Dirt Road Miles

[Darwin]

Do any of you guys keep track of the dirt road miles you drive every year? If so, what methods are you using to keep track?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Yes, another forum used to have an annual contest that I have participated in over the years, since doing that I log all my trails, miles and participants

2008 - 3409.5 miles
2009 - 3396.8 miles
2010 - ~4100 miles
2011 - Bound to be a slow year

I log each trip when I get home. Generally I have a GPS running or its a route I have a known mileage for. Worst case I just trace the route on my topo software to come up with a number.

 

[Darwin]

i usually track all my routes on the gps as well, and save the tracks on my laptop. i'll try tracing a few routes and see how that works. you've really been racking up the miles kurt! did you win the contest every year?

 

[cruiseroutfit]

i usually track all my routes on the gps as well, and save the tracks on my laptop. i'll try tracing a few routes and see how that works. you've really been racking up the miles kurt! did you win the contest every year?

08/09 yes, 10 they didn't have a contest but I logged my miles anyways.

 

[sixstringsteve]

that's just cool Kurt. I need to do more logging of my offroad miles, or at least log my trips so I can reflect back on the year and see what i've accomplished.

 

[ret32]

We post all of our "outdoor family adventures" (i.e. wheeling trips, highway trips, hiking trips, combinations of the afore, etc) on our family blog. I post the stats in each adventure's post, then I have a gadget near the top of the blog where I keep a cumulative total. This is what it looks like through mid-August 2010 (yes I am seriously delinquent on posting trips)

As far as actually tracking the miles, I just keep an odometer log for the entire trip. Then I split out the off-road miles based on my GPS tracks, known mileages (from guidebooks or other trail reports or past experience), or trace them in mapping software.

 

[Cody]

I try to keep a mental tally of them, but I'm not good at writing them down.

Just between my 4 longer trips last year, I did probably 1800 dirt miles. I was only "co-driver" on 2 of them so I'm not sure if that even counts. I count it, because it makes me feel cool to say.

 

[Stephen]

I started tracking mine this past year, mostly with GPS but since I am forgetful I didn't always turn it on. But tracing back with software I did a little under 500 miles on dirt last year. Compared with big wigs like Kurt and Cody thats nothing, but I felt pretty good about it. Perhaps I should start measuring how much height I lose through disk compression from driving a Samurai that much on rough roads.

 

[Skylinerider]

I log mine, I usually end up somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 per year, last year was only 1,819.