Yilgarn over Easter

Might see you out there Pete I'll be in a white troopy with a red bull bar, red roof rack, red rims.

To get to the stone hut, which is Reid's Hut and not Dimer, coming down from Johnson rocks the track goes around the edges and eastern end of a large clay pan which should be quite okay but upon exiting on the southern side of the clay pan the bushes create a narrow track with them brushing right up against your vehicle.

Map no. 2838 Lake Giles Pt Barlee SH50-8, 1-100,000 (a map) maybe of interest to you. Also Western 4WD Driver did an article on the area a few years ago.

See ya

Rod W

To head south from Johnson Rocks to Hunt's range will require some tight tracks - assuming nothing has changed (for the better) from around 10 yrs ago.

South of Johnson has a nice track (cleared/widened a few years back) and fairly clear all the way to Reids Hut and west from there.

BUT, south of the junction from Johnson track south and Reids hut the track gets a lot narrower and thick... Again, assuming it hasn't been upgraded/cleared since I last drove it, I wouldn't personally take a camper/trailer unless you don't mind it scraping down between thick overgrown tracks for 30k or more... Anyhow, you can drive down and see what it's like, worst case head to Reid's and then the Mt Manning Range and west from there.

http://www.george4wd.taskled.com/oz2001/ontrack.jpg shows what the track down to Kurrajong Rocks looked like 10yrs ago. Note the twigs/debris building up in front of the windshield. Kurranjong Rocks has a gnamma hole - that would likely be pretty disgusting prior to winter rains. It is located at 30deg 10.72' and 119deg 52.8' (roughly).

If you download the 250k GEOLOGICAL maps you'll find the track south of Johnson all the way to Kurrajong RH and down to the Hunt range etc. I run oziexplorer on a laptop and on a PDA and having access to various maps is great when in the bush. I also like to 'pan' an area of interest in Google earth and then run it from the 2gig cache along with a GPS to get a 'visual' of the terrain that I'm driving through - handy when there might be something interesting that isn't shown on a map.

I also have older 100k maps of the Kurrajong RH area, but they're paper and back in oz. Even those didn't show Kurranjong RH. Wrote the mapping twits years ago complaining the RH wasn't marked on the 250k maps and they sent me 4 or so free 100k maps of the area stating that the RH was on those maps - it wasn't :) But at least I got some free maps... Kurrajong RH **IS** on the place name server - just not on the maps....

It is my biggest peeve that the oz mapping departments seem to love removing information from the newer maps. Bastards seem intent in limiting information and access to old areas. The old maps use to show most if not all of the fence lines (that invariably had decent tracks along them), the new ones have 'lost' that information.

cheers,
george.