Disaster Strikes in the High Country | Motorcycle Adventure Australia | Short Movie

This is not one of those adventures with a happy ending. It has its epic highs which include meeting new friends, discovering the most beautiful views and tackling some of the most challenging tracks that you can take an adventure bike on which includes the infamous Billy Goat's Bluff. But this adventure ends with me just physically all up here is all smashed in as well and mentally done. Microphone's broken, just cancelled a trip. I was right at the end man. I'm so stupid. I'm so stupid dude. Come along for the adventure as we try and survive the Victorian high country. Day one has us taking off from our home suburb in the southeast of Melbourne on our way to Jindabyne on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. All right guys we're about four hours in. We've just left the town of Buchan. Absolutely amazing and we're about a couple hours away from Jindabyne. We're about to hit the off-road very soon so looking forward to that. After four hours on the road we're finally hitting the off-road. All righty we're in the Great Alpine National Park and as you can see there's a pretty big drop off there so I don't want to look out to the view too much but it's certainly an incredible view. They're not happy. They're not happy with him. Was the camera picking it up? Yeah. Oh man. But guys we've made it to Kosciuszko National Park which is the border with New South Wales so there's the welcome to Victoria sign and yeah we've made it into the next state and I don't think Harrison got any bites. All good. Check out that view guys. Incredible. It's the road that we were just coming on and amazing. Guys we've made it to Jindabyne. Day one almost complete. Just got to get a feed in now. All right guys we've made it to Jindabyne. The bikes are here. Introduce you to the guys tomorrow but time to get some rest and we're going to be tackling some tough tracks so looking forward to it. It was a cold and foggy start leaving Jindabyne in the morning. Our destination was a tough track back on the barrier way from which we came through yesterday. All right guys we're finally off road. Let's see how this goes. Got to warm up into it. The day started off with a couple of back-to-back steep and rocky hill climbs. It wasn't too long until all that climbing finally led to our first descent. Oh Lance is off. He's gone off the track. Sorry? Oh you're looking at him. No you can come to my left Harrison. Okay. Yeah. Bottom of the steep hill climb that we came down was our first creek crossing. This was one of many on our trip where in the next day we crossed the haunted stream track which consists of over 50 plus creek crossings. Now the terrain seriously got challenging. These hill climbs were rutted, loose and steep. I just went where the bike went. Yeah no no you're not taking it from there. You need a decent amount of momentum because we can pull it into that into that right there. The back and then turn the front. Only thing is we have to drag it. I don't know. Oh we can try that. I don't know how. Let's give it all. Let's stand it up and see. Yes three two one. Nice nice nice. Oh thank you. You're all right. Thank you very much. Whilst that section that we just got through was difficult, little did we know that the toughest hill climb of the day was just around the next corner. Unfortunately on this climb Harrison dropped the bike causing an issue with the throttle locking and not returning back to position. Guys we're walking down that hill that I just came up which looked crazy because Harrison's having some throttle issues. So we're going to investigate. That is the hill that we've just walked down and Josh JB to the rescue with some tools. Harrison's got them but it seems like this doesn't fit so we're going to suss it out and see how this goes. Yeah I'm pretty sure because it has the fancy K2Ms. Bloody K2Ms. All right let's hope we can get this sorted. All right we've got him going. Time to get that nasty hill. Get on the pegs. All right guys we're back on the move. Sorted Harrison's bike. Got him up that hill. I couldn't record it because we had to help push but that was freaking gnarly as. That was steep, loose, rocky. So not a good place to have to take off from but we got him up and we're back on the move. So let's keep going. Beautiful. All right guys we're at the McKillop's bridge. Just riding across it. Bloody nice. Beautiful. With Harrison running into bike troubles and cramping arms we decided to take the easy route to get to camp and left Josh and Lance to tackle the Deddick trail. We'll have to come back to complete that one soon. Then there was two. All right guys I've probably given you the update that we've broken away from Josh JB and Lance aka The Apprentice Adventurer. They're off on the Deddick trail. We've made camp just outside of Buchan. We still don't know what's correct but beautiful views. Got a table down there. We've got getting a fire started but beautiful views and campsite set up. A bit windy but hopefully it dies down and we will check in in a little bit. All righty looking out backcountry dehydrated meals. You hungry Harrison? Keen. Got a fire going and the sun's setting in the distance in the background but we'll get some food in us. So we've just heard from Josh JB. We've got a message from his Garmin inReach that they didn't make it to the intended campsite but thankfully they were able to make camp and will meet us in town at 10 o'clock the next morning. So we'll have a little bit of time to get ourselves together. A bit of a slow morning but that's all right. Well deserved after a pretty hard day's riding. So yeah gonna get stuck into the food now. All right guys we've got a awesome fire going providing plenty of heat because it is quite cold up here now. Not that you can see anything. We've had our first meal and now I thought I'd give a dessert that I purchased a go but it's not your traditional dessert. It's something I was walking through the aisle when I saw and it is baby food for six months plus old babies. It's banana and mango custard. So this may be a game changer for adventure camping. I'll give you the first taste test now. Let's have a look. Oh mate it tastes like yogurt. That's delicious. Guys it's a game changer. There's like a hundred different flavors. Packed up camp and now we're heading down to the town of Buckin or Bukin and we'll meet up with the boys once they get packed up and hopefully across the river crossing that they need to make to get to to get to the main road. So we'll see how that goes. All righty guys change of plans. We have left Buckin or Bukin which I've corrected myself multiple times now and we didn't catch up with the boys just yet because they're still stuck crossing Jackson's crossing, a massive river crossing. They said for us to take off and they'll catch up to us so Harrison and I are continuing with the proposed route and we'll catch the boys later on down the track but we've got some awesome tracks coming up. The main one being Haunted Stream or Haunted Creek. I forget the name of it. 50 river or 50 creek crossings so we're going to be wet but the weather's beautiful. It's an awesome day and yeah we're we're going to start smashing it now. All right guys first crossing. I'm just As we are at the beginning of Haunted Stream track so that was the first creek crossing but that doesn't count so we've got 50 crossings ahead of us. That's going to be interesting, some big long deep ones. Harrison's not too familiar with doing them so by the end of this you're going to be a creek crossing expert. All right let's get stuck into it. All right Roots are full of water but here comes Harrison. That's over 50. Now I probably haven't included all of them in the video but what an awesome oh what an awesome track. We're at Dawson City Campground. How was that? Highly recommend. That was awesome. Good level, not too deep. Yeah just you can kind of send it but some of them you have to be careful. Fantastic. All right well we haven't met up with the boys yet so I don't know if I've got reception. I'll find it see if I can make contact with them. I'm guessing they still maybe have started the track. Who knows but we'll wait a little bit, de-water the boots and then then go from there. Guys we've been here now for about 30 minutes I'd say maybe a bit longer. The boys still haven't caught up. We don't know what their status is. We're going to push on to Dargo and then we we may take a look at Billy Goats Bluff. We'll have a look at what what time we get in and might have a quick blast up Billy Goats before then coming back down to Dargo and staying because I think we might change our plans up. But I was hoping to catch the boys and have a chat with them to see what they're planning because I don't even know if they're going to be doing it today because it's quite late in the day but this is adventure riding. You've got to be adaptable and we'll see what happens but for now let's get to Dargo. I'm not sure how difficult the tracks are. I hear some DRZs or DRZs. The boys made it. Finally the reunion. I'm keen to hear what held them up. Happy to be alive at this point. Really? And we got some stalks. Well we're rekindled. Reunion. Good stuff. Good to see you guys. Good morning guys. As you may have heard in Lance's or maybe even Josh's videos, Josh hasn't been having the greatest time. A few little problems but we've sorted them out and it's a new day so we're about to tackle Billy Goats Bluff. As you can tell we're here in Dargo. Filled up. Filled up our bellies as well. Had a coffee and and now yeah Billy Goats Bluff so this should be exciting but our plans have changed. We will be leaving the boys and we need to do the route in reverse because we're not gonna be able to do Blue Rag if we stick to the intended route and that was one of the main reasons we wanted to do this trip so yeah Billy Goats Bluff first and then Harrison and I are probably going to double back to Blue Rag and the Wannangatta Valley and all those tracks which I haven't done before so we'll see how it goes but let's head on to All right guys we're at the bottom of Billy Goats Bluff and yeah we're gonna give it a crack. Yeah all right guys good luck. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. I stalled it and then I couldn't catch it. No I'm good. I don't know what that means. If you like I can search the web for. I stole it and then I couldn't catch it. We made it. Come on Harrison. Let's go my man. Come on. Let's go. Yeah boy. Come on. Let's go. You got this. Easy man. Blame it. You're good. Don't kill me. Nice. Let's go boys. Yeah. Nice. All right guys I'm leaving Harrison here. I've taken off my tail bag just for a little bit of weight saving. I'll leave everything, everything else in there but I'm heading up Billy Goats so let's do this. All right. Don't jinx it mate. Josh came off but he's getting going again. Let me give him some space because I don't want to be, I don't want to lose momentum getting stuck behind him. It's an action shot if you were following me. Yeah. I just picked the left line and my bike ended up being styled in the truck. Tell the audience what does it compare to the last time you did it? I would say double. Like it's all the same but I didn't have as many washouts and as many obstacles. Yeah. But like the hard pack stuff on the left hasn't it's all chewed up. Guys you heard it here. It's harder and to back that up everyone that we've come across that I've spoken to has said it's in way worse condition. Oh fell on my back a little bit. I'm all right. I'm all right. Shit spot to fall though. Damn that was so, I'll just say that wasn't that hard. I don't know if I can get going here. We shall see. This is an oopsie. An oopsie that I don't like. Okay. I'm all right here. Let's go bro. Come on man. Come on Josh. You got this dude. Fender bags come off. Infected my handling. Bloody fender bag. My GoPro had an issue and missed the section where Lance had to help me get unstuck from a tree. Guys I feel like I've got the skill but my, I mean I don't have the skill but my forearms are gone. Oh I just can't grab on. Jeez. Babe just had the forearm strain. What is happening? Now it's just getting silly. Now it's just being silly. Now it's getting really silly. Oh my god. Fuel everywhere. Lifting it the worst way up a hill. Thank frick it's a WR250R and not a Tenere 700. Well it's right up here guys. I think I'll give it one more go. If I drop it I'm going back down. Ready to live another fight another day. What they say. Whatever that freaking quote is. Live to fight another day. It's so hot guys. It's like 31 degree day. Microphone's broken. Just cancelled the trip. I was right at the end man. I was right at the end. Just cancelled the trip guys. I'm an idiot. I'm an absolute idiot. Wear your goggle. I could have lost an eye. I'm so stupid. I'm so stupid dude. I'm so stupid. Learn from your mistake. Learn from my mistake. I hurt my foot. I'm bleeding. I was just talking before I took off. Know when to call it. Know when to call it but I didn't know when to call it. I'm so stupid. I really hurt my foot but I think it's just impact. I think and it's my other foot but I've broken everything. I've an impact on my foot. It's starting to feel better. It's not like when I broke it the last time but I'm going down. Everything's broken dude. Oh I'm an idiot. Oh fuel's going everywhere. I want the bike to turn on fire. I'm an idiot guys. I got the bike back up again. I'm making my way down. This is going to be a mission to survive. This is no joke guys. At least it's a nice view. Oh my god. I definitely hurt my foot. The bike fell on it and crunched it but I think it was on top and not a crush like my. Oh it's a crush but I don't think it's broken. I don't think it's broken. I'm leaving the boot for now and we'll go from there. Oh my god. I just got offline and yeah man I'm going to take it super easy. Sorry to hear. Pleasure to meet you but I'm just glad that you got there safely. Will do and enjoy the rest of your trip guys and I look forward to our next ride whenever it eventuates. All right see ya. Take it easy gents. I'm just on the way down guys. Having a breather. This should be much easier than it is but I'm so rattled. I'm so fatigued that one mistake and I just hurt myself again. So I'm going to take it so easy. I'm so sorry Harrison making your way down there. I'm going to get down there as quick as I can but as safely as I can. So yeah just making my way down. It is nutty. Front brakes are overheating. I'm overheating. This has been the trip from hell. Lots of traffic coming up. Four by fours. I think there might be eight of them coming. It's been very slow going guys but we're getting there. I can see the helipad in the distance. A couple more climbs down. It's been so hard. My face is really sore. Oh it smashed me not just in the nose up in the brow ridge as well but I just got to get there. I'm dehydrated even though I've been drinking like crazy. I've had a Gatorade. Let's just get to the end. Come on. Here comes Josh. He's just about made it. He's made it back. Mate are you all right? Oh mate don't apologize. I mean I'm not worried. How are you though? All up here is all smashed in as well. It's not bleeding but it's smashed in. Oh s**t. Oh my foot is f**ked but it's not bad. It feels like the other injury but nowhere near as bad. I made it guys. That was the hardest. That descent on its own was the hardest thing I've done as well. Harder than last time. Well harder than last time. I was rattled. I just was not feeling it and I was so disappointed being so close to the top and not making it and I'd be fine. I'd feel it. I'd be feeling better if my foot wasn't feeling funny but I know it's not. I don't know it's not broken but I know it's not like last time. What I think happened is that the bike landed on this. Yeah yeah. It's tender there but it didn't it didn't pull but oh my face up here is sore. Yeah I don't know how bad it is. Are you cut on the nose? Unfortunately the crash resulted in catastrophic damage to the GoPro mount and the microphone. I had some spares but unfortunately when I reconnected it all up I didn't fully plug in the microphone. So here I am discussing about preparing to head down from the helipad which in my current state wasn't easy but it had to be done. Our plan was now to head to BlueRag as it was potentially an easier track but we didn't know whether to leave it for the next day. All right guys. I think my last update. I said that we were going to do BlueRag tomorrow morning. We're just here in Bright. We're not camping. My foot is killing me right now. It's um starting to swell up a bit. I don't know if it's just an impact injury. I have broken my foot. Uh viewers of the channel will know that but um my face is banged up. That's not preventing me from riding. It's the foot. So I think tomorrow we're going to try and high tail at home. Might have to get an x-ray and see if there's any damage there but um overall it was a great adventure. I'm sure uh we learned a few lessons but um yeah we'll uh we'll get better and get another adventure in. All right guys. I'm pretty sure I set did a send off last night. We said I'm pretty sure I wasn't going to do BlueRag. We didn't do BlueRag because my foot is so banged up but we are here on top of the Paps which I've never been uh near Lake Ilden which is somewhere on the other side but there are the bikes. It ain't no BlueRag but it's some pretty spectacular views that's for sure. Um oh man the foot is sore but I'm fairly certain it's not broken which means I will be back adventuring very soon. Um nothing crazy though because I do have an international trip planned um in less than two months so uh the the wife wouldn't be happy if I broke my foot or or any other major injuries. So I really do hope you guys enjoyed the video. Uh it was awesome meeting Josh, JB and Lance aka The Apprentice Adventurer. Had so much fun for the limited time that we had but I'm hoping that I can get out to your guys neck of the woods and hopefully get some riding in but until then I'll catch you guys in the next video.