Moranbah 4x4 track! Looking back down...

On the way back into Moranbah from Nebo, Andy decided he wanted to look at the 4x4 club. We drove there to find it was (not surprisingly) closed, however there was still access onto the track. At this point we made the error of deciding to ‘see what it’s like’ in our nice clean new Ford Territory. It was all going swimmingly for the first 20 metres, a few bumps and round a few potholes – great. Then we turned the corner and looked up to see the steepest, rockiest looking hill I have ever faced in a car. After a few minutes of me saying that I really think we should turn round, and Andy saying that as long as we don’t tip over backwards then we’ll be fine, Andy won and we commenced the ascent. We actually got up fine, a few revs required midway but the Territory did us proud! We had to have a stop at the top to recover, and then had the thought – how do we get down?? The course is arrowed to show you which way you should be heading, and there are red signs to tell you not to go down/up a particular hill. Some rascal must have hidden a lot of the arrows as we didn’t have a clue where to go, all the signs seemed to say ‘don’t go this way or you’ll face certain death’. We ended up debating whether to break through a fence and cross onto the motorbike track, or cross our fingers and head off down one of the tracks. As there were motorbikes on their course we thought we’d better not take that option so we headed off down the longest bumpiest, sandiest track ever! After going sideways across potholes and moving wing mirrors in to get through the main thing was in the sand not to stop!! Otherwise the car would get stuck and there wouldn’t be many people very impressed at having to come and rescue us on a bank holiday!! After what seemed like eternity, we finally found tarmac!! It was a fantastic course, but not when doing it in your own car when nobody knows where you are!