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1997 Eco-Challenge

Competitor's diary, August 12

Team tackles nasty conditions in the bush
Robert Nagle
Near CP-5, 9:22 a.m.

Nagle works on his feet

The first night has been relatively straightforward from a navigational point of view. Which, from our point of view, is a bit of a disadvantage, because it mitigates one of our strengths. We've got some pretty good navigation capability.

The tricky parts over the last 12 hours have been footing, which has been atrocious. Big basalt rocks every which way underneath your feet, covered by thick grass which you can't see. So that hasn't been a whole lot of fun.

And that's what slowing people, many people, from charging across the course.

The other nasty that we've encountered is the spear grass, which is the seeds from a grass that stick in your socks and stick into anything that they can attach to, and then just rub and irritate continually. Not much fun, anything but fun.

We're about to get back off the road. We've had a couple of road sections. Flat and boring as all hell. And now we're about to leave the road once more and head out into the bush for some more bad footing, and spear grass, and hopefully not too bad navigation.

Robert Nagle leads Team Eco-Internet in this year's Eco-Challenge.