FollowupID: 373807 Submitted:
Sunday, Jul 03, 2005 at 17:04
Muddy 'doe (SA) posted:
Hiya Lucy!
At the risk of hijacking this thread, let me tell you about it.
It had been raining the week before we left and we were a bit apprehensive about what conditon we would find the track to be in. Our fears were groundless as by the time we did the track it was in beautiful condition. Smooth as could be expected apart from the sharp stones (which the ATR's handled no worries) with very little water lying around.
There was quite a bit of surface water beside the track on the flatter parts but the track itself was just that tiny bit moist enough to keep the dust down. Great travelling.
Of course there are always going to be a couple of boggy stretches and we found this one about 100km south of
William Creek. We had been going around most of them not wanting to do any more damage to track than required but sometimes you just have to go straight up the guts! A new rig pic was certainly the goal of the exercise.
The others (Brew and Pesty) went through and set up cameras and then I was on. I hit that sucker from a good 500m run-up at about 80 kmph and the mud certainly did fly! It WAS the only take. Pesty and Brew both had the cameras out and Pesty did just brilliantly to get the shot. I now have that shot as my wallpaper on the work computer so that I can look at it through the day to get me to 5pm.
Luckily we hit some heavy rain on the way back into
Adelaide which blasted most of the mud out of the undercarriage saving me a huge job. Still took a couple of hours to get it looking respectable again!
Glad you like the pic
Cheers
Muddy
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