Day 10

By now, our exhaust was severely damaged from the rocks. We removed most of it and put it on the sweep truck. We had no way of repairing it, because we couldn't access it nor did we have any material to reinforce the broken parts with.

There was a lot of rain on the mountain and had a some very very steep hills to climb. The broken exhaust was causing a lot of overheating and we were worried about the impact to the engine valves, gearbox and steering rack which were exposed to the hot gases.

We rolled into Achit Lake camp after we changed a wheel and tire that was damaged by rocks in the deep sand.






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