What tyre pressures did you run on these roads John ?
I assumed you were heading into sand when you wrote about lowering tyre pressures but the pics show what for me
were regular everyday unsealed country roads in really good condition ….. 100k + cruising...
There was no sand. While a lot of the roads were good dirt, there were some rough, stony sections, corrugations and washaways.
Bear in mind that when I was taking pics through the windscreen, that was only on benign sections. Whenever there was rougher stuff, I put the camera away. So, to that extent, what I've posted is misleading for the road conditions. It only shows the best.
We expected rougher conditions between Marble Bar and Nullagine, but they have done quite a lot of work on that road in the last couple of years, so it was much better than expected. It used to be pretty rough. A bit of stony stuff at the Marble Bar end but that gave way to good stuff as we moved S. It was hellish dusty as there was no wind at all, so the dust just hung in the air. Had to hang well back from the vehicle in front.
We aired down by only about 10% just to soften off a little for the stones and corrugations. It was entirely different on the Canning Stock Route, which is predominantly sand - and 1000 sand dunes to cross (from the
steep - Edit, correction: from the long slope side, as we were heading N), plus endless corrugations from hell (
Way into the WA wilderness). For that, we aired down to low-mid 20s psi.