Female Friendly 4WD Fun Day

Thank you for your Expression of Interest in our Female Friendly 4WD Day. Below are the details of the day for your information.

Our goal is to provide you with a day when you will have an opportunity to not only learn to improve your 4WD skills but a better understanding of what your car can do all a social friendly environment.

There are still opportunities for additional females to attend if they wish and they don’t necessarily need to be club members, as we would hope they may be future members.

However, if for some reason, you are unable to attend, please let us know beforehand so we can finalise catering and trainers.

This day is made possible through the SA Government's SA Car Club Program in which we won a grant to fund our two Female Friendly 4WD Fun days (second in 2025). A day like this would otherwise cost the club over $2,500.

Female Friendly 4WD Day

Date: 18th May 2025
Registrations to date: 30 people
Vehicles: Estimated 15-20 cars (participants are very welcome to share vehicles)
Location: Adelaide Hills 4WD Park Eclair Mine Road, St Ives. Take the Callington exit on the Southeastern Freeway

Draft Itinerary

The days draft itinerary is below:

• 0900: Arrival, air down (assistance available if required), sign-in, and enjoy coffee/tea and socialising.
• 0930: Training session begins.
• 1030: Practical session starts. (40 minutes allowed for each obstacle and travel between the three training tracks):
  1. ‘Double D’ Loop with moguls
  2. Training Loop: Attempt, fail, reverse, and succeed
  3. Descent Control: 27-degree slope
• 1230: Lunch break.
• 1330: Practical session resumes.
  • Split into 2 groups (subject to skill level) to use your newly acquired skills on and Parks White and Green 4WD Tracks with each group led by the qualified trainers.
• 1530: Debriefing with coffee/tea, followed by departure.

Trainers

While our club has highly skilled trainers, we believe engaging independent, qualified trainers will provide added value. Independent instructors who meet the criteria will help create a more comfortable environment for participants and demonstrate the club’s commitment to the event.

Adelaide Hills 4WD Park, through their parent company, Australian Driving Institute, will supply highly qualified independent trainers who are familiar with the park and know how to maximize the training facilities.

Communication

Each car is required to have an 80 channel UHF radio. If you don’t have one of these the club will have units available to borrow on the day.

Male attendance

We also feel that the event should have very limited male attendance to ensure we provide a non-judgmental, socially inclusive space for the attendees to maximise social connections. We therefore discourage males from attending.

In saying that we understand that a few will need to attend, however they will be strongly encouraged to spend the day in a location separate from where the participants are undertaking their training.

Catering on the day.

Morning and Afternoon Tea: Coffee, Tea and biscuits/cakes will be provided at no cost.

Lunch: Please bring your own lunch and water etc.

Pre learning.

If you don’t already know it would be very beneficial to learn the following before arriving:

• how to air down and air up your vehicles tyres
• how to put the vehicle into Low Range.

What to do now:

Please confirm the following to Andrew president@mitsi4wdsa.org.au before 10^th November

• Are you attending?                                         Yes/No
• Are you bringing a vehicle?                        Yes/No
• Are you sharing a vehicle with someone else and if so, who?   Yes sharing with ….…………

If you have any questions, please contact the Organising Committee: Andrew Gay & John King