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Well, well, well ... what a trip!!!
Had an awesome weekend and got home about 45 minutes ago. Will get the photos and videos sorted and place them up here.
A HUGE thanks to everyone who made the trip, and those that tried and didn't quite get there (sorry Chrissey, your effort was valiant!!).
Think it ended up at 13 vehicles and about 44 people ... top turn out!!!
Great turnout Biggus Riggus,
Good to see every one had a great time.
Awaiting pics with anticipation!!
Cheers
Can everyone post their photos up on this thread please - I'm about 5 off uploading some to the forum ... couple of teasers!! lol
Well hurry up!!! lol
On it boss!! Promise!! lol
Is the forum site playing up? Have tried twice to upload and the attachment screen just goes blank ...
Hmmmm??? ...
here they are with no particular claim to artistic merit!
Kid photos not included.
More technology frustration. Time for a beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver
OK I'll ask.............where??????????????Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver
dunno :-( ....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dogman
Indeed - having trouble uploading some also .. oh well, sorry all, but time for bed!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver
I'll have one more lash at it before I go ..
Wot a time for technology to crash!!!!
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Originally Posted by Bigrig
Night Scotty.
Two shots - camp last night and 9 of the 11 Patrols on the trip ..
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crikey one at a time, don't know that I have the patience for this :-)
Put them up tomorrow night Silver,
We can wait till then, I think!!!
yairs, off to bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by GUtsy ute
Great trip, thanks Scotty and everyone for having us along, my mates had not been 4x4ing more than once, and we all had a absolute ball, i think a couple of them needed new undies after the big hill climbs we did, probly was a bit cruel of me to take "first timers" up some of those.....(hahaha-ha) :hpfredgeorge1:
Tore a couple of chunks from my tyres on the rocks and pulled a mudflap off, but apart from that no damage at all, looking back at some of the tracks we did, it could have been a lot worse.
On the way back my mate said ,"you didn't take any pic's", i said yeh, i must of been having way to much fun driving !
I did take one dodgey pic, i wanted to test my colour filter holder, never used it before, by the time id chose a colour, got it on the lens, and had a pose for the group pic (bigrigs rules), most of the cars had gone (ha-ha)
I don't much like the effect in this pic, but should work well for what i bought it for (sunsets) ..... here it is anyway.......
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...edskyatday.jpg
You should have yelled at us mate. We could have held off. But good to here you had a great time.
I'll try to get some video up today - I'll pm my rapidshare account details to some of you also so you can upload yours to my account. I'll drag it down from there and start putting it all together!!
I will get my vid to you this arv Scotty
What a great turnout you guys had up there, nice work!!!
Can't wait to see the pics and vids!!!
Another great trip. Thanks to Scotty for organising it and also for showing me that my car is a lot more capable than i ever imagined. Dhuck also gave lots of encouragement and did some cool video.
It was great meeting everyone that turned up, we all had a fantastic time and it took a long time for Jack and Lukes smiles to disappear after riding in Dhucks Race truck (as they called it)
Cant wait for the next one.
Thanks for letting us see what I missed. I tried to get up there on Sun before my alternator gave up.
Anyone got a spare one laying around they want to get rid of?
Cheers for the photos it looked like a great weekend.
Love the work guys, spewing I couldn't make it. Good camp fire that one, I like it.
I shoulda come though. Our cricket team struggled its way to 109 and they got them only 2 wickets down, so needless to say cricket sucked (I didn't 18no and 0/10 off 7 overs in a 35 over match).
Oh well 3 weeks of cricket left and then I go to Melbourne, AB you better be ready I am keen for some wheeling.
Quick video - not so much to do with the trip [although filmed out there], but for anyone contemplating a locker, then have a squiz. Basically Mal, Dean and myself found a small hill that was very steep at the start, with a sharp ramp over angle ... Mal got the machete out and hacked back the bushes so we could have a lash - my lift is a little higher than theirs, but we were all getting bellied out on the ramp over ... you'll see in the vid that I get stuck and the front wheel is spinning and going nowhere, so I stop, engage the front locker and from a standing start on the hill, away he goes ...
Didn't think it at the time, but having seen the video, just a good demonstration of the locker in action on something that was seemingly ten times easier than heaps of other stuff done through the weekend without engaging the locker ... I'm working on the vids I have and should have some more up later/tonight ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUS6HyG_8A
If someone is missing a sleeveless, black, hooded Fiorucci parker, I picked it up for you.
Sounds like a swear word mate hahaha. Yep that lockers the winner hay!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigrig
NIce demo of how the locker goes in action Scotty. The locker was the best mod for 4x4ing in I ever did. Made all the hard tracks with wheel lifts and belly-outs alot easier.
Another quick video - for those that don't know LCMP, Club Rally Circuit has two extreme sections in it ... this is one of them at the very end of a 200m+ climb up, and everyone did a sterling job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJp3zJ0WgSM
Ohh yeah niiiice good stuff guys n gals
They did good!! lol - Steve (04OFF) and myself were already up top, so we had all six cars get through - apart from dhuck (and only because Bec was crook so he took it easy) everyone was unlocked on a fairly advanced section of track - most cars had small lifts (2") and all terrains only, but still managed to get through where many others had failed - it was a credit to them and their vehicle!!Quote:
Originally Posted by growlers71gq
I'll get some more video up tonight.
great pics and vids guys.......... looks like you had a great time!!!!!! No doubt there's plenty more to come so keep 'em coming
Beauty i'll keep a look outQuote:
Originally Posted by Bigrig
Side note to the video below:
There was a chicken track off the side of the one we did. Steve and I had parked our cars about 20 metres from the top of it in the only flatish area available. 3 cruisers were going up that track and were absolutely gunning it thinking they were the sh!t. Steve's car was against a fenceline slightly left of the top of their track as they were coming up it, and by nothing other than sheer good fortune, he decided to move his car further up the track as our guys were coming up. Lucky he did, as the last cruiser (apparently on his first venture out as another in their group told me - no lift, road terrains, no experience) was absolutely flat stick coming up the chicken track and when he got to the top, couldn't stop, hit the anchors and did a massive, uncontrolled slide straight into where Steve's car was parked, missing the fence by about a foot. This was much to the delight of the fellow cruiser onlookers who thought he was "uber cool" for what he had done. It was very uncool as far as we were all concerned as we had a bunch of kids with us, they had a bunch of kids with them, and this goose driving had 3 young kids in the back of his cruiser!! Steve's car would have been a write-off no doubt about it had he not moved it.
Proof that there is such a thing as a 'short neck goose'. Had to be there I guess, but it was that type of stupidity that sees people get injured, or worse.
Thanks for the day out scotty. I had a great day. I wanted to stay another day and do more wheeling with you guys. but I didnt expect it would take us a day to do 2 tracks
Here is a couple of pics of me stuck at the test track which is an extreme creek run the water at that crossing reached the pedals in the ute. I also dented the door sill getting skull dragged out. oh well.. at least there is a good memory behing that dent...... and the bent tray....... and the broken radius arm bush.....and the bent exhaust.
in my defence everyone had to get winched up that bank lol
Wow what a great weekend it was.
Thank you Scotty for all the hard work you put in organising it.
It was great meeting everyone and I can now put names to faces.
A big thumbs up to both Dhuck and Scotty for the help given on some of the more difficult sections of the tracks.
Yep that looks really well an truely stuck stuckQuote:
Originally Posted by Ben-e-boy
dunno how this is going to go as we have been 'slowed' by bigpond - anyhoo, lets see
Doreen and Bob's holiday home on wheels
Nah that definetly looks like a tough spot in those photos mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben-e-boy
Great pics and vids again so far....Wish I was there!!!
Ripper effort on the allterrains going up that hill too!