Central West Tour Overview
28 October 2013 / Michael Soulos
The Central West Tour for the BreakFast Club and Sydney Chapter went ahead despite the withdrawals and terrible fires across the Blue Mountains and along the Putty Road. Following a poll of the members who had secured accommodation and had not withdrawn due to work, the fires or other commitments, we abandoned all thoughts of chasing any fields of gold in the canola-growing areas west of Bathurst. The CWT was reduced to two days and held over the weekend of 26-27 October 2013, with the mission of chasing the ribbon of tar and blue stone down the Central Western Tablelands.
The start venue was changed to Mt Colah for a run that was almost entirely off the M1 to Freemans Waterhole then through Cessnock, Broke, Milbrodale and Denamn to run the Bylong Valley Way. From Bylong the route went to Mudgee on the Lue Road then down to Bathurst on the Hill End and Turondale Roads on Day 1. Day 2 was a run across to Oberon via The Lagoon and Wisemans Creek then down to Goulburn on the Tablelands Way via Taralga with the group able to reach the M5 & M7 interchange to go our separate ways from 2:30pm on Sunday after a 1,000km drive.
PS. This is a link to the amended route over some of the best MX-5 roads within a 200km radius of Sydney. We had two members on their first multi-day event whose reports will be posted on News as they come in.
Central West Tour Day 1 - by ...
Central West Tour Day 2 - by Phil Donnelley
