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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Since I've been gone...
Been utterly overwhelmed by work recently, like some big slobbery alien that's swallowed me up whole.
So what have I been up to? On Sunday me and my Land Rover mate Roger went greenlaning. We started off on some gentle tracks above Cartmel (nearly getting stuck down a very narrow walled lane) before moving on to some rocky tracks south of Coniston. It was a bright sunny day, and the autumn colours were at their very best, and it was basically absolutely lush. By lunchtime we'd done several miles of simple offroading, so we moved onto the hard stuff: the dreaded Walna Scar. I've done it before, but it's so briiliant I wanted to do it again. I came to it this time with more offroading experience, so it wasn't anywhere near as intimidating, which sort of took a bit of the fun out of i, but it was still ace. We had to stop half way as there were a couple of offroaders stuck up above us. We helped them get going again, and continued on. When we got to the bottom (after some rather hairy moments I'd forgotten about), we had 2 choices: back home by road, or back home via another offroad track. We chose the offroading. This was a new route for me, and it was super gnarly, so it was very exciting.
We eventually got home at 5pm after a fantastic day out in the glorious Lakeland countryside, with no damage sustained (except the odd scratch and dent) - I like days like that.
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