salisbury plain piccys

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lifechooser said:
On the video of us doing a bypass as the ford, I got the following comment;



I was at the back of the group at this point, and assumed that as everyone went round, and the leader had told us not to go off piste anywhere, that there was a good reason for the detour. Was there? I've taken the video down temporarily, and will delete it if we had no reason to go through the river.
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Im sure that there was a big tree that had fallen in the way for the normal route and thats why we went round it................. I just followed the crowd to, Im still very new to this game as well?
 
caterpillar95 said:
Hey!

Looks like you had a good run together :D
with snow and ice looks like the ice caused a few problems!

Do any of you cover your radiators to keep the fins clean and the heater hot?

I coming down on the 30th with muddy wheeler and a couple of others for another trip around it takes us 3 hours to get down there, did you go bulford camp side?

Cat95
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yeah i had a metal plate that slotted behind the rad grill it worked a treat all day heater lovely anmd hot :D. but think i should have took it out before driving back down the A303 :doh: nearly cooked the old girl
 
Or don't drive into in the first place? And if you've driven into an icy pool at Fox Covert (Daft's nemesis) don't go back for another go to churn it up? Controversial mebbe? But the Plain isn't a pay and play site.
 
No idea which group was which.
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wiltshire landyman said:
so whats up wiv it?
and it is a byway anyway...
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Not disputing the right to be there, just going back for another go on a byway accelerates damage. The lane past Fox Covert drop zone in the two dips has been deeply scarred with multiple tracks in the past 5 years by folk using it as an impromptu P&P.

Its possible to drive along the lane without going through the troughs; many folk drive through which is their legal right, but to go for another go changes the activity from laning to off roading which has no place on a byway.
 
Widget said:
No idea which group was which.
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for a start that aint fox covert or dafts hole its the valley before (coming in from the sherwton B390 road) as to having another go at it the disco in there was the only landy to go in there so cant think where you get the idea it was an improptue p&p
a couple of weeks before i was talking to a range warden @ the entrance to that byway on the B390 and he seemed to have no issues with us going through those water holes at all (be differant if we were riding ruff shot over the plains wherever we pleased as i have seen a few numptys do) :mad:
 
buckshot said:
for a start that aint fox covert or dafts hole its the valley before (coming in from the sherwton B390 road) as to having another go at it the disco in there was the only landy to go in there so cant think where you get the idea it was an improptue p&p
a couple of weeks before i was talking to a range warden @ the entrance to that byway on the B390 and he seemed to have no issues with us going through those water holes at all (be differant if we were riding ruff shot over the plains wherever we pleased as i have seen a few numptys do) :mad:
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Those trees top left is the Fox Covert and we're both referring to the same area whatever its called.:)

For clarity, I said that groups have been P&Ping there, increasingly over the past few years by taking multiple runs through the soft ground and cutting it up.

It's a right to drive the byway there, the range warden would have no reason to dispute the right to do so. However I think that it's a matter of personal discretion if its cut up already and there is a less damaging alternative route i.e. one that it is sympathetic to the tread lightly principles. They're a set of principles I use as a guide for greenlaning and I try my best to stick to them.

Anyway, that's not the main point, which is that going back for another go changes the nature of the activity from laning to off roading in my view. I drove through there last Sunday as well, and there were multiple tracks where vehicles had driven through, turned around and gone back through, many of the tracks were from the day before and visible in the photo. That's all.
 
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