Our 3rd Motorbike Trip - The conquer of Mt Kosciuszco

Conquering Mt Kosciusko - Dec 26 – Jan 4th
by Tate Ryan

I was busy planning this motorbike trip from the day I got back from Hong Kong until we left. We managed to pull off a miracle, Two people on one bike, 10 days worth of luggage, a tent and cooking gear. It was one heavy bike. I have never heard of any other bikers attempting such a feet. If they did, they either wouldn’t camp or wouldn’t cook their own food.



We survived 9 days of the trip. Travelled over 1000Kms, Camped every night in a three man tent and cooked our own food.

It was a lot of fun. Hanna looks back on it and says it’s was her best holiday ever. It was tough though and we came home a day early because we were pretty much exhausted. The hardest thing was the cold, and we were travelling through the Australian Alps which didn’t help. The nights were freezing and our tent & sleeping bags were not warm. We had to sleep in all our motorbike gear.



The scenery was beautiful though, the camping was fun, the cooking less so. It would be nice to eat better food. Sometimes we didn’t even eat because we arrived after shops closed etc.



We climbed Australia’s highest peak on New Years Eve. (In our motorcycle clothes) which was an inspirational thing to do. (A three hour hike and it was freezing cold at the peak)



On New Years day we rode to a town and watched a Rodeo, that was interesting, at the campsite, hung out with all the foreign students picking fruit during the holidays.

It was good to be home though. It was so exhausting setting up camp and packing up camp every time we moved, because it would take between 1 – 2 hours to do it. It was very complicated fitting every thing on the bike.

While riding we crashed once in mud. Also got soaked in the rain a few times….



Good memories though. Glad we did it. We were on a tight budget and did the whole 9 day trip for $500 AUD. That included everything – Petrol, camping, food, entry fees, movies etc. We were very proud of ourselves for this effort.