Echo Camp Backtrack - Arkaroola, Flinders Ranges

[@brickus1249]

Thanks for the tour. I live in SA but haven't been to the Flinders Ranges since the early 70s when I had a LWB Land Rover with a Fairey overdrive. Lovely to see the beautiful lady who allows you to go shopping for milk mate. 😂🥰😎

[@mongreldogproductions]

Yeah, she's a Keeper... Thanks for watching.

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

Steve love the overlanding too thanks for being adventurous. You’re really good at it

[@mongreldogproductions]

Thank you... ☺

[@GanGoz]

Arkaroola and the Finders ranges are some of my favourite places in Aus. Thanks for bringing us along mate.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Glad you enjoyed

[@johnpiegzik1947]

Hi Steve. What a great trip. Thanks for sharing always enjoy your adventures. Cheers John from Gold Coast.

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@johnpiegzik1947 Hi John, thanks for the positive feedback. Glad you enjoy the Channel content. Regards.

[@robkeith1776]

Another enjoyable adventure Steve. Thanks for taking us along.

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@robkeith1776 You’re welcome…glad you enjoyed the Adventure.

[@tonywoolford5470]

Thanks for sharing mate, enjoyable to watch

[@phillipdean9879]

Great trip Steve! Some beautiful country out there! 🍺🍺

[@kdjat]

Have done Echo Camp Backtrack a couple of times, never gets easier! Beautiful part of the country!

[@mongreldogproductions]

Totally agree!

[@outbacknomad9939]

Great content

[@mongreldogproductions]

Thank you...

[@michaeldallimore8590]

You have certainly covered some ground this year Steve. I was there is July 21 and there was plenty of water in those gorges. I would not have aired up for those tracks. That is an old timers theory to protect the sidewalls but with modern tyres its better to have low pressures. You need to spend some time in the Vic high country to get used to steep rocky tracks but I agree the scenery in the Flinders is spectacular. Victorian Alps are not far behind though. Thanks for the video.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Glad you enjoyed the journey.

[@scottmoore9215]

Well done Steve love following along everywhere you go.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Thank you...watch this space.

[@merv190]

Nice Steve, very short video by your standards. I hope we will see more of the trip home.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Nah, thats it. I've been playing catch up with vid production and they were backing up. I'm about to go to the Kimberley and Gibb River Road on the BMW and that will mean more vid production when I return. I gotta learn to stay home more often and empty my 'In Tray" (pig's arse!) 😀

[@billcotton1551]

Some serious off roading there ,Steve! Really enjoyed seeing another part of Australia.

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@billcotton1551 Thanks Bill, glad you enjoyed the journey. 😀

[@roberthocking9138]

That was a rough old track, but beautiful views on the way. Hope no one twisted an ankle. Great video I loved wilpena pound a few years ago, I will never forget those views

[@mongreldogproductions]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@BruceGuley]

Nice video.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Thank you...glad you enjoyed it. 😀

[@AndrewCastlemaine]

More great content! Was expecting after the epic bike trip you would put your feet up for a while

[@mongreldogproductions]

Yeah, nah. Plenty of time for that when i'm dead.

[@Oldfatbeerman]

I rode that track you walked back a couple of years ago , several of our group needed assistance getting back up that rough steep bit , it was no easy task getting big Adventure bikes out of there .

[@mongreldogproductions]

Outta my league (now)...I think i have become a little more sensible now that i am old. I guess with age comes a (little) more wisdom. 😀

[@pauls4708]

a change of pace but still great!

[@gcmuscatman6726]

Nice Steve, got the wife with you, saves you jumping out the vehicle to open the gates.

[@mongreldogproductions]

She had to...she cant drive a Manual so she has to sit in the passengers seat...

[@graemeashton1917]

Been to the top of St Mary's Peak, great views of the Ranges North which includes the Aroona Valley 😅

[@mongreldogproductions]

I did the climb some years ago...it's the sort of thing you only ever want to do once...hard going!

[@dynamadnessadventures205]

Great video Steve travel safe

[@mongreldogproductions]

Thanks, you too!

[@graemeashton1917]

Rode my bicycle to Arkaroola and explored most of area on the bike, even riding on the Ridge Top Track, almost to the end and back 😂

[@andrewford80]

Wow that would have been a tough ride

[@mongreldogproductions]

You must be a tough nut...the downhill run would've been fun.

[@graemeashton1917]

@mongreldogproductions l met another guy with a 4wd drive, who had a mountain bike strapped to front bullbars. Talked him into riding around the area including the Ridge Top Track. Sometimes we had to get off the bikes and walk down and up the hills, that's why they call them push bikes lol

[@GCM_AU]

1040~ iconic view..

[@nbrettoner]

Nice video to end with. Sorry you had that really still dusty day to contend with. That loop rd back to the Pound looks for me 'doable' in my 1996 Super Roo Outback. But I'd be travelling super slow and careful. Maybe 20 psi or lower on the rougher stuff.

[@mongreldogproductions]

Its a well maintained track suitable for 2wd if it came to that. We were running road pressures. See you on the other side.

[@nbrettoner]

@@mongreldogproductions Thanks Steve. Other side :)

[@stuartkcalvin]

Thanks Steve, see you on the other side.

[@mongreldogproductions]

You bet

[@mikehzz9848]

Mate, Mount Chambers Gorge is a fantastic remote camp you should put on your list. It's off the road from Yunta to Arkaroola and your bike would get there. Well worth a look. PS, since we're talkin Chambers, have you done Chambers Pillar near the Finke race course?

[@mongreldogproductions]

Hi Mike, i haven't done Chambers Pillar...I have been in the area but it wasn't on the route that particular trip. Closest I got was the Ghan Heritage Trail...what a crap road that is/was!

[@graemeashton1917]

Yes it was, some of the downhills were worst than the uphills 😂

[@mongolike513]

Dead set brilliant HD footage of the Australian heart. Mr Steve you will have to knock off the Stagg in order to hide the Sorbent, which for your foreign audience is kitchen paper. Meanwhile congratulations to your main squeeze for letting you drive the easy bits. Get her a bike!

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@mongolike513 hahaha…lots to think about with your comments. Thanks for taking the time to comment and thanks for watching. 😀

[@jf7243]

Strike, you know it’s a dry place when the landholders feed the wallabies and roos! But then again, SA is the driest state in the driest continent.

[@alexmorgan3435]

Great video of a fantastic area. Brought back some great memories when I did a tour into and around the Flinders in the early 1990s in an old Landcruiser with a couple of travelling companions. We had the place pretty much to ourselves back then. I guess now it's a lot more controlled and a bit of a popular honey trap. You are looking very trim these days Steve. You training for an Ironman?

[@mongreldogproductions]

Trim??? Probably a throwback to livin' like a dog on the bike...eating can tuna and not being able to go to the fridge all day, every day lol. I do cycle 20km most days when I'm home just to try and maintain some standard of fitness. Maybe it's the camera angles. Either way, I'll take it as a compliment. 😀

[@alexmorgan3435]

@@mongreldogproductions Was meant to be a compliment.

[@robpinter5431]

Nice, great work again Steve. How did sue hang on to the spare tyre on the roof rack to get the overhead shots?

[@mongreldogproductions]

She is very talented...by the way, wifey's name is Jacki. Sue was another lady within the group.

[@jmsask]

🍻

[@johnzee691]

great vid, as always. so you rode across austrailia to hook up with other riders to ride, then hoof it home to switch the bike out for a car to do it again.....! or almost.. home many crossings a year do you think you make? sure glad you haven't posted many breakdowns or accidents! 😎👍

[@mongreldogproductions]

I've lost track of the number of crossings and I'm about to leave home (again), travel thru Central Australia (again) and then head up to the Kimberley and Gibb River Road via the Tanimi Track. So much to do; so little time!

[@johnzee691]

@@mongreldogproductions love it! not on a bicycle I hope 😁

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@johnzee691 the R1200 with a small group… 😀

[@duncanm6589]

Looks like it was a great trip Steve. I see another comment you are catching up on some stuff. I was out that way about 18mths ago, when was this trip?

[@mongreldogproductions]

8 June till 3 July...

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

Steve, is Sue a biker too ? 👍❤️

[@mongreldogproductions]

Sue was another lady within the group. My Wifey's name is Jacki. Jacki is a great pillion but doesnt ride herself. Maybe one day we'll do a vid riding two up...could be a whole new Adventure.

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

@@mongreldogproductions Steve, two up adventure 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@alasdairhamilton1574 Would probably end in divorce 😂😂😂

[@hollandp9606]

Every time you say ‘see you on the other side’. Each time I watch I wonder what side of Australia you’re on so I’m beginning to think does that mean the other side of Australia as you go back and forth!?

[@mongreldogproductions]

Extract from Wikipedia... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_on_the_Other_Side But in my case, it's probably more about being on the other side of the camera for a change and actually seeing myself in the vid rather than producing it. Thanks for watching.

[@grahameroberts8109]

Nice work and good to see the handy gate opener on board. I assume the highway tyre pressure is to hopefully prevent sidewall tyre cuts. 🙏👍🏻🦘

[@mongreldogproductions]

Correct (about the sidewall damage). I'll pass on your regards to the gate opener. 😀

[@suzyamerica4679]

@@mongreldogproductions Is she by chance the same lady who sends you on those long range grocery trips? :)

[@mongreldogproductions]

@@suzyamerica4679 She is...but I think she is wising up to me and doesn't let me out of her sight now 😂😂😂