Thread: Coffs Harbour 2008

first 3 videos.

First one is Justin on the first undrivable hill (the one where Eric winched every one up. Justin, Eric and I had a few runs at it but no-one got any further than this.



Next is Justin on the very steep hill. Eric was first up this. Braver than me!



and finally for now the very slippy hill at the end of the day... Only 4 cars drove this, and it wasn't down to much more than both lockers and full throttle! Phillipe made it look about the easiest. The rest of us all made it look equally untidy!

MORE,MORE,MORE ,

Regards

Stevo

good start there pete.....

will make sure i am at the next meeting.......hopefully we will have plenty of footage to watch

Looks awesome...........the hill in the last 6 pics looks familiar......for sadly the wrong reasons......pretty sure that's the hill I busted my tail shaft on last time

Looks like you guys found some cracking tracks, I'm definitely in for the the next trip

Mick, I think, though I may be wrong, that it was a different track to the one where you did your tail shaft.

Cheers
Pete.

Originally Posted by MickG

Looks awesome...........the hill in the last 6 pics looks familiar......for sadly the wrong reasons......pretty sure that's the hill I busted my tail shaft on last time

Looks like you guys found some cracking tracks, I'm definitely in for the the next trip

No not that track Mick but it was harder and steeper than the one you broke your tailshaft on. That said we got 3 vehicles up Erics, mine and Phillipes. The first 2/3rds of the track was deep ruts and tree roots and was a hoot to drive. The last 1/3 was very steep up hill as per the video consisting of very loose rocks and leaves, with large rock faces every now and then. Definately sphincter clenching territory. Was a great feeling once the winch cable was helping the exit.

That said it was another great Coffs trip. Good turn out of different vehicles and another great bunch of people. Many thanks to Rod and Tim and the restof the local Landrover enthusiasts who showed us all the new tracks and also downloaded them to Phillipes laptop. We did some very hard tracks and with great team work and some carefull thought managed to get all the cars and people through with no damage. (other than the odd leach). We all pitched in on the saturday night and cooked up a great BBQ for all including our guides. It proved to be a great success. On the way home Phillipe's laptop was showing us some tracks and places not too far from Tweed so an exploration run will have to be organised. Thanks to all who attended and made the trip a great weekend away.

Justin Kathryn, Annika and Patrick
Justin

Looks like a fantastic time. Very disappointed I couldn't attend. Maybe next year.

Originally Posted by MickG

Looks awesome...........the hill in the last 6 pics looks familiar......for sadly the wrong reasons......pretty sure that's the hill I busted my tail shaft on last time

Looks like you guys found some cracking tracks, I'm definitely in for the the next trip

Different hill Mick, first vid was the 'Powerline Track' (as seen on some Coffs DVDs), second vid is a track called 'Impossible'. Local legend is that it has NEVER been driven.......but we gave it a red hot shot (what the pics and vid does not show is the great bloody big gully and drop off on the left hand side ) Based on the state of the track no one has even attempted it in a long time! Great big wash out ruts at the bottom winding up to loose marbles, rocks steps and tree roots First track in the Pics was called Broken and was the "warm up" form the local boys! Thanks lads

We explored entirely new areas this trip (north of Bucca Rd and the tracks previously explored) and have some tracks mapped that we drove and from the locals.

What a cracking weekend. Thanks to all that attended, Justin for leading and arranging, the local coffs guys (Longstoke - Tim and his dad Rod) for taking the time out to lead us around, and Eric for playing recovery's all weekend (a truly magnificant machine and a credit to you).

I will get some pics up shortly.

PS The 35 Silverstone Extremes took everything i threw at them. Very happy boy