What a Brilliant weekend!
Finally got to put some faces and personalities to user names.
I'll do my best to moderate this post but if you take offence please skip this one.
This is from my perspective so please don't take offence if I don't mention your name.
Ok so Jason and myself met at Colleys at 11 and made our way to the campsite whilst we were keen to get there we were also rather concerned with initial fuel consumption OK OK My 2.0l vs Colleys V6 meant he had to crawl there whilst I slips streamed Jason (and it seemed to work for me)
We got there for around 14:30, said hello to Drift and Rob(oneleg)fog, and went a bout making a wind break with the trucks and setting our tents up. Jason brought a mansion with him (Big enough to lose a ringing phone at 5am for 5 long minutes). For some reason we had chickens clawing and pecking at our tents so Colley caught one and entered it .... into jasons tent which resulted in it then making a trip into colleys car. This for me set the tone for the weekend.
Once we were set up Si turned up with the crew in tow and managed to start setting his tent up
without actually touching anything but a roll up (his girls are well drilled) Glynn, little Glynn and Wendy turned up and began setting up another house tent with a generator and the works. Others rolled in in dribs and drabs including Andy who drove in with his egr blank in his hand. I didn't get to meet everyone personally as groups started to form.
People stood around getting to know each other, routes were disscussed and general p!ss taking began. Dark fell, wind stayed constant but spirits stayed High. People stared to grab seats and sit round along with some light drinking taking place. Si cranked all 5 watts of his stereo out at full chat.
*Jason got his arse wet courtesy of drift
*I had a debate with Si over the quality of Voderman, Madonna, Bullock etc.
*Colley decided it would be a good idea if he and myself phoned everyone boy in Si's girls phone book to warn them off to save Si the bother. (worked rather well)
*Drift kept the funny stories coming all night.
*Little Glynn had 1 x can of red bull and 1 x can of Stella and started break dancing and all sorts.
*Si adorned a strange looking hat and our conversation slowly degraded into You slaaaaaagg every 2 minutes.
*Jason informed Drift and Colley that he had deposited their chair and airbed over the fence. This resulted in Drift and Colley and offering to throw him over the wall to retrieve said items.
All had a great time. I met a few more great people People started to head off to bed. It turns out most Foggers like to snore and Jason has the loudest Dixihorn ringtone ever that decided to go off in the early hours of the morning.
People surfaced looking a bit tired and Si was ill (possibly down to something he had eaten) and managed to communicate via grunts and moans.
Groups were sorted and divided and we rolled out to the best greenlaning I have ever done. Colley did a great Job using memory map
and gate duty.
and we made our way across a mixture amazing views
and technical terrain.
Sh!tty Lane threw a few surprises and laughs one of which was Si realising his rigga boots weren't watertight as Sh!tty lanes finest water made its way inside along with some crazy lean angles
We all made it back and greeted Andy who had been floating around in the pool all day ( mostley because he couldn't get out
)
More fun and banter followed by people having a fairly early night.
The next day we did more amazing lanes and saw even more beautiful country side.
We started with the Car wash where andy manged to push the bow wave towards me and Glynn lost his plate.
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We made our way down 'scratchy lane' which was my favorite of the trip and also splashy lane which turns out is actually liquid pooh that has now crusted over my truck, but also a nice technical section wich is where people got their articulation shots
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All in all the weekend has been the best thing I have done in my truck so far. Thanks to everyone who invested time and effort into the trip. Some of my favorite quotes that really made me chuckle:
Drift: (imagine a typical Liverpudlian accent) Have you ever not been thinking and spat your chewey into the tissue paper before going to wipe your arse with the same piece?
Andy: (over the CB) I have broken little Glynn in.
Colley: I don't like people touching my sleeping stuff. I suggest the bed appears or I'll lay you out.
Me and Si: You slaaaaaaag, you slaaaaaagg goodnight.
Glynns missus: (Quietly heard over the cb after been informed of some excessive lean angles approaching) ohhhhhhh sh!t.
Thanks all. Can't wait to meet you all again soon
) we were stuck in a gully with no fueling and a mass queue of fellow foggers behind us as the other group had just caught us up. Phil came to the rescue and drove the car down the gully unpowered while Jason and I pushed. It was very muddy and bumpy but he got it to the bottom in one piece. Once on flat ground I found the cause which was 2 fuel pipes having become detached. Obviously this meant even though I reconnected them up the pump wasn't primed (and wasn't going to kill it but trying to start it). Luckily Glynn and Phil towed me onto tarmac where Dan re-primed it using his redneck engineering 
But as you don't go much above walking speed on the lanes I wasn't at all bothered. 
Some breakdowns / truck issues that thankfully were all rectified. The only damage that wasn't fixed on the lanes was Rob's foot 
Colley lead our group and opened all the gates and navigated and drove his truck - which is a lot to take on, so he was a bit fried by the end of the day 
Glad you made it home in one piece.
