Back from Simpson

Both top of the range trailers a Trak Shack and an Ultimate.
QWe came across a group of 18 from Lightning Ridge one of whom was driving a huge motorhome which got stuck repeatedly by all accounts. I'm sure Roachie will give a better assesmnet when he returns, from what I saw a well set up trailer, driven carefully causes far less damage than idiots who don't air down their tyres.

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from what I saw a well set up trailer, driven carefully causes far less damage than idiots who don't air down their tyres.

Yeah , funny about that.

Just out of curiosity how much does your average camper weigh?
Cheers
Greg

The dunes were very easy last week, and week before, we did K1 to poeppels, into Birdville, where 2 of our cabins were let go to a tour group..... I took 9 other cars with me from LCOOL.org before going back to peoppels well, beachcomber 1 & 2, madigans camp 16, 15 and 14, cross country back to the hay river, then we camped with a water view at lake Caroline, then 2 days at Lindsay Bookies Batton hill camp, which we drove the actual river bed for the 150 odd km, rather than the track beside it, and on the k1, and qaa, cresting the dunes, in 2wd, 3rd high, jogging pace, no wheelspin, and no front tyres pushing when turning made for a great trip.

Saw 3 trailer towers having numourous goes at dunes, with 20+ psi in the tyres, and one group got annoyed when we drove around them after the first car had 3 unsuccessful attempts.....

Hi Go-off,

just reading Madigans book now. How many of his camps are still identifiable these days? (sorry for slightly off-topic)

Just look for the yellow painted star posts with the little plaques on them ;-)

Hi AVA-191,

I did the Madigan Line last year and went to camps 14,15,16 again this year.

All the camps were sigposted with star Droppers in 1994 by David Owen. He provided the info on the Hema maps. All the posts were resprayed yellow last year.

Camps 3,4 and 5 are are usually inaccessable (permits from CLC) and camps 18,19 are in the Simpson Desert Nat Park on the Qld side, and they don't give out permissions.

Madigan's book is a great read - comes to life when you do the trip.

Cheers
phil

The track from Dalhousie to Perdika was very corrugated in places, no problem with water or mud anywhere. A great run through Hamilton and Mt Sarah, it was very smooth.