Best South African outdoor moment of 2024 — share your highlight
This community is what SA outdoor forums should have been years ago.
My view: The 4x4 tax is real but I have zero regrets. Every rand spent on mods is a rand spent on safety and capability in the places I go..
Keen to hear other opinions — this community has experience across the full spectrum of SA outdoor activities and I think we learn more from disagreement than agreement.
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The best piece of gear I own is not the most expensive — it is my MaxTrax boards. Everything else can be improvised or worked around. That one item cannot.
— riaan_bezuidenhout
The rooftop tent gets mocked by people who have not tried it. Let them mock. The sunsets from a campsite 73km from the nearest traffic light are not something you can explain to someone who has not experienced it.
Based in Nelspruit here — the bush wins every time over the mountain for me.
The best piece of gear I own is not the most expensive — it is my MaxTrax boards. Everything else can be improvised or worked around. That one item cannot.
— riaan_bezuidenhout
Based in East London here — my weekend choice depends entirely on what the Hilux needs — fishing or overlanding.
The best piece of gear I own is not the most expensive — it is my MaxTrax boards. Everything else can be improvised or worked around. That one item cannot.
> The best piece of gear I own is not the most expensive — it is my MaxTrax boards. Everything else can be improvised or worked around. That one item cannot.
> — riaan_bezuidenhout
The rooftop tent gets mocked by people who have not tried it. Let them mock. The sunsets from a campsite 73km from the nearest traffic light are not something you can explain to someone who has not experienced it.
— surika_hugo
21 years of this and my answer to most of these debates is the same: get out there with what you have, learn what you actually need, then buy the upgrade. The number of people with R500k in kit who go out once a year is remarkable.