Wandered down Timealong Trail today to investigate an old logging road clearly visible on the Six Maps satellite imagery on the next ridge over from the end of the track. The track was as accessible as I've ever known it, which was a pleasant surprise. I skirted the cove at the end of the trail, where the old road disappears into Lake Yarrunga, with the intention of climbing straight up the next point, however there was a fairly new piece of pink marker tape obvious near the lakeside, which led to a series of markers going straight up the hill to the old road I was looking for. I followed the road down the hill until it became obvious that it was going to disappear back into the lake, where it must have originally intersected the old road.
Turning around I followed the road back up the hill, where it clearly continued well past the last point visible on Six Map, so I decided to see just where it would take me. The road became quite difficult to follow in places, but the marker tape continued in the more cryptic locations. After a while it became apparent that it was going to link up with the old logging roads back towards Griffins Fire Trail. At this point I also realised it was a circuit that was shown on the 2nd series of NSW topos, but had disappeared off the next series. I had attempted to locate this track from the opposite end previously, and had got as far as the remains of an old farm with the biggest assemblage of stinging trees I've ever seen, where the signs of the old road disappeared. Sure enough the track/markers I was following eventually brought me to the same spot. From here the the old road back to Timealong trail is reasonably obvious, and I just followed it back down the hill. There is actually a network of old logging tracks in the forest above the trail, but despite walking most of them them I'm still not sure how they all connect. Very satisfying day out, and I picked up a nice little bottle in a creek bed behind the old farm as a souvenir.