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Tips and techniques — archive

Drupal-style technique IDs: shed and track, recovery, night driving, shocks, remote touring.

These Drupal-style folders stay live so earned links resolve. Each article is a new educational rewrite from the archive theme — not a scrape of print. Start here, then open the matching evergreen hub if you want the standing checklist.

• Remote travel tips part 2

  Part 2 of the remote-travel pair is the layer after fuel and water: communications, spares you can actually fit, and the decision to turn around. Read the evergreen guide first.

• Liquid gold

  Liquid gold is fuel and water. Plan range at touring loads and carry drinking water for a stuck-day. A fridge full of convenience food is not a reserve.

• Top tips for remote touring

  Top remote-touring tips remain fuel, water, permits, and a check-in. This is part one of the archive pair; the evergreen guide is the skeleton.

• Outback driving skills (archive)

  This archive URL is the magazine-length companion to the evergreen /guides/outback-driving-skills/ hub. The skill is still: read the ground, air down, walk the line.

• 101 outback facts

  The outback facts that still matter are heat, distance, and the bowser that might be dry. A list of 101 trivia lines is less useful than a fuel plan.

• Handy recovery gear

  A recovery checklist for Australian tracks is rated points, a correctly used bridle or straps, damper, shovel, compressor, gauge, and training. This article is the long feature beside the evergreen guide.

• Shock value

  Touring shocks should match the load and the corrugations you actually drive. A lift that forgot the shock is how you buy the same part twice.

• Gripping stuff

  Touring tyres are a pressure, load, and terrain conversation. Gripping stuff was the magazine’s tyre feature. We will not invent a 2026 SKU winner.

• Drive at night

  Night driving on dirt roads means slower speeds, clean lights, animal-aware scanning, and a convoy gap that dust can actually leave. Fatigue is a hazard equal to the roo.

• Washed away

  When a crossing looks wrong, you walk it or you turn around. Washed away was the magazine’s reminder that yesterday’s dry creek is today’s problem.

• Top tips for the shed and the track

  What should stay in the shed versus on the track is anything that does not earn its mass on this trip: spare kitchens, unused lockers, and the winch you have never practised. The track kit is recovery, water, communication, and the tools you can use tired.

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