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Track next to power lines. Click here!Pinjar Power Station Track

This track is easy, and is good as a beginners track. It is largely straight, with only a few soft sand patches, and can have some mud in winter. You need to watch out for pieces of wood on the track, which could stake your tyres. It is not necessary to let your tyres down for this track, and in fact doing so could increase the risk of getting a puncture. There is only 1 or 2 small hill climbs, which can be bypassed if need be. It is a good run to do at night time, as there a many kangaroos, and the power station looks quite good all lit up.
0Km Start at Ampol Gnangara Petrol station, heading East. (This Petrol station is on Gnangara road, 7.7K East of Wanneroo road, Wangara.)
1.5 Turn left onto limestone road, into the Gnangara dirtbike area. Engage 4WD. Note the large 330000 volt power lines, which you should never stray from. Follow limestone track for a while, then cut across, to follow sandy track directly beneath power lines.
5.4 Track veers right at pole number 34 - Track max speed of 50KPh when in good condition, although you should slow down in the sections that are narrow due to over-grown scrub.
5.6 Crossroad - Warning, watch out for pieces of wood, which can spear your tyres!
6.4 Crossroad, elevated.
9.0 Flat section, subject to puddles and mud in winter.
9.8 Track veers left at pole number 45 and also goes over crossroad.
10.9 Crossroad - Warning, Kangaroos are common from here on
11.5 Crossroad
12.7 Several cross tracks
13.2 Several cross tracks. Track has a small "S Bend" and goes over lumps. Slow down!
14.1 DANGER - Pinjar road crossover. The is a 110KPh main road! Stop and cross with caution!
14.4 Track bends right at pole number 56.
16.5 Track bends left at pole number 61
17.1 Cross track
17.6 Muddy area (winter only). During summer, this part can have bulldust.
18.1 Crosstrack with lump - caution
19.1 Crosstrack
21.6 Crosstrack. Track becomes quite overgrown.
22.0 Crossover major, wide track, which is actually the RAAF Fire break.
22.9 Crosstrack
24.9 Bends left at pole 80.
25.2 Crosstrack
26.8 Crossover major, wide track. Firebreak.
27.8 Minor sandy slope. May require run-up to succeed.
28.4 2 Minor cross tracks.
28.6 Power station becomes visible from top of hill (at 1:00 o'clock)
29.1 Track veers right at pole 90. Continue to follow main power lines, taking right hand branch of Y junction.
29.3 Track veers to right at pole 90A. Power lines are now smaller steel poles, rather than pylons.
29.7 Track veers left. Follow power lines and continue over minor cross track.
30.4 Track veers left and joins up with limestone road. Cross under main power lines that go into station. Track veers slightly right.
30.8 Track ends at T junction. Turn left onto limestone road.
31.0 Pass small limestone track on the left (which you can go down to look at the gas-turbine generators, if you want to)
31.3 Turn left onto Limestone track
31.5 End track. Track becomes bitumen road, which takes you back to Pinjar road.
View of tracks going up the hill (Click here)

The
Pinjar
Hill
Climbs

View from top. My cruiser couldn't make it! A front or rear diff lock would help! Click me!
0Km Start at Pinjar Power Station, at end of Bitumen road, heading north, where limestone starts (ie. at position 31.5 above, but facing back into the bush)
0.2 Turn left at Limestone crossroad.
0.6 Turn right at major T junction
2.1 Pass fenced off area on left. Turn right into track just passed this. The 4 side-by-side hill climbs will be clearly visible by now. Good Luck!
To Get to Pinjar Power Station by Bitumen...
0Km Turn East into Pinjar road, from Wanneroo road, just north of Centre of Wanneroo
5.6 Pass Neaves Road turnoff - continue ahead, road bends left
7.1 Turn right into Ziatas Road.
9.0 Caution - Sharp bend to the left
22.4 Pinjar Power Station.             (c) 4WD Encounter 1998

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