Our Landcruiser attempting the Gunshot Creek crossing. It didn't quite make it... Part of our Cape York 2011 Adventure. Recorded on 5th of July, 2011. Part 4 - • Bertie Creek Crossing ... Part 6 - • Cockatoo Creek Crossin...
That is a difficult decent he took. You don’t see people tackle that track very often into Gunshot Ck because it just looks so wrong. A+ for effort and for giving it a go. Not many would have the guts to do that one. I’ve been there twice and so far tried a chicken track the first time, and the second time I did the other decent just to the other side of the original. I scraped all up the LHS rear of my bumper. The Patrol that immediately followed me (who I didn’t know) rolled it on its side on the way down. Took half an hour for his mates to recover his car. Was kinda funny.
Well as he said, Left is Left, Right is Right but to eliminate confusion as the driver and callers are usually facing each other, we say "Left hand down", "Right hand down", to indicate which way to turn the wheel.
There are two tracks across gun shot creek . 1. the hero drop. (this was lame compared to when i saw it) 2. the easy way . Take my advice and take Number 2. Gun shot creek is still along way from where you want to be.! Other crossings are far more dangerous . Take care .
Because there are about 10 different entries. Only 3 or 4 are regularly used. This year, the drop to the left was in use, and the track this guy took was out of action.
"Think we got him stuck..." lol whoops. Should have unwound the winch before going in or better yet, don't go down such a steep drop in the first place...
Stupid at its best and downright dangerous.Just fortunate that the vehicle didnt slide off the bank and on its side. Could have had serious repercussions.
Alex Caddell If you think that getting stuck is just something that happens to bad drivers you just know nothing about driving offroad. If you are in really hard terrain you will spend more time shovelling and winching than driving. But Dan Stormer was right....just a bunch of keybord warriors.
Dan Strommer That's right mate. If you're not getting stuck, the tracks you're on aren't tough enough. I'd encourage everyone to take their stock fourbies out and get in trouble and learn to recover and how to wheel rather than open their wallets and pray that 35s and all the barwork south of the equator will get them through.
yes but some people love to make life hard for the adventure,,i live up near this place and its not a good place to break you car,,very very expensive to get it back to weipa to fix it. upwards of $3000
Mate we did a lot of digging under the front of the car under the water to hook it up to a winch properly. I think the car would have been in that position for at least an hour after we got it stuck.
I did the Gunshot in 1989 in a 1983 FJ 45 Troopy. Looks completely different these days. I also crossed the Jardine in the FJ. That thing was unstoppable
This obviously isn't the first time this has happened. To the left of the truck (his right) is a elevated path for the right tires so this doesn't happen. Lol
@markssite Better off shutting engine down if you have no oil in the oil pump pick up.I would have shut it down too, let the winch do the work then check it out before cranking it again.
Haha thanks for that- it made me chuckle...... any true off-roader has done something like that at some point. As for the Left/Right....Driver/Passenger.......Port/Starboard argument- the guys guiding him are stood right in front of him, there is a drop he can't see past the bonnet- Why not just guid him by hand- pointing can't be mistaken, and it gives the driver something to concentrate on!!
And why do so many people think the old original vertical track descending in is Gunshot? Gunshot is the name of the bloody creek. When u see this place it looks like a bomb went off in there. It’s a mess quite literally. And there are heaps of descents that have been knocked in through the bush to reach the bottom now. Shame really that people lack the respect to leave things as they are.
Aw well shit happens. Videos poster said they got him out with some digging so alls well in the end. Fellow can chalk that up to a lesson learned in preparing for a crossing and hopefully not make the same mistake next time.
Probably already answered the question but how did you go about getting him out in the end? It would have been a task to hook something on the front unless you hooked to the top of the Bullbar but that would have put a lot of strain on the bar
Mates, you've done it all wrong. You're taking the chicken track, this is the real gunshot creek track and this is how you take it. /watch?v=2gEeWeLc2Z8&feature=plcp
