SOMETIMES you can fall into using clichés when writing about greenlanes. Not every lane can be superb, offer challenging driving or have spectacular views – though it would be great if they could.
Instead, many are just simple roads that take you from A to B, roads that didn’t warrant the expenditure to gain a tarmac coating. Those are the greenlanes that most of us enjoy on our travels, but sometimes it’s worth making a trip for the superb, challenging and spectacular ones – and that’s what we’re doing in this issue of Land Rover Monthly. We’re crossing Cumbria on some of the best greenlanes in the county; arguably some of the best in the country.
We’re in three Land Rovers: Russ Dykes is leading in his much-travelled Discovery 2; Richard Canterbury is in his own, fabulously rebuilt Discovery 2 and Larry Leong, Simone Chan and daughter Lucy Leong are aboard a Defender 90.
Russ has been in the mag loads over the years, and we featured Richard’s Disco 2 in our July 2023 issue. Enthusiasts will know Larry from his role on the Last Overland trip, where he was part of the team retracing the route of the
