....and their amazing off road ability.
Spent an awesome day on the North Yorkshire Moors with Yorkshire 4x4 Specialists on monday. I've done a bit of offroading before on controlled courses, but without any training, just taking it steady. Quite fancy doing some proper green laning with these guys as they run group tours, so thought I'd better learn a bit more about it!
The morning consisted of learning the basic offroad skills in a Defender 110, which was pretty fantastic. It's a modern one with anti-stall which makes things a lot easier. Learned how to get out of a failed hill climb, how to cross ruts, what to look for on river crossing etc. We then took the cars out to Rudland Rigg on the Yorkshire Moors to put it into practice. It was pretty straight forward at first (although a real shame about the low cloud as the views should have been stunning) then we got to the end and there were some huge rock steps which I honestly didn't think my car could make, but with a bit of expert guidance and spotting, we got down slowly but surely. Then there were a few river crossings, some tight steep rutted lanes followed by a cracking road drive back over the moors.
Full day out, and even more respect for what this car can do
Now to get booked on one of their tours. Morocco sounds good....but might have to start of with the Derbyshire Dales next!
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Spent an awesome day on the North Yorkshire Moors with Yorkshire 4x4 Specialists on monday. I've done a bit of offroading before on controlled courses, but without any training, just taking it steady. Quite fancy doing some proper green laning with these guys as they run group tours, so thought I'd better learn a bit more about it!
The morning consisted of learning the basic offroad skills in a Defender 110, which was pretty fantastic. It's a modern one with anti-stall which makes things a lot easier. Learned how to get out of a failed hill climb, how to cross ruts, what to look for on river crossing etc. We then took the cars out to Rudland Rigg on the Yorkshire Moors to put it into practice. It was pretty straight forward at first (although a real shame about the low cloud as the views should have been stunning) then we got to the end and there were some huge rock steps which I honestly didn't think my car could make, but with a bit of expert guidance and spotting, we got down slowly but surely. Then there were a few river crossings, some tight steep rutted lanes followed by a cracking road drive back over the moors.
Full day out, and even more respect for what this car can do
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not for mothers doing the school run! 
