Can you snowmobile in australia

Amazon Associates Program: Outdoorfizz. This is an affiliate advertising programme designed to compensate websites for advertising and linking to Amazon. We generate revenue at no expense to you. May 15, Can you snowmobile in Australia? Yes, you need a Licence and Registration to ride a snowmobile in Australia. Parks, National parks and nature reserves in Australia. Permit to ride snowmobile in Victoria. Please refer to the council for details of any other requirements for this permit.

Permit to ride snowmobile in NSW. Oversnow vehicle safety. NPWS recommends : 1. Conditions of use of oversnow vehicles. Abide by the Australian Road Rules Abide by the National Parks and Wildlife Regulation Park over-snow vehicles in designated zones only Operate over snow vehicles for business purposes only Operate an over-snow vehicle on designated routes only. Acceptable routes and snowmobile parking.

Wrapping up! Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on pinterest. How to stop a snowman from melting You worked extremely hard on your snowman, devoting hours to his meticulous sculpting, assembly, and decoration. May 14, No Comments. This is great. Getting people out of resorts and into the backcountry is to be supported and encouraged.

What is less great is the emphasis on the use of snowmobiles to get people out there. Certainly, the tours are confined to the alpine resort area even though this is ecologically part of the Bogong High Plains.

However, they come with a high annoyance cost to people who are out there under their own steam. It is not clear what ecological assessment, if any, has been made of the tours — for instance, is there an impact on endangered species or vegetation? There is also a bigger picture here: there is the fact that these tours could be a precedent for future snowmobile based developments elsewhere in the alps. Anyone who has skied backcountry in North America will know the many problems that come with rampant and often uncontrolled snowmobile use.

While here in Australia recreational use of snowmobiles is supposedly controlled or banned for instance in national parks , how often is this actually enforced? As one example, there is growing use within the Alpine national park in the area between Dinner Plain and Mt Hotham and around Dinner Plain village with apparently no intervention from land managers. Snowmobiles are essential tools in resort management and search and rescue operations.

Further information on their approach to the environment is here. If you have an opinion about the expansion of snowmobiles into the backcountry you may wish to let the resort management know about them.

October 6, at am. Dear Cam Absolutely spot on in at least three ways. February 11, at pm. While I agree that there should always be due diligence in any type of land use… Commercial or recreational, I am always disappointed to hear or read about groups of people who no little about a sport, yet have a strong opiion on it.

I have been a skier for decades as well as a snowmobilers, and can appreciate both sides of the argument. It is very unlikely that any harm is done to the environment from snowmobilers, as they are traveling above the vegetation level while the snow is on the ground, then once the snow is gone, you would never know they had even been there.

I emplore anyone to try snowmobiling, because once you have, there is no going back… They can take you to places you cannot get to by any other means and the views from these places are breathtaking. I disagree that their use should be limited and would support their expanded use. I should just point out that there has been no assessment at all regarding the expansion of the tours out of Falls Creek.

This is simply not true: skis or snowshoes will get you anywhere a snowmobile can, with a lot less noise and a lot more exercise. March 10, at am. Cam, You need to get more educated on the subject which you are writing about. Your last comment about how snowshoes or skis can get you anywhere a snomobile can, with a lot less noise and a lot more exercise in incorrect. While it is true a snowmobile does make noise, not all are very loud, especially one with a 4 stroke engine.

Your comment about exercise is absolutely incorrect. You might be quite a bit suprised on how physically challenging it can be to ride a snowmobile, especially in the mountains. Finally, to say you can get to any place a snowmobile can get with skis or snowshoes cannot be further from the truth. Unless someone is a world class hiker with excellent backcountry survival skills, this comment is totally off base.

A snowmobile can open up the backcountry to those who will never get the chance to see it. Many of these people will come to enjoy and work to protect the environment they enjoy as much as you do. While I have never been in the backcountry on snowshoes or skis, I can appreciate the enjoyment someone can experience doing this activity.

I challenge you to try to have an open mind on other enjoyable winter activites also. Maybe take a trip on the machine that you feel so strongly about so you can get firsthand knowledge on the topic you write about.

Having explored snow mobiling out of necessity when living in Alaska i do have a sense of what the sport is about. Believe me its a very different experience regards, cam. June 14, at pm. June 30, at am. While I read your post with great interest as I very keen to get out in to the back country and am looking at taking the safety and best knowlage as well eg avalanche courses and the correct safety equipment, I do think you are correct in there needs to be some good management plans in place I do have concern in the way you points are made as it reminds me of the national parks view on 4wding and it impact on the environment, so maybe before you start a hate complain about ski mobile why not instead put forward some suggestion on how the use by a wider public could take place, as regardless if you want to ski , snow shoe or snowboard this is our great country side which we all pay taxes and should be able to enjoy it and also be able to take our kids out there in the future.

And banning something may not be the best way to go, and while study are great but from my time traveling Australia and watching the bush recover after a bush fire or flood it is strong and better at this than what most people would think.

I agree we should all be able to enjoy our national parks, but its probably worth remembering that they are primarily there to protect nature. Most of Australia is NOT national park, and people can do all manner of things outside parks. August 16, at pm. Sounds lovely. June 19, at pm. June 29, at pm. August 18, at pm. As an avid backcountry snowmobiler in Washington state U. I was curious to see if you all had any riding down there. Only to find the same kind of ignorant prejudices we experience here in the U.

The fact of the matter is we have almost no impact on the backcountry besides the occasional tree, rock, stump that trends to damage to us and our sleds. You should also try riding like we do before passing judgment on how fit you have to be to ride in the backcountry. Try looking up Chris Burrandt Brett Rasmussen, Dan Adams and others on you tube and you might see us for the athletes we actually are. You will also be very appreciative if you or any of your party have an emergency in the backcountry and we have the ability to get you help when time is what stands between you and a possible life threatening emergency.

Ours is a sport like no other where you can ride the same area only to find it different every time. Hopefully someday we will be riding eclectic snowmobiles and then you would really have no complaint to us being able to share the backcountry with you. So I'm looking to tow my jetski up to Blue Lake using a snowmobile, to start a wakeboarding school. Keep the snowboarders happy when the lifts shut. What permits would I need?

The first thing you'll need is a parking permit. Aug 1, 1, Shepparton Vic. Tow Your jet ski with one of these. You shouldn't get any trouble. Reactions: Telemark Phat and Astro Telemark Phat said:. Reactions: DJM , climberman and ladycamper. Astro66 said:. Do they provide scented toilet paper? Reactions: climberman and Astro Ski Pass. Jul 13, 34, 35, 1, Middle Oz. Many on this forum always react in the same over the top way. KNP could permit a tourist operator to take tourists with guides to trundle along the road from C.

Pass past Seamans Hut and up to Mt Kosy J U can allow some usage without this silly end of civilisation proposition that comes up every time something new is proposed. If such a tour was financially viable then it may generate some more revenue from permits to Parks NSW and windfall for some commercial operators Astro66 the thread was dealing with the Vic Alps not KNP. It's always the same arguments coming out from those that frequent KNP. And we would remind our KNP counter parts that most of your access routes have resulted from massive earth works undertaken by SMA It was a work site for SMA and had a small aerodrome The D7 shown in previous posts is a modern version of what was used to carve out Island Bend And everybody loves Geehi Last edited: Mar 14, Reactions: cold wombat.

Bears say it's a good thing some Neanderthal invented the wheel cos it's probably something that KNP would have banned if such a invention had been developed over the last decade!! Mean while debate rages this side of the border over the FH Iconic Walk with Parks Vic now stuck in a less than savoury corner.. But I wonder sometimes what harm would be done if say we let the poor husky teams run a few more events in the National Park.

But again So we get totally ridiculous plans for the Iconic Walk but a simpler revision of permits to permit sleds pulled by dogs is just too difficult for management U got to really wonder sometimes what inspires senior management in its decision making..

And sometimes when tradegy strikes those noisey smelly machines are a pleasant sight when somebody rings after a major fall Snow mobiles are not necessarily evil They cannot get to some areas granted but they can get search parties closer to some areas should that be required.

You cannot say they are always evil machines when properly used. They can whizz out to Huts to check whether a overdue skier has turned up or not. Reactions: coolair. Ubiquitous Steve said:. Reactions: GS. AndrewA One of Us. Jun 26, Melbourne.

You're the lucky one, TW! I'm afraid I'm in the no "snow mobiles, huts, picnic table brigade" I talk to people all day. If I go away "bush", I want auditory solitude as well as visual peace. I recall an interesting documentary some years ago about auditory solitude, where some guy had placed microphones in various bits of the US eg Yellowstone NP, and recorded the longest time period without any human noise.

Even in the remote rivers on the upper W coast of the Sth Island of NZ, where we are highly unlikely to see anyone for days, and there are no tracks, and minimal evidence of camp sites, there is still a daily flight Wellington to Westport that goes overhead each day. We rarely have auditory solitude in life. Maybe there are battery skidoos that are super quiet I do like that idea that Astro66 put forward though to turn Blue Lake in to a tourist icon Parks NSW already have a nice paved walkway and a wooden lookout unless my memory fails me And the never ending problems that unregulated crapping has caused in the area of the glacial lakes Walk That visual peace is somewhat of a nonsense Maybe Andrew u should be more in tune with your visual surroundings.

So Andrew what picnic tables of Team. Bears do you have a problem with cos we thought you just hung out on those traditional routes like Eskdale and Bungelow Spur where you can enjoy the solitude as you crawl over and under logs unless Parks Vic have had their noisy chainsaws on a track clearing expedition. And of course we champion your right to not be corrupted by the use of say Michelle or Federation Hut.

As for auditory solitude that is also questionable :do you not hear the falling giant trees fallen over and making an enormous crashing noise. The wail of dingos,the totally riveting sound of deer at 3 am in the morning that wakes one in a panic from sleeping.

The crashing of wombats and kangaroos as you do some walking in the middle of the night that makes you almost drop your light source in fright. And the birds are never quiet during the day and evening. Maybe Andrew you need listen to the forest more carefully. Again it's certainly mentally peaceful in our "bush"but it ain't ever quiet if u are really listening.

Hopefully PSFB one day will come when rational discussion will take place in regard to snow mobile use,we'll probably not in this forum. Warming Scientists?