Well we all arrived at Gladfield meeting point on Saturday morning in the pouring rain and looked at each other and said "What the hell are we all doing here in this weather". Someone reckoned the rain was due to clear by lunchtime so we all proceeded to Janowen to set up camp.

It didn't stop raining! It rained all day saturday and all night. Andrew and I at least stayed dry by setting up camp inside the kitchen shed for the night. Everyone else battled the rain and mud to set up tents and caravans. Wayne did the most four wheel driving for the whole weekend by nearly getting stuck in the carpark trying to park the caravan.

After setting up camp and several hot coffees later we resigned to the weather and setup in the shed for some training and discussion on tyre plugging and general tyre changing and repairs. A small break in the weather allowed us to go out onto a patch of grass and learn about using a turfer which Wayne had packed in the back of his car for the last 7 years and still didn't know how to use.

The next morning saw a break in the weather but the park was too wet to drive on so we found a bit of flat grass again and ran everyone's winch cables out and rewound them and discussed winching in general.

Summing up it was a cold, wet, miserable weekend of camping with no fun driving in the mud, but we had plenty of informative discussions covering all subjects in the training and I'm sure everyone learnt something from it all. Thanks to Peter for arranging the weekend.

Mark