#####Written By Marc As James Bottled It !#####

Somehow I have been conned into doing the write up.

Our band of intrepid explorers converged on the national trust cafe on
the A3 around 9 am. And before the first bacon sarni was ordered Geoff
was seen to be effecting rather dubious repairs to his leaking petrol
tank.

Refreshments over we all headed the last few miles to the site.

The car park was packed with a vast array of vehicles, far more than we
have ever seen there before.

Nigel Barker and his helpers had spent Saturday creating a one way
system around the site. Dotted around the route where a series of
"black" sections to keep winches and Tow ropes busy.

After signing on we set of around the route, the first black section we
came to was blocked by a Range Rover up to its axles in clagg, A twat in
a yellow Dakar was trying to recover it using a strap and lots of
welly!!! Lyndon's words where "that is going to break" just as he said
that the Dakar shot forward the strap went tight and the tow point broke
off the back on the Dakar and was catapulted into the front of the
rangerover. We Decided to move on before someone got killed.

It was at the second Black section that the write up was decided. A
deeply rutted boggy run with a climb out of the end.

The usual suspects made it through with their big tyres and buzzy little
engines followed by me in the 90 and then James in is company car but
alas he ground to a halt....much to my amusement, He had to delve up to
his elbows in the smelly black mud to fix the rope on.

Throughout the day we all got stuck once or twice and we all learnt just
how bloody heavy G-wagens are. I think Nick may need to fit a winch just
incase there are no fat gits around to pull him out ;-)

And we were all impressed with the performance of the 2 month old 110
CSW that Steven brought along. But Paul and Lynns micra was somewhat
less impressive in the back sections. And wasn't it nice a quiet without
Lyndon's Buggy ;-) hopefully sorted for the next one.

In all well organised day ,thankyou Nigel, and I think we all made it
home in one piece and without the flatbed taxi.


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