b'At the end of Pheasant Creek Trackthere is a very steep climb and as itwas covered in snow and ice, Ithought we might have a bit oftrouble. With a bit of momentumthough, we all made it easily. At thetop we turned right onto Gunns Track,and this was where the snow startedto get thicker. Driving on fresh untouched snowdoes become exciting as you dontknow exactly where the track is.Going on memory and Hema mapswe made it through. It was luckygoing over the Helipad sections Iknew the track went around to theright and headed towards MtBuckland as you couldnt see thetrack at all. The section just before Mt Bucklandhas a steep descent then a verysteep ascent, and as I started to go we started to climb, and the snow as we started to get lower and lower,downhill the Toyota started to slide started to look amazing again. As we the snow petered out. sideways off the track so I managed got up to West Ovens Track (the turn We turned left down Hillsboroughto pull up and stop, and I thought this off to Harrietville) it was only 11.30am Track towards Wandiligong, which iscould be a bad idea taking both so I asked everyone if they wanted to a very pleasant drive winding its wayconvoys down through here. I tried to do a few more tracks as it was so down through the ferns growing up onreverse up and the rear diff lock early. I got a yes from everyone, so the side of the hills. We went throughdisengaged, and I kept on slipping we turned left up Albion Track.the two river crossings and thensideways in the snow, so I called up As we reached 1240m at Albion Point stopped and aired up. We finishedAndrew to get the winch out and he the snow was really thick again and the trip and I thanked everyone for ahad to winch me back up the hill. We made the drive fantastic. We drove great weekend, and we all made ourhad to use a snatch block off a tree through untouched snow for the next own way home via Wandiligong andand winch on a 45 degree angle a 6kms and then got onto Wet Gully Bright.couple of times to stop me getting Track where we had a lunch break. It Participants closer to that edge. After about was pretty cold so some of us ate our Russell.105 LandCruiser 20mins I was back up and we turned hot pies straight out of the ovens and Andrew.Triton around and headed back to the then we were all back into the warm Paul and Fiona. 80 LandCruiser Helipad where we had a quick break vehicles and off again along Wet Brett C. Hilux before heading off towards Gully Track. This track can usually be Allan.Triton Harrietville.done in 2wd but add snow and ice it Frank and Grace.Nissan Patrol We went back along Gunns Track and turned into a Low Range rear diff lock Shannon and Tom.76 LandCruiser then turned right onto Paddys Track. fun track. Mt Ebenezer is at 1192m Ben and Kim.Colorado Still driving through untouched snow and does have sharp turns which Phil.BT 50for 2kms we turned right onto Gunns were covered in snow, so I was trying Jake.Prado Track again and headed down into to navigate the track and get us Glen. Nissan Patrol the valley. The snow started to fade through. After this section, the track Zac and Sarah. Ranger out as we got lower down, but then heads straight down, and once againTRACKWATCH SEPTEMBER 2021 13'