FEATURE
DARYL BEATTIE'S AUSSIE OUTBACK TOUR
P92
surface is now eroding, and you'd
hate to take a big rig down it now—
Scooter doesn't seem to mind. Today
we get the kind of heat we'd been ex-
pecting all trip. Up until this point we'd
absolutely nailed the weather—the
hottest it has been was around 77ºF
now it's well into the 90s. Scooter
measures the ground temp at 114ºF
and calls us all pussies—the crew
before us, running from Birdsville to
Alice Springs, had temps like this or more every day
with a ground temp well into the 140s. Water is getting
downed like it's never going to run out.
Today is also the day I make my freestyle mo-
tocross debut. Following Daryl up a steep dune, I
totally forget how to ride and bury the nose of the
CRF into the dune.
"Hey mate, have you ever ridden before?" smart-
ass Daryl says. The bike's buried past the axles as
(Above) Standing
atop Australia's
largest sand
dune, Big Red.
Incredibly, that
Unimog got up
the dune, no
problem.
(Right) Getting it
up for the camera.
