Ice Road

Just as important as santa and the traditional food at Cristmast, is the Boxing Day Off Road trip. We have been participating for many years now (for Måns as long as he has lived). First by foot, then with our old series3 and our Range Rover. This year we brought our discovery for the first time.

Since the disco is the family estate and not a hobby car as our prior landies, we had no tougher off roading plans for her.

Christmast Day was raining, and in the night to Boxing Day the temerature fell quickly again. This made the ground like an ice cube. It was not icy only on the surface, but also a bit down under ground. Boxing Day morning, it was snowing, adding an extra layer of slip above the ice. This together meant that it was sometimes difficult to get traction even on level ground. With our road tyres we slid aroud as on a wet soap. It is really scary to slide sidewards without any possibility to brake or control the car!

We, Måns and I, had planned to meet up with Klas and his son Hugo in their series3 pick up. But we also spent the day with Fredrik (defender 110), Björn (defender 90), Janne (willys), his brother Ulf and my brother Mats-Ola. We also ran in to the Ek brothers (seris3 and OneTen) and a couple of other nice people with the interest of our proud make.

We tried our best as we slid along. Klas ended up in a mud hole and got home far too late for the family gathering, but Henrik Ek took it to yet another level as he almost buried his 109.

Even if Henrik had his winch wire far up in a tree, the car digged itself further down. The hard mud turned of his winch button, so it had to be

digged out with a spade twice to get it working. He got up, but needed a serious rescue party to help him do the job.

The disco served well as a spectator bus, and as usual as our portable café.

Movieclips at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bDkX_j8qLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAgnGwHwgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTG64-LrMJ8

Forest Bump

It wasn't that dramatic to bring the Christmast tree home this year. Last year I ended up in my brothers potato field, bogged down to my hubs. The most exiting this year was that the trailer I used was to wide for the little road at one place where I had one wheel in each dich and the trailer sledging at its axle. Yes, I had to use a trailer this year. I'm too much careful of my paintwork. My old series3 had a roof rack and the rangie, well there I simply put the goods at the roof and tied it down through the passenger compartment.