon, any takers?

[galbo950]

Looks like 3 of us for Thursday, any other interest?

Originally Posted by Kenno

Thursday 9th sounds good at this stage.
If it's raining I'll trailer up the range.


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Cheers
Ken

[soul_adventurer]

how did the ride go?
any pics?

[philth]

gday
is it likely to be wet up there mid march?
would the creb be most likely shut?

[Kenno]

Yeah its closed until June this year, unfortunately the southern 4x4ers gave it such a bad reputation it has ruined access for bikes, we should lobby the local tourism mob to have it open for vehicles under 500kg or something like that.
Here is the bad news link http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/region/...formation/creb

In sadness

Ken
Loved your coast to coast 93hr vid Philth

Originally Posted by philth

gday
is it likely to be wet up there mid march?
would the creb be most likely shut?

[philth]

thanks kenno
anyone know if the culpa track is still open?

[outback jack]

Hey fellars, just doing some research for our leg home from the cape after the OCR in August, Basically once we hit Mossman, we are looking for some back roads or tracks that may keep us off the main roads for most of the day. So if we stayed at or around Port Douglas overnight can we head inland and come back out say around Cairns or Kuranda, then hit some more down towards Tully, Kirrama range area and on to Townsville. As long as we can get fuel every 350k say, we would really like to have a good look at any tracks or roads you can recccomend.

[dirt rider X]

Originally Posted by philth

thanks kenno
anyone know if the culpa track is still open?

Cyclone Yasi has put an end to it mate, massive amount of timber down up there.

[dirt rider X]

Originally Posted by outback jack

Hey fellars, just doing some research for our leg home from the cape after the OCR in August, Basically once we hit Mossman, Black Mountain road runs from Julaten to Kuranda we are looking for some back roads or tracks that may keep us off the main roads for most of the day. So if we stayed at or around Port Douglas overnight can we head inland and come back out say around Cairns or Kuranda, then hit some more down towards Tully, Kirrama range area and on to Townsville. As long as we can get fuel every 350k say, we would really like to have a good look at any tracks or roads you can recccomend.

Kirrama range road is officially closed mate, the local council pulled the bridge decks off several bridges, I'm told its still rideable on a bike though.
You could go straight on down the Gunnawarra rd out of Mt Garnet to Camel Ck - Mt Fox - Hidden Valley - Paluma - Townsville if you dont want to try the Kirrama Rd.

[outback jack]

Originally Posted by dirt rider X

Kirrama range road is officially closed mate, the local council pulled the bridge decks off several bridges, I'm told its still rideable on a bike though.
You could go straight on down the Gunnawarra rd out of Mt Garnet to Camel Ck - Mt Fox - Hidden Valley - Paluma - Townsville if you dont want to try the Kirrama Rd.

Beauty, Black mountain road it is, shame about the Kirrama, that's one awesome place up there. Can i get from MT Fox to Wallaman falls?

[Kenno]

No ride Bern, but here is a photo from close to our last ride for your helpful thread

Photo was near 16 49 S 145 24 40 E last year, we had no damage from Yasi.

Originally Posted by soul_adventurer

how did the ride go?
any pics?

[chewy52]

Hi Gurls & Guys, Can't wait to get up there,and ride some of these tracks. any1 got some fav pics around Cairns/ Pt? can ya post some to tease me? b a while tho as i'm doing a lap o the west coast first and across the top. Prob about the end of September after my ride w/end at Philip Is. So lookin foward to meeting and riding with you folks. Stay dry, catch ya's later in the year.

[snatchy]

Originally Posted by philth

thanks kenno
anyone know if the culpa track is still open?

Not sure if you know this - There are other tracks that go parallel to the culpa, but are only a tiny bit further west. They come out on koombaloomba dam Rd and are not as much in the rainforest as the Culpa, and are open since Yasi. So you can still do a similar route as part of a dirt trip from wherever (eg Townsville to Cairns), but use a different track than the Culpa.

I never got to ride the culpa and i doubt it will reopen