04 May 2007

More Rainbow Road



Driving up the Rainbow Valley - the road gets narrower, rougher, and very few vehicles. The motorhome handles it with ease - we don’t need 4wd yet...
You usually have a choice between a small narrow bridge with weight restrictions, or a ford. So far, the bridges take our preference, as the fords look pretty rough - and sometimes deep - and no other vehicles to help out if we get in trouble.


The 4wd book says “Caution through 3 mobile screes.” What the heck are mobile screes? We soon found out, but put the motorhome into 4wd just in case - they looked a lot more unstable than they actually were - they’re just patches of road that have washed out, been filled with loose rocks, and washed out again - many times. New roadways have to be formed after major washouts like this.



Some of the fords through this patch really WERE rather deep, and slippery and rough. And then we met an articulated truck coming the other way, with a bulldozer on the back! It was going through to repair the road we'd just driven through.

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