Dijo had to go to Mudgee for a quick job & said if I went with her she would go up via the Bridal Track.


This heads up out of Bathurst, and has this sign at the start-


The road soon gets quite narrow-


and winds around a mountainside-


with rocks in the roadway-

There are some spectacular views-


and we headed down to the river flats-


Obviously the river comes up at some time, although not enough to get the ute muddy-


..and plenty of rocks in the surface..


and as we started to climb up again..

more narrow winding road..


which got narrower and tighter.. This is a passing bay!!


and spectacular..


The road was built on stones like brickwork in many places-


Big hills & valley-

More rocks in the road-


and more.. We met a 4WD drive coming down a really narrow part, but driving up the bank got us past..


Somewhere in the middle they had a proper passing bay!


Then more of the same


and more big cliffs

there were big rock slabs in the bank, and in the road!



and we even crossed a drift!


Then amazingly suddenly the road climbed up to a tarseal T-junction and we were in Hill End.


This was a raging goldmining town over a century ago, and then everyone just got up and left. Its not that it has been preserved, it just hasn't been knocked down and replaced!

From there it was lovely winding smooth tarseal


but not so good when following a truck-


He soon pulled over and we swept down through the hills


The only gravel interludes were smooth


and it was well-kept farmland into Mudgee.


We went back via the easy road through Wellington! :D

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