November 15, 2004
The winter road
A diesel truck broke through the ice on the Aldan River and was stuck for more than four days. We offered them food and drink, bt they were confident they'd be out by late afternoon.
Photo by Adam Burgess
| Logbook for Nov. 15th, Day 381 | ||
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Start: Khandiga, Russia Time: 6:45 a.m. N: 62* 39.225 E: 135* 34.217 |
Finish: Ust-Nera, Russia Time: 4:30 a.m. N: 64* 34.120 E: 143* 13.286 | Mileage: 418 |
| Notes: Early-morning wakeup (0615) to backtrack about 40 km to film hte Aldan iver crossing in daylight. After two refuelings in town and an hour or two of filming, the team finally departed for Tomtor. Decent roads to Kubeme, where the road splits (East) for the summer road, and (north) for the "winter road." East to Tomtor, North to Ust-Nera. After finally deciphering the correct spot to cross the river to Tomtor (we had to flag down a local van and ask them), we crossed and found out there's no road to Magadan through Tomtor now. It's closed. Overgrown. Impassable. We gerried up our vehicles and headed north toward Ust-Nera. It was -49 C. We experienced really bad roads all the way north, and then a good road east to Ust-Nera. Along the highway, we saw trees that were right out of Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It was awesome. And arriving in Ust-Nera after such a long haul was even more awesome. (N.O.) | ||
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