Land Rover Party 2013

This time, the 4 of us went to the Land Rover Party at Les Comes LR Experience center. We had a blast! so much fun...

We did one of the tough trails resulting in a broken shock and loose spring, but Xavi from Land Classics came to the rescue, with a replacement pair.

We did a lot of different activities and had a great weekend, we even had some time for tourism in Barcelona.

Now the pictures:

Les Comes, quite a beautiful venue for this event.

We did all the adventure activities, lots of fun.

My daughters tried the segway... now they want one...

Doing the bridge

 This is the tough route we did, Llosa nova (plenty of videos in youtube):

The rain we got later in the night...

Pushing the spring back on its place ...

... while articulating a bit.

This was silly, but fun.

Pep Vila's series one, just beautiful.

Some more pictures of the event:

 We will miss this LR, it's been a great 4x4 for us

This one is just the easy route we did Sunday, to avoid breaking anything else

Fontetes:

We had a great time, with great people, so well worth the almost 1.000 miles we did during the weekend.

We even had time for some tourism in Barcelona!

Alcaraz Jeep meeting

Jeep?
Yeah, this time there was a Jeep meeting in Alcaraz, but I got invited to it, so why not? since most of them were classics anyway, I thought bringing the Series for its first off highway trip was appropriate.

It was great fun and a chance to learn more about the amazing village of Alcaraz, now some pictures:

Meeting up, we started late because of the rain...

Snack at "laguna del Arquillo", old Jeeps are very cool too:

After the excursion, ready to try some delicious "Gazpachos Manchegos"

This is an old monastery and chapel, really cool, now used for social events,

Thanks everyone at Alcaraz and the Jeep meeting for doing this and inviting us, I had a lot of fun!

Oh, and the best of all, the Land Rover performed flawlessly!!! it even kept a steady 100-105 Km/h on the road (65 MPH since this LR has both MPH and KPH very rare around here in Europe these days).

Have fun out there...

IX Iberico Land Rover Valdilecha

 We had a great time. This was the IX Iberico (meeting with Land Rovers from Portugal and Spain), this time in Valdilecha (Madrid).

Other than the usual eating, drinking, laughing and having fun, we did a little route around the region, very easy.

 This is the camping site from the top of a near-by hill where the swimming pool and showers were

 Camp site, the Alcaraz/Albacete crew:

 Creative cooking, since no fire is allowed electric grill works:

Kind of funny, is that a very compact Land Rover?

Very cool LR truck

A general view of the circuit:

I am in love, this thing is based on a Discovery 200 Tdi:

The truck doing it's thing rescuing its brother after braking the front drive shaft:

Here you can see Gus holding the broken part.

The Trophy competition was a lot of fun, following the Camel Trophy spirit, this first incline already broke the truck above:

And here it was a *very* close call, it almost tipped all the way down, rolling, a very scary moment that ended up in just that:

Check out the Defender on the background

Here they had to pass around a tire from the top vehicle to the bottom one and back.

Another view of the in-progress competition

Here, it has a spring...

 after the pool, no spring... TADAAAAA!!!

Fishing out the spring, although for now just an end cap for the rear fender

Look how the Disco II makes it look easy...

And this Defender, doing its thing too

Rangie wants a piece of the action

One of the pools

And now with a series...

This lightweight really enjoyed the other pool

Going up!

This was a very steep and loose trail up, it made for some spectacular pictures...