16th March 2009, 00:03
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| BHPian  Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Republic of MACEDONIA
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16th March 2009, 08:12
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| Senior - BHPian  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Greater Chennai
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16th March 2009, 09:56
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| Team-BHP Support   | More pics: Top part of the pic shows the start point of this patch and........  What more was to be covered  Dip down into the water and then a 2nd low full throttle climb back up  Jeep keeping her cool. This was at the end of the session  A must-have for every offroader  Quick pitstop at McD's  Ferrari F430 being high-revved  Quote:
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16th March 2009, 11:34
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16th March 2009, 12:39
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16th March 2009, 12:55
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16th March 2009, 13:17
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| BHPian | Report : Fun to the Core After a late crazy Saturday night, waking up at 5 on a Sunday morning after only two hours of sleep was never so easy. All that kept buzzing through my head was “Mumbai’s first recce”. I was awake on time (thank God for that) and at the meeting spot only to be greeted by ours truly Gto and Aditya waiting there for me, not that I was late. Me think they were early. A brief look at each others vehicle under the dimming moonlight, handing over walkie talkies and we were off in search of impossible terrain to conquer I must admit as we were cruising down the expressway, me following the classic in my defender, I really doubted the classic capabilities off the road, probably since I was never exposed to this particular jeep before and also looking at its A/T Michelin tires( and boy was I wrong, and How We finally reach lonavala only to realize that we don’t know where the rajmachi trail is, this being due to the fact that the person who knew where it was, was tucked in bed dreaming of his previous nights rendezvous’ But hey, you can always ask for directions, so we finally got there to the trail that leads to the rajmachi gaon. Our plan being to find and create a new trail around, so that during non monsoon periods we still have a play spot. We did find some really good spots on and off with really good climbs and descends and high skill levels. The terrain we conquered here was basically loose gravel and dry grass so traction was really an issue with both vehicles struggling for grip but never really stuck, we fought are way through assisted by our vehicles never giving up on us dry grass on a steep incline   We finally get out of rajmachi and Mr. GTO with his brilliant navigational skills drives around al the back roads finaly finding this beautiful spot  we approached this spot from across where the dam can is It was heaven to our eyes From Far it seemed like easy slopes and a lot of plain areas but once we reached there we found otherwise I must say “ I have never done such over the edge offroading everAnd quite literally Loose gravel, added to that my heavy defender and I remember going across a slope sideways I felt my car sliding down , but I just kept the momentum going and got her through. The classic I must add went smoothly through that section The worst part was that we had no room for error, a small mistake on our part or our cars, meant a topple into the very deep water body, or a straight drop But at the end whatever we saw we conquered and with style. We were successful in discovering a beautiful place for our passion. About this track during the monsoons, I have my doubts cause it might be down right suicide, but you never know. The classic was very impressive. A beautiful looking machine with brilliant offroad capabilities. To add to that a very skilled driver behind the wheel. She went across killer terrain and with a lot of finesse. the small stream was very tricky real slippery but on the other side was a 50 degree incline with real loose gravel and rocks. If we lost traction meant a straigth skid down into the deep side of the stream before attempting to cross it, Mr Gto lights up a marlboro and waits, tense ha?  he crosses it slightly struggling for traction on the incline but sails through  then the steep ascend, note aditya putting rocks behing the wheels to prevent skidding cause we could not afford to drift back wards     [finally on the top, terrain conqurered    the view on the other side, next time we go down from here. Gto this picture is for you(remember)   but what goes up must come down Aditya viewing our option  finally the descend  a brlliant time. the Shaadi.com picture  Gto next time I shall carry three towing ropes, once for every time you ask me if I have one . Im glad we never had to use them thoughAditya thanks for guiding us through the tricky terrain Thanks to our machines for being there when we needed them the most and never letting us down Oh by the way all chikki shops in lonavala were closed on account of holi  A beautiful Sunday, offroading, eating, go-karting, beautiful machines and a successful recce |
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16th March 2009, 13:17
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| Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mumbai
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16th March 2009, 13:28
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16th March 2009, 13:44
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| Distinguished - BHPian   | Hey GTO, Allan, Addy: Did you folks try/attempt this path: shown with red arrows? Can't fully make out from pictures if this is doable or not, but looks very very tempting.  |
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16th March 2009, 14:04
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16th March 2009, 14:18
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| Nice pictures, both the cars look awesome and a glorious way to spend a sunday |
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16th March 2009, 14:35
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| BHPian  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: MH 01 i.e.BOMBAY not mumbai
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