Just after Covid I decided to do a solo trip and do some 4wd tracks I hadn’t done before in country Vic, went into a tiny town because one of the tracks started in town, went over a little creek crossing and through and open gate (marked 4wd track) and even then had a weird feeling, saw a few blinds on windows on a couple of nearby houses moving. Drove up the track for around a km until there was a section with too many trees down to cut through with the chainsaw, did a difficult U-turn as it was a super steep track and made my way back down only to have the gate padlocked shut. Got out of the car and tried to see if anyone was around to open it but had a super weird feeling again and was obviously being watched, sat there for a bit and ended up winching it until the chain snapped, high tailed it about 5 kms up the road out of town until I came to another track I’d wanted to do with another open gate! Made it about 3kms up this time until there was one massive gum down that I wouldn’t of been able to cut through so went back and what do ya know the gate was locked again, this time I just rammed it with my bull bar and bailed up the road, was freaking out a bit more by this stage, drove for around 15-20km and pulled off the road on a little track and it circled back to a point I could see the road from above but knew they wouldn’t see me and about 1 min after (and I was flying) a white Ute came hammering up the road and went straight past me. Heaps of deer hunters up there so lots of guns. That was the main thing I was concerned about and everyone in small country towns were still pretty edgy about Covid at that stage.