Thread: Landcruiser Mountain Park 2011

It was a very good trip. Great people, great tracks and I got to learn the 110 a bit more. Here's some pics and video.

The "monster truck" as the kids called it.


Tim


Dunga cool


Rat


Stickman


Where do the kids get their ideas??


How not to 4WD


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Even though we were only up for the day we had a great time. Lost the chrome trim from both of the sidesteps at different times and the plastic trim from the bottom of the door but they will all go back on easily enough (or maybe I need some real sliders for the D3 ). The biggest problem with the D3 is lack of clearance so I think an investment in the little module that lets you raise it right up to extended height might be worthwhile, or maybe I should just use one of the cheaper cars I have.

It was great to watch the modified trucks get up some of those tracks, Eric's 109 is just awesome, but the others are not in any way shamed by it. Here are a couple of what I think were the best pictures, some others can be found here - GCLRO LCMP album | TimJ | Fotki.com, photo and video sharing made easy..









TimJ.

Nice work all

Okay, back, showerd and all that crap now time to write the trip report. beer by my side, that might be a good excuse for my bad spelling hey Justin

Anyway, up at the awful hour of 3AM, we couldn't get there on Friday I had a late day at work (never again, rather get there at 9Pm and put the tent up in the dark) one night to 'Cruiser isn't long enough for me. Roland was along for the trip as a passenger and packed all the gear the night before. Two blokes with seperate tents, etc.. takes up a hell of a lot of space but I got it all in. We rolled along to Cabooluture BP where I filled up the bullet ($147 later fuelwise, nearly 100 litres of dunga spec E10 isn't cheap ) and ourselves with food from the golden arches on the run as we planned on getting there by 7AM or thereabouts and off on the road again. The trip to the park was uneventful, enjoying the final voyage in the bullet as it was sold as of Thursday (going to miss that roaring V8 exhaust).

Got to the office and paid, then drove on to find the crew at trakka terrace. Philippe (stikman), Eric (The 109), Justin (DRanged), Stuart (newhue??), Andrew (inside), Dave (Busman), Chris (rat), were camped and we went on to set up the gear. There was a thick cloud around the place but the weather held off til later on which was a good thing.

Not too long after, Tim showed up in the D3 with it's off-road tyres fitted and ready to go. We all soon get ready for a run out, so aired down the tyres and off we went. Eric was up front in the 109 'life size RC crawler' and was loking for cruiser climb with a couple of setours along the way. pretty easy start for the day but soon got serious once we looked at Cruise climb. This would have been doable if the first step wasn't too deep even in the bullet. The ground was very loose and marbley and hard enough to walk on let alone drive on but Eric was willing to give it a go. Did the track with a fair amount of ease (with 38 inch Creepys and portals makes it look simple ).

Anyway, off we went and found a few other tracks to have a play on then back to camp for lunch. Stuart was packed up and heading off over the lunch break but this reduced the group a bit but all good. The afternoon drive was a bit harder, doing camp road, hilux highway and frying pan which all had some interesting obstaces to conquer. For the most part it was without incident, Dave popped the window out of Gumboot, Justin and I did the roof guttering on Camp road on a rogue tree and Philippe did 3 engine mounts (know the feeling ) but overall no major issues. We did run into a very second hand XJ cherokee with a bit of a roof alteration. The owner didn't seem to phased but had a beer in his hand, explained the sense of content at the time

Back to camp, collected some firewood (none of us had a chainsaw) with a drag chain and a copuple of rangies but the campfire night was to be dampened (literally) by the rain. About 7:30 or so the heavens opened a bit, drizzly, ****ty type rain that hung around for the majority of the night. This was dissapointing but you get that

Sunday arrived, it was a decision to get going rather than hang around and drive, the tracks were probably okay as the rain was light but not worth the risk. Most were keen to move on and get back home and unpack so we followed suit.

A good weekend, a bit short but worth the trip. good to See Justin and Philippe on a trip, been a while. Hopefully see you both on some more trips in the not too distant future. It was a good turnout, better than last year but it is a fair hike from the Gold Coast. This was the bullets' last GCLRO trip, it's new owner awaits this week but should give me some needed $$$ to get the new 2 door beast on the road.

Trav

Great time had by all by the looks. Excellent video and pics guys. Justin and Eric, that was me in the D4 on Friday, beeping and waving ~ Morayfield.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Great time had by all by the looks. Excellent video and pics guys. Justin and Eric, that was me in the D4 on Friday, beeping and waving ~ Morayfield.

Cheers.

Yep saw you mate, all good.

Eric and I had a slower but good run all the way to the park. Paid our dues and proceeded to the campsite. Well that was untill Eric put the Defender into low range to help tackle a hill with RC on the trailer etc. BANG and a "woops that was an axle breaking grin" was seen in the mirror.

So on the access road we took RC off the trailer and put the motionless Defender on. Chained down etc and off to the camp ground.

Set up camp and headed off for a small afternoon play. I must admit I was a bit rusty as this was the first off road drive in 5 months.

All in all we found the park very good. Apart from the distance for us Tweed blokes and the park being the ultimate Bogin magnet we may go back again. Although its the first time I have had to put up with some moron shating on the toilet seat. Such a grown up Bogin thing to do hey. QLD you must be proud

Eric and myself had an interesting drive to Caboulture with RC not liking the car trailer with defender on board.

A quick phone call was made and thanks to "Incisor" a safe house was found for the Deefer and trailer. This led to a much more relaxed drive home.

The coil conversion on the trailer was faultless, I should have done it years ago.

Once again thanks to all for great company and a recovery free weekend.

Darth

Originally Posted by DRanged

Yep saw you mate, all good.

Eric and I had a slower but good run all the way to the park. Paid our dues and proceeded to the campsite. Well that was untill Eric put the Defender into low range to help tackle a hill with RC on the trailer etc. BANG and a "woops that was an axle breaking grin" was seen in the mirror.

So on the access road we took RC off the trailer and put the motionless Defender on. Chained down etc and off to the camp ground.

Set up camp and headed off for a small afternoon play. I must admit I was a bit rusty as this was the first off road drive in 5 months.

All in all we found the park very good. Apart from the distance for us Tweed blokes and the park being the ultimate Bogin magnet we may go back again. Although its the first time I have had to put up with some moron shating on the toilet seat. Such a grown up Bogin thing to do hey. QLD you must be proud

Eric and myself had an interesting drive to Caboulture with RC not liking the car trailer with defender on board.

A quick phone call was made and thanks to "Incisor" a safe house was found for the Deefer and trailer. This led to a much more relaxed drive home.

The coil conversion on the trailer was faultless, I should have done it years ago.

Once again thanks to all for great company and a recovery free weekend.

Darth

Let us know if y'all need a hand getting things sorted and home as im on the northside.

A great trip with some good people, good to see everyone again. I have some pics Ill post up tonight.
Stuart