Saturday, Jan 09, 2016 at 18:29
I read on a thread somewhere there were back up crew etc, Pat towed and not sure who carried their fuel.
We left BV with 205lt.
I would have to see his
track logs to believe he tracked East - West across the middle as it was shown on his Hema map a the start of Ep.1, and it showed them heading on to Geosurveys H, can't recall if direct, but think it was shown as that.
Then is no way he could have towed it, simply no way.
We followed up north a bit in the corridor, turned roughly where the OSM route was shown, and nothing.
We hunted a way over each dune, often the first vehicle might have got over, half the time the second, but the third had no hope, they have to go over a different spot.
The dunes are big, soft under the crust, break up very easy, then you have the unbelievably shocking 'mongulated' terrain between them.
If Pat got to the centre and the
hill, he would have gone right around via Madigan to each.
A resonably easy fairly distinct track down the the centre from Madigan, though we didn't go north more than about 5ks before heading west for the
hill, got within 6 or 7 km, and had to bail.
We had no idea if the OSM route that continued to Colson would be more of the same, we had reason to believe it would be, so it was the safe option to get out without risk.
Can't wait to do that again, know the best way to do it now with less risk, would still like to do the route from Hale River cross Colson, and to the
hill from the west, but we'll see if I have forgotten enough in a couple of years to try it again.
Heading west from top of Mirranponga Pongunna
Lake, we took 5 days to get through, north, west, north, and west to the centre, all on the OSM route following (once) shot lines . . . then the foray up the top attempt to Geosurveys, and bail out back to FL.
Day 1 - 54.4km 13-3/4 hrs
Day 2 - 63.5km 12 hrs
Day 3 - 62.8km 13-1/3 hrs
Day 4 - 69.7km 11-3/4 hrs
Day 5 - 80.4km 11-1/2 hrs
So. Slow. Very. Tiring. :)
Can't wait to try again :D
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