25/10/08 Laning Day Piccy`s & Banter

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What a Brilliant day a great big THANKS to Trugga, Drifty, & Alchamist for arranging and helping us all to have a Great day !!!!! Hat of to you guys !!!!!!!!!!!! me (Gary) & my Son John well enjoyed ourselfs and was good to meet all everyone we will post some Pics soon cheers Gary & John

Hi again tryed to put pics on and got this message :-The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 650 pixels wide and 650 pixels high. The submitted image is 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels high. Help lol

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Do you upload to photobucket ? if so there is an option to resize pics,the maximum size on the forums is 640x480,that will be where your problem is.

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well I'm sorry to say i had an absolutely, fanbloodytastic, chumberwaping of a day, got so excited with the day, i only took one or two pictures, and about 5 minutes of video, my arms are killing me for the many u-turns, hehe, for a personal one to me i was very impressed my truck, only had a few rear spins,

now to most important bit, thanks to Trugga, Drift, & Alchamist, for organising a fantastic day,

and another thanks to drift & sir dorris, for there encouragement, and lies ????? and lee for being a good gate opener and a little entertaining when she fell on her ass, and thanks to James (the other newbie on the lane with me) for getting stuck at the end of the lane,

and the final thanks go to F.O.G.

some nice pictures there

Was that a good day or what

12 Fronteras at the Corwen car park plus 1 other and another owner from another group came over to say hello

A big thank you to both Drift and Alchamist for stepping up to the leadership challenge thus allowing additional members to participate. The banter at the pub at the end of the day demonstrated what a great day we had.

Every one appeared "up for it", including the crossing of the River Alwen, which passed without any drama. Whilst I know there was some apprehension (I know, because I did it for the first time once), following a little guidance and taking it easy, proved what a standard Frontera is capable of. During the day we experienced patches of slippy mud (mostly from forestry workings), rocky climbs, side slopes and slippy slate... all vehicles (as far as I am aware) came through unscathed and their drivers having greater confidence in their and their vehicles ability.

It's a pity the weather wasn't a little warmer, less wet and less windy, but it still made for a cracking day out.

On with the photos then:

The Corwen Carwash (River Alwen)

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The start of the Wayfarer:

Rocky climb:

Approaching the summit:

It was a bit busy (and windy) at the summit as CRAG had been relaying part of the track and had driven up to the summit to do some work there - you don't normally get this many vehicles up there normally:

On the way down, we came across a little incident. The group we had met at the meeting point earlier had tried to pass a vehicle coming in the opposite direction. In so doing, the Daihatsu had cross axle'd, so the Frontera thought he'd try and drive past and pull it forward, only he was to cross axle as well and later blow the front diff. A quick tug bag from myself would free the Frontera and a Discovery would then pull the Daihatsu forward:

After a comfort break in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceriog, we made our way up to the side slopes and slippy slate of White Stones:

After a few shorter lanes...

...we made it to the pub to await the other groups:

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Had a great day, even if i did get stuck :lol:

Like i was told someone had to. Big thanks to Trugga, Drift, & Alchamist for putting this event on.

Also to Sir Doris, Drift an andysd1 for the laughs and getting me down some of the hairier bit's, Cheers for the lift as well. Got some real diesel in there now, an going to give Morrisons a call in the morning to find out whats in theirs.

Gutted as most of the mud has been washed off.

Really good pic's guy's!! :well done:

Hopefully i'll be able to come on the next one. :dance:

Did everyone have C.B's.

Ok.....wow......what a great day out with the family (FOG). Big thanx to Lawrence, Ste n Jay for sortin it out.
LOVED IT :dance:

Correct me if im wrong , but ithought the leader was meant to go first.........

When we arrived at the carwash Jay said "go on then mate, u go 1st" :lol:

so i did n then video'd the rest of em comin through.
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Then onward we go up the Wayfarer, till we stopped at the waterfall,

Where Fuddy wanted to play pooh sticks......................with Dan :lol:

When we got to the summit there were CRAG guys every where..........in Hilux Surfs that were well tricked up :shock:

We went on to White stones but i was havin to much fun to take any photo's sorry, but here is a couple of shots from one of the later lanes.

Oh n some of our trucks of course

Thanx once again for a top day out. Happy birthday Ste..........u old git :lol:

Cracking pics looked like a brill day out

have to getme name down for the next one :wink:

i bet you are all looking at the photos and thinking what a great day out, that feeling you get when your waiting for your turn to cross the river is hard to describe,nerves ,excitement, i still look at my photos from when i "popped my corwen cherry " and it makes me think did i really do it :?:

.Well done on a good safe days laning :clap:

had a brilliant day with no damage :lol:

and met some new friends aswell :wink:

well done to Trugga, Drifty, & Alchamist for organising a really good day

whens the next? :party:

Well done you guys, looks like you all had a good time. Gotta get up to Wales at some point for abit of this

Yeah u goota get up there, it was cold n very windy but still it was a really great day.

Well what can i say other than what a damn good day out that was...................as always is the case with FOG.
Cheers to Trugga, Drift and Alchamist for leading the groups.Happy birthday to Ste, hope you had a good day.
Well here are some photos of the day from me.... not as good as some on this site but not too bad either.

Hi All..
Hope you all got back home safe and sound..

Pleased You All had a fantastic, safe day out in Wales

, tis a lovely countryside, and even thou I lived in Wales most of my life, but thanks to Sir Doris (Phil)
have got to see parts of Wales that I haven't seen before...

Hope to join you on the next outing!

Great Pics Guys :dance: