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4 wheel drive : how useful for climbing in NSW? 18-Jun-2013 At 6:48:36 PM Snappy

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On 18/06/2013 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 18/06/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>>Blue Mountains - bitumen and a few kms of flat graded dirt roads
>>Bungonia Gorge - bitumen
>>Warrumbungles - bitumen
>>Kaputar - bitumen
>>Point Perp - a few kilometres of flat dirt road
>>Nowra - bitumen or a few kms of flat graded dirt roads
>>New Nowra - a few km or rough dirt roads
>>Wolgan - flat graded dirt road with a one optional water crossing
>>
>I will get in ahead of kuu, BA, and maybe jrc and some others... ☺
>~> I remember when Bungonia, Warrumbungles, Pt Perpendicular, and Wolgan
>were all dirt road access and often in poor condition at that...
>Most of us didn't have a 4WD and if you did, it was an old series landrover with only
>basic creature comfort. Yes, in the days before Toyota 4WD's(!), which when they
>first came out, only had a three speed gearbox, but much better seats ...
>Kernmantle, slcd's, ringbolts and 'soft-roaders' on tar roads. What will
>the next 50 years bring?
>;-)

Maybe we should form a club.

We can call it Dangerouser Roads Australia.

Damn numpties coming and retro-bitumening our dirt roads.