Wild Rivers & Wildflowers of the Australian High Country

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 through the West Kiewa gorge via Dungey’s Track to camp on the second crossing flats. 

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.

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. 

After breakfast we will continue our way. ‍

Today we will follow the historic gold mining tracks blazed into the mountainside during the 19th-century gold rush and find a little colour in the gold pan in camp at Swindlers Creek.

We'll eat a delicious dinner together and sleep in the camp.

We have breakfast and leave the camp.

Prepare for a good, long ride and an exciting adventure. We will continue along the heritage hand-cut Dungeys Track to the junction of the Cobungra River. Then we will ride up Pailing Spur and through the hidden plains of Yongs tops to camp overlooking the Gippsland side of the Alpine National Park wilderness.

Spring is a little late in the High Country as the winter snow drifts cling to the south side slopes, covering the diverse alpine flora with an iced memory of the Winter before. The warming months of November and December in the High Country is something not to miss; open plains of flowering mint bush, the newly formed spheres of billy buttons, an early everlasting and the delicate lavender colour of the Bogong Daisy unique to this Alpine National Park. Offering a chance to explore the unique and diverse Alpine ecology of the High Country.

After breakfast we will ride again, crossing the High Plains near Mount Jim via a resupply at Pretty Valley. 

Spectacular views of nearby Mount Feathertop and the distant ridges and valleys of North East Victoria, then drop down into the tree line for a special night camping at our hidden camp, on the North Fainter Spur.

Visiting spectacular mountain tops, wild rivers, historic huts and secluded camps this expedition will inspire and refresh. A mountain of experiences jammed into four days, riding the best of the High Country. Ride across Pretty Valley and the sweet pastures of the Bogong brumbies. Canter to the top of Mount Fainter with spectacular views of Mount Feathertop across the deep cut of the West Kiewa river and on to camp. 

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

This tour is organized 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. 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.