NSW - Bulahdelah State Forest, Red Belly Hill

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I was up in the Bulahdelah/Myall Lakes region over the weekend, and like always, went exploring the fire trails. We asked a local where we can find a really steep and rocky hill, and he gave us some rough directions to this:





It's not obvious in the photos, but this is very steep, and just as daunting as Mt Walker. Most of it is dirt/crumbling rock, with several step ups, and there's a section of solid rock.

This should demonstrate how steep it is:

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I'm calling it Red Belly hill after finding this hungry fella on the track:





(I think that's a legless lizard for lunch)

Video coming soon...

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...and I bet the response when you got there was...no S8*t how am I suppose to get up that!

Looks like a tough drive.

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nice find glen, how did the new mods go, hope it helped. cheers samo

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Cripes!!!!!!
Looking forward to the vid

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Here's the vid guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFOxkiNTUB0

I think it looks incredibly easy on the video. Perhaps if I ran without the lockers a few times it'd be more impressive :/

Heading back down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc8-7ZN9MTw

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...and I bet the response when you got there was...no S8*t how am I suppose to get up that!

Looks like a tough drive.

Something like that! We actually found this from the top.. We noticed a side track which dropped off pretty suddenly so jumped out to take a look. As we walked down towards the drop off, it just kept on going! Eventually we could see the whole down hill and thought.. oh s*t, this must be it!

nice find glen, how did the new mods go, hope it helped. cheers samo

Ratios = Awesome power delivery at any speed.
Lockers = I kept the rear on the whole time for this climb, and used the front on demand. Nothing but traction
Tyres = Due to the steep grade of this climb I figured the tyres would let me down and I'd end up spinning with 4 wheels. Surprisingly not. The tyres are performing greater than I expected, although they did take a little beating on this climb.

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(added another video)

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That's pretty intense! You do make it look easy though. I think I'd be wasting my time to try and climb that. It would be a great way to finish my front diff off!

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Well.........the way you have driven this doesn't justify the difficult nature of the track...........or you make every track seem so easy :-)

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Here's a video of Declan and I having a go at red belly hill, and a new track I found with a couple locals. The second climb is definitely steeper, longer, and is basically all loose dirt/rocks. In my opinion this is much worse than Mt Walker as it's steeper and has very little solid rocks for grip.

PS: Declan put on a very impressive show!

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nice bit of country there, bloody steep well done, go the 90s. cheers samo