Ok, I feel the need to get the family out of the house. Who's up for a planned 4x4 day trip of some kind?

I'm not looking for hard core rock climbing. More the dirty weekends guide book kind of deal. Forrest's & Mountains or beach ect.

Suggested places to go?

You up for it Obes, Jim ect ?

Edit: Dirt bikers welcome. (Vic, Term ect)


EDIT:
Ok, so it looks like we are on for the 9th. Mt Mee / Glasshouse run.
We have:
E.T.
Jim
Slinky
Slaps
Term (on bike)
Scooter (???)
Mass (???)

Mmm as long as no one wears a fanny pack and/or says 'lol' with their mouth then sure.

I'm in. How about a run around glass house? Mt. mee?

Or out to ormeau? I know some wicked tracks down there.

Plan it on almost any saturday and I'll be there.

Yeh, I'm in. I want to do a few more 4x4 trips before I cant afford to fill the c*** up anymore.

fairly sure a toyota prius isn't 4wd slaps

^ Oh very funny ha ha. Toddle off to bed now, nitey nite.

sounds good ET, when do you wanna do it

mt.mee is quite close, is all easy tracks where you won't destroy your car unless it's a toyota prado and is good for family cos we can fire up a bbq at the gantry picnic area for lunch, there's room to kick a ball around etc

I'm not looking for hard core rock climbing.

Way to spoil all the fun.

Or out to ormeau? I know some wicked tracks down there.

If your not doing hardcore rock climbing at Ormeau, you're doing it wrong.

Also, I'd be up for a weekend some time.

Rover 4x4 park has some really good camping area's and provides a lot of easy tracks for those who want them and more advanced tracks for the rest of us.

(They allow Bikes at Rover now too, sad I know :( but it means more people can come along.)

It's to early in the morning and i've already had to edit this message 5 times >.>

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Glass house have some pretty easy tracks. Would be nice and muddy there at the moment.
This was glasshouse a few weeks ago.

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Mt Mee / Glasshouse sounds good.
Maybe the Sat the 9th of August? I have the HIA home show the weekend before that so the 9th will be my 1st free day.

Can everyone make the 9th?

Hmmm might have to see if the wife will let the Patrol get dirty!

9th should be ok

:(
I'm in NZ from 4th August till 24th August so I'll miss out but have fun everyone :)

wouldn't be the same without you pete

If anyones up for this kind of 4X4 let me know, just mute the volume as theres annoying arab music in the background that at the time seem the right thing to be listening to

Where's that Infidel?
I did the Simpson last year and there wasn't much just open sand bits. Quite a bit more vegetation then I expected, that seemed really bare though.

Haha nF shame I couldn't carry the speed all the way up.

That was in UAE near the Saudi/Oman border. Huge ass sand dunes there

that would be so awesome Le Infidel im jealous :)

Can I bring my bike to get it dirty or will it be too hard for that?

nah it's fine for bikes
the only bits of mt mee that are moderately hard are totally optional

sweet count me in then, just dont run over me with that big beast of a truck

I only run over babies, kittens and greenies - the public uproar from squashing dirt bikes in state forests is basically zero so it's not worth it :(

9th is a goer for me. Shall we make it just qgl or invite others? More the merrier right? Next door neighbor is keen as well.

fine by me

"More the merrier" doesn't work with 4WDing all the time.
Well, on the harder tracks at least, Mt Mee might be ok due to the difficulty (lack there of.) Anything over say 10 (on the outside) starts making for a long day on interesting tracks.

That said, if it's just a cruisy day and no-one takes too long to go on the optional harder stuff more people wouldn't be a bad thing.

over 10 mincy patrol owners i think you mean scooter.

Alritey. So how many people are up for it? I think I'll be going regardless of numbers. Havn't been for a long time.

Updated 1st post with list of confirmed and maybes.

We'll need a meeting point and time. What do you think about meeting in the carpark of the IGA/Brumbies at samford? What time?

i should be ok to come.

meeting place sounds good
I'd recommend hookin up there at 8:30am, should put us up at the gantry picnic area around 1pm for lunch

Bump:
Can anyone who is planning on coming please confirm. The plan is to meet in the carpark of the IGA / Brumbies at Samford at about 8:30am this Saturday.

Jim, what route are you thinking we would take? Basic itinerary?

yep all good to go here

suggested route would be to drive straight from samford to dayboro, head nw out of town to lacey's creek road, head down that for a few k's until the one of the turnoff's into the state forest - either the first one or the second one which is the one you'll find in your dirty weekends book, depends what time we get away from samford. the first road will chop off about half an hour or so of basically useless winding dirt road if we're a little on the late side.

head thru the forest basically along the same track as in the dirty weekends book and come out at the ranger station where the gantry picnic area is - we'll probably pop out there in time for lunch, maybe 1pm-ish. have a bbq and head off home via the bitumen from mt mee back to dayboro again, some nice scenery as you wind down the mountains

Someone post maxe's 2wd video

*giggle*

what a s*** vid

that was the point if i recall

f***ing hell i cant believe i used to drive that thing in public


edit; the irony is I would totally dig going on a QGL 4wd trip :\

^ fag

hardly even need a 4wd for this one anyway

If you see an orange CBR, please dont hit it, its probably me out there :(

hardly even need a 4wd for this one anyway

is that a challenge?

:D

What type of 4WD do all you guys drive? What work have you had done to them?

GU patrol, only thing done to mine is some special straps for the cargo area so shopping bags don't fling around in the back

Cool

Mines really worked. Its been known to climb an incline of 15 degrees or more.

lol Jim

So where's this meeting place?

I'm in.

IGA / Brumbies at Samford Village at about 8:30am

google street view

8:30am!?

What kind of a morning person do you people think I am!?

perky, alert, good humoured and well-groomed

How many have u got going? I might head out there too, i might go with my mate, as you have a few going already.

Its been known to climb an incline of 15 degrees or more.

i don't think the kerb counts

Go show em' Term.
get video of that roaring v-twin flying past the 4x4s

looks like only a couple of people have confirmed monaro, 3 or 4 vehicles

Oh ok, ill try and get hold of my mate now and see if he can still come. Ill let you know asap. Thanks

UHF Channel 13?

yeh

Thank you to Jim, Scooter, Manaro and the other people who made it out today. My family and I had a ball and are looking forward to doing something like that again real soon :)

No problem, ill post some photos we got when i have a chance.

yeah was good even if we did get bullied by kookaburras for our food

one of the bastards came down and plucked one of my steaks right off the hotplate&^@%#&!

Ja good day all in all, next time we're going to have to find somewhere a little harder though :p

Well, let me know when thats on Scooter :)

I was proud of the commander. It seemed to handle everything well.
I might need a height boost to anything too much harder though.

No problem, ill post some photos we got when i have a chance

pics or lying

Next time I might ride up.. if its in October :P

give me a bit of notice and we'll sort something for when you're up keato