Saturday 23rd June - Newnes

[Ryzz Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryzz]

Normally when it is snowing, I am on a snowboard not it a 4wd, this should be an interesting change. Last time we were at Newnes, all the puddles had thick ice on top in the morning, now we wont see the puddles

Ryzz, still up for the climb in snow?

Sure, I'm stupid if your game!

I don't think it's going to be that cold, according to the bom it's only getting to zero.the other week it was minus 4 deg. should be fun regardless

[DGW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DGW]

Another fun filled day.

To begin the report, a question. Was Max testing the flex on his 150 or the ability of his underwear to hide stains?

[Jeffers Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jeffers]

Great photos... You guys have BIG kahooners!!

I know what colour my underwear would be.

Cheers,

Jeff

[Ryzz Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryzz]

Great photos... You guys have BIG kahooners!!

I know what colour my underwear would be.

Cheers,

Jeff

I think we all know what colour Max's underwear was

[Max Member Find all posts View Profile Close Max]

Another fun filled day.

To begin the report, a question. Was Max testing the flex on his 150 or the ability of his underwear to hide stains?

It was clearly a very well executed experiment to prove that it's not easy to roll a 150

I think we all know what colour Max's underwear was

Let it be known that I did ask Ryzz politely to stop sniffing my ar$e. Any repeat of said behaviour next time I won't be pulling your wife's Prado out of the mud.

Jokes aside, thanks guys for helping me out of a sticky situation.

Had a great day and look forward to getting out and dirty again soon.

[Steve M Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Steve M]

Shit that looks very close to going over ??? what happened there ??? Hope there's a video of it ?? Glad to hear you got out of it ok with no personal injuries or damage to the prado..........Certainly looks like a pretty hairy situation....Cheers Steve

[Steve M Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Steve M]

Yeah I'm with Jeff's comment on this one lol.........Cheers Steve

[Max Member Find all posts View Profile Close Max]

Shit that looks very close to going over ??? what happened there ??? Hope there's a video of it ?? Glad to hear you got out of it ok with no personal injuries or damage to the prado..........Certainly looks like a pretty hairy situation....Cheers Steve

Silly mistake and misjudged the line by about 6 inches. Apparently there was video taken and I'm pretty keen to see it.

Looks worse from the back, there's a decent wall on the left so it wasn't going very far if it did go over.

[DGW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DGW]

Nothing serious went wrong, Max is part of the Toyota test team. Gave us some excitement to start the day and to use some team work to work out the safest way to get out, which was to keep driving with support of a winch and a strap attached to the chassis. Just went to show how much difference a couple inches makes, maybe the wife is right.

After the early excitement we continued on and went exploring, found a few fun spots that we hadn’t visited before. All was going well and we were about to head to the Lost City for lunch when we had a slight problem with a tyre and found that running 0 PSI is a little low for driving. Bit of fun changing a tyre in the mud on the side of the road and we headed off for the Lost City.
Plenty of water and a more fun we arrived at the Lost City car park for lunch and at a balmy 3 degrees, any spot in the sun was appreciated. We tried to reseat the tyre suffering pressure issues and eventually decided to 4wding was more fun and headed off.
The drive back out took a different route which had a few challenges that we all enjoyed and showed again, a couple inches makes a big difference in achieving a enjoyable result.

After eventually getting back to the main road, someone decided that we should head back along the powerlines, which again required team work, this time to get Ryzz back out. It seemed like a good idea but a slip on a slippery bank put a good side lean on the Prado, while not as impressive as Max earlier, still could have gone bad. After some discussion and winching, all was good again and we headed back to the car park as the sun rapidly dropped to pump the tyres back up and I found an issue with my compressor. We did catch up with the rest of the group from the days trip and had a quick catch up while preparing for the drive home.

Thanks to Ryzz, Max and Braddo for a great day again and there was a comment from my passenger on the way home, about a winch may be a very handy thing to have...........

[Wazza2 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Wazza2]

Wow, that puts my effort to shame. I went for a little 3 wheelin dropping into diff breaker a tad quick about a month ago. No one had the camera rooling at the time and there was no way i was pausing for a pic. Reckon i had 2/3 of the tilt angle that you managed. You definitely win Max!

Bring on the vid and more pics

[mastermanoj Member Find all posts View Profile Close mastermanoj]

Woohoo, can't wait!!

For those that find one day just isn't enough, or enjoy an awesome camp fire in cold weather... from Newnes I'll be heading to Lidsdale SF/Marangaroo NP for an overnight camp by the Cox's River. Then an attempt of Mt Walker on Sunday Last time I was there, the mountain won

camping in the winter .....sounds fun ........regret that i missed on this one .........will be ready for the next one if anything turns up again

[GH4wd Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close GH4wd]

Another fun filled day.

To begin the report, a question. Was Max testing the flex on his 150 or the ability of his underwear to hide stains?

wow great photo

looks like the descent into Happy Valley ?

[Ryzz Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryzz]

Here is the video we have all been waiting for!!! As mentioned Max was trying out for the Pradopoint Stunt Team when he attempted this trick!

Ill post footage later of the rescue attempt by DGW and myself using a winch and winch extension strap when i have edited all the footage.

[DGW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DGW]

Yes, we laughed about it after Max got to the bottom but it scared all of us and we can only imagine what Max was thinking.

[Ryzz Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryzz]

Yes, we laughed about it after Max got to the bottom but it scared all of us and we can only imagine what Max was thinking.

I doubt I could loop back to the top where Mac was that quickly again. Poor Simon sat white knuckled while I drove the poor wheels off the Prado trying to get back to the top as quick as possible. All I could think off was poor Max sitting there scared as! thankfully the only thing hurt was a little pride!