Green Laning

I used to do a lot when I had my Discos.  The last D3 was decked out with all the G4 Challenge toys - I was probably a real nerd! Was a regular attendee at Disco3.co.uk outings and have some brilliant photos of the Disco 'walking' down 2' high rock steps in the Peak District.

Currently have a Touareg with low ratio and diff locks but haven't done as much serious stuff in that - although it's every bit as capable as the Disco.

Do the odd bit of green laning, but my 90 is set up for RTV so not really any good for towing the van any distance. Green laning is nice if there is stuff to see, but mostly round here its quite boring. 

I prefer the quarry or RTV to push myself and the vehicle, doing things you cannot do locally without being a hooligan (GLASS tread lightly and all that good stuff) 

I used to do a bit in the past then swapped to a totally unsuitable car for the job.

I've now got one that will cope so I may have another go when it gets its first scratch or ding in the supermarket.

Where do you recommend?  The last one I did was around World's End so reasonablly local to you

Used to do off road when I had the Motorbike. I'm sure off roading in a 4X4 is equally challenging.  Good to see 4X4's being used in the countryside for what they were intended. AS  some 4X4 drivers ( the chelsea tractor brigade)  think that off roading is mounting the pavement to park near the shops. 

K 

Took advantage of some of the greenlanes in Derbyshire one time when we stopped at Chatsworth.

We hadn't planned on taking my Defender, but the windscreen wipers had packed in on our usual towcar.

Unfortunately it's ex military and I'd been using it at a local pay & play day and hadn't had a chance to wash it, so the only clean surface was the sweep of the windscreen wipers

We got quite a few disapproving/hostile looks on site

LOL Riba - When ever I take the D4 to the supermarket, no matter where I park it, even if the carpark is half empty, you can be sure someone will park next to it!

Odd when I take the 90 after a pay and play day - even if I park right at the front in a full car park - when I come back its always empty bays either side.

It was only a few weeks back that I parked in the COOP carpark on a Sunday with my daughter (7), the car park was empty bar 4 or 5 cars (out of 80-90 spaces) and I parked as far away as possible in a corner  - It was raining so I went to get a trolly sorted first. I came back and a "lady" was parking next to me. I squeezed between the cars just because she had parked almost on the line and stood next to my rear door to let my daughter out (I had reversed in so was stood next to her driver door) She was a large lady and there was no way she was going to get out without hitting my door! 

She wound down the window and shouted at me "will you move yourself I want to get out". Well, I'm a really laid back person in real life and quite out of character I heard myself say "Well out of all the bloody car parking spaces!"

She said "Well!" with a huff, wound the window up, drove across to the other side of the carpark and parked equally close to a new Audi - Mental!

It'd be good to turn up with a clean 90 and then pop out to a P&P and come back covered in mud! 

I'm always a bit causious though, wouldn't want to break something when I need to tow a caravan back...

I could waffle on about all my holidays with the caravan spent travelling north to South Wales without touching too much Tarmac, but I probably would bore you! We only ever stayed at normal commercial sites as there was 4 others who camped and did not belong to any clubs. Fforest Caravan and campsite at Builth were very accommodating, both with wash down and also routes. 

You should be more accommodating CJ. The lady may have agoraphobia. 

Only ever broke down twice as such, but car kept going. Once the exhaust rear box fell off and ended up at Bearmach in Abergavenny, the second was when the coil packed up so ended up at Bala buying and fitting a new one.  Apart from that my old Range Rover rolled twice on mountains, flooded out in 3 foot of water, got stuck in a waterfall, sank in a bog and yet always got itself out and is home with the caravan in tow!

I am talking about 12 years ago mind, before the NERC act came in force plus RUPPS were being closed to vehicular access and reclassification was beginning to take place.

i used to do a lot of work repairing byways closely with Wiltshire County Council. I even ended up on TV. BBC filmed about the ethics of roading against the Ramblers Assosiation. I was representing the off roaders!

i have been on TV and radio many times over the yearsfihhting for the rights to use all vehicular rights of way, past, present and future. I have written documents and submitted surveys and reports, but stood down when my late husband passed away 4 years ago. Now GLASS on!