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W hat A L oad O f BULLER! There was movement at the station for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses – he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray. All the tried and noted riders from stations near and far Had mustered at the homestead overnight, For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush are … A.B. Banjo Patterson’s words ring true as the riders depart from Aalfor Lodge, Sawmill Settlement, the over- night muster for a one-day ride with Mount Buller Motor- cycle Adventures. On the slopes of the mountain named by Major Sir Thomas Mitchell during the mid-nineteenth century, in the local Aboriginal dialect the mountain is also called Bulla Bulla, meaning good. Surely it is good, after all this is Man From Snowy River country, these trails must be good. David Marsicano runs MBMA and with over a decade TRAVERSE 101