During our rallye, we did wonder what that 'road' would look like after
only a hint of rain, or <gasp> even snow....)

http://englishrussia.com/?p=315

(even the hard/tarmac roads have pot-holes so deep that even the largest
Russian semi-military trucks have to avoid them....which means that after
rain, with puddles of in-assessible depth, be it tarmac or dirt/gravel,
driving them at any significant speed equals plain simple Russian
Roulette....)
(and without speed, you get stuck on those dirt roads....)
(we concluded that the only way to drive such dirt roads after rain would
be in the (literal) slip-stream of a truck-driver with *very* up-to-date
local knowledge of that road, being able to dream/visualize all those
potholes from the dry season....)



Recent article in a German 4x4 magazine about the scout-tour for a second
rallye that took place this year, Berlin-Shanghai:

'....the last 678km east of Irkutsk are worse than the most horrifying
African washboard-piste, only bearable by lowering air-pressure....'

(1x TLC HZJ78, 1x TLC HZJ-105)






--
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand

<w.j.markerink (AT) a1 (DOT) nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]

I had to laugh at the one pic with the sign showing a man shoveling, here
that would mean men working on road, there it would mean bring a shovel.

"Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink (AT) a1 (DOT) nl> wrote