Long Weekend Australian High Country Ride

After breakfast you will get some pre-ride information. We will meet in the yards and make sure everybody gets horsemanship basics. Later we will check our packing together ensuring we've got all the essentials. 

We will start our adventure. We will ride up the Big Hill Cattle Track to camp at our camp, on the North Fainter Spur.

Riding is between 15 to 25km per day with opportunities for loping canters across open plains. Camps are selected for their beautiful settings, some in traditional stock camps featuring huts, but often secluded bush camps maintained by us. With swags rolled out dinner is prepared and enjoyed around a warming fire, with a cold beer, a local wine and a meal prepared from local fresh produce on the coals. 

Lunch and dinner will be served in the nature. Overnight will be camping. Each day the camp is packed up, loaded onto the packhorses and the journey continues.

We set up a toilet and privacy screen of an evening with access to soap and a hand wash basin. We do not provide a portable shower, however, there are some opportunities to jump in the creek for a High Country bath.

We have breakfast and leave the camp set up. We will climb up to the Summit of Mount Fainter with spectacular views across the deep cut of the West Kiewa Fiver to Mount Fainter. 

Lunch will be at Tawonga Huts. Later in the afternoon we will visit Pretty Valley for a few good canters, let the wind blow out the cobwebs and stresses of your busy lives before returning to our camp. 

Dinner will be at the camp.

‍We will have breakfast and set for the return ride to our farm via the Big Hill Cattle Track.

In the late spring the peaks of the Victorian High Country shake off their winter snows and alpine life starts to stir. For thousands of years the Aboriginal peoples of the surrounding country embarked on their annual migration to the High Plains, and until recently the mountain cattlemen, following their time honored ways pushed their cattle up to the 'tops'. Along with gold seekers, bushrangers and early adventurers, they all helped create a rich heritage, woven into the rugged fabric of the High Country. Much of the High Country remains un-roaded today, and packhorse expeditions offer a traditional and practical means of exploring this vast landscape.

Dinner will be at out farm, we'll share our best memories and some good laughs before going to bed.

Breakfast and mid-morning checkout.