4WD Ellis Track
By Phil on Monday, January 19 2009, 11:20 - 4WD - Permalink
Well I found out about Ellis Track on 4x4 Earth
Nice and close to home - have to go try it out. So out we went on Saturday 27th with my 80 Series Landcruiser, my old man in his 40 Series Landcruiser and my girlfriend's parents in their Pootrol.
Well the track was quite dissappointing until about 2/3 of the way up when we hit some excellent boulders / holes:
Just around the corner above that, driver error let the rear wheel of the 40 Series slip into a rut and a bit of an angle:
We continued on and found another bouldery and holed section of the track.
I managed to pickup a wooden passenger just out of bad luck:
At the very top of the track, there was a big rut, with a bend and a boulder on the inside of the turn. I quickly found out that the length of my wheelbase was too long to make this turn, and my side step became intimate with said boulder:
Getting up and out of the rut took a bit of right boot (Low 2nd, ~3000rpm) after we'd dug out the bank a bit so I could turn without hitting the boulder:
All in all, an excellent track if you're looking for a bit of a challenge. The track is only a few km long, with about maybe 1km of actual challenging conditions -- We spent about a good 2.5 hours on it.