Rust de Winter / " Jeep Club " / ATV 4*4 RdW
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:41 am
I recently went to RdW to do a 'Bush Trail with the LROC ... perhaps 15-20 vehicles camped and another 10 or so came through for the day.
Its a well known venue that has been adopted by different groups through the years eg Nissan, Jeep and currently ... Toyota ... but generally known as " Jeep Club " or the " ATV 4*4 Club" !
Folk Lore has it that , back in the day, cattle drovers congregated here ' to Rest For Winter ' ... reminiscent ( to me ! ) of the early Clint Eastwood series of ' RawHide' ...
A nice camp ground - you camp under and around a grove of massive old Monkey Thorn ( Acacia galpinii ) but its right next to a busy secondary tarred road, near to the cattle-thirst-quenching Pienaars river ... so somewhat noisy at night etc
Its a good shady camping area with good ablutions, hot water etc and is fenced and seems to have good security.
Ive been there a number of times over the years ... and done various trail routes in the local area including visits to the nearby Rust de Winter Reserve/Dam.
I'll attach their website below.
This last visit we did a long trail of 50km with a fair amount of heavy driving. Each driver was issued with a 'topologic' instruction leaflet ( see below pages 5 to 1 !) that directed them through that long trail over/through the route ... so no convoy hold ups or waiting for the large number of trailists ... each car going at its own pace over the day etc
A good few days after getting back to Randburg I wandered round to the far side of my 130 and noticed that I had torn the top left shoulder guttering of my canopy ...
I must have shaved a tree when winding through one of the thickly treed areas ...,didnt know or feel etc anything at the time ...( pictures show damage & temp fix for coming Kosi Bay trip... Will get Silvertons to braze it in due course )
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Website :
https://www.4x4atv.org/
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Its a well known venue that has been adopted by different groups through the years eg Nissan, Jeep and currently ... Toyota ... but generally known as " Jeep Club " or the " ATV 4*4 Club" !
Folk Lore has it that , back in the day, cattle drovers congregated here ' to Rest For Winter ' ... reminiscent ( to me ! ) of the early Clint Eastwood series of ' RawHide' ...
A nice camp ground - you camp under and around a grove of massive old Monkey Thorn ( Acacia galpinii ) but its right next to a busy secondary tarred road, near to the cattle-thirst-quenching Pienaars river ... so somewhat noisy at night etc
Its a good shady camping area with good ablutions, hot water etc and is fenced and seems to have good security.
Ive been there a number of times over the years ... and done various trail routes in the local area including visits to the nearby Rust de Winter Reserve/Dam.
I'll attach their website below.
This last visit we did a long trail of 50km with a fair amount of heavy driving. Each driver was issued with a 'topologic' instruction leaflet ( see below pages 5 to 1 !) that directed them through that long trail over/through the route ... so no convoy hold ups or waiting for the large number of trailists ... each car going at its own pace over the day etc
A good few days after getting back to Randburg I wandered round to the far side of my 130 and noticed that I had torn the top left shoulder guttering of my canopy ...
I must have shaved a tree when winding through one of the thickly treed areas ...,didnt know or feel etc anything at the time ...( pictures show damage & temp fix for coming Kosi Bay trip... Will get Silvertons to braze it in due course )
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Website :
https://www.4x4atv.org/
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