Friday, Oct 10, 2014 at 18:11
Although I would generally have preferred not to take the CT we had to it because my wife has a disability which prevents her from crawling into a tent.
If you have a
well built off road camper and drive properly you will not break it. I did not get bogged once, nor did it prevent me from going off the track to the many unbelievable sites including Diebel Hills etc.
We were 23 days on the track which I feel is a minimum if you are going to explore it properly.
It all depends on how you drive and be realistic about tyre pressures. I did most of the trip in high range with the exception of the steepest dunes which I determined beforehand required a little lower gearing.
The corrugations were dreadful but if I had to sit on 40km/hr then that's what I did and no breakages were experienced.
I think that just as much (if not more) damage is done to the track by not letting tyres down and far too much right foot being used by inexperienced drivers, which I witnessed this first hand with a couple of F250's having trouble getting over a dune which I just sailed over.
At the risk of being criticized we also did wells 2-5 with the CT because heavy rain had made the alternatives a dubious prospect, and the vehicle we were travelling with had some fairly major mechanical problems requiring the quickest and driest route out.
Although I am not generally a law breaker, I really wonder what all the fuss is about. Apart from the before mentioned couple of steep creek crossings (which presented no problems) it was hard and dry and comparatively quite easy going. We certainly did no damage to the track.
Neil
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