{"id":3445,"date":"2020-09-04T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:18:05","slug":"mountain-creek-road-to-yass-16-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/mountain-creek-road-to-yass-16-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Creek Road to Yass &#8211; 16 August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We collected at Uriarra Road below Mt Stromlo, then headed West to cross the Murrumbidgee at the low-level Uriarra Crossing, just re-opened after floods.<\/p>\n<p>CACMC events are pretty free-spirited during these pandemic times. Some members came to the rendezvous and went no further. Others buzzed straight up the familiar Federal Highway and met us at Yass. Others were seen self-guiding to various eating destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Below participants line up at our rendezvous on the Mt Stromlo side of Uriarra Road, with Molonglo suburbs in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3442\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onthe-Grid2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onthe-Grid2.jpg 922w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onthe-Grid2-400x166.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onthe-Grid2-180x75.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onthe-Grid2-768x318.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><br \/>\nSunny patches and misty patches made for a picturesque drive. Here we paused for a glamour photo shoot beside Mountain Creek Road.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3438\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Creek-Road-16-8-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Creek-Road-16-8-20.jpg 707w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Creek-Road-16-8-20-400x158.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Creek-Road-16-8-20-180x71.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><br \/>\nHistoric Taemas Bridge crosses the Murrumbidgee where it enters Burrinjuck Dam, on the road linking Yass to Wee Jasper and Tumut across the mountains.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3443\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onto-bridge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onto-bridge2.jpg 865w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onto-bridge2-400x275.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onto-bridge2-180x124.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Onto-bridge2-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><br \/>\nNorth of Taemas Bridge is a steep climb out of the Murrumbidgee valley.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3440\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Across-trhe-bridge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Across-trhe-bridge2.jpg 971w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Across-trhe-bridge2-400x161.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Across-trhe-bridge2-180x73.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Across-trhe-bridge2-768x310.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further up the ridge, we look back over the upper reaches of Burrinjuck Dam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3441\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burrinjuck-tail2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burrinjuck-tail2.jpg 707w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burrinjuck-tail2-400x178.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burrinjuck-tail2-180x80.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A full convoy stretches out on the rolling country road heading towards Yass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strung-out2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strung-out2.jpg 536w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strung-out2-400x287.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strung-out2-180x129.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All these shots courtesy of Geoff Hall. Most are snipped from Geoff&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pn-AFH-pe00\"><strong>video, really worth watching at this link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We collected at Uriarra Road below Mt Stromlo, then headed West to cross the Murrumbidgee at the low-level Uriarra Crossing, just re-opened after floods. CACMC events are pretty free-spirited during these pandemic times. Some members came to the rendezvous and went no further. Others buzzed straight up the familiar Federal Highway and met us at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cacmc.org.au\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}