EXPEDITIONS

Perm - New Lyady

In short: asphalt free roads.
Duration: 1 day.
Andrey Alikin tells us a story about his weekend.

Everything began with a desire to have a ride. As I failed to participate in the action the previous weekend arranged by Taras (Bondarchuk) I was eager to drive somewhere myself. You know I have got a summer house in New Lyady and often while driving a question appears in my mind, why the road to the place is so long and winding. I have always dreamt to know if I could get to my place by a shorter and straighter way. Wishing my dream to come true I gave a task to my navigator (Alexei Naugolnykh), who worked out several absolutely crazy routes on the tracks which had not been in use for a long time because they were depicted not in all maps. We called the best of the best: Fanfan (Gataullin) and the Khabibullins came in time. The Khabibullins' car was not prepared for the trip at all and we had to give him two spare accumulators as they did not have charging and both winches were out of order into the bargain. In Fanfan's car was out of order only the front winch.

Our track was quite unpredictable. We searched the road to cherished Lyady. While pulling the Khabibullins out of the first stream we tore the semi-axis on the front axle of our car, so had to continue the way like three cripples. We drove for a very long time and to make up for it now a prepared car can go on this road following our tracks without any fear.

The navigation car went in the head of the column. In some time we exchanged navigators. While examining the area the navigating car had to detach from the column at the distance of one kilometre away so that to explore the territory in a good way. It is important to take into account that the experience of participating in competitions is quite valuable for navigators. I must admit that the difference between navigating by Alexei Naugolnykh who did his best to lead us avoiding marshland and the other ones was considerable.

This trip started at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and finished at 7 in the morning the next day. We drove all through the night and covered 12 km. The Khabibullins had no head lights, what was more had no frames.

We came back feeling more dead than alive but extremely pleased!

The interview was taken by Mikhail Shardin. The picture was taken by the author. The article was prepared for being published in the magazine 'A.Z.S. Perm'.

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