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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…

Marksbury Plain Greenlanes

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

Series IIa Rebuild Project – Kick Off!

kevin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:44:47 +0000

We’ll be covering a great Series IIa rebuild project over the winter months – here’s the video to set the scene, full project-start post to follow soon…

Series IIa Rebuild Photos

kevin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:43:50 +0000

Some photos of the Series IIa Rebuild project start – see if you can spot what work needs doing…! We’ll be covering many of the interesting aspects of this in the coming months as the rebuild progresses, so “stay tuned’!

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The Series IIa sees the light of day... first inspection.

LRO Show at Shepton Mallet

kevin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:12:25 +0000

Made the local trip to the Landrover Owners Show at Shepton Mallet. A great experience all round – seemed to be badly publicized though, many of the traders there saying it was too quiet. And I found it very hard to get any info on it too! But once there it was superb, great fun, loads of old gear and army surplus Jerry cans etc, Landrover tents, parts, LR branded gear and huge variety of vehicles on show and driving around the big Bath and West Showground site. The Off Road course hosted and mashalled by XtremeOffRoad was great fun to watch as variously-equipped Landy’s went through the mud…

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LIghweight for sale at the Old Sodbury Sortout end of the showground...

The military end... some great tents here

Super New Discovery!

Now that's a BIG tent!

The Offroad course, managed by www.xtremeoffroad.co.uk

Nice Defender 110 Double Cab...

Some fantastic vehicles here on display from this landrover club

Several Lightweights on show.

Lightweight with super-lift!

Gorgeous Series III

gear... and more gear... I could have spent a fortune!

Camel Trophy Defender on the off road course

Discovery I thunders through the mud

About to take the plunge...

Taking the plunge!

no problem for this one!

The Tilt Trailor...

Gimme More Mud!

Into the hole...

‘Keynsham Camels’… Camel Trophy Defender HiCap

kevin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:41:56 +0000

Spotted this unusual Landrover on the off road course at the LRO show at Bath & West Showground: It’s a Camel Trophy vehicle – a Defender 110 High Capacity Pickup (HCPU) and all set up for Adventuring! More background and pictures here on this unusual Camel Trophy HiCap. According to the site it’s one of only 3 HiCaps used as Camel Trophy vehicles – one for example was specially built “to carry a dismantled raft on which the Camel Trophy convoy was able to cross rivers and lakes”!