road coditions on the canning stock route

Hi Tucker,

I asked on this forum. MOst people can give you recent comments. I have seen a few question from you about your CSR trip and if you use "contact member" I will give you my number so you can call me. I finished last week. You will also find more and more people finishing in the next few week as the track is getting rather busy. Use the thread Search and it should give you all the related discussions from the past.

Cheers

Tucker

The CSR is never maintained.

It is a 2000km sandy track running diagonally across a whole heap of sand dunes. The higherst sand dune used to be 17 metres in height. Going south to north the dune dunes are chopped up in places due to the amount of traffic over it and people running too high pressures in their tyres.

In some places the track surface is hard and in other places very corrugated. The track surface does not change very often except when it rains.

If you drive it this year or next year in dry conditions it will be the same as it has been since vehicles started running it in the 1950's.

Cheers

VKS737 radio network is arguably the best way to get the latest updates in fact if you listen to the evening sched you'll get real time reports or you can speak to a member on the track & ask questions. As great as ExOz is for track reports there are very few logging into the net via satellite so normally updates on here are one to three weeks old. Local rain is possibly the biggest issue regarding access & if you don't have a HF radio then stopping in at the police station (or pub) at either end should be able to give you the latest info before heading off.
Cheers Craig............

Thanks everyone.