Newsletter No 5, February 2010
RETURN TO THE HIGH COUNTRY
Jackaroo/Holden Clubs Tri-state Gathering, Easter 2010
Easter is getting very close.
We have received registrations from more than 160 people and about 75 vehicles. If you haven’t registered yet, this is your LAST CHANCE! Post your registration form and cheque immediately. If you need a new form, email us now.
Trip Preferences
We finally have 16 great trips organised and tested. The details were sent last week to everyone, along with a preference sheet. Please return your preference sheet to us by email or post in the next three weeks, so we can decide which trips are popular and will need repeating, and allocate trip leaders.
Mobile Phones
Very few work at the Sportsground. If you have Telstra 3G and a car connection with aerial, you might be lucky. Otherwise, you need to drive (a couple of minutes only) to a high point. There is also mobile reception near the Tolmie Tavern. The Club will have our satellite phone at Tolmie.
Climate
Tolmie has a typical alpine climate. The lowest minimum temperatures in March/April are typically around 2 – 5 degrees overnight, and 20 – 25 degrees average high. Campers need to be aware of cold nights, and bring warm clothing for evenings and mornings.
View details at bonzle.com.au.
Fuel & Facilities
Mansfield is the only reliable 24/7 venue for fuel. Many trips will go through Mansfield at the end, but not all, so you need to be aware of your fuel status at the end of each day. Nearest supermarkets, newsagent, banks, bakeries, pharmacies, doctors & hospital etc. are at Mansfield, 24 km from Tolmie. The shower block is still under construction and unlikely to be finished, so please make your own arrangements for showers - there is plenty of bore water. Remember to bring drinking water, as the bore water may not agree with you. Please: NO pets and NO generators (noise echoes up the surrounding hills and upsets the neighbours).
Raffle Prizes
There will be a raffle each Happy Hour, and a special raffle on Sunday night. Major prizes include a Ryobi 700w angle grinder, a $500 voucher for accommodation/touring in the High Country, a $300 voucher from a leading 4WD aftermarket supplier, and many more …….
Medical Cards
Our event insurance requires all participants to provide their medical history in a sealed envelope. At Tolmie, you will receive two medical cards for each person. Fill in one and leave in your glove box. The other is to be completed and sealed and handed to the registrar. It will not be opened unless necessary and will be returned to you at the end of the event.
Sunday Dinner
Dress theme is “True Blue”. BYO drinks. We need to know of any special dietary requirements now.
Registration Forms
These were delivered in November, for return with cheques by no later than January 31st 2010. Clothing orders have closed, but if there is enough demand, we will do a second order at Easter and post them out to you later.
Email us: easter2010@jackaroo4wdclub.org.au
Newsletter 1
Come and explore some of Australia’s best four wheel driving country. The Jackaroo 4WD Club of Victoria will be hosting next year’s five day event, from Thursday April 1st to Tuesday, April 6th 2010.
By popular request, we are going back to the High Country. You may remember that our 2007 event was planned to include some of the most exciting trips and tracks in the Victorian Alps. Then, just a few weeks before the event, widespread bushfires closed many of the tracks we planned to use. A hasty re-organising saw some good alternatives found, but we still have all the trip notes and plans for our original destinations.
Almost all of the tracks affected by the 2007 bushfires are back in action for excellent, challenging 4WD trips, so plan to join us next year at Easter for some great times.
The Legendary High Country
If you haven’t been to this area before, you’ve missed out. Recovery from the bushfires has been rapid, and the whole area is now green again, with the very tall straight trunks of mountain ash forests and lush tree fern gullies contrasting with the incredible twisted shapes of snow gums and the last of the summer wildflowers.
The legendary mountains around the venue are filled with history. This is ‘Man from Snowy River’ and Kelly Gang country. It has a fascinating history of gold mining and bushranging, and some excellent bushwalking trails and prime fishing opportunities in pristine mountain streams. The small country towns nearby have so much for visitors to see and do. There are some excellent cool climate wineries to visit. The Victorian Jackaroo Club has been active in the restoration and reconstruction of traditional mountain huts, and we’ll take you to see some of the best of them.
Our Venue
We will again be staying at the Tolmie sportsgrounds, north of Mansfield, and those who came last time will notice some changes. A new toilet and shower block is currently under construction at the sportsgrounds, and it will be finished soon. A new bore provides plenty of potable water. Following the fires, the community obtained a bushfire relief grant and used it to completely rebuild the Tolmie Hall, so we now have a spacious heated modern building, with a big commercial kitchen, suitable for most gatherings. We have doubled the size of the area we will have available for the Sunday night Presentation Dinner.
This is the first newsletter to alert you to what’s happening for Easter 2010. The planning committee will send out updates to the Secretaries of all three Clubs as we finalise parts of the program.
If you would like to be on our list to receive updates directly, please send the planning committee an email with your name and state club and we will add your email address to our mailing list.
Register you Trip Preferences
To register your trip preferences download the preference form update and return it to us by email.
Preference Form
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docx (for Word 2007)
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Created on 07/26/2009 09:46 PM by csit
Updated on 02/19/2010 09:46 PM by csit
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