whitelaning trip with the BBC

[the loon]

Been out today with Disco gerordie (Neil) and done the grass hills causeway but also had a nice lady along from the BBC taking some footage.

Took her out and managed to get from one end of grasshills to the other but was going to come back along from the other end and ran into a few problems. The snow had driffed across  the lane and the drifts had partialy frozzen.
Neil got stuck so decided that should use discretion and turn back to use the roads rather than the lane.

The journo was really possative about the whole day and has promised to furnish me with a copy of her tape.
The footage shes shot unfortunatly though may never make it to air.
The purpose of her being out was to shoot some training film.as she is starting a "one person film unit" with in the BEEB.
this entales her shooting the footage and doing all the sound,editing etc.
The film may make it to air but will mostly be used as stock footage.
We took GREAT care not to go hairing around the countryside and she was asking some good questions about NERC etc and she seems to have been very happy with the day.
She asked some informed questions and sounded like she had done a fair bit of reseach into what was going on and issues effecting us all.

her parting coment was that it wasnt what she had been expecting at all.
I think this was a lot to do with the fact that SWMBO had a drive and we had 3 young kids in the back of our car and DG had slightly older kids with him

DG's already got his photos added to gallery and mine will follow soon
All in all felt today has been good publicity not only for responcible off roading but for MC and other groups as well

[Disco Geordie]

=D>  =D>  =D>

I'll second that was a very positive day.

For more info on the Grasshills causeway see.

http://www.glass-uk.org/pages/contacts/glass/areas/North_East/County_Durham/index.htm

Very good day all round and to add to the positive light even assisted a couple of stranded motorists  :lol:

[Edge]

Great pics, sounds like you had a great day :D .

[the loon]

a few pictures here now

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/landyloony/gallery/grasshilscauseway/0

they missed out the
"if your driving a" bit on the road sign

[muddyjames]

your other thread just disapeared. canyou type it again in here please :)

[mud-club-matty]

wot were the bbc in

[Disco Geordie]

have recovered it and re posted  :lol:

[the loon]

wot were the bbc in

Single reporter. DShe rode in with me and had a bit of a go in DG's jumpseat but she didnt look to comfortable in there

[tenpolequint]

Thank goodness you didn't go tearing around. Call me paranoid, but I would not have trusted the press what with the popularity of anti 4x4. They might have been fishing for an anti 4x4 story.

[muddyjames]

I would have welcomed them on board no probs to just prove how responsible we are.

[Disco Geordie]

I would have welcomed them on board no probs to just prove how responsible we are.

And thats exactly what we did :lol:

[muddyjames]

of course. I wouldnt have expected ant MC member to have done anything else! :lol:

[the loon]

Thank goodness you didn't go tearing around. Call me paranoid, but I would not have trusted the press what with the popularity of anti 4x4. They might have been fishing for an anti 4x4 story.

I'm of the opinion we need to get the press on board.
We cant just keep hiding because we dont want to risk them making an anti 4x4 story.
We need to get them out with us and let them see how responsible offroad drives act.
If they come out with us and see our driving on lanes within guidelines such as those set out by GLASS they cant twist the story to suit them.
There are however always going to be the members of the press or any group against us who will try and twist things to suit them e.g. as we have seen before using pay and play sight photos and sighting them as antisocial 4x4 drivers destroying the countryside.
I would rather see the good in the person before the bad as I think we need to make our voice heard not only through GLASS etc but as individuals who have a shared intrest in the countryside as a whole

[Disco Geordie]

Thank goodness you didn't go tearing around. Call me paranoid, but I would not have trusted the press what with the popularity of anti 4x4. They might have been fishing for an anti 4x4 story.

I'm of the opinion we need to get the press on board.
We cant just keep hiding because we dont want to risk them making an anti 4x4 story.
We need to get them out with us and let them see how responsible offroad drives act.
If they come out with us and see our driving on lanes within guidelines such as those set out by GLASS they cant twist the story to suit them.
There are however always going to be the members of the press or any group against us who will try and twist things to suit them e.g. as we have seen before using pay and play sight photos and sighting them as antisocial 4x4 drivers destroying the countryside.
I would rather see the good in the person before the bad as I think we need to make our voice heard not only through GLASS etc but as individuals who have a shared intrest in the countryside as a whole

well said that Loon