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by The Heretic » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:28 pm
We did have one hairy moment. We headed down a track where they had been logging to see if it came out near the reservoir we wanted to have a play near. Anyway, going down was fine. no bother at all. However, coming back up it decided it wanted to be muddy. And slippy. And 'traction free'. Well, muggins was going up first, and I just could not get any further, purely because I was expecting it to be nice and dry as it was on the way down. No end of manoeuvres could get me any higher. Si came up in the SJ and ended up not being able to get anywhere either. After much toing and froing, (and it had started to rain at this point), I moved my car off the trail, and simon went back down in reverse, then just pelted up full bifta. That worked. All we needed was a jolly good run up. So, while he sped past I then reversed down to the bottom and did the same. I came pelting up, wheels spinning, mud flying everywhere, (I got a clod right on the bonce), and then discovered that Si had stopped just a bit further on. He only just got his car going by the time I reached him and we got to the top. Quite funny now, but back then, rain starting to come down, and the only other way would be a very slow winching operation to get up both to the top it was all a bit 'bugger'.
