Going green laning next weekend.

'Technically' you shouldn't be driving 'greenlanes' with the idea of getting stuck.

Tread lightly,if you going with an experienced and responsible group you should be ok.
Been laning loads of times, standard 110 csw with all terrains fitted.
The idea is not to cause damages to the lane,keep to the lane,do not deviate off the right of way,make sure you have up to maps.

If in doubt,don't drive it.

Having said that, it's great fun.

join GLASS. The Green Lane ASSociation.
Visit their site and have a read.

That's why I'm asking. I'm yet to have ever got my Landy stuck and id rather not break the habit.

As I said I am going with an experienced group who have well kitted vehicles. I'm told the route will should easily be passable for my vehicle bar one lane which I will probably avoid, the issue with that one I am told will be the long overhang on a discovery. I will be joining GlASS as well. Its my first time and I want to do this legally and as a land owner myself I don't want to damage others land unnecessarily.

Well I'm supposed to be doing Strata Florida, and a few others in Cambrians.

I was gonna say remove the towbar as well lol, it will act like a plough.
also remove anything likely to get shaken off, strata has a area that's a bit rippley lol
I used to be in a jeep club.
1 golden rule
NEVER GO OFF PISTE
stay on the tracks that your supposed to be on.
if you do get stuck never, unless its that or nothing let anyone without the proper equipment do a "snatch recovery" fnar fnar
I had the boot floor buckled in my jeep from this cause the fool who did it didn't have a proper rope.
never did strata but it looks awesome. but the club I was in did it a lot.
most of all enjoy it its fun

Got some piccies for ya all. Hope you have fun today. Glad Scot's disco is working again now just got to fix mine.



This was the first challenge of the day. Zip went first and needed a few attempts to get through. I was second and panicking. I'd seen zip struggle in a disco with much bigger and better tyres than mine and this was my first time driving this sort of terrain. It took me 3 attempts but I did get my disco through

Most people required a shunt and had a bit of wheelspin trying to get through there with the exception of this jammy dodger who made it look easy driving through it like it wasn't there.



At the end of the that lane we stopped for a tea break and I took the oppurtunity to get a photo of each vehicle in our group.







My own trusty steed that made me really proud of her. Never thought any car could do what mine did yesterday let alone a bog standard one.







Then the other group caught us up,






I didn't take any more photos until we got to the bomb hole on strata. I'm sorry to say I chickened out of doing it myself. I will be braver next time honest.



Suew preparing to go down. I think she might have been a little nervous.





hideehi was so exicited to do the bomb hole she aproached at 900mph, so fast my camera couldn't focus. Ok maybe it didn't focus cause numpty here forgot to press the focus button first.



I think this photo gives some idea of just how steep the bombhole really is!



Got to the end of strata and gathered for a big group photo.



and then back down strata we went. Knowing what was coming we went a little faster back. I was getting a little tired and probably to overconfident. Near the end of the lane I got my line over a rock wrong and ended up falling off it and landing on my rear ARB. Result snapped both ball joints that locate it clean off, and buckled the mounting bracket. Got a bit of work to do to put that right. Lesson learned though, take it easy over rocks!

Time for photos going back up the bomb hole.















Oh and two videos of two different vehicles tackling the bomb hole

Lots of river crossings but because we have had little rain recently they were nice and shallow. Nothing above the front bumper height, saying that the TD5 disco managed to kill his alternator going through water but the alternators on that engine really don't like getting wet anyway.