Tuesday, Apr 05, 2016 at 06:50
Agree, if going one of the main lines end May / early April, you won't really be alone for long.
UHF comms are great, call every 3 or 4 dunes your line, direction, and distance from last
junction behind to let others know you're close.
Hopefully other vehicles will do the same or reply when they hear you (MANY don't).
For peace of mind / safety, hire a Sat phone at Mt Dare, drop off Birsdville, see the Mt Dare site for details, you can do it the other way if you change direction again.
Also agree East West seems a lot easier nowadays, going against the theory that the longer less steep western faces are easier to climb, but E-W isn't difficult with correct tyre pressures, and when you go down the undulating west slopes you are glad not to be going up them !!
Leaving the Simmo for the latter crossing does make it later in our time frame, which is good though, more vehicles around, less flies perhaps.
Do it solo if everything is right with your prep and confidence.
French Line is probably the most popular, but WAA is faster, less bad undulations as compared to French Line between Knolls and Rig going E-W (or vice versa), very slow that section.
We did a split group on July '15 crossing E-W and the WAA group beat us by hours from a mid Eranbena big group
camp, to our next night on FL just before entering Witjira NP.
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