The Pinjar Night Run, WA.

If you have never done it the Pinjar Power station Night run is not a bad trip to do on a quiet night.

You just turn off Gnangara road into the Dirt bike aria. Then turn right throe the sand till you get over to the huge 33000Volt power lines and just follow the track basically the hole way.

There are 3 detours where you need to find you way around 2 fences and a concrete barrier blocking the track, and at times there can be 3 tracks that all head roughly the same way. We veered off and followed the smaller powerlines once or 2wice and had backtrack to get back onto the right track once (Following the track that follows the 33000volt line is the best bet)

The track is fairly easy and is rutted in placers, we got thrown around a bit sometimes, as at night you know how you tend to misjudge things like umm.. How fast you are going and track condition.

I also got some bad advice that it was OK to do this track at full road pressure (For me that’s 42Psi), which probably contributed to us being throe around more, and more speed and right boot input was used than if we were at a at a lower pressure.

The false tyre pressure advice also meant I did not brig the Air compressor along witch resalted in us getting bogged about 2.5k’s from the end. On a sandy slope after I misjudged how soft the sand was, we got over half way (Thanks to momentum).

With no Air compressor, I reversed about 35 metres before becoming completely bogged; we then dug (Glade I brought the shovel) Tyres at 28, made it 2 metres. We then dug some more, tyres down to 15Psi and traction aides down and straight out no problem (tyre pressure it’s amazing). With the tyres at 15Psi and no compressor this also made for an interesting drive home being at 12:30 at night not many servos are open.

Wildlife seen> 26 Kangaroos, 4 foxes and 2 rabbits.

Damage report> One radiator protection plate half torn off (Still trying to figure out how I did that), And some scratched paint (Metallic) Nooooooooo..