We started to feel as an expedition team for the Himalaya's. We had our donga in the community. A place to sleep, shower and cook. From there we go to “the lay down area”. A place to unload the truck. The materials are Mesh, handrail , and other different sizes of square hollow bar, round bar and least but most important our tool box. The next thing we unload is our bobcat, the digger we call it. A machine that goes against all gravity laws, but mostly because it’s driver. Trevor drives it up roads, rock, dirt, everything you can imagine, vertical, horizontal , diagonal. He does it all. The next thing is our car , we rented out of the movie “mad max”. A V6 , automatic gear box, low range, high range, modified bumpers, modified roof rack .
All packed with material, smoko and lunch boxes , the expedition starts. Trevor drives the digger, i’m on the steering wheel of our V6, we still trying to find a proper name to baptise this machine. The first break on the track is ‘Turn-around 1’, just a dirt area that’s made flat to turn around our vehicles 180 degree’s. Don’t get me wrong, The place is just big enough to turn the vehicles after three spins.In front of us , the steel track starts his way to “base camp 1”. The track is just big enough to get trough with one car, definitely a one way direction, and the possibilities to modify our mad max car while we driving up. Every inch the car becomes smaller, the less turns we have to make. There is also one turn-around on the way up. A platform build out of steel, round bar and mesh against the incline of memory Hill. A training session for the upper arms. The training is all about turning a non-power steering wheel on standing position with air pressure 25 in tyres on hard mesh steel . Making 8 times a full turn in both directions.. After this training sessions it is just another 10 metres on a incline of 45 degrees, and “base camp 1” is in sight.
The first camp up the hill is a flattened area, to have a rest , smoko and lunch. Base camp is completely set up with shade structure, barbie area, engel, solar panel to keep it going. This is momentarily the end stop of our mad max car. The track keeps going for another 500 metre on steel mesh before it goes over to a ramp to cover a high of 4 metre. After the ramp , “camp 2” is in process of development. Once the camp is finished the car can get up there and turn around to go back again saving us a lot of time coming down every time to base camp one to have lunch.Our team is up here now for a week. The ramp is finished and Trevor is digging his way up . The final stretch to the top. Almost a flat stretch , just a few rocks need to be moved to make a decent track. Camp 2 , almost done, almost flattened, almost a new place to have a spell and barbie. We still have a week , all the pressure is on Trevor, once he gets his digger at the top. We can pack up and go back to Alice. A few days more and fly to Europe. Checking out if my godchild still behaves.
It was gonna be a relaxing last week here, till i pushed a handrail post the wrong way. Everything slowed down and changed direction.
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