Just wanted to find out if there were any meets organised by the scottish members on here??

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I'd love to but unfortunately I'm not a full RR fledgling yet....hoping to be soon though.

Nevertheless, a wee feeler wouldn't go a miss. So anyone up for this, feel free to suggest dates, venue etc...

Tiko

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The Kielder Event in May is just south of the border (measured in yards not miles). A lot of guys and gals travel from Scotland for that - but the Disco's outnumber the Sports about 10 to 1 on these events. RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
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For the Scottish contingent I would be happy to arrange something - I had thought about a get together somewhere between Striling and Perth or even LRE Dunkeld, thing is LRE Dunkeld is going to cost at least £30 a head to do the offroad course in your own car and have guidance from their staff. There is the possibility of doing a summer drive in company which will only cost you a picnic and the fuel and might take in some very mild offroading. Somewhere like the roads that follow General Wade's Military roads from the Wallace Monument at Bridge of Allan round the Glens to Loch Tay then up to somewhere like House of Bruar north of Pitlochry, depends what the Scottish guys want and of course anybody else who might want to travel north or is coming north for their credit crisis busting holiday touring Scotland.
If there were to be a meet then it would have to be in July or August - even better for those for the south to came and join in as part of the school holidays!
Another possibility is to arrange something for the same weekend as the West Argyll 4x4 guys are doing their forest Drives in the Forests around Lochgilphead - this then allows some offroading on some of their non scratchy routes and to take in the Forest Roads which are gravel roads.
The problem with arranging anything in Scotland is that we have two distinct groups of members - those who live in the NE and those who live in/near to the Forth/Clyde valley/ Central belt and Ayrshire, and there is a huge distance between the two groups. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

The problem with arranging anything in Scotland is that we have two distinct groups of members - those who live in the NE and those who live in/near to the Forth/Clyde valley/ Central belt and Ayrshire, and there is a huge distance between the two groups.

Aye, and those of us that live a little further away too

Depending if I'm in Scotland I'm up for a meet  Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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Tim

July / August would be good as we are considering a credit tent crunching trip to your part of the world and being in the company of people who know the good runs would be very enjoyable, although only going on "non scratchy and 20" freindly tracks" keep me posted

Easter last year I went along a forestry track from Westerdale to Forsinain total distance is about 20 miles, not including the distance to get there... or back again
I uploaded the route file into my gallery http://www.rrsport.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=619 the route is for Google Earth starting at 58 26 45.71N / 3 29 25.01W and finishing at 58 24 42.2N / 3 52 40.62W
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leedsunited wrote:

although only going on "non scratchy and 20" freindly tracks" keep me posted

Very Annoyed wrote:

That looks grim!

That was easter last year, fantastic weather for March it's so windy up there that the trees darn't poke above the heather.
Until Fountain Forestry came along there were no trees growing there for about 6,000 years, now the RSPB own lots of it and will not allow any further expansion of the forestry. Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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