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Just back from a weekwend in North Wales during which we visited a new off-road site (OTT Adventures). Having taken some flack in the run up to the event from some 'alt.fan.landrover' forum members who were slating the D3 claiming a Series 1 Land Rover was better off-road, I took great delight in proving my point as my D3 was the ONLY truck to make it up the steep slippery hill A Defender 110 got nowhere nor did a Series Land Rover or indeed an ex MOD 101. If anyone has seen the Top Gear clip with Clarkson at the top of the mountain in a D3 that was what I felt like, it was awesome looking down at the others failing the climb
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31st Oct 2006 9:07 am
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Way to go, lets hope the Morocco boys can turn the tables too!DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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31st Oct 2006 9:09 am
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Hope you did this from the top!
31st Oct 2006 9:10 am
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The hill was very deceptive, it was incredibly slippery and the camber was quite awkward (left to right as well as uphill), the MTR's were awesome and played a major part in getting me up, I doubt I would have made it on road tyres!
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31st Oct 2006 9:13 am
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I wouldn't have been as energetic, I would have raised only one finger.
31st Oct 2006 9:13 am
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Alternative version:
Hope you did this from the top!
Good to see you had a good day for it CFB! CW, that is rain. It make mud, purely for getting muddy that is!
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31st Oct 2006 9:17 am
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It was a great feeling, problem was I couldn't risk exploring the rest of the site as no-one else could get up the hill, if I had got stuck up there it could have been interesting!
The 110 got this far then the lack of locking diffs and ETC meant he had to go back !
You certainly have no excuse for getting lost ....its on its way
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31st Oct 2006 9:19 am
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The "pureists" (hope sp OK!!) might whine about it not being a "real" landrover but you can be offroading one day & doing a several hundred mile high speed belt up the country next. Can't do that in a Series LR without booking a physio appointment for day after!
31st Oct 2006 9:38 am
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Doctor Diesel wrote:
love the misty photograph...like a summers day here!
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Where abouts in North Wales were you? Give me a shout next time D3 HSE V8...
31st Oct 2006 11:16 am
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Mossy wrote:
Where abouts in North Wales were you? Give me a shout next time
We stayed in Llanberis but the off-road site was on Anglesey. However I would not recommend the site at all. The shots I posted were the only bit of the place that was anywhere near accessible to a standard 4x4, the rest of the site was just a wood and a swamp where they do paintballing and tank driving. Unless you had a highly modified motor and were not bothered about major scrapes and damage the site was a no go. We ended up with a refund as it was just not driveable. At one point a tank was stuck up to its waistline in the gloop The owner knows nothing about off-roading but is trying to get the place established but he has a LOT of work to do!2020 BMW X1 18d XDrive X-Line Auto
31st Oct 2006 3:53 pm
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cotefarmboy wrote:
...We stayed in Llanberis but the off-road site was on Anglesey. However I would not recommend the site at all..... We ended up with a refund as it was just not driveable. At one point a tank was stuck up to its waistline in the gloop
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A Defender 110 got nowhere nor did a Series Land Rover or indeed an ex MOD 101. If anyone has seen the Top Gear clip with Clarkson at the top of the mountain in a D3 that was what I felt like, it was awesome looking down at the others failing the climb 
The owner knows nothing about off-roading but is trying to get the place established but he has a LOT of work to do!
