VAHRYOUS THOUGHTS
Shattering those stereotypes
Keeping our communities accepting of four wheeling will continue to be an ongoing challenge and for us the answer may simply be greater engagement of the right sort. Four-wheeling as a recreation has managed to get itself a bit of a reputation as mud slinging, bush bashing environment wreckers, although that’s largely untrue.
When compared to many other outdoor recreations, I reckon we are rather low in overall environmental impacts across the country. Mountain biking has had huge growth in popularity and the ongoing construction of extensive bike trails across rugged countryside and over expensive bridges seems to be disguised by the ‘health benefits’ of cycling. There’s not a lot of reporting on how much soil and rock needed shifting, or machine hours needed to facilitate construction of many bike trails.
In a news report in 2018, data supplied by ACC showed that in
