Furthest Distance Travelled – Gavin Mulvay and Joe Steffert (Mongolia) – 2,294.41 miles, 3692.5km (unsupported)
Gidday Popeye
Just adding up the km for the buggy trip, 3692.5km all up in 49 days, unsupported, Mongolia and inner Mongolia. can send the gpx files if you like.
Longest day 232km mostly at night.
Fastest speed 75km/h on 4m uniq single skin
Joe also did 71km/h on a 2 line nasa beating my 66k pb.
MadWay Mongolia Report II.
We were sitting in a nice comfortable hotel in Jargalant/Matid when I wrote the first trip report, we made it 15km from town and got hit by a dust storm followed by 35 hours of snow and sleet(in summer). Fortunately our tents have an even bigger wind range than our kites.
The next few days were slippy slidey fun with mud and puddles and suck trucks.
As we got closer to the desert the long grass with ever present ticks gave way to short grass and hills, as we were trying to travel west against a prevailing norwest wind the smooth terrain allowed us to zig zag upwind which beats walking.
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After a few days of endless tacking we finally got some tail wind at night then more the next day, this easily got us the last 250km to the trans Mongolian railway line that we had crossed 27 days earlier in the opposite direction. Getting to here had seemed like an impossible task when we were 900km downwind at Buir lake.
We had 3 days left on our Mongolian visas and 100km of sweet crosswind sealed road to the Chinese border where we had a 1 month visa. There were some tricky questions asked at the border like where are you going, we said downwind and surprisingly they reluctantly let us through.
We headed east again, there were fences and powerlines everywhere and the traffic was a constant problem, there was less traffic at at night so we buggied all night and did 232km on the first day. For the next 8 days we alternated between farmland with endless fences and road verge with hundreds of power lines and trucks whizzing past.
We got stopped by the police many times one of them bought us lunch and gave us a police escort for 40ks, Some weren’t as friendly.
We arrived at Holangol on day 49 and decided to call it quits, it was getting too hard to find a way through all the development.
We had done 3692.5km, a few more than the 2000 we had set out to do.
We walked about 40-50km of it out of boredom or hunger, motored 15km using stored wind, fastest speed 75kph on 4m uniq single skin.
Fastest speed 75km/h on 4m uniq single skin
Joe also did 71km/h on a 2 line nasa beating my 66k pb.
We stored the buggys in China for the next adventure, they have done over 5000km including the first trip.
