4wd tracks near adelaide.

I did the Lobethal track on 4X4 earth...don't waste your time or money.

Loveday has a ute muster on this weekend...so unless you want to fight the crowds...forget it.

There's some good tracks out near Morgan way, but I'm not sure where. Youtube has lots of offroad videos filmed out near Morgan.

I'm heading to Dangalli this weekend for my fix.

Another option is to drive to a town somewhere..... I usually head towards the mid north (Jamestown, Burra etc) then set your GPS to preference the shortest route, and punch in your home address, and you'll be surprised at some of the goat tracks it will take you on.

I went "shortest distance" from Eudunda to Waterloo once and it took me on some great tracks out near World's End and around Burra Creek Gorge. Some of these tracks hadn't seen a vehicle in a long time.

Otherwise, anywhere north of Roseworthy gets interesting especially if wet. Been up that way lots of times. Murphy's Crossing, about 10 minutes north of Wasleys, is a great picnic spot and almost, I did say almost, looks Flinders Ranges like.

Do you prefer hills, south or north?

Fab.

Morgan Quarry is good fun to play around in. Can't advise how may will be there but to find i, drive past the bottom of the Caravan Park, turn right and play. To find your way put, just follow the overhead power lines back to the way your came in.

Fab, was at Dannggali yesterday. It's an easy 1 1/2 hrs from Renmark. The country looks great. Plenty of wildlife around plus plenty of goats. They have shot over 2000 so far this year. There is a new ranger there now too. Roads are good. We went up in a Captiva and as I said before, it was an easy drive.
cheers
Des

Cheers Des.
This will be my first time to Canopus. The other 2 times I've been there, I swing left and head up through Morganvale up to Cockburn, then hit the Barrier Hwy back to Adelaide.

Is it muddy or dusty? I'm heading in through Morgan.

Captivas are great. I've had 3 diesel ones through work and they have impressed me greatly. Did a few bigish trips in them including the Birdsville Track twice. Once into the Simpson over Big Red (did it effortlessly by dropping tyres down to 18psi) and another time through Birdsville, then onto Windorah and Longreach. Only problem we ever had was a bit of scrubbing on that useless plastic sump "guard" cover thing.

I reckon a Captiva diesel with some steel bash plates, a bit of lift and decent tyres would be almost unstoppable. Ok, they don't have diff locks, but the power is distributed via computer controlled traction systems minimising wheel spin to the free wheel. Works better than I ever expectted....and the diesel is torquey as hell for such a light car.

The Captiva had to go back and I got a Cruze. So I did what any other sane person would do....went and bought my own fourbie (one with a transfer box).

Fab.

To digress slightly...here is me driving my Diesel Captiva up the Western side of Big Red. Fell metres short when our wheels dropped into someone elses ruts and we bottomed out. Second attempt wasn't captured, but we took the track just to the right of this one, and we did it easily.

Captiva on Big Red

Fab, the road was damp enough to keep the dust down and except for a few holes, no mud at all.
The Captiva has done over 60k and is about to be changed over. Only problem I've had was a blown tail light fuse. Diesel is economical and has enough power to overtake semi's comfortably.

I haven't done any 4wding in it as I don't think the boss would appreciate me using it for that. LOL It's strictly business use.

Ah....good career move Des. :)