b'June 2022 Trackwatch.qxp_Trackwatch Layout 119/06/20226:41 pmPage 12 Club SpotlightLAND ROVER OWNERS CLUB OF GIPPSLANVolunteer Day at McMichaels HutOn March the 16th, in light drizzle, thermoses and enjoy a hot tea or forms, satphone, defibrillator, first aidthe participants for the day met at coffee. It was a damp 12 degrees and snake bite kits were located, inLicola and were on the way up to with a cool breeze. Wayne, the activity case of emergency. We then setMcMichaels Hut, Kelly Lane by 9:15. leader from the Parks Victoria Foothills about unloading all the gear from theWe made steady progress up the hills and Southern Alps Team at Heyfield, trailer. The serenity was soon broken,into the Alpine National Park with gave the safety briefing. As trip leader with brush cutters and mowersWayne and Ellen from Parks Victoria for the club, I added where the spluttering into life in the higherleading in the Mercedes G Wagon, volunteer emergency personal details altitude air, then settling into a noisytowing a trailer loaded with theequipment we would need. Drivingover the wooden bridge that crossesShaw Creek at Thomastown, ourconvoy of six vehicles, (2 Land RoverDiscovery 4s, a Land Rover DefenderHardtop, an Isuzu MUX, a LandCruiser 200 Series and the G wagon),bumped and splashed its way alongKelly Lane. Recent rain had scouredout the track making it a little slower totravel than normal. On reaching McMichaels Hut wetook time to get out the Jetboils or10JUNE2022 TRACKWATCH'