2009-05-15
arrival in the rain On Friday we began the afternoon with the packing of our caravan and then started to
Landy Black meeting to Aldersbach. Unfortunately, the current weather outlook not very promising and also on the show we went again and again by rain. On frühend evening we arrived safely after about 270km.
We put our caravan in the administrative area on the gravel and sand pit and a few welcomed the participants had already arrived. Unfortunately the weather deteriorated further and we hid us soon in our warm and especially dry caravan.
2009-05-16 Finally offroading The next day saw the weather at first still does not look promising, but it had stopped raining. Partly met still another caravan, Horst and Lydia wanted once the comfort of a caravan for free.
After we received several orders for breakfast, Gabi and I drove to a nearby supermarket and bought one, then it went back to the camp and it was gefühstückt first.
but then went straight into the ground. The area at Alder creek is very demanding when it rains, you get along well with MTs in general, AT tires is almost too much. I lowered so the air pressure of our Grabber AT2 to 1.6 bar to driving better get the profile clean.
The beauty of this area is the material-surface, even if you risk something, there is only very rarely cause damage to the mostly sandy and muddy ground. recovered
The deep underground but had repeatedly vehicles from the mud. But that is when driving in snow, even just to do so. Gently but you should be with the various water holes here, one can quickly erlegeb nasty surprises, because the ground there is very soft and the water can be deeper than expected. Gerhard presented with the Defender's states very clearly.
Three Defender each with electric winch were necessary in his car out of the water hole to free. The extreme skew of the third car was used as lateral control.
Who knows Gerhard know him such a "trifle" can not bring calm and he was quite comfortable sitting in the wet before we had him for half an hour back on dry land. Permanent damage to the car (and also the driver), there was no way, a Defender's just tough, just a true utility vehicle.
About noon the weather had been excellent progress and it was sunny and warm. Just the right weather to tap so the beer and make a small little break.
afternoon was then eager to explore the site again. Time and again there were mountains actions, especially on steep hills always had to be helped with recovery strap or winch.
packed the evening we will once our Grillfleich on the grill of Horst and enjoyed eating the "wild driving" in the field. At the campground boasts a truly magnificent Panorameblick and that's better than any movie theater.
the evening we had nice conversations with then finish off the fire. After breakfast we packed up again and have already started at noon home again. Unfortunately we had no opportunity to free our Discovery least roughly of mud, because the steam cleaner will not as previously was available.
We therefore cleaned our car was so good to have it clean at least lights, turn signals and signs. At the start got from our homes but still its mud.
The home turned out to be somewhat more difficult than thought, the thick mud caused a massive imbalance of the rim. We therefore considered the move a few times at around the mud as much as possible to get out of the rim. That helped but not much faster than 80-85 km / h were not possible.
home I cleaned the car then once with our own steam cleaners and pressure while thoroughly muddy our drive-through garage and the street. The dirt in Aldersbach heard about the really tough copies.
Our conclusion of this weekend: it has once again paid off, loads of fun, nice conversations and many small experiences to tell.
