Well I am happy to do some off road in this year if anyone is up for it..
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Well I am happy to do some off road in this year if anyone is up for it..
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Always up for some of that Andy.
I've committed to Le Mans for that weekend in June, 2016 but happy to think about Italy again in 2017.
Suggest 15 -17 April to test the water for people's availability on the Rust Accelerator..
I've committed to Le Mans for that weekend in June, 2016 but happy to think about Italy again in 2017.
Suggest 15 -17 April to test the water for people's availability on the Rust Accelerator..
Excellent that should be fine with me to work around Andy.
Right well Jimmy northernchap and I were talking about doing an off road day in November or December if anyone's interested. The only weekends I have available are November 7th & 8th, December 5th & 6th, then December 19th & 20th. I am happy to make it a weekend if there's enough interest :thumbup:
Right well Jimmy northernchap and I were talking about doing an off road day in November or December if anyone's interested. The only weekends I have available are November 7th & 8th, December 5th & 6th, then December 19th & 20th. I am happy to make it a weekend if there's enough interest :thumbup:
I'm ok for Rust Acceleration date, both December dates are fine as well.
I am planning on doing another but no idea when at the moment, I was waiting to see what you and Jacob had got planned for next year first and go from there. The calender might get too crowded if we all do one, so I'm happy to leave my next one until 2017 if needed.
The rust accelarator dates sound good to me though, and always up for any off roading so count me in for the December dates, I'd have to make a weekend of it though due to distances involved!
This video has just popped on up on my Facebook feed, they do it the other way but still shows what some of the lanes are like:
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Push button off roading? No Thanks!
End of day 3 is my favourite
Count me in for any off roading meets for 2015-16 
Could do with plenty of notice date wise so I can get time off booked from work please.
I won't be doing Italy in 2016, I really liked it once there but the travelling was a tad frenetic for me, I'd rather make the journey part of the trip with more camping!
It will help being in a car I have confidence (and a 1242 engine) in, so 2017 looks better for me too.
Could do with plenty of notice date wise so I can get time off booked from work please.
I won't be doing Italy in 2016, I really liked it once there but the travelling was a tad frenetic for me, I'd rather make the journey part of the trip with more camping!
It will help being in a car I have confidence (and a 1242 engine) in, so 2017 looks better for me too.
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Done a bit more planning on this now, so I'm testing the water to get an idea of numbers for accommodation (see below).
The itinerary I'm thinking of is:
Friday 15th April
Meet 3 o'clock ish here http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/
Time for a look round (Africar is my favourite) and then trundle up to camp /b&b here: http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/campsites/uk/cumbria/ravenglass/ravenglass
Saturday 16th
Irish sea salt touched and then Lake District roads - Hardknott Pass, (BOATs in Little Langdale) The Struggle, Kirkstone Pass, Ullswater, Melmerby, Alston to Allenheads where there is a Bunk House and small campsite with space for us here:
http://www.thorngreenaccommodation.co.uk/index.html
Sunday 17th
BOATs north of Blanchland in to Slaley Forest to explore, http://www.bywaymap.com/index.html then out through Consett, Quaking Houses to the North Sea at Seaham for fish and chips.
This route is further north than we were discussing earlier - partly to get us up to those byways on Sunday and partly to leave the north Yorkshire ones available for Jacob's plans later in the year.
What do you all think?
The itinerary I'm thinking of is:
Friday 15th April
Meet 3 o'clock ish here http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/
Time for a look round (Africar is my favourite) and then trundle up to camp /b&b here: http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/campsites/uk/cumbria/ravenglass/ravenglass
Saturday 16th
Irish sea salt touched and then Lake District roads - Hardknott Pass, (BOATs in Little Langdale) The Struggle, Kirkstone Pass, Ullswater, Melmerby, Alston to Allenheads where there is a Bunk House and small campsite with space for us here:
http://www.thorngreenaccommodation.co.uk/index.html
Sunday 17th
BOATs north of Blanchland in to Slaley Forest to explore, http://www.bywaymap.com/index.html then out through Consett, Quaking Houses to the North Sea at Seaham for fish and chips.
This route is further north than we were discussing earlier - partly to get us up to those byways on Sunday and partly to leave the north Yorkshire ones available for Jacob's plans later in the year.
What do you all think?
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Sounds good! I did notice on the first accomodation page:
"Minimum booking for English Bank Holidays is 3 nights, for High Season it is 2 nights and for Friday and Saturday is also 2 nights."
Of course you can probably arrange something for a group booking, just mentioning in case you didn't see that.
Not sure if I'll be able to get the Friday off though so if possible might meetup on the Saturday morning at an agreed place and time? Museum does look fun though.
"Minimum booking for English Bank Holidays is 3 nights, for High Season it is 2 nights and for Friday and Saturday is also 2 nights."
Of course you can probably arrange something for a group booking, just mentioning in case you didn't see that.
Not sure if I'll be able to get the Friday off though so if possible might meetup on the Saturday morning at an agreed place and time? Museum does look fun though.
Yes Andy, I'm in all being well - again may be issues for getting Friday off but I'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Yes I'm up for it as long as camp sites are dog friendly.
jeez you lot do my desire for a 4x4 no good, is that i got a panda not enough for you or something?!?! I cannot drive a lowered 2wd panda all these places you go!!! lol
That's why - one panda is not enough.
Well I only have space for one so it will have to be enough.
pandas are small. if you had a big car before, 2 pandas will fit.
there is more room in the garage compared to when the bravo was in there for sure, not enough for another panda though lol.
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Done a first recce over the last two days - of the difficult to get to (for me) Northumberland - Durham green lane sections that looked interesting on the map.
No getting away from it, going to see is necessary to avoid disappointment and wasted time. We found this:
And some of these:
But helpfully - a map with clearly marked legal routes for us:
- But you need to have driven some of it to get to the map.. is that logical to you?
So, if we follow the route I outlined earlier in this thread - diagonally north east across the Lake District popping out through Penrith then we can climb through Alston to get to the Snatch Snow Nemesis track from yesterday:
Which snow free looked easy enough but then descends this roughish gully:
Fun.
Day two can get us into Slayley forest which has tracks looking like this:
Bog hole that could either be an epic, winch/tow/push team effort or as simple as a Starbucks Drive through. ..Or something in between.
All the tarmac roads in between that we sampled are lovely - quiet, meandering, relatively slow paced and often with big views. Occasional tea shops but very few petrol stations - so we'll need to keep an eye on that.
But there are sheep:
Any thoughts, or suggestions, welcome.
No getting away from it, going to see is necessary to avoid disappointment and wasted time. We found this:
And some of these:
But helpfully - a map with clearly marked legal routes for us:
- But you need to have driven some of it to get to the map.. is that logical to you?
So, if we follow the route I outlined earlier in this thread - diagonally north east across the Lake District popping out through Penrith then we can climb through Alston to get to the Snatch Snow Nemesis track from yesterday:
Which snow free looked easy enough but then descends this roughish gully:
Fun.
Day two can get us into Slayley forest which has tracks looking like this:
Bog hole that could either be an epic, winch/tow/push team effort or as simple as a Starbucks Drive through. ..Or something in between.
All the tarmac roads in between that we sampled are lovely - quiet, meandering, relatively slow paced and often with big views. Occasional tea shops but very few petrol stations - so we'll need to keep an eye on that.
But there are sheep:
Any thoughts, or suggestions, welcome.
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