It's been talked about, let's make it happen.

Sometime in August, either a day or a weekend depending where we go.

I think Obes/Jim are pretty keen on camping @ Sundown.

I wouldn't mind Double Island Point for camping if we can find somebody who knows the area/tracks well enough.

Ormeau or Ripley would make good day trips.

Jim has no car yet .. the dirty japs haven't given him his bag back.

I am always keen for a drive.

sifn't fishing aswell.


obes let me ride with you, and i'll be up for it. :P

fo sure

We'd have a heap of free seats in the cars.

Just dont let him in the driver's seats. Especially around cliffs.

QGL camping.. somebody would get killed..

I've camped at freshwater not far from double island a number of times, but I didn't know there was much in the way of 4wd'ing there. The inland track from freshwater to the rainbow beach road was pretty tame, I don't recall even needing 4wd at all, although having said that I haven't been there for about 4 years.

an overnighter somewhere would rock, sundown would definitely be good

Any of you been to Landcruiser park? what do you think of it

nope
it's on my radar of places to check out in the near future though

I'm really gay and love stuffing several dicks into my mouth at one time, so as you can imagine, the type of car I drive is horrendously homosexual so I won't be able to tag along. I do think I'm cool though, and my forum friends support this delusion.

the trip along the north shore then through the 4wd tracks to the cherry venture/rainbow beach is pretty fun, its not overly hairy but its not easy either

so obes, you gonna bring any abo ho's?

kekeke

Yeah there's nothing hairy up at double island, but there's still some good tracks. There's one called kings head ( i think? ) that was really good. unfortunately I don't remember how to get to it :)

haha maxe got owned.

yea im in deffinatly, hopefully i get this new job where i got weekends off.
i dun really care where we go and camping sounds great.
havnt been able to use my new tent that much of late so yea-hah!

sif 4x4..
trail riding all the way.
http://home.exetel.com.au/vash/watagans_solo2/
Photos of my adventures.
Oh yeah, and thats not your average dirt bike, try muscling a 150kg dirt bike around :)

That bike seems to be lying on the ground a fair bit. If you add a couple more wheels it'll stand upright better.

Dirt bike riders are crazy!

Vash, I'm always keen to drag a non-4wd thread off topic by posting about 4wd's in it, but I don't appreciate it when someone does the same thing to a 4wd thread.

same topic, different smell :P
Trails, an enviroment that 4x4s and dirt bikes share in harmony.. most of the time.
The dirt bike was on the floor to get it past obstacles 4x4s could not pass

last edited by Vash at 12:57:44 26/Jul/05

can't see anything in those pics that an axe (fits inside a 4x4) couldn't take care of

stinky: *waves hand* rainbow beach isn't the destination you are looking for

Yes but its that difference we fear and as such we are going to redicule you and question your sexuality.

Seriously tho I am all for crazy trailbike riders coming along too. But it won't be challenging for you and you guys have like small petrol tanks and stuff.

I heard Sundown or Connondale ranges were pretty good. Free firewood at Connodale.

If i was in QLD i'd be comin for sure.
that tank will get me 350kms easy.

Theres certain conditions that will have me on my ass and you guys happily chugging along, 4 wheels vs 2 :(

More pics if you lot are interested..
http://home.exetel.com.au/vash/watagans_solo

I went on a trip to tenterfield near the QLD border bout 6 months back, destination was fraser island. Fell off in the corners of oxley highway (50kms of pure twisty roads, hot) so decided to cut it short.

Hi guys, just letting you know, Rainbow Beach is not the destination I am looking for!

good pics

According to my trusty Dirty Weekends book Sundown is Moderate to Difficult and Conondale is Easy to Moderate. I therefore suggest the majority of us go to Sundown and Obes goes to Conondale.

http://obes.ausgamers.com/ is better and stuff

dirty weekends is a great book

dirty obes
http://jason.qgl.org/gallery/index.php?cat=3

last edited by Jim at 13:27:21 26/Jul/05

Dirty Weekends is a great book, my only complaint is that the pages are warped and stiff, but that could be because it was on the floor of my car when I had water up to the top of the seats inside :)

last edited by stinky at 13:34:35 26/Jul/05

yeah possibly ;)

so jim when is your ballbag getting fixed?

phoned them today, they reckon they've got the suspension airbag replacement now, so they're aiming to have it done on friday

anybody have a SWR meter i can borrow?
ive got one comming but looks like it wont be here for awhile so eh

haha maxe got owned.

what are you talking about? thats what i wrote

:)

where is your "edit by DOOFUS"

Hey Jim get rid of Coppermine gallery and get some Gallery up ya!

gallery, EH
what are the benefits of that over coppermine - I demand you do my research for me

it's better. that's the benefits.

hmm, you make a convincing argument

I won't be able to make it, but in the interests of the QGL community I will go douse an area of native forest with a few drums of depleting fossil fuels and light'er up.

On my way home I'll close my eyes whenever I reverse and with any luck I'll manage to kill a school child or two for added 4x4 bonus points.

plok, I'm feeling indignant and angry after reading your comments. I'm going to go and post on my favourite 4wd forum and attempt to rally the support of other 4wd owners in the hope of making myself feel a little better.

plok, I'm so miffed that I've just had to return and post again with the following indignant retort: are you even aware that if you're a crash tester for toyota's hybrid car division and you constantly run into the path of the oncoming test vehicles, there's more chance of dieing by being run over by a toyota prius than there is a 4x4?

I wasn't trolled

i shuld taek my subaru uleh u know it is awd meenz it kant get bogd

Coppermine is for noobs. (jim)
Gallery is for fags. (s***stain)
Plok is a gay noob (but Maxe loves him that way).
And casa's car need a body lift and a suspension lift.

Vote for landcruiser park for camping, rated tracks n hot showers etc.

Given that so far the cars going are a subie sedan, a Pramry(Prado), a girls car(Jimny) and a Asia Rocksta... I fear that at landcruiser park we will be confronted with the wrath of ugly patrol trayback owners and the "omgwtf you can't come here this is for real 4wds only attitudes" that we have seen on this very forum.

"omgwtf you can't come here this is for real 4wds only attitudes" that we have seen on this very forum.

I have been a victim of this very thing

not really, I took my suzuki sierra and my dads new pajero there few years back.
I saw your average car going in there to camp etc.

I'm up for giving landcruiser park a bash, but I reject camping at amenities and near crowds of other people

I still vote #1 sundown too =]

last time I went there was some old couple in the entire area, so we had hot showers n s*** for ourselves. That was on a weekend aswell.

go to straddie.crazy tracks there

i'll take the hot showers, but im not sure about the s***.
ya never know where its been

last edited by Fuknukle at 00:27:31 27/Jul/05

I haven't been to LCP but when I went to Black Duck the camping area was filled with idiots and yahoos who played Kevin Bloody Wilson or Rodney Rude or some other random 80s f***stain until silly hours of the morning. If LCP is anything like that I'll go postal on them with my subaru!

also, I think LCP is a much further drive to get to ?

it's not very far in terms of driving somewhere decent for an overnighter, it's certainly no further than sundown nat. park or rainbow beach =]

Well, I would be keen if my brother didnt sell my pajero on me.

Without my consent mind you!

I had big plans for that thing

what a bastard
I've got plenty of room in my car though

if me and the missus cant get the suzi for the weekend i may come by myself if theres a seat avaiable for a black man

you betchya

Oh okay cool. remember being told it was more like 4 hours drive there ...

I've never actually driven there, but based on it's location in relation to areas nearby that I have driven to I was thinking of it as a 3 hour drive from bris. Could be wrong tho

so where's it gonna be stinky!

I'm keen for either. I'd prefer sundown just coz there's less likely to be idiots and yahoos carrying on. but if overwhelming choice is LCP we can go there.

Avoid LCP on the following dates:

SAT 6TH AUGUST - ARB HILL CLIMB
starts 2pm. Heats followed by finals. Winner receives ARB Air Locker. 5 classes, nominate on day

SUN 7TH AUGUST - COOPER STADIUM GYMKHANA. Start 10am. 3km track, 3 classes, nominate on day

20 & 21 AUGUST
ULTIMATE GENIE EXHAUST WINCH CHALLENGE
ROUND 2

http://www.landcruisermountainpark.com.au/html/eventslist.php

sundown it is!

rainbow beach dammit!

You know beachs are flat and sandy .. sort of like a long boring straight highway ?

gawd this is gay
stinky this is your thread, pick a place and we'll just go with it =]

Yeah good idea that way if it sucks we have someone to blame too!

f*** yteah, might goto the arb hill climb event.

this thread should be a sticky thread. I almost lost it here on page two.

I was thinkin of locking it once a destination and date had been worked out, so a new one could be stickied, less confusing

don't let tung choose, now he realises not every one likes the same places he does!

Jim, sounds like a mighty find idea.

You just delete all of the useless posts ;p

Okay. Sundown is a definate place. The date either 13/14 or 20/21 of August.

So who's car you going to ride in Obes? After all you'll need to be in a real 4WD.

hehehe had to be done :)

good call stinky
I vote the 13th/14th weekend, cos it's sooner and I'm impatient.

heh gumbynotalent don't feed the obes
actually he already took his car through sundown straight off the factory floor, highway slicks and all

I am actually looking forward to Sundown.

Like Jim said, I did it the first weekend after I got my car. Highway tyres (ht rated) no diff locks, standard suspension. Hell no recovery points. And I had worse angles at the front (bull bar has better arrival angle). Not to mention it was the first time I had driven a 4wd off road in about 12 years.

And I struggled my way up everything out there except a 50 meter stretch of one road... I'll probably get out there this time and cry about how easy it is.

last edited by Obes at 09:51:33 28/Jul/05

I don't think I can do the 13/14 unfortunately, so will have to be the following weekend.

In the meantime ... Here's a WRX powered Liberty on the beach :
http://www.ausubaru.com/ausvids/libbeach.MOV

heh ok 20/21st it is

I know Double Island point pretty well. Not much 4x4ing to be had though.
The beach is pretty big and easy to find a place to fit quite a few people in...

If you wanted to camp at Freshwater camping ground (Some people cant live without toilets for a weekend) thats about 5-10min drive up the beach from where you would normally camp on the beach.

Morten is good but a weekend is usually too short for there...

As for 4x4 Parks, I like Black Duck. Great Tracks, the hills and Mud Flat provide good challanges. If you have a bit of work done to your car (and dont mind needing to do more work after) the Gauntlet is always fun to watch (Never taking my Jeep through it though) They have motor Bikes there too though, I know that annoyes some other 4x4 drivers...

Edit: I should probably read the rest of the thread before replying to the initial post :o

last edited by Scooter at 23:39:38 28/Jul/05

Blackduck has turned into a Bike park. Last time I went there the tracks were starting to get shoddy, the maps were wrong and the bikes outnumbered the cars by a long way.