Last December I participated to a local Dipped in Green weekend, organized by "Off roading extraordinaire" Adam Spiker (Offroving.com.) What an exhilarating blast that excursion was! The area is Wildomar OHV, near Lake Elsinore. Thought I'd share some pictures:
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Thanks again Adam, you run a classy outfit and I wish you all the success you deserve. If you are in Southern California I highly recommend the experience.

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fantastic pics - makes me even more eager to take the RRS offroad

GREAT PICS !  2006 RRS TDV6HSE java black/alpaca, Privacy, S/C Grille & Vents, debagded and rebagded, Stormers, Tasmod`s sills, RRSPORT umbrella and stickers
2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster

PS: All my spelling errorz are copyrighted!!
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great pictures, and looking at the number plate, now i understand on the RRS, the new black is white  yet another Pommie living in Sydney

2.7 RRS TDV6, Zermatt/Ebony moooo-hide, Clear pack, Cruise, Sunroof, tow pack, RPS, Tasmod Sills, RRS Umbrella, RRSPORT rear window sticker and last but not least a "Supercheap Auto" $20 cargo net "Marvellous"

I think he's a coffee importer too Zilch...................great pics Umberto

Like the fully tricked up one in the 2nd album - is it a Giverny Green? It's difficult to tell, but I think Bonatti Grey was darker. The Exped Roof Rack winch look good with Giverny Green! A Carbon Footprint is the mark a lump of coal makes when it's dropped on the ground.

Tata TDv8 HSE - Stornoway/ebony and straight grain walnut with towpack, Tasmods and an HST grille. Coming soon LEDs in the headlights
Staying - Epsom Green Defender 90 for playing off road

Nice pics, Umberto!! Great number plate too!  

I wish I could be in SoCal to join Adam on one of his excursions ...... nice weather for December, and great pics Umberto! SOMETIMES YOU'RE THE BUG AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE THE WINDSHIELD

2006 RRS TDv6 HSE, zermatt-ivory-rhodium with 19" alloys for winter, 20" for summer and stock grille, side vents...

The USA is weird place weatherwise at the moment.................. Midwest has disappeared under the biggest dumps of snow ever recorded and New Yorkers have been sunbathing on the beaches as it was 22C there at the weekend and the vendors sold out of ice-cream! Normally it's just hovering above freezing and damp and horrid there at this time of the year............... better not tell the folks over on the greenpeace forums, they'll blame it on 4x4 drivers.  A Carbon Footprint is the mark a lump of coal makes when it's dropped on the ground.

Tata TDv8 HSE - Stornoway/ebony and straight grain walnut with towpack, Tasmods and an HST grille. Coming soon LEDs in the headlights
Staying - Epsom Green Defender 90 for playing off road

You should see the weather in January... We are in the middle of a heat wave, no rain in sight, 85 degrees F and warm Santa Ana winds! Some mansions in Malibu went up in smoke last night because of it.

Tim, Adam's Sport is indeed Giverny Green. He was running stock Conti tires on his rig the entire day to prove a point (that the stockers are quite capable off road), although he is wearing 18s as you can see. His Sport has been in far more challenging places than this one of course (he was the guy doing incredible things in Moab, Utah, earlier last year) and if you are going to learn about offroading, this is the guy you want to learn from. 

Tim in Scotland wrote:

The USA is weird place weatherwise at the moment.................. Midwest has disappeared under the biggest dumps of snow ever recorded and New Yorkers have been sunbathing on the beaches as it was 22C there at the weekend and the vendors sold out of ice-cream! Normally it's just hovering above freezing and damp and horrid there at this time of the year............... better not tell the folks over on the greenpeace forums, they'll blame it on 4x4 drivers.

Anybody for a group meet in California for a spot of offroading with Adam? A Carbon Footprint is the mark a lump of coal makes when it's dropped on the ground.

Tata TDv8 HSE - Stornoway/ebony and straight grain walnut with towpack, Tasmods and an HST grille. Coming soon LEDs in the headlights
Staying - Epsom Green Defender 90 for playing off road

I'm on the next plane (and someone will need to lend me their RRS, of course) 

shmoogle wrote:

...and not just the USA either, a colleague of mine came back from Xmas in Abu Dhabi yesterday and apparently had similar weather to here - cold and rainy.... by all accounts, should have been sunny and a good 15C warmer.

BTW Umberto....Nice wheels! Those must be your MTR's I can see why you took the cargraphics off  2006 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE, Java/Ebony/Cherry, Privacy, Sunroof, PTI, Premium Sound, SatNav, Cold Climate, Tow kit, CarStyle coded grill and vents, Tasmods, Stormers, JE Exhaust, Autobiography badge

No MTRs here... Those are 18s (Pathifinder ATs by a local tyre chain called America's Tire, they are cheap rubbers but they do a good job O/R and are very quiet on pavement.) In the picture below the wheels were so wedged and squeezed into that rut, that as I stopped it looked as if the left front tire was completely flat. I had to get out of the car to check it out for myself! I wonder what would have happened to a 20" stock rim, let alone my Cargraphics.

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