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Niall,
Thats funny!
will have 2 wait till I get back across the waters with my cruiser 2 go bog
hopping!
Lal
-----Original Message-----
From: [Email address removed]
[mailto:[Email address removed]]On Behalf Of Niall Sommers
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:46 AM
To: [Email address removed]
Subject: Irish green laning
Alright John
Re you thought the green laning thing was vertually dead here.
Depends what you call green laning i suppose.
Myself and a few lads do a fair bit of diving year round. This takes us
to all kinds of remote places on the south west & north coast (east
being too close to Sellafield). When the weather's bad and it's too
early to go to the pub we get the OS maps out and hit whatever tracks
and lanes we can find - up to TV mast access roads and down bogs -
whatever. I call this green laning. If you have a Caoilte (Irish
Forestry) key then you can get access into miles and miles of forestry
roads - not technically legal but green laning.
In the summer we hit the vast Peat bogs harvested by Bord N Mona in
Kildare. Acres and acres of perfectly flat bog. This we call Brown
Laning and very risky. Soft spots claimed 3 vehicles on us in 1 night.
Took 8 wheeler tractors to get us out. The same night a mitsubishi
Pajero caught fire - peat build up on the exhaust!! - Hilarioous.
At christmas we hit the Tank tracks on the Curragh. This is very risky
as the MP's can arrest you & take your LC. The MP's are normally not
about at Christmas.
If I was in the UK then i'm sure some organisation would class the
above as "Irresponsible" in some shape way or form. But that's the
problem as I see it. Too many people in too many organisations (with
politicians) trying to organise and dictate what you can and can't do.
Overregulationitis.
And I haven't mentioned hunting as this is strictly 4x4!
So John. As the Nike man says - "Just Do It!"
.........because the end is nigh
Cheers
Niall
PS - do you want to come over to the Curragh some day - the Tank tracks
are great. But the MP's might impound your LC.......
Thats funny!
will have 2 wait till I get back across the waters with my cruiser 2 go bog
hopping!
Lal
-----Original Message-----
From: [Email address removed]
[mailto:[Email address removed]]On Behalf Of Niall Sommers
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:46 AM
To: [Email address removed]
Subject: Irish green laning
Alright John
Re you thought the green laning thing was vertually dead here.
Depends what you call green laning i suppose.
Myself and a few lads do a fair bit of diving year round. This takes us
to all kinds of remote places on the south west & north coast (east
being too close to Sellafield). When the weather's bad and it's too
early to go to the pub we get the OS maps out and hit whatever tracks
and lanes we can find - up to TV mast access roads and down bogs -
whatever. I call this green laning. If you have a Caoilte (Irish
Forestry) key then you can get access into miles and miles of forestry
roads - not technically legal but green laning.
In the summer we hit the vast Peat bogs harvested by Bord N Mona in
Kildare. Acres and acres of perfectly flat bog. This we call Brown
Laning and very risky. Soft spots claimed 3 vehicles on us in 1 night.
Took 8 wheeler tractors to get us out. The same night a mitsubishi
Pajero caught fire - peat build up on the exhaust!! - Hilarioous.
At christmas we hit the Tank tracks on the Curragh. This is very risky
as the MP's can arrest you & take your LC. The MP's are normally not
about at Christmas.
If I was in the UK then i'm sure some organisation would class the
above as "Irresponsible" in some shape way or form. But that's the
problem as I see it. Too many people in too many organisations (with
politicians) trying to organise and dictate what you can and can't do.
Overregulationitis.
And I haven't mentioned hunting as this is strictly 4x4!
So John. As the Nike man says - "Just Do It!"
.........because the end is nigh
Cheers
Niall
PS - do you want to come over to the Curragh some day - the Tank tracks
are great. But the MP's might impound your LC.......