The Rover-Landers of BC

HeliRy wrote:Greg do you own the light blue Defender I've seen on Lakes Rd a few times?

Well! About 18 months ago I stopped driving my Series 2A 109 SW which you might call light blue. Then Yes! Or it might be Victor with his same colour light blue Series 2. Now I drive the military olive drab Land Rover 90.

I'll be at the farm by 9:00am sharp.

Matt

Greg S wrote:

HeliRy wrote:Greg do you own the light blue Defender I've seen on Lakes Rd a few times?

Well! About 18 months ago I stopped driving my Series 2A 109 SW which you might call light blue. Then Yes! Or it might be Victor with his same colour light blue Series 2. Now I drive the military olive drab Land Rover 90.

Cool! Think I was parked a few spots down from you at Canadian Tire last week... you or Victor anyways. Had a whole whack of branches or something tied on the roof. I dunno lol. Pretty sure I've seen your MOD one a few times here and there too. I'm envious! Almost pulled the trigger on a 110 I was going to import from the UK but my wife wanted more creature comfort so we got the LR4 instead.

I'm around the corner (sort of) on Buckingham Rd. Here till Monday, then the move to Shawnigan. Was hoping to swing by the farm before you all roll out and say hello but no can do. Too much pre-moving crap going on. Lame lol.

You guys camping out at the same meeting point on Mayes? Might be able to come down tonight for a hello if that's cool.

Yes! Camped in the field. Trouble is, it's already after midnight and we're all going to bed. Had a nice evening of dinner and visiting followed by a campfire and marshmallows. A few of us going on another drive tomorrow. Today's drive worked out very well despite the dust. Ten vehicles, driver's meeting at 0900, on the road before 1000 and home at 1730.

All done. Finished for another year.

About 100 kilometres Saturday. Started at 1000 and home again at 1730 with an hour+ lunch break. Seemed to be twisty and technical enough for everybody but a bit dusty on 36 kilometres of recently graded logging road. The slow trails were well worth the trip.

Sunday? The guys from the mainland were interested in a bit more off-roading before catching the ferry. Another 110 kilometres finished off the weekend. This time the obstacle was cutting out all the fallen trees, about a dozen of them. Thank heaven for a chainsaw! Silver Lake was the destination, finishing in Ladysmith. Bit of a rough road just before the cabin.

Thanks for coming out guys and gals, young and old.

Yes, a very neat weekend, thanks again to Greg, Victor and the rest of the Gang for opening the field up for camping, scouting and leading the runs and being excellent hosts. The Mainland group made the return ferry in good time and it was a nice change to be "driven" home for a change instead of a long drive.
I have loads of photos to post up in the next couple of days, if anyone else has some they would like to share, send them to Bill or myself and we will take care of getting them posted in the gallery,
Cheers,
Andy

It must have been a pretty tough trek judging from that last photo. That Landy looks like it could use some TLC! :mrgreen:

I'm sorry I missed it!

Sorry I wasn't able to come by for a hello at the camp site, too busy with last minute prep for our move. Where abouts did you all go? Prevost, Sicker, somewhere else?

I'm in town a few more weeks before I head back to work. If anyone is looking for a little day trip in the sticks and has an area in mind let me know. I've been out of the offroad loop long enough that all my previous fun spots have either been gated or gutted for logging. Bummer! I need someone with current knowledge of the valley to show me the ropes again lol.

Or if anyone just wants to grab a coffee, let me know. I'm in Shawnigan now just around the corner from Mason's :bounce:

Yes, shame you couldn't make it, you missed a great weekend .....

I have posted a bunch of photos in the Gallery, clink on link
http://roverlanders.bc.ca/gallery/view_ ... e=album437

cheers,
Andy

Wow just checked out Andy's pictures. Sundays run looked great, wish I stayed for that one.
Greg, I hope you cut all those logs off the trail but left 2 feet sticking onto the trail like every other log we came across on Saturday :D

I had a great time and the old truck kept up pretty well with all the new machines, thanks for organizing this for another year Greg.

Matt

Looks like a lot of fun. Shame I wasn't able to make it out to this one. I'll be coming out for other events soon, though.