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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:

Mountain Land Rovers…

admin — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:38:05 +0000

On a hike this weekend through the Brecon Beacons in beautiful September sunshine, I saw these fantastic Defenders from the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team up high in their natural habitat, ready to rescue anyone in trouble, hopefully not me I thought at the time!

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!):

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.

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:

Winter Snow Trip in the Mendip Hills

kevin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:45:05 +0000

We just spent 2 days out and about in the Somerset’s Mendip hills, in the deep snow that we were lucky enough to get this year (speaking as Landrover drivers of course, everyone else is fed up of it!). Day two featured a nice rescue job for us. On top of the Mendip plateau there’s a depression at Charterhouse, where the lane dips down into a small valley, where ancient Roman and older copper mines are found and the landscape is pitted and worked making it a real magical place – in the snow it looked even more wild and rugged. So traversing this fantastic landscape in very cold and fog-bound conditions when we came around the bend in the depression we found an astravan stuck in the snow, unable to make it up the climb. He’d gotten into the valley OK but couldn’t get out at either end – by the time we arrived he’d been there 2 hours, with no mobile signal and was resorting to try and dig out the snow ahead of his vehicle, using a dustpan and a screwdriver – he’d managed about 8 feet, so only another 400 or so to go. Anyway, lucky chap the LRE crew turned up well equipped with a TD5 defender and Hicap, and Simon “The Engineer” had his tow rope out again in no time for another rescue. He’s used it plenty in recent days, delivery vans, a milk float and even a forklift have been pulled out of the snow by his trusty TD5!

Here’s the video of the trip and the ‘rescue-event’

And here the ‘rescue’:

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.