Trip Reports

Attending Dave - Prado - TL Simon and Jacon - Perentie Matt - Paj - TEC As you know, All Tracks 4wd Club as adopted a couple of walkers huts. Moitch and Ridges. As part of the adoption, we just go out and check up on them (These huts are normally closed to vehicular access). This also involves us cleaning up rubbish left behind or reporting any damages or vandalism to DBCA. After as few busy weekends, and missing out on a few Club runs, I decided to run a late notice trip

Participants : Matt , Pajero trip leader Clive , BT50 Simon , Landrover Sean , Triton Nathan , Prado Ki , 80series (Vistor) Gary & Azriel , 80series John and Gloria , Prado (Visitor) Shane and Emily , Triton Lin , FJ Graham and Monica , Patrol Meet up was at Chequers Hotel at 9am for a 9.30am departure, What a perfect day for a drive. Airing down, what a great turn out! Once we aired down we headed off to checkout Sapper RD . On the way we passed threw a few puddles . T

List of attendees in no specific order. Simon and Jacob - Triton, Lin - FJ cruiser, Gary - Land Cruiser, Matt - Pajero, Tony - Ranger, Roger and Derek - Navara, Nathan - Prado, Jason - FJ Cruiser (Visitor) As usual we met at the BP roadhouse, The Lakes for a coffee and pre trip meeting. This trip was to follow several tracks we had previously used in the past. After our coffee and chat we went over the trip rules we headed east along the Great Southern Highway towards Wand

Saturday 14 th May 2022 All Tracks attendees: Richard & Naomi - Patrol to start with then Pajero + trailer (All Tracks Group Leader) Geoff & Sofia – FJ + trailer (Event Coordinator) Lin - FJ Keith & Kirk - Ranger Alex – Colorado Marek – Colorado James – Jiminy Ivo – Landcruiser Simon – Perentie Shane & Emily – Triton Roger – Landcruiser Dave – Prado Gary – Landcruiser Firstly, I want to say a big thank you to all the volunteers that made the time to come out and

Participating in no particular order Shane - Triton (TL) Simon and Jacob - Perentie Gary, Claire, Gabriel and Azriel - 80 series (TEC) Rob and Arthur - Prado Dave - Prado BP Muchea What a great day. We have a perfect weekend ahead of us. Sunshine, a small crew and a weekend of wheeling and camping around Julimar forest. The meeting place for this trip was BP in Muchea, a perfect spot as it's right on the highway and an easy way into Julimar. Leaving Muchea, we followed the

Wow, It's happened again. Richard had been contacted by Seven West for another online article. This article is about preparing your car for a long journey. This online article was published last weekend. I know some people have already seen it, but for those that haven't, here it is. Clink on this link or the image above to see the Seven West online article Enjoy the read.

Participants : Matt , Pajero Tony , Ranger Steve , Landcruiser Jayme, Tyrone, Xariah, Nitro , Patrol (visitors) Nath , Prado (visitor) Ivo , Landcruiser Simon , Perentie Gary, Gabriel, Azriel , Landcruiser Lin , FJ cruiser Stuart, Michelle , Pajero Lee, Keely , Landcruiser The meeting point was at Sculpture Park for a 9am departure. We headed east to Flynn Rd with not a cloud in the sky, we turned off Flynn Rd onto the powerline track. The entrance already had vehicles

Attendees in no particular order Shane - Triton (Mightly leader) Matt - Paj Alex - Collie and camper Wilco, Sylvia and Nayeli- Lexus 100 series and camper Simon and Jacob - Triton and camper Gary, Claire, Gabe, Az - 80 series and camper Lin - FJ Rob - Suzi Dave - Prado (TEC) Kieth and Kirk - Rangerous Ranger Many people can look at the same object but see something different, so for this trip report, we got all the travellers to give their own version of each destination for

Participants Joel (trip leader) Suzuki Serra Simon Defender Rob Suzuki Vitera Shane & Marty (guest) Prado Phil 76 Landcruiser Brandon lsuzu D max Sean Triton Matt Pajero Wilco & Nayeli Don & Jane GU Patrol (tail) We arrived late (0930) but the trip couldn’t start as we had the trip sheets. With two sheets circulating these were quickly completed and Joel was able to call a short drivers’ meeting. He described the day’s drive as a series of loops around a boundary. We left our

Thursday 21 st – Monday 25 th April Attending in no particular order Penny and Spence - Landcruiser Dave and Cindy - Prado Ivo and Lucy - Landcruiser Shane - Triton Gary, Claire, Gabriel and Azriel – Landcruiser Sean and Deb – Triton Justine and Craig – BT50 Keith – Ranger Steve and Sue - Landcruiser The Anzac Day long weekend gave us another opportunity to get down to Karridale. Spence had stayed down south after Easter, so people started arriving from Thursday onwards.

Back in February Seven West Media reached out for input on an article of Keeping Kids Safe whilst 4WDing. Richard had written a nice little article, which Seven West had published in The West Australian Outdoor Explorer page. Click on the image above or this link to the original online article Its been a great way to promote our Club and the 4wding community and safe ways to travel with young children.

Saturday 26 th March 2022 Attendees: Richard & Naomi – Patrol + trailer Matt – Pajero Penny & Spence – FJ Ivo – Landcruiser Keith – Ranger Dave – Prado Jon & Ryker – Paj Sport + trailer Simon & Jacob – Perentie Roger – Landcruiser Tony – Ranger Burgo - Landcruiser Gary, Gabriel & Azriel – Landcruiser Peter – Ranger Matt – Hilux (DPaW) + trailer Well doesn’t time fly. I literally thought we had been in Red Hill helping DBCA last year, but it was way back in March 2020 that we

Sunday 27 th February 2022 Attendees: Richard & Naomi – Patrol (Trip Leader) Matt – Pajero Simon & Jacob – Triton Jon K - Pajero Alex - Colorado Lin – FJ Jon M & Morgan - Patrol As part of our adoption agreement with Parks & Wildlife of the huts on the Coastal Plain Walk Trail DBCA agreed to start allocating funds for maintenance due to All Tracks having a presence out there. On of the first things done by DBCA was the replacement of the broken fire pits with steel ones, u

Attendees Penny, Spence, Jenny (Guest), Andy (Guest), Connor (Guest), Hannah, Don, Shane, Simon, Jacob, Tony, James, Keith, Kirk, Isabelle (Guest), Dave, Cindy, Wayne,Lin Archery, what a great idea for a social event. Looking at the show of hands on the day, not many had done it before. A big thanks to Penny for the idea, organising and booking the event. Also a big thanks to Archery WA for facilitating us, they normally run these events on a Sunday, instead they kindly ran

Saturday 12 th March 2022 Attendees: Keith & Kathy – Ranger (Trip Leader) Penny & Spence – FJ Alex – Colorado Steve (Burgo) – Landcruiser Jane & Don – Patrol Roger – Landcruiser Hannah – Patrol Wendy & Amy and kids (Visitors) – Hilux Tony – Ranger Ivo – Landcruiser Marek – Colorado Lin – FJ The day started around 9am at Guilderton, where we aired down on a dirt road just out of town. It was a great turnout with 18 people (4 visitors) in 12 cars. Thankyou to those that atten

Sunday 20 th February 2022 Attendees: Richard & Naomi – Pajero (Trip Leader) Tony & Anna - Ranger Lin - FJ Keith & Kirk – Ranger Jon – Pajero Sport Alex – Colorado Marek – Colorado (visitor) Rob – Prado James – Jiminy Graham & Monica – Patrol (visitor) Ivo – Landcruiser Steve & Susan – Hilux Originally Roger was supposed to be running this trip, unfortunately he had to pull out, knowing that we had visitors interested in attending, I offered to take it on. This proved to b

Thursday 10 th to Sunday 13 th February 2022 Attendees: Richard & Naomi – Pajero (Trip Leader) Spence, Penny & Amber – Landcruiser Alex – Colorado Keith – Ranger Peter & Malou – Landcruiser Dave & Cindy – Prado Lin - FJ Gary, Claire, Gabriel & Azriel – Landcruiser Last year after the Beekeepers Reserve trip we brought some members back via Milligan Island and the general consensus was, that it would be a good spot for a lazy long weekend trip. As it can get quite busy up he

The track is well named as it does follow a series of fence lines of adjoining farming properties. Participants Don & Jane GU Nissan Patrol 4.2 (trip leader) Matt Mitsubishi Pajero Sean Mitsubishi Triton Dave Toyato Prado Alex Holden Colorado Keith & Kirk Ford Ranger Lin Toyato FJ 40 Graham & Monica GU Patrol (Guests) Gary, Clare, Gabriel & Azriel 80 series Land cruiser (tail) Our meeting point is the bakery in Pinjarra, this place has a nice large car park, good coffee, food

A few weeks after the trip from Joel to Mundaring where I tried to go through the water hole, the engine didn’t want to start. After reading up on wat it could be, it turned out it was the starter motor. Easy to do, so I thought. More reading on IH8MUD forum was required and it turned out that the starter motor in the V8 engine is located between the banks under the intake manifold. After deciding I would do it myself, I looked at getting the starter motor. As it is in an imp

Wednesday 26 th – Sunday 30 th January Attendees: Penny and Spence - FJ Cruiser Dave - Prado Ivo and Lucy - Landcruiser Roger and Karen - Landcruiser Shane - Triton Simon and Jacob - Triton Richard and Naomi – Pajero Gary and Claire - Landcruiser It wasn’t our fault Australia Day fell on a Wednesday, it’s just how it was, so we were forced to have a much longer Aussie Day break from work than normal. As always it was a mixture of driving, general tourist activities, and sit