11/07/09 green laning for newbies REVIEW

Stick your picks and comments here guys, hope it went well

Ta Drifty, just made a new topic but then saw you made one so its disappeared ;-)

Well... Roo and I are back at our respective homes, Great day all round ;-)

Will do a bit of a write up and pics later on.

Hope everyone else got home safe n sound!

well what can i say, what a good day, got home safe and sound, hope simo got home ok, and i hope every one else got home ok,

will post up some pics later, and the video will be a few days, as there is 2 hours to filter through,

all i can say is thanks and its a big one for Alex and phil for taking the lead, another big thanks to weave for taking the rear on one group, and more thanks to ricky,horses,roo and simo for being there to learn the ropes and the understanding of how its done at FOG, oh lets not forget the gate openers and closers,

big thanks to all, making it a great day,

had a fantastic day, absolutely shattered now,

cheers to alex and dave for taking us out and also to andy for letting me follow him and simo down to corwen..

just sorting pics and vids out now, will post them asap

was good to meet other noobs too,

whens the next one? lol

videos:

Great pics Rick, so are ya hooked :wink:

the suspension lift has been ordered lol and the tyres soon after, yeah mate, well hooked :-)

well wht can i say, i gave the camera to a 15 year old and said take as many pictures as you can, so all this lot will make up for every one who did not post any nature pics,

Phew... Right, Pics are uploaded, a few good ones and a few not so good.

Just so everyone knows Alex took the first group to the Carwash while My group left to do a couple of lanes around the outskirts or Corwen so we werent waiting around for half an hour in the car park. Then it was off to the Carwash which was particularily low before heading onto the Wayfairer. After meeting with the first group briefly we had tea and sandwiches before heading up to Whitestones. We had only got to the 2 sets of gates at the start of Whitestones when Alex came on the CB to say that there had been an accident at the far side. A oval badged vehicle of some sort had somehow slipped off the slate climb and into the ravine. Apparently there were quite a few cars in that group but Il let Alex clarify as he saw it with his own eyes.

We continued along Whitestones to the side slope bits and to the next gate where we turned around, It would have been a shame not to have taken the first timers at least that far. We then headed to splashy lane and turned left at the crossroads (Inwardly I wanted to go straight on to the Pheasant Steps but I thought better of it ;-)

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A couple of lanes later and we were back at the start of the wayfairer before heading for the carwash again and the final meet in Corwen Carpark.

Very few hiccups, someone only had water in their cooling system tho and no additive so their water boiled and offered next to no cooling properties whatsoever. YES YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

Overall a good day was had by all I would like to think and Im looking forward to the next one ;-)

Right, Piccy's... Beware there are a few of them again ;-)

Vids to follow.

nice pics guys, looks like you all had a good time :mrgreen:

Love the pics of the hare Phil, we have a few that live round here, I love them

Well yet again it was a cracking day out :dance:

me and chey arrived in the carpark in corwen half hour early ,within half hour everybody had turned up introductions were made,groups decided,usuall F.O.G banter exchanged,and we were off, :dance:

our group alex,rickytk horses45,and me bringing up the rear,were first to the corwen carwash,and off up the wayfairer,

being dirty diesels second attempt at the wayfairer (first one popped rad) i was a bit worried about making it up,but all fronteras made it up with no fuss mine included :dance:

,at the sumit we were met by a group of 6 yes 6 green ovals,one had damage,

next it was the white stones after tea and bacon butties,

again we were met by a group of 6 green ovals one well and trully stuck

our leader decided it would be wise to turn around as there was 10 cars in one place and another 4 on there way :shock:

then we did a few other lanes and headed back over the wafairer we met a group of 4 off peist on the top posing on the ridge above the wayfairer sign,Alex had a polite word and they soon left :roll:

then it was back through the river and into corwen,

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To sum it up it was a great day,F.O.G at its best in my eyes,the weather was good on the wayfairer,good company,no major drama,a bit of overheating,but no drama,good to see newbies learning the ropes,the proper way,Big thanks to everybody,from the leaders to the newbies,to the gate keepers,you all played your part in making a great day even better,

hope you all made it back ok,as the heavens opened on the way home :shock:

made it home alright, on the motorway the temp was sitting on the last white line all the way home, wanna thank phil for looking out for me big time and that other fella in the little green car too :wink:

what few pics i took i'll try and get on soon.

just wanna thank everyone else for such a great day out, gemma love'd it too

thanx again all

big thanks to alex weave and ricky-tic for the great time me and audra (newbies) had doing our first green laneing.got home about 8:30 as siad before heavens opened a couple of times on the way home but not much traffic on the roads so a nice drive back after a nice day out and even better putting faces to names on here pics will be posted soon once i see what audra and me took ;-)