Hi all,

I have been trying a little offroading during the holidays doing the Land Rover Experience training stage 1. Those guys who do real offroading will perhaps say what I did there was not offroading, it was just playing in the garden (especially the Americans, I still can't forget the great rock crawling pics ), but for me it was greeeeaaat fun!

I can only recommend this to everybody. It might be a little more expensive than offroad-trainnings elsewhere but then there aber two big advantages:
1. These guys know Landrovers. I have seen offroad-instructors who didn't know what the Terrain Response worked like, clearly they can't teach you anything about your RRS, the guys at the LRE know exactly what the car can do and how she can do it!
2. You do use their cars which is great because you can concentrate on driving and learning instead of beeing afraid of scratches all the time. (Just for completion: Neither me nor Ms. McBunny added any scratches to the cars. ) And of course you do have a lot more fun if you needn't be afraid of damaging the car.

The day begins with about 60 mins theory, followed by 5-6 hours driving which is absolutely great!
You drive the same parcours with all the cars (well, you don't do the whole track with the Freelander ) and it is unbelievable what these cars, running on normal road tyres, can do and how comfortable the RRS (on 20 inch wheels in the gravel ) is compared to the Defender.


I have added some pictures to my mySpace-site. You can visit them for the next few weeks here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...Id=1010589

Unfortunately the water holes have been frozen and we were not allowed to drive through them. But everything else worked and was great fun.

I can really recommend this to anybody who has the chance of doing it. I already booked my stage 2 training!


PS: The manicured hands on some of the pictures are not mine but Mrs. McBunny's , she also did the training and had great fun. She will do the stage 2 training soon, too.  RRS TDV6 HSE, 2006, bonatti grey, ebony interior, rear diff, s/c grille and vents, stormers, privacy, tasmods, iphone integration

Good pics McB! Thanks for uploading  

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McBunny wrote:

PS: The manicured hands on some of the pictures are not mine

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Cool!

Very nice pics! That looks like a very nicely set up course. Interesting that some signs are in English, others in German.

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JayMann wrote:

Nice did you do your level 1 mate?

Yep which is unbelievable fun, we already booked our level 2.

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After stage 2 graduation - quickly book an airline ticket and join us in Colorado in the summer for a repeat of last year's rock crawling adventures on the Great Divide!

Oh yes, I would love to do that!
Unfortunately it's not easy, a little dangerous and a little expensive to bring my RRS to the US. And I am guessing this but I think renting an RRS for rock crawling could be an expensive adventure.
But still, if there will be any possibility to do so, I will do some rock crawling at your place, the pictures of that are just too good to not wanting to do this!


(But first this year the Alps. ) RRS TDV6 HSE, 2006, bonatti grey, ebony interior, rear diff, s/c grille and vents, stormers, privacy, tasmods, iphone integration

McBunny wrote:

Unfortunately it's not easy, a little dangerous and a little expensive to bring my RRS to the US.

Well, the Bering Strait should be frozen over by now, you could drive up now and drive back next winter......  '08 RRS TDV8
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That's a great idea. Stuttgart - Bering street will be about 14,000 kms I guess (stupid Googlemaps can't calculate a route there ), start making some coffee, I'll be right there when you filled the first cup!

But seriously I read something about renting offroad vehicles (unfortunately no RRSs I fear ) in the US for real offroading. And after seeing the pics of "Umbertob's rock crawling" I decided that I will do that someday. But first, I'll have to cross the Alps, the Pyrenees and do some offroading in Britain and south-east Europe (Greece, Kroatia, etc.). You see, it may take some time...  RRS TDV6 HSE, 2006, bonatti grey, ebony interior, rear diff, s/c grille and vents, stormers, privacy, tasmods, iphone integration