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Happy Valley: North Wales Greenlaning Adventure!

kevin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:24:36 +0000

Just got the video edited from our wild-camping off-road trip in the mountains for North Wales. It was an awesome adventure, as good as it gets in the U.K. I reckon! With fellow members of the North Somerset Land Rover Club we drove Happy Valley and several other excellent lanes just south of Snowdonia National Park. We drove my Defender Hi Capacity pickup, a ‘proper’ greenlaning Discovery 1, and a classic Series IIa. All vehicles were more than up to the challenges and proved that Landy’s really can “Go Beyond”… Here’s the story of the trip, including 2 out of 3 Land Rovers taken out by a nasty axle-twisting gulley!

Happy Valley Adventure: Part One:

Happy Valley Adventure: Part Two:

Strata Florida and Mid Wales Green Lanes

kevin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:42:24 +0000

Finally finished the video of day two of our trip to Strata Florida and other mid-wales greenlanes: here’s the two together: try viewing full screen as they are in HD video.

Day One:

Day Two:

Enjoy!

Strata Florida & Mid Wales Trip: Day One

kevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:02 +0000

The full length video of Day One of our trip to Mid Wales (Day Two video to follow when it’s ready!):

Exploring Strata Florida & Mid Wales Lanes

kevin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:11 +0000

A short video trailer for our trip to mid-wales – the weather was pretty bad but that just made it more of an adventure. We drove Strata Florida in the rain which was fantastic, camping along the route in the back of the Land Rovers. Here’s a taster, a full length video coming soon…

Greenlaning Video – April in the Lanes

kevin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:15:25 +0000

Here’s the video of our trip last week in the greenlanes of north somerset.

Greenlanes & Fords…

kevin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:10:15 +0000

Late Winter Greenlanes

kevin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:23 +0000

It’s almost over, the longest coldest winter for 30 years that is. Currently we are getting fantastic blue skies, bright sunshine but still with a bitterly cold wind and sub-zero temperatures at night. Spring is just around the corner now… surely. But this late winter has a character all of it’s own – I took a trip out in the sunshine around the Chew Valley and Mendips and did a couple of nice greenlanes, Nordrach and Dursdon Drove, here’s the video:

Marksbury Plain Greenlanes

kevin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:10:50 +0000

Winter Landrover Camp

kevin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:24:03 +0000

A quick Get Out & Stay Out trip up to the Mendip hills in Somerset, driving some excellent greenlanes along the way. It was the first week of February so pretty cold, but we used Australian “swag bags” (like a ‘bivvy’ bag, with sleeping bag inside) and the “campfire tent” which stays open to the campfire and so we were pretty warm. Highlights were seeing some Roe deer up close, and cooking some fantastic local rump steak on sticks over the fire.

The tent used here is a special beast: hemp cotton canvas “Campfire Tent” based on a traditional North American “Baker Tent” design, but built with modern materials and fittings, and a fantastic modular design that’s ideal for Land rover camping, with front or side entrances, mozzie net covered windows and ventilation flaps and comes with a full inner tent and various configurations of poles etc. Easily attachable to any Landy either at the rear or side, but works free-standing too. With a campfire out in front it is THE camp experience tent as far as I’m concerned- who wants to be locked away in a plastic, noisy dome tent, missing all the wildlife and views abround you. It’s available from the manufacturer, specialist tent, tipi and tarp designers “Green Outdoor” and they have a big sale on curently so well worth checking out. I’ll be featuring the tent here rigged up to my Landy shortly.

SnowTime!

kevin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:31:22 +0000

A Landrover really comes into it’s own in this weather – Landrover owners everywhere having been getting out and about all over the UK as it’s blanketed with snow, while other car drivers skid and slide and get stuck in hedges! Some Landrover drivers are helping out with their local emergency response teams – I’ve done one rescue so far, and elderly lady and family stuck in a Saab estate unable to get back home after a trip to the doctor – They were only a quarter mile from home and I was able to help her get back in, with the aid of a step I keep in the back. But it’s a great feeling of invincibility you get with a Landy in this weather, and being able to really Get Out there and enjoy what is absolutely stunning winter wonderland scenery is just fantastic – no need to be stuck indoors in this weather. Here’s a video of a quick local trip.