A great day of driving and a pleasure to meet Damien, Alex, Mat and Tony!
It was always interesting to follow Alex and watch him put the Prado to the test by choosing the most difficult lines. That car can sure crawl through some terrain with its long-travel suspension and low gearing.
In the standard-height Forester I usually had to choose a much more cautious path! The Mountain Lagoon Fire Trail has certainly deteriorated since my trip up there nearly a year ago -
https://offroadsubarus.com/showthread.php?t=42.
Here are the vehicles at our quick stop at the BP servo on the way up to the Comleroy Road turn-off:
With Damien's Forester ahead in the distance, Alex guns the Prado through the first unavoidable obstacle on the Mountain Lagoon Fire Trail:
...and makes it through:
I approach the same bit of track, with Matt following:
...and also get through with the help of momentum, despite a lifted rear wheel:
Matt cruises through in the Pajero in 2wd:
On the now-infamous side track approach he found, Alex in the Prado:
...nearly there:
and done!
Of course my car needed a faster approach and a lot of right pedal to make it up this hill on the first attempt, as some of the pics earlier in this thread show...if you can see through the cloud of dust! I think my second attempt wasn't successful because the tyres had kicked up so much dirt (on the first attempt) that the diagonally opposite wheels were left with big holes to fall into. Damien's earlier photos (the non-dusty ones!) show the car stopped and opposite wheels at full compression and extension.
Thanks for a great day out guys!
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. Should get the soob back this arvo 
