4x4 Incentive/Motivational programs

[Bogaards]

My List:
Trails:
De Wildt (many times)
Hennops (many times)
Kungwini (many times)
Moegatle
Piesangkloof
Base4
Quick Pitch Adventures
John Rock
Spookspruit
The Wedge
Sable Ranch
Berakah
Groenkloof
Sandwani
Klein Pella (some parts of the trails, although I was a passenger here with Jors)

Trips & Roads:
Sani Pass
Senqu Trip
Baviaanskloof
Breedtsnek
Gravel section of Dinokeng (cannot call it 4x4)

Parks visited:
Kruger National Park
Kgalagadi
Waterberg Wilderness
Marakele

[Mike Nel]

So if we get a lot of credits, what can we buy? Or are these just points in a game where the points don't matter?

Jake's you get the two things you desire the most:
A Certificate
The respect of your peers...

Submit your list...

3 Things actually. The 3rd being 'n groot oop bek soen from Manny

[jakeslouw]

3 Things actually. The 3rd being 'n groot oop bek soen from Manny

Methinks Mike is projecting...........

[Martin de Jager]

Yesterday I joined a national Hangkook EPR 4x4, this was my 99th event, what an eye opener. Not at strict as Bridgestone, but a lot of raw fun. Without a navvy, against a Jeep, Suzuki Vitara and a lot of experience, I managed 4th.
But i achieved what I set as target, getting out, and having fun. The Jimny went in for some cosmetic facelift, so I had no choice but to take the Tuna, what an awesome car.

[Asjas]

Just started Local trails around 2018 so here goes...

So Here is my not so INFLUENTIAL list....

Trails:

1. Secund borring LAke UMUZI (Enough to be put off merely by the name)
2. 3 Provinces 30 NOv 2018
3. Dewildt Nov 2021
4. Piesangkloof Nov 2021
5. At se Gat Feb 2020 (Pre COvid)
6. DVR Falls 2020 & 2021
7. Buffelskloof ( somewhere 2021)
8. Carnage Canyon 2022
9. Spookspruit 2020 (RIP)

Passes:

1. Sani Pass. 2019
2. Waterfall Pass 2022 (THis is registered as an off-road pass on Mountain passes SA and we did 460KM of drit roads on a 2 day drive camping one night in the plantations with 2 old suzuki Sj and A Creeky old lada)

Over landing and Adventures: (All Camping)

1. 2016. 10 Day Tour Northen kzn, 2 days at each place Ndumu-KosiBAy-Mabibi-Sodwana-MKuze
2. 2017. Day tour Swadini-Tsaneen-Sondella kamping from an Toyota Aygo 996cc.
3. 2019. 10 Day Tour eastern Drakensberg (Die Bus stop-Drakensville-Garden castle-Silver streams campsite.
4. 2020 Dvr Falls suzuki recee ( already mentioned under trails)
5. 2022 South Knp 3 Nights

IM not Going to include 4x4 tracks from resorts not focused around 4x4 like "THe voet pad kloof,badplaas and such..."
been Camping since a Child all over so not even goning to poke my wallnut sized brain to even remember all the long wweeknds and such in the last 10 years

Well Thats It, would love more Gauteng trails but doing 300+km to trails and back every time from the platte land in The old Rattle Trap has made the list rather dull.

But keen on getting out more! And some times the YouTube channel thing isn't always Vehicle or Offroad focused... ( like camping out in an abandoned resort in the next few weeks... )

[Asjas]

So if we get a lot of credits, what can we buy? Or are these just points in a game where the points don't matter?

Jake's you get the two things you desire the most:
A Certificate
The respect of your peers...

Submit your list...

3 Things actually. The 3rd being 'n groot oop bek soen from Manny

OWHKAY..... think IM out! (slowly backs out of room and shuts door as it creeks)

[Hedgehog]

Counting and keeping tally of dates, and proof of your trips is like keeping fuel slips...

Anal.

I just go because I like it, not because I want to prove something.

But I get the reasoning behind the incentive scheme, and the bragging rights, and how it might motivate.

I am just not the kind of person, who will ever have a file on my trips or a tally record

[iandvl]

I don't keep tally of trails etc but I know what trails I've done. I cannot for the life of me remember when I did what. Since a bunch of them were done with groups (4x4com, 4x4ag, patrol4x4, NOROC) I'm pretty sure I could get dates from e-mail and forum posts. But I really could not be bothered to go to that effort.

Since 2018, I started documenting my more interesting trips in the form of trip reports, which makes it easy for me to keep dates, routes and similar. It's also a source of information for other people. I've often had feedback from people on various forums (including the one I am banned from) asking for specific details on some of the trips I've done. I also like re-reading them occasionally. Well, more accurately, I re-read them so that I can look at the pretty pictures and wish I was in the desert and not stuck behind a desk in a cube farm as I am most days. I speak under correction, but that is also normally the practice with various trips arranged elsewhere - including a recent one at Marakele ? This would sort of classify as keeping tally of dates and providing proof ? But perhaps that is just my opinion.

Shorter trips as well as arb ones (for example, a bunch of trips to Moz / Bots etc) I've never bothered reporting on. I've posted photos or started threads occasionally before - such as where I lost a tyre on the dirt road between Derdepoort and Dwaalboom on the way back from Bots - but that has normally been when something specifically interesting happened.

Anyways, each to their own.

[Mad Manny]

I agree with Andrew and Ian that drawing up the list, initially, is a schlepp.

But once you start it's easy.

Andrew and Ian could both produce pretty impressive lists, but, for both of you, the UTM initiative is not a motivator - your love for the outdoors is motivation enough.

But please, draw up your lists, if not for yourselves, then to encourage others....

[Johannes]

The first part of your post was good Manny.
Then you stuffed it up with the last paragraph.