Testing the Defender offroad

To get a better feeling my wife Doris and I took a 4 day offroad course in our blue Defender 110. With us was Sandra, the daughter of my sister in law, in a RangeRover.
We had great fun. See some of the pictures and videos.

The first 2 days (2001-03-31 and 2001-04-01) we had dry weather.
We started with simple things. No need to touch the accelerator :-)	RR has a nice axle articulation.	Just a little wet ground, not even noticeabe in the landrover. A jeep wrangler had to be pulled out!
Also no problem with the rangerover	Up and ..	.. down
looks harmless from outside but not from inside	again up	and down
Looks not driveable, even in a trecker..	..but we found out it is simple in a LR	This where about 10m height difference See also a short video (27MB)
On 2001-05-05 the ground were dry but on 2001-05-06 the ground were wet and slippery.
Preparing the RR..	..for greater fun	Doris also had much fun
Here comes the RR..	..and here the LR	The underside of a defender
The underside of a rangerover	Trying to flip a g-waggon	Changeing a tire without a high-lift
In the evening of the 3rd day the damper of the RR was broken	We got a "new" one overnight and started in time	We can't go up there by feet and it was not so easy by car
When stopping to look for the way I got a problem	The problem was solved by the winch of the g-waggon on the other side of the hill	Now we needed a short break
The defender tries the other hill	A muddy Florian and defender	For serious offroading the steps should be replaced with rock sliders

There is also a 5 minutes Video (64MB) showing a summary of the 4 days. Cut by Walter, the brother of Sandra.