Butcher Country
Date and time: 9:00am, Saturday 25th January to 4:00pm Monday 27th January
Trip Standard: Medium-Hard
Most tracks are rated hard. Expect steep climbs and descents, challenging sections, water crossings, ruts (may be deep in some sections) and bog holes after rain.
Description: Licola to Mansield via the Butcher country, staying at Brindle Bull Gap camp and Lovicks Hut.
Please contact your trip leader if you are unsure of any of the following requirements for this trip.
Weather: Alpine environment,weather can be ariable, so please bring clothing, footwear and camping gear suitable for the conditions and keep an eye on the weather forecast for the Alpine area.
Equipment: Below are the recommended vehicle requirements. If you are not sure if your vehicle is suitable for a trip, please have a chat with the trip leader.
Good off-road tyres (All Terrain, 60 profile recommended as a minimum), UHF radio (or one borrowed from the club), a well-maintained vehicle with low range (or equivalent), good ground clearance (200mm recommended as a minimum), recovery points, standard recovery gear including dampener, rated snatch strap and shackles, shovel. Drivers must have completed the RRCV club training or equivalent.
Additional Equipment required: Camping gear food and drinking water for 3 days / 2 nights in the bush. Clothing for wet and cold conditions. Morning tea and lunches will be in the bush each day – byo simple, “on the move” lunches and morning teas (byo thermos).
No camper trailers, pets or firearms
Maps and Reference Material: Rooftop maps: Jamieson-Licola Adventure map, Mansfield Mt Howitt Adventure Map, Bush Huts around Mansfield Map
Fuel: A full tank ex Licola. Fuel is available in Licola (start) and Mansfield (destination)
Distance: Licola is approximately 241 km from Melbourne CBD. The trip distance from Licola is 150km of mainly low range driving. Mansfield to Melbourne is 184km
Duration: 3 days
Convoy limit: 10 vehicles
Meeting arrangements: We will meet at Licola outside the General Store and depart at 9.00am. If you plan to get coffee beforehand then you will need to arrive a little earlier. We will aim to finish before 4.00pm at Mansfield on Sunday.
Club Guest Registration policy: It is club policy in regard to insurance cover that if a member brings any non-members on the trip they must be registered and have paid the required fee as Temporary Members BEFORE the event.
i.e. non- members can no longer register on the day with the trip leader.
Temporary Membership information and ways to register can be found at:
Temporary (Guest) Membership
Also if a non-member wishes to bring their own vehicle, the member inviting the non-member must contact the trip leader for approval to bring the vehicle. Such approval will take into account skills of the driver, suitability of the vehicle and whether or not a place within the convoy limit is available for a non-member's vehicle.
Trip Leaders: Mark Bown & Sherry Mayo
