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Mt Bogong Pack Horse Tour
Highlights
- Experience breathtaking views as you ride 15 to 25 kilometres daily through Victoria's stunning High Country landscapes.
- Savour delicious meals prepared from local produce around a warming fire, complemented by cold beer and local wine.
- Enjoy comfortable accommodation at Spring Spur, where you can unwind with the family before and after your adventure.
Highest of High Country, featuring spectacular climbs and descents across the top of Victoria. Wild rivers, stunning views, secluded camps and diverse landscapes.
The horses are a feature of this expedition, each of them our own bred and trained mountain horse, expertly matched to the rider. Each day the camp is packed up, loaded onto the packhorses and the journey continues. Riding is between 15 to 25 kilometres per day with opportunities for loping canters across open plains.
Camps are selected for their beautiful settings, some in traditional stock camps featuring huts, but often secluded bush camps maintained by BHA. With swags rolled out dinner is prepared and enjoyed around a warming fire, with a cold beer, a local wine and a meal prepared from local fresh produce on the coals.
All expeditions include a night before and a night after at Spring Spur, where you can join the family for a meal and enjoy your comfortable en-suite room.
Tour details
- On demand
Features
Service facilities
Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
Operation information
Bogong Horseback Adventures
Bogong Horseback Adventures has been running award-winning tours since 1986. With licensed access to the Alpine National Park and Mount Bogong, the riding landscape is truly spectacular.
Based at our property Spring Spur, Bogong Horseback Adventures travel from rich mountain valleys to the vast Bogong High Plains and Victoria’s highest mountain, Mount Bogong. The award-winning tours combine great food and wine, fantastic mountain-bred horses, and friendly, experienced staff.
Offering daily trail rides in the Alpine National Park, as well as spectacular multi-day packhorse expeditions into the Victorian High Country.
Breeding and training Australian Stock Horses, Bogong Horseback Adventures have a program of clinics and workshops in Australian Horsemanship, offering insights into the traditions of mountain horse lore, natural horsemanship, and the skills of bush riding, camping with horses and using packhorses.
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ECO Certified (Advanced Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
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