stapldm
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I'm back from a 2 week hols in the Lakes with wife, kids and in-laws (and I've retrieved the front door key from the string inside my letterbox, so scroats can sod off!).
Originally it was supposed to be a walking holiday, albeit only planned short walks with two young kids in tow. The weather put dampers on that though, with between 1" and 2" of rain per day for the first week, and not much let up the second week. The beck in our garden was a raging river that looked like it could collapse the dry (!) stone walls flanking it.
On top of the weather my father in laws foot got hurt, putting paid to any serious walking, so it was touring only, 6 up, a full fridge, jetboil kit and a full tank of Diesel 'just in case.'
What larks! Floods to the left of us, mud to the right....boy was I in the right car  I know that I had asked previously for advice on routes such as the Old Coach road; and frankly those just weren't an option with many of the normal roads requiring careful negotiation due to eroded edges, fallen stone walls and s t scared tourists using the white knuckles and closed eyes approach to get them through the smallest of gaps.
It's the first time I've seen the reservoirs full (so that's a heads-up for an imminent hosepipe ban if ever I've heard one) and the first time I've driven up hardknott pass with 1/2" to 1" of surface run off water coming down the road. All the trickling streams down the hills had turned to raging torrents, some of which found the road a better and quicker exit than the existing stream beds. The official waterfalls were spectacular!
Together with deep mud, many BIG puddles and several new lakes where the road dipped slightly, I was a very very happy bunny indeed  Bow waves were required on more than one occasion, as several trips seemed to end up going through the same flooded locations. I wonder why that kept happening 
Suffice to say the car performed flawlessly, never putting a foot wrong and even having the grace to maintain a working EPB after all the wading ('home' involved parking on a 30º slope so I was very thankful).
I only got told off twice by the back seat drivers. Apparently reversing at 25MPH down an undulating single track road for 300 yards to a passing place big enough for the post van to pass in is a faux pas, as is laughing my socks off when ploughing through 6" of mud. I stand corrected and will chortle quieter next time. Maybe.
A big hand to the D3, the car of choice when off-road is where the tarmac used to be  Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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Bodsy
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nice one Dom Bodsys Brake Bible
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| 2nd Sep 2009 2:09 pm |
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DG
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Isn't it nice when you can demonstrate the true capability of the beast 8) 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 2nd Sep 2009 2:15 pm |
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Bodsy
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And in the future, when the D4 is up for discussion, you'll always be able to say....
"...Do you remember those two weeks in the lakes, where would we have been without the Discovery...."
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| 2nd Sep 2009 2:17 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
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Bodsy wrote:"...Do you remember those two weeks in the lakes, where would we have been without the Discovery...."
Printed out and framed!
DG wrote:Isn't it nice when you can demonstrate the true capability of the beast
Yep, by the end of the two weeks my wife and mother in law (neither of which have seen the car properly used before) were getting nicely blasé about where we could go, even when we ended up on a road "unsuitable for motor vehicles" Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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