Mount Bogong Australian Adventure

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 have a ride following the East Kiewa River track to our camp at Bogong Creek.

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.

After breakfast we will climb up to the High Plains via Timms Spur. Then we will ride to the Mount Nelse. 

With a wisp of campfire smoke curling through the morning mists, the horses are prepared for a day of climbing into the high alps. Leaving behind the lush temperate rainforest the mighty woolly-butts stand tall over our little horse team as it winds on, climbing eventually into the snow gum woodlands and finally the open herb fields of the High Plains. The blue ridges extend to the horizon, hazy with eucalyptus vapors across hundreds of kilometers. 

Beyond the dome of Mount Nelse is our sheltered camp at Cemetery Spur or perhaps Kelly’s Camp.

‍After breakfast we will continue our way. ‍

Today we will follow the hand cut Track 107 down to an early camp on Big River in the Mount Wills Heritage Area.

The expedition continues to reveal new and different landscapes, along with heritage tracks built on the hopes and dreams of gold miners and distant views of surrounding mountains.

Much of the High Country remains un-roaded today, and packhorse expeditions offer a traditional and practical means of exploring this vast landscape. 

We will have breakfast and leave the camp.

Our plan for today is the following: we ride up Mount Bogong, Victoria’s highest mountain, via the Long Spur! This is going to be a full day of riding the ridge up to our camp below the tree line near Cleve Cole Hut.

The pack horse expedition program commences annually in the late spring when 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. 

We will have breakfast‍ and then traverse the magnificent Mt Bogong before descending the legendary Eskdale Spur to the head of Mountain Creek returning back to our Stables. You will climb to the highest place you can take a horse in Australia!

The horses are a feature of this expedition, each of them our own bred and trained mountain horse, expertly matched to the rider. 

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. 

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.