b'CLUB SPOTLIGHT ALBURY-WODONGA 4WD CLUB shaped claypan which isWe found a suitable aptly called The Footballclearing beside the Field The track to thetrack and settled in with claypan was extremelyanother pleasant evening rough for most of thearound the fire.5.9km which made itDay 11:We continued very slow going. south on the Hay River We headed back totrack. Along this section the Madigan Line andwe came across a made it to Camp 12 atgroup of 6-wheel drive 5pm after a hard day ofMercedes tour buses driving.from Outback Spirit Day 10:We set outTours. One had blown the on our last day on theTorque Converter and Madigan Line. More of the bigger dunes as we headedwas waiting for a recovery vehicle from Jervois Station through Camps 13 and 14 on the way to The Hay RiverRoadhouse. Big $$$ recovery.track at Camp 15. We arrived at the Hay/MadiganIt was easy going until we turned west across some Junction at lunchtime, which brought an end to ourmore very steep dunes with soft sand and rough tracks time on the Western section of the Madigan. on both the up slope and down slope. The first one Our original plan was to travel the completecaught a couple of us by surprise as we approached Madigan Line but with the Eastern Section stillthem a bit too casually with not enough go pedal.impassable we turned south down the Hay River TrackAfter crossing the dunes, turned south again for the to eventually join up with the QAA Line just east of60k run to the QAA line. The road surface was variable Poeppel Corner. We travelled in the swale between thewith some sections of smooth gravel and many dunes, sometimes through a hazy mirage sections of rough corrugations and much dust. Oops, TRACKWATCH|March 2024 11'