SE QLD- Ormeau July 2012

[craigm Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close craigm]

(very) Slippery when wet...

[jimmy91 Member Find all posts View Profile Close jimmy91]

It's only a 5 minute drive for me so I'll have a look on Friday at the 3 entery's.

[flayflay Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close flayflay]

hi fello prado ppl. i live at ormeau hills too, not sure where this track is, can anyone join the crew,

[Fabes Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fabes]

It's only a 5 minute drive for me so I'll have a look on Friday at the 3 entery's.

Hi Jimmy91
Did you happen to see if the entrances were open on your way home?

[LiveFreeAndRoam Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close LiveFreeAndRoam]

I drove through on Friday arvo. It was all open and no security in sight. They may have knocked off early, but the track was open.

LFaR.

[jimmy91 Member Find all posts View Profile Close jimmy91]

Fabes the vennor road entry was open. There is a gate but it's smashed open. Can't remember if it has been there for ages or not. If they gate it I'll give it a month at the most.

[kieth Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kieth]

Ha guys the trip looks good when is the next trip up there mite have to make the journey up there for a look one weekend, Has anyone been to the radio tower up there..

[craigm Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close craigm]

Has anyone been to the radio tower up there..

The trip up from Vennor Rd takes us right past the tower Kieth. You can drive in and around the boundary fence of the tower for a bit of a look. It's only a couple of hundred metres off the main track.

[kieth Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kieth]

Thanks Craigm I have no idea how to get there. What is the last road that I can google to found out how to get there mate cheers.

[craigm Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close craigm]

Vennor Drive, Ormeau on Google Maps would be the best starting point..PM me an email address and I can send you a .kmz file that you can open with Google earth to look at the Ormeau Hills track, or if you have something like MotionX on an iPhone or the like, you can use that to do the trip without getting too lost...

[kieth Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kieth]

Thanks Craig for that i found it mate looks like a good drive there around those Quarries when we head up there in the future we will give you a PM maybe you could show us around or when the next trip is on cheers.

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Robert

It runs off to the left before you get to the turn off to the lookout, comes out at the end of the track just before the air up area, it was challenging going down but would be great to do going up, some winch action I think.

See ya on the tracks, Richo.

Thanks Richo,
Continuing on from Hutch's thread. So before you go through the gate to lookout, you said it is on the left . Is it a a small track or is it one of those graded fire breaks? Does it lead down to the creek you eventually cross near where we aired up last time?
I will get out there next weekend for a look. Need to give the winch a workout.
Cheers
Robert

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Robert, I've emailed you the trip files that I recorded on MotionX.


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[gumboot Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close gumboot]

Thanks Craig,
Just looking at it now. I see you started at the water tower, went up stony climb turned left and then right to the lookout. Back out turned right, down over the creek and then aired up. Is that correct. I cant see where you turned left before the lookout that Richo was mentioning.
Cheers
Robert

[craigm Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close craigm]

First of all Robert you'll be disappointed to know that the stony climb is now just a dirt track that a Prius could drive up!, but yes that's the way we went however the track in discussion is before you get to the Lookout track as pictured