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This day we were celebrting
Berny's return from Canada to spend a good day offroading in the highlands
of Lebanon .
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This trail started at 09:00 in Zaarour. |
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John took another shortcut
straight up to the hill proving the performance of his SIMEX "Jungle
trekker II" tyres.
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Jihad Followed
with his Camel Discovery enjoying his ARB front and rear locks...
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...with the precious
guidance of Majed on foot Jihad used some of the power of his 4.2HSE
engine !
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Majed had to run several
times to keep up with Jihad's speed
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run Majed run... One
of the roles of the co-pilot is to scout the terrain. But with the speed
of Jihad the co-pilot will surely loose some weight
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around 11:30 Tony took
a hard right turn in the middle of this steep slope
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everybody rushed to save
the Modified Range Rover from Rolling down. Counterweight Rule. Excellent
Team spirit.
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Sarmad called for the
continuing of the trail. It is already 13:30
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John crossed the tilted
ditch... Music was so loud in his car that it could be heard hundreds
of meters away. Bad habit for offroading. One should be able to hear
his engine not Aerosmith !
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and then Tony decided
to cross the tilted ditch with a fast run uphill !
But again, he turned left in the middle... |
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When he was stuck in
the snow and mud amalgame, we rushed to tow him. The mistake
here, is that he was attached on the wrong side of the landy. Tony did'nt
check personally at which recovery point his car was attached, nor did
the tower ! Click on the picture for details
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He should have
been attached to the left side to minimise the chances of an eventual
roll. There was no chance for the car to slide either. Click on the
picture for details
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When we finally started
to tow, there were'nt even any communications between the towing car
and the towed one. So the inevitable happened... (click on the picture
for details)
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The car rolled with the
occupants inside !
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As Tony and Manal crawled
out of the landy, all the team rushed out to help. If we were in an
american movie this car should have exploded 4 seconds after the roll
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But, thank God, all were
safe. Only the roof of the Range Rover was damaged.
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No fuel was rushing
out. Only the power steering oil was bleeding out of the landy spotting
the snow area in a bloody red color under
the car
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1, 2, 3 and Go
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we started to staighten the car but not all the way |
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Because we did'nt
want landy to continue rolling to the bottom of the valley
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and we also wanted to
assess all the possible damages
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To Roll it back on it
feet, we decided to do a controled roll-back. So we attached it to John's
defender
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And as the team pushed
the car
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John eased down the ARB
rope (blue) very slowly, thus controlling the descent of the car
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Slowly, very slowly,
the landy landed on her 4 wheels. We started it, and because she carried
well her name : LAND ROVER, it started smoothly.
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Tony actually drove
it home with all the passengers. Today's lessons were a refreshment
course to all, reminding us that no matter how veteran you are in offroading,
you should never forget the safety involved in this beautiful outdoor
hobby, along with the minimum required discipline and the minumum organizational
values...
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