{"id":1402,"date":"2011-02-19T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2011-02-19T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T07:48:07","slug":"mt-selwyn-june-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Mt Selwyn &#8211; June 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the boy has had his first 4WD trip, and first time in the snow as well!  <\/p>\n<p>Weather report wasn&#8217;t exactly glowing, but be stuffed if I was going to sit in the house &#8211; it was time to get the family out for a run.<\/p>\n<p>We headed off to Tumbarumba and actually didn&#8217;t get caught behind another car for nearly 100km&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>Stopped in for a meat pie and to top up the gas tank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-013.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 013\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-013.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-013-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young fella was still travelling well so we pushed on towards Elliott Way.  Turning onto the road it was a good run down to the dam.  It was wet and foggy pretty much the whole way, and we noticed that there was a lot of oil on the road &#8211; especially on the tight corners heading down the hill.<\/p>\n<p>From there we headed up to Cabramurra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-021.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 021\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-021.jpg 533w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-021-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Jakam04 at the radio tower &#8211; Cabramurra<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-027.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 027\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-027.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-027-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I think I&#8217;m the target<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-044.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 044\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-044.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-044-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Landing on the airstrip may be fun!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We continued on to Mt Selwyn itself as the young fella had awoken and all he wanted was the boob &#8211; I kinda understand that actually!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-046.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 046\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-046.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-046-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wet weather = empty carpark<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-066.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 066\" width=\"480\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-066.jpg 480w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-066-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-074.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 074\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-074.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-074-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cooked up a lunch consisting of hamburgers, cheese and sauce between slices of bread &#8211; really wrong but reaaaaallllyyy yummy. <\/p>\n<p>With the boy fed, the kids tired from a play we decided to slowly start heading towards home.  Along the way we stopped into the Yarrangunbilly Caves area.  I noticed that it said &#8216;fees apply for day use areas etc&#8217; so I continued on pretty much straight away &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave that area for another weekend when I have more time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-078.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 078\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-078.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-078-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving more towards home I stopped in at a favoured camping area near Talbingo.  The snow melting over the last few days has resulted in a lot of the streams\/rivers in the area are now flowing a lot quicker with more volume in them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-082.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 082\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-082.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-082-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-084.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt Selwyn Trip 084\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-084.jpg 800w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mt-Selwyn-Trip-084-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The view from the Snowy Mountains Hwy over Blowering Dam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ethan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ethan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ethan\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ethan.jpg 600w, http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ethan-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is why I do it<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All in all a good day &#8211; and it was bloody good to get away even for a short run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the boy has had his first 4WD trip, and first time in the snow as well! Weather report wasn&#8217;t exactly glowing, but be stuffed if I was going to sit in the house &#8211; it was time to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/?p=1402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cewilson.offroader.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}