Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater.

[Cradoka]

We felt the same with a lot of the folk we met who were travelling the CSR. We met many at our camps at Well 33 & at a couple of the campgrounds in Karlamilyi NP when we were heading westward a few months ago. We were expecting folk to talk about wonderful open spaces, desert phenomena & big skies, but no, mostly it was about corrugations, how awful the track was & surviving. To be honest it has made us think twice about whether we want to ‘do’ the Canning now. Not so much because of the endurance test descriptions we heard, but because it seemed that 90+% of CSR travellers were more about conquer, survive & wear the badge. In comparison to folk we’ve met in a variety of other remote places the CSR’ers have mostly seemed like a different breed. More important to have ‘done’ than to be ‘doing’ it. To busy getting there so they can talk about the achievement afterwards than to place any investment in immersing themselves in country. Of course the tougher it sounds the bigger the badge.

Interesting observation... not one I would have thought about. Thinking back I can place a couple of groups in each camp.
On the CSR I met Gavin Gillet... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM3...OFbmi9fiMqktsw
Now while he was a heck of a nice bloke he was commercially orientated, so I guess there's another sub division of travelers.
Also we had a visit from some tour guides from one of those flash tour mobs, now they were a bunch of.... well not my cuppa tea hehe!

[pearcey]

I have very fond memories of the CSR, Tanami, Wolf Creek, Bungles, Halls Creek, Billiluna,Willuna and all place in between.
So the tracks are a bit corrugated,and the sand hills sandy, thats the out back. Take your time. We were one of the last groups on the track way back in the 90 something. Took us 21 days just on the CSR and that was way tooo quick. Toooo much to see.
Towed a camper trailer and never got bogged or broke any thing, nobody in our group had problems. Would do in again in a heart beat, but I still have toooo many places to see and find first. The secret to all these places is TIME and lots of it, slow down see things all the others miss. It`s not a competition, you only get one shot at life, do what you want and do it your way. Out back travel is a wonderfull experience if done slowly. Travel light,use really low trye pressures down to 10 psi or even lower and SLOW DOWN. This is the way Pearcey tries to do it.

[Cuppa]

I subscribe to the Pearcey method!

The common characteristic of many of the CSR travellers we encountered is that they didn’t.

Of course I am generalising & we met people who appreciated where they were, but we were surprised at the number of CSR travellers who somehow seemed to be missing the point. Groups were a mixed bag, some wanting to socialise with other travellers & respectful of all, and those who only associated within the boundaries of their own groups, often noisily as though they were the only folk there..

[Cradoka]

Well said pearcey... plus Adelaide is so far from those places hehe...

[Cradoka]

Agree Cuppa... vive la difference... even fools can be tolerated(for a while hehe)