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Originally Posted by khan_sultan

Great. . Vikram, bring the Gypsy man. You have enough time to prepare/service it -- if required

Gypsy is Rockin and in form. But is the 540 that i wanna bring along.

Plus my current experimental mods are in the 540! Anyways will decide in the end.

Its sad with the recession in the Industry hitting us too!

[Sha]

posting some more OTR Photos.

[Sha]

Adding more OTR photos.





















Next posting will have extreme off-roading photos.

[khan_sultan]

@shakir, the terrain looks nice man. A great place to be.

A question: how long was the 'true off-roading' part of this terrain? And how long were the dirt tracks. Apart from pictures do post some details also, as that would be very useful for our understanding.

[Sha]

Originally Posted by khan_sultan

@shakir, the terrain looks nice man. A great place to be.

A question: how long was the 'true off-roading' part of this terrain? And how long were the dirt tracks. Apart from pictures do post some details also, as that would be very useful for our understanding.

khan terrain had everything slush, narrow lane, steep moutain climb, stream crossing, loose soil, steep incline,rock crawling, etc. every jeep was tested here tested here.
I am not good OTR writer as Mjothi sir, I thought somebody will start writing it up report but i will try put in roughly.
OTR started at 10.30am from mattupetty dam, the route munnar->mattupetty dam->echo station->top station. this is normal route from top station we had taken route to vatavatra(cannot prounce it), from here actual OTR start.
the terrain is about 25-30 Kms we could have done more but 2 jeeps had problems so we have to cut our route. Good thing about organizer team they had three mechanics with them to repair it there itself.
Check out next set of photos will post in 1hr,

[raj_5004]

were all the jeeps 4WD? what about the bolero in the first pic?

[Sha]

Originally Posted by raj_5004

were all the jeeps 4WD? what about the bolero in the first pic?

I have no information about Bolero jeep, my friend told me it had no 4WD and it was pulled back and parked there itself.
All jeeper had 4WD other than Bolero. without 4WD that terrain cannot be done.

[Sha]

extreme trail starts from here



narrow trail extreme difficult one. from the photo you can judge it, Lancruiser has crossed this trail.




All jeeps assembling for next section which is mountain climbing.

[Sha]

Mountain climbing photos, from the photos you can see we have to climb the mountain. one jeep could not climb due to some mechanical reason and had to be parked there itself.















My gypsy photos with one wheel on air.





Mountain trail where one of the jeep had problem.



photos will never tell how actual the terrain was difficult. off-roader will enjoy this terrain.

[mjothi]

Originally Posted by Sha

I am not good OTR writer as Mjothi sir, I thought somebody will start writing it up report but i will try put in roughly.

You think you are young? Or I look older

Jokes apart.

Man, thats a deadly trail. And many many thanks for bringing it to your eyes with those pics.

[randeep04]

Amazing pics, seems you guys rocked every bit of the trail.

I love the pic in which the maroon Bolero is going through the slush. The pic is just fabulous.

Lets see some more guys. Please post.

Cheers!!!!!!!

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by randeep04

I love the pic in which the maroon Bolero is going through the slush. The pic is just fabulous.

That's why we say offroading photos can be misleading. Didn't he say earlier that the Bolero was a 2WD and was parked almost at the start?

[vinaydas]

offroaders dream i may say.. any accidents on the trip?(hope not) i mean damage to vehicles/puncture if there were any were the mechanics able to fix em etc
now we all know why toyota named him Land Cruiser!! a hell of a vehicle

[deepgautam_qa]

Splendid terrain and awesome pictures...I've been watching with my mouth open!

Cheers!!!

[Sha]

Originally Posted by vinaydas

offroaders dream i may say.. any accidents on the trip?(hope not) i mean damage to vehicles/puncture if there were any were the mechanics able to fix em etc
now we all know why toyota named him Land Cruiser!! a hell of a vehicle

No accidents. two jeeps fuel tank got busted and one of the jeep fan belt got broken. mechanics repaired the jeeps on the trail itself.
Internet is slow otherwise I have uploaded more photos.