Woke after a very
poor sleep. I had a bad headache and felt nauseas and John had a
mild headache. Yes, symptoms of Altitude sickness. I stayed in bed and after some ibuprofen I got a little sleep. There was no hurry to leave as we
needed the ice/snow to soften.
As we left John
decided to try to drive down a snow drift, didn’t quite make it, the
diff was dragging. Out came the shovel….
As we popped back
onto the road saw a 4x4 wagon do a U-turn and head back out. Not sure
if he’d seen us.
Drove back down to
about 2800m alt and turned north on a road which was not on our map.
There are hundreds of tracks out here. After the first section it was
a great road. We only travelled for about 20km’s today on roads
marked on our map and that was by a very big mine. We just find one
that looks OK going in the general direction we want to travel in.
The colors are just
spectacular and as usual the camera does not do it justice.
Stopped in the
middle of the road for lunch at the 100km mark. The afternoon didn’t
see much progress. More wash outs to drive around and one big one
that we had to travel up-river about 1.5km to find a spot that we
could both enter and exit the river bed.
About 4:30pm we just
pulled of the road for a camp. Did some maintenance on the vehicle.
2200m altitude.