How much and hard offroad we do while we do overlanding - this can be discussed very differently.
Exploring a country by car, by mostly sleeping in the car, cooking you own food. Self-sufficient (water, energy, food storage) for severall days - enyoing back and fireroads - that is overlanding.
Who has the bigger adventure, the couple above in the beetle or a heavy modded 4x4 overlanding rig on a wold tour? Yes, this beetle above
did the big 4, a transafrica (roundtrip), australia, panamericana and silkroad.
But yes, they cant do hard offroad. But did cross africa, on bad tracks - what mean a lot of offroad.
Guess we had to discuss the "wording" of our hobbies
- offroad competition
- vanlife (living out of our vehicle, do travelling, mostly not high mileage)
- Weekend wheeling (outing for 4x4 fun & nature)
- overlanding short (2 weeks)
- overlanding international (6 months and more)
An international Overlander who is equipped with 80l Water, 280l fuel, gear, clothes and and self-sufficieny for two weeks (food, beer) need the winch there where the weekender is still driving relaxed. The weight will makes things harder - even on a good dirttrack uphill, soon.
It is to late to discuss the wording, anyone has his own focus and view. But yes, you can do even serious offroad without 4x4 as long you dont love muddy terrain. But you will get stuck more often.
trippin
