The Dirty Dragons

W.A.S. was in town, for one night only, and he fancied a trip.

We decided to do a reccy again, and to see if we could peice together some more info from the last reccy trip.

We headed staight (ish) to the lane entrance we found last time. Towards the top, we had a quick look at some tracks we had seen on google. As it was dark, it was just enought to get the idea, but as it was night, we didn’t go too far off the main roads.

Down to the roundabout, to confirm if Camo had spotted a different track. He mentioned it on the last trip, but we thought he menat a different one, and dismissed it. However, I had re checked on google, and he was right!

In this area, there were a few little ups and downs, and a little go was had. WAS’s brother was on board, and he had a bit of a go too!

Then we headed towards a track that connected the two areas we had seen on google.

We may have found it, hard to tell at night. We did, we believe, find the one area. I did a foot reccy, and do beleive I found an area we had seen being driven on you tube. Due to the darkness, and the fact the conditions could not be completely known, we followed a track Camo had foot reccied, up towards the start area. We will have to look at this in daylight! (However, my hill walking is getting back into use!)

On the way out, we had a bit of a play on the tump by the roundabout, and gave WAS the opportunity to try out low versus low with Diff Lock. He like!

We folled a diff lane out, and found a little area that had a hill climb, with a choice of 4 routes. One was easish, one ok, one a little greassy, and one, well……step, then a bump, a big dip (wheren people spin after hitting it after the little jump cuased by the bump, and more general spin ruts…..

Was had a go, and as expected had issues with the bump and spin ruts. He came up a diff route. He did go down it, but that bump caused as much problems heading down as up! It launched him enough to loose some of the engine breaking, so had a little run away until it had the time to control it, near the bottom.

We then found the reason why we missed this the last time. These came out a t asection of the lane that had a large contrete platform. Last time we were looking outof the wrong windows!

We had a look around this area, and possibly found some sort of covered shaft. There were evendance of lots of heave beams, for some sort of structure, and an odd…..cover, with a pole attached. Some pictures are in the gallery!

From here, we headed back, going back along the track, and out the other way, heading west. A gentle, slightly rutted track. From here it was back to main roads, and a cruise back home!

Reccy successsfull, a bit of fun, and little sleep until the next possible out!

Will we get to the gap, at around 08:00?

If you look at the time of this post, you can see I am just about to load up, and head out!

Check back here later, and see if there is a trip report for today! (If more pics of work done on the landy are in the gallery instead, then it was probably a no!)