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Crosieire Blanche

Grumbleweed

Grumbleweed

Trekker
Crosieire Blanche Well, it was a real good week. Sibbo and me convoyed up with savagefox for the Crosieire blanche- the drive down was interesting to say the least,
The camel (fox's truck) decided that it didn't want to go after getting to the channel tunnel and we spent the entire time on the train trying to get the starter solenoid to fire. Michael (fox's mate) bodged a wire onto it and into the ciggarette lighter to get a power source!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...blanche001.jpg

About 100 miles from Lyon, one of sibbos rear tyres blew out- amazing how we survived it really.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...blanche004.jpg

Getting there finally, there was lots of snow and it was mega chilly. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...blanche032.jpg

The camel went really well throughout the days and was IMHO driven exceptionally well throughout. It was such a shame that one small mistake led to the car being damaged. We were going down a very steep descent and the car hit a boulder, pulled over to the right and then unfortunately michael put the clutch in! AAAAAAGH!!

It could have happened to any of us really!!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...blanche083.jpg
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Still, the week was worth every penny. It was nice to practice my french speaking and beer drinking skills too!! We teamed up with a french 130- some points it was a struggle to winch it up slopes with sibbos rear winch!!!

Some photos of the best bits....

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...blanche069.jpg
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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...lanche019s.jpg
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