Annual meet review 2011

[meezermum]

Here are some photos of Simo nose-diving into a muddy patch on the first day of the annual meet.



He was winched out by a green oval. Oh the shame!!

[simo_d]

Yeah that's how not to do it

[Gem]

Just think , when that mud goes hard , the imprint of your fogs will be there for ever

Awsome weekend guys , got us hooked i think !!!

[colley]

Well i am back and unpacked
I have had a great weekend catching up with some old friends and making new ones
Here are a few picks i took Most of them are of people who got stuck Sorry






















And this is my v6 after 2 days of abuse This was her first outing and she performed brilliantly recovering many trucks and getting round most of the site without getting stuck once

[bward]

sorry i missed it catch you next time bward

[AskDean]

damb it look like you guys had a whale of a time i would of dragged the wife down if i had known about it sooner. as it would be nice to meet some other fronty owners

but found a local dissued old coal mine that is due for building on with some fun terrain that is more than interesting in nottingham so was not a total bust this weekend

have to come next year if were welcome

[fudge]

i had a wonderfull day
i have got some pic's, not too many. but will up load them in a mo

didnt break anything(that i have found yet) but did louse 5 out of the 6 hub bolts, driving down the a14, so i found out why i got a very strange wobble

[Trugga]

I'm back too. Fed, showered and feel much, much better, allthough still a little tired.

Echoing other comments, it was an absolutely fabulous weekend. When the sun was out (which was all four days) it was warm, but it was oh so cold at night (another sleeping bag to be sourced I guess).

It's going to take me a while to sort through the 925 photos I took, I just hope ther'es some "keepers".

Was great to see so many FOG members there - in my oppinion; Best FOG Meet to date.

Lawrence

[4x4 lou]

Hello everyone,

just letting you know me and Bobby are home and fed
Had a fantastic weekend, thanks to all that made it such a good'un

see you all soon

[glynn969]

been back a couple of hours , showered all the dust off , unpacked the fronty and settled down with a cold beer

it was my first get together with the FOG crowd , and i have to say it was brilliant ... everyone was friendly and never too busy to give advice or just have a chat ... the venue was brilliant , but i have to say that me , Wendy and Will are now totally hooked on laning

can't wait for the next get together

thanks to you all for making a great weekend ....

quote of the weekend has to go to Horses ...

" simmo .. if your axle comes off , can i have your caravan ?? "

priceless

[4x4 bobby]

As Lou has said were back and A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the FOG members that came and made it the fantastic weekend that FOG is renown for. It was great to put faces to names that i have spoken to on the site, pleased to meet you all.
I have taken some photo's but with being under ""a"" truck most of the time their more of the camping area than anywhere else. Will down load them later. Hope all get and got home safe.

All the best Bobster.

""FOG IS THE BEST FAMILY EVER""

[BoxCleva]

WOW! Cracking weekend. Awesome weather, great company and bucket loads of booze Oh and there was some Frontera related stuff as well

Firstly my personal thank you's.

Thank you to :

Andy/Steve for organising the event itself
Rob/Audra for the catering - The two of you worked really hard with assistance from (DJ) Ria
Lawrence for the welcome packs and no doubt superb photo's that will follow later
Tony (Meezermum) + his brother in law Steve for repairing the dash in my truck - superb 'in field' work there fella's I'm very grateful. Also to Jim for the loan of his SWR meter and Steve again for making me an earth strap. And finally a huge thanks to the whole 'Meezermum' clan for taking pity on some freezing cold campers and allowing my self and the kids to take refuge in your heated caravan awning on Sunday night. The kids are also very grateful for the toasted marshmallows
Jim + Jnr (Biffo) and Fatbaz for organising the laning trips on both Sat & Sun
'DJ Ria' for supplying the music on Friday night
Andy for not molesting my kids ( too much)
Simo for an awesome start to the weekend and something that will no doubt be talked about for many months to come.

And lastly to everyone who made my daughters soooo welcome and feel part of the weekend, it was very much appreciated!

Apologies go to:

To anyone I missed saying good bye or even hello to
Anyone I offended whilst under the influence
Anyone who saw me dancing or heard me singing


(I'm utterly shattered so if I have missed anyone off the above two lists I will add to them tomorrow when my brain is working and I feel semi human again!)















On the way out.


A rare one of Andy's truck actually running

James Bass on the course

Some random old fat bloke

Some random old fat bloke having a pee. Thanks Abby/Hattie

Me towing a Landy into the lane (honest )

Saturday's gate closer on the laning trip


Jase feeling the effects of the previous nights cider

Tony (Meezermum) doing a pirate impression

Me going through what looked like brown porridge in the woods



All nice and dirty



Rest of the pics can be found here >>>> http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g85/b ... ?start=all

[Wilberforce]

Well, me and Holly the Big Blue (or possibly Brown) Bus are home & showered fed n watered... Which is good.
Sadly it looks like I may be a late casualty of the event, as I was getting some very unpleasant noises from the O/S/F wheel, which leads me to suspect a brake problem... Which is not so good. Off to work on my bike tonight 'til I get the wheel off tomorrow for inspection. Annoyingly, it was fine all the way down, only developed as I was leaving the M3 to go the final mile home.

Anyhow, on a more pleasant note (and at the risk of repeating myself) I have had a bloomin' excellent weekend, thoroughly enjoyed myself, and got to meet a whole lot of new faces. Some thanks would seem to be in order then
To Andy, Ste, Jay, Rich & the mods team for running FOG, and generally making the whole weekend shooting match possible
To Rob & Audra for their excellent feeding of the five thousand (the peas & mint sauce - brilliant!!)
To Lawrence, Pete, Kel, and one or two others for their very specific help in rescuing a stranded Bus
To Stuart for organising some top laning, that was a lovely Sunday drive mate,

But mostly a huge thanks to everyone present for turning up, being friendly, and making for an excellent social scene meeting new people, and catching up with the usual suspects. Roll on next year, I say
Jim.

Oh, and one more thankyou - to Ria for her very sympathetic laughs and general mickey-taking when I got stuck in the pond

[BoxCleva]

Just found another pic from this morning. I won't put a caption with this one, I'll let you imagine

[jason]

Well what a cracking weekend
Thanks all,
I had a really good time,the only casualty was my tent this time,bloody pop up tents takes 5 minutes to put up and 1 hour to put down
Well me and Dan made it fit in the truck in the end

[James Bass]

Hi Guys.
Chel and I had one hell of an amazing weekend, and would like to thank everyone who was there, for making it so memorable.
Here are the pics Chel and I took.....

Simo stuck 10 minutes into day one...


Member's trucks...




http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af3 ... -00564.jpg



















Green laning...












If anyone would like to copy any of my pics for their own use, then please feel free to do so. I don't mind one bit.

[glynn969]

a fitting end to a good weekend

[robbie]

Had a great weekend and was nice to see every 1 face to face. Hope to make it to some more meets this year and a Big big thankx to every one involved in sorting this years events

[cheekychick]

Back home, had a brilliant time, thanks to everyone who made it such a fab weekend

[4x4 bobby]

Well here are some of the photo's i managed to take, I hope!!!!













Will post some more later!!!