Gog Range

[frenchy_84]

Nice regrowth

[tas-man]

Nice regrowth

Most likely there's some commercial demand for this regrowth!

[frenchy_84]

It won't end up as chips but may increase the consumption of chips

[Taurë-rana]

Yesterday Tortoise and I set out to check out the Gog Range. Being an optimist, I assumed the gate would be open and made no backup plans. It wasn't, so instead of parking at the eastern end of the range and walking up closer to the summit, we decided to try going up via the falls creek which was a 3 or so kilometres along the road. We headed up on the eastern side of the creek through the lighter scrub until we decided that we needed to head across to the creek to find the falls. This bit was fairly interesting with somewhat thicker scrub and rock walls blocking our way every now and then, but eventually we found the creek, right at a small waterfall, with a second waterfall dropping away below as far as we could tell.

This was a bit confusing as the GPS put us higher than the falls on the map, but having plotted our route onto the map, I think that both the creek and the falls are not quite accurately marked on the map. Tortoise went for a bit of a look over the creek and found the taped route so we headed up that for a while but what with the late start, slow going, by now wet weather and not knowing how long it would take us to get back to the road, we reluctantly turned round short of the ridge top. We then followed the taped route back down, passing a second waterfall on the way.

Our route up is in red, the taped route is in blue on the map. No 9 is the top set of falls, no 10 is where the taped route crosses the creek and no 14 is the lower waterfall which the taped route goes past. The taped route was reasonably easy to follow until it gets back to a couple of hundred metres from the road, which isn't an issue when going down, but meant we completely missed it on the way up. We spent some time looking for and improving the taping in this section and will do a better job when we go back and do the walk up past the falls, along the top and down at the eastern end! We have put a cairn on the road close to where the tapes start, but at the moment the first bit is untaped so you just have to head in and look hard.

[sthughes]

Crikey that NearMap is good! I just signed up, makes Bing an Google look positively poor, just a shame about the coverage away from the big cities etc.

[Taurë-rana]

If you are referring to my map above Simon, it's just the TasMap 1:25000 on CD used with OziExplorer and the waypoints put in. I haven't heard of NearMap.

[sthughes]

No, no! What Tas-man posted earlier. But your Tasmap snippet is lovely too of course!

[tas-man]

Crikey that NearMap is good! I just signed up, makes Bing an Google look positively poor, just a shame about the coverage away from the big cities etc.

Checking NearMap today and there is some new territory added - part of Ben Lomond is now included, and I wonder if the two people with the orange tent near Leggs Tor on 5th March 2011 are on this forum!

[stepbystep]

It's a bit freaky, they'll catch one of us having a poo one day.

[ILUVSWTAS]

It's a bit freaky, they'll catch one of us having a poo one day.

Hahaha thanks for that thought......

[Taurë-rana]

Oops, shows just how closely I read posts, not!

But your Tasmap snippet is lovely too of course!

LOL, thank you, you're so kind

NearMap - it's getting a bit scary just what they can see now I think. Technology gone a bit too far.

More on Gog - I rang Forestry about getting a key to the gate, and the woman I spoke to thinks that it is unavailable due to a pair of nesting eagles in the area. Waiting for confirmation. Oh, and the deposit if you can get the key is $500!

[ILUVSWTAS]

More on Gog - I rang Forestry about getting a key to the gate, and the woman I spoke to thinks that it is unavailable due to a pair of nesting eagles in the area. Waiting for confirmation. Oh, and the deposit if you can get the key is $500!

In other words "Stay the hell away from what we're about woman"

[frenchy_84]

Crikey that NearMap is good! I just signed up, makes Bing an Google look positively poor, just a shame about the coverage away from the big cities etc.

Nearmap uses aerial photography rather than satellite images where available. Which explains the better resolution but less coverage.

[Taurë-rana]

Have had a far more positive reply from Forestry. Getting the key should be no problem, as I only want to drive on the road not the tracks, and the $500 is only if you lose it... although I should think there would still be a deposit of some sort to ensure that it comes back.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Forestry key deposits are usually $100. Once in an active area, it cost $200. But that was only once.

[greyim]

Pretty good vege garden