One of the guys had us up to his cottage for the weekend in Dorset. It was a great weekend and we got to wheel local trails there with a great variety of vehicles. The best part was that the trail head to a network of trails you could spend a weekend on is only like 700ft from the cottage.

We had a nice mix of vehicles including:

- Series III Land Rover
- Xterra with me riding shotgun (left my rig home due to front end probs again :-(
- Jeep YJ
- Pathfinder
- 8-wheel Argo (scouting rig :-)

It was a great muddy day of wheeling on Saturday seeing how each different vehicle performed. EVERY one of them got stuck MANY times and every single truck got a chance to pull every other truck out of stucks more than once. Even the Argo got stuck!

Some interesting stats:
-> time away from cottage 11:00am - 9:30pm
-> actual time stopped (as per gps) for recoveries = 5.5hrs (includes 10 minutes for lunch which the mosquitos enjoyed)
-> time to retrace the route completely in the Argo at the end = 45 minutes

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Our mascot was Skipper the Wonder Dog!