Went for skid with a few guys to test out the lastest improvements to The 50.
Started off at 7:30 in the pouring rain, loaded on the trailer, soaked already
Hit the track aboot 9:45 with 5 trucks, still pouring down (50's still got no wipers) the holes were deep, the clay was slipery, what more can you say, ideal conditions!!!!!!
Watched some guys in another group in there hacks drinkin bourbon do some serous damage around a slip untill we got pissed off with waiting for them and the mess they were making of the track, so gave the last couple of vehicles a tow through.
Got our group passed the slip (did i mention it was pissing down??) thanks to a Chev powered Cruiser
and carried on up in the rain.
Got to the top and the same cruiser got put to work helping the clowns (who were all pretty pissed by this time) recover a surf that had rolled 4 times off the side of the sumit track.
Headed back down to the cross roads and had a good play. Got to put my winch into action when i got my self into a tricky spot between a couple of trees. Nath wasn't so lucky and munched his drivers side A pillar and smashed his front windscreen (long cold drive home in the rain for him).
Carried on down from there to the play ground in the pines and took the LJ for a swim. Got wedged on a fallen tree and bent the steering, turned the cab into a mobile foot spa full of muddy water, got absolutly plastered in mud, nearly put it on its side and generally had a ball.
Headed back down with no drama other than makin a promise that gettin the wipers hooked up was moved up the priority list. Had a bit of a play on the hill ouut by the gate. Good fun in the wet.
All up a bloody good day, very wet, make that farkn wet, but heaps of fun.
Let it be know, The 50 is The Shit!!!!!!!!!
Big clean up mission tomorrow, looks like it will be getting a water blast inside as well as out
(was so wet and miserable, no one wanted to be standing round with camera's, so don't think we got any pic's or vids)
