Conversation turns to Smores and Hot Cider, the campfire gets bigger, temps continue to drop and the snow piles up. Throw another log on the fire; this is the perfect time to begin our discussion about whether to run snow chains.

All snow might look alike but snow comes in many forms: wet and slushy, dry and powdery, deep, shallow, crystalline, large flakes, small pop-corn and all in between. Don’t let folks fool you into thinking there is only one way to drive in snow (actually there is – carefully – but that is a given).

Most Rally reports share the same themes: The off-roading was fun, the camaraderie felt amazing and the event organizers and volunteers did a great job. All that was certainly true of this event, so to offer a new perspective I interviewed two typical Land Rover characters whose unique stories illustrate what makes the Land Rover community so extraordinary.

text: Alexandra Sailer photos: Sailer Images (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer) [Steffan and Alexandra Sailer, Metzingen, Germany, continue their travels by Land Rover around the world. We join them in the Australian rain forests –ed] To nature photographers like us, nothing compares with the vibrant colours and unique fauna and flora of the tropical rain forest. [...]

text & photo by: Nick Brenckle [Nick Brenckle lives in New Branford, CT, with his wife Dana and Brodie, the dog. Nick decided to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Range Rover by picking up a Range Rover project car. Here’s his first impression. –ed.] Some might say it’s a good thing having a certified [...]

text: Jeffrey Aronson / photos: Land Rover Media “By Land Rover out of Rover—the most versatile motor car in the world,” proclaimed the first sales brochure for the Range Rover in 1970. “The interfusing of Rover car comfort with Land-Rover strength and four-wheel drive mobility has resulted in a vehicle that is really four vehicles [...]

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Range Rover, we also mourn the passing of its principal engineer, Charles Spencer King, at age 85. He died on June 26, in Coventry, England, the result of an accident while bicycling near his home in Cubbington. “Spen” King harkened back to a time when the Rover [...]

text & photos: Raymond Greaves [Raymond Greaves and his girlfriend Nereide left London in January for a six month drive to Cape Town, South Africa, in their 2004 Range Rover. Here’s the first part of his remarkable story. –ed.] Two years ago my work in investment banking took me to various power and renewable energy [...]

text: Taylor Congleton photos: Bend Edmonson www.tellurideweddingimages.com www.benedmonson.com www.livesimple.me [Taylor Congleton owns and operates T. Congleton Rovers, a full service Land Rover shop, and Overland Corrosion Protection, a Waxoyl protection service for all vehicles, in Westford, VT. Taylor also serves as the Field Technician for Rovers North Fleet Sales –ed.] The telephone call didn’t need [...]