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Yowie track directions - there may be a couple of minor changes due to track works but this gives you a good idea of the track from last year.
Start at the You Yangs main entrance at the Duck Pond School on the Gravel road. Pass the Ranger depot and the Stand pipe. Veer right onto Great Circle Drive.
Ride anti clock wise up great circle drive. Climbing, climbing, climbing
right into Cressy gully road.
Left onto farm yard track 5 and cross Cressy Gully Rd to circle around (farm yard slang name) really called quarry pit anti clock wise to drysdale road.
Ride past drysdale car park and ascend Vomit Hill. Track 1
Right onto Boulder track 9 include the clam shell and descend exclude the boulder. ( Pls note the works taking place on this track at present, be careful not to Ride this track during track works and be respectful of the Trail Crews hard work).
Right off the end of Boulder before the boardwalk and turn back right and head up track 2 towards Rockwell
Ascend Rockwell track 4 till the link track
Left onto the link track 11
Right onto Lactic track 6
Ascend to the top of Stockyards and past the Down hill start platform on track 1
Left onto Travs. Track 7
Descend Travs track 7 and stay on it and climb through the sister berms. (not on map) Stay on travs and climb through the Churn section of travs track , then turn right back onto to the bottom of the fire road that takes you to cressy gully road. (This section “the churn” of travs track is not on the map yet but runs next to track 2.)
Turn right onto cressy climb and Ascend Cressy climb. track 13
Left off the top of cressy climb track 13 to stockyards carpark track 1 then right onto the start of the Junction track 14
Descend the Junction track 14 all the way to great circle drive cross it at the blind corner, keep descending through the forest area of the junction track ,cross great circle drive again and ride past or over the raised north shore.
turn Right descend further either over or around the dirt jumps track 15 chainsaw track and keep descending through the dirt jumps and berms through the kurrajongs area.
At the bottom of chainsaw track....
(This section was slightly rerouted last year as there is a detour but for training just turn right at the junction of 15 and 16 ).16 now turn right onto the plantation track and descend again dodging the trees.
Basically then stay on the outside loop of track 16 plantation track west (Geelong) side of the kurrajongs area and ride through to the Kurrajong car park stay on the west loop track 17 lumberjack track and ride to sandy creek road
At sandy creek road ride uphill through single track toward the school, turn left at the stand pipe and see the road. accross 3m of bitumen and finish at the school.one lap 33km.
Another two laps for those doing the 99. this track rewards riders who have skill stamina and speed and is challenge.
ps just a note of thanks for the parks guys again for being super helpful with
everything and the trail crews for the great tracks.
