Green Lanes in the North York Moors?

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kayasaman

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Hi everyone,

I'm slowly putting together a trip together which will take me and my family round the UK and mainly the National Parks, provided my health improves (as I haven't been able to drive or even leave the house for over a year, but now at least thanks to new medication things might improve??).
The trip will probably be about a month or 2 journey depending how engulfed we get in things, and it will be a great precursor to getting more video camera/drone and Color Grading experience for a much longer trip round the globe possibly using a Patriot ST5 camper.

Last year I got to go up to Scotland for 2 weeks (cyan color going up and gray color coming back down - recorded on the Garmin 67i InReach) which was a lot of fun even though my 4 door sedan was seriously at a disadvantage on the trails around the Alladale reserve, I actually got pretty far after taking a wrong turn and getting lost. Infuriating though to have a blasted LandRover Discovery blow by me at 10MPH when I could only achieve around 2MPH on lowered sports suspension haha... I did get to drive the Defender 110 though which was the highlight of the 2 weeks I was up there....

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Once I grab the Gen6 4Runner build that I want they'll be sorry LOL (speed limit for their private tracks is actually 15MPH and I won't even need to lock the diff or unlock the front sway bars hahahahah), sadly no Baja style 40MPH dashes and getting airborne and reminiscing over the X Games MOTO-X style "big air".

Currently this is my plan - using Garmin Explore:

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Starting over at Whitby, I found this website which showed the Green Lanes around the area and has difficulty levels from "easy" to "moderate" to "hard":


There seems to be a trail going from Whitby area to Middlesbrough and rated at "moderate". Strangely the pictures I see are nothing more then a few offroaders and softroaders on gravel and dirt tracks and grass!

Has anyone done any of these trails and what is to be expected? I tried looking at the satellite view but didn't see anything special.....

I wonder would it be something like this which has a 7/10 difficulty rating using OnX:
Or perhaps this?:


Strangely I'm not really seeing anything pop up on Garmin Explore or Tread in terms of trails in that area - maybe they don't consider these "lanes" trails??


Thanks for any input :-)
 

kayasaman

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Loving your use of the Lexus on the green lanes
Haha... don't ask!

It is going to be swapped out with something more capable

Though crazy thing, be careful if traveling with a Pro Photographer!!
The deal was he flew up but gave me all his luggage and there nearly wasn't enough trunk space left for me....
 

kayasaman

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Kaya
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Loving your use of the Lexus on the green lanes
Ps. This is the 3-part playlist I made:


Luckily I have now understood color grading a bit better as I've been reworking my material

Really can't wait to drive out to Turkey and explore the rest of the country from Ankara/Antalya towards the east

Then hit central Asia through Armenia and Georgia, into Azarbaijan, across the Caspian Sea, then Khazakistan and towards Mongolia

Who knows I may even end up getting FPV drone footage at 150km/h around the Pamir mountains