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Back in France Heard from Nathan about 30 mins ago (hey, I had to take a shower before posting, priorities!) They were off the ferry and about 10 mins out from Patrice's house in Avignon. They'll spend the night there and tomorrow morning Nathan takes a train to his brother's. From there he'll...

From Nathan We made it over the atlas mountains and into marrakech last night. Had a huge scare coming out of the mountains when I was driving, there was a sudden burst of driveline vibration. Pulled over to discover that the right rear wheel had sheered off all of the lug bits and wheel studs...

And the winners are... From Nathan via Scott's Blackberry: :jump: So the last day is over. We woke up this morning to a continuing sand storm. We all emerged from our huts covered in a thick layer of dirt from the all night storm. At 7 am we got word that the rock crawling Special Stage was...

Adventure Outback website address Judy, Here's the link for the Outback Challenge Morocco site. Not much help as they aren't updating it, but maybe they will tomorrow as they're heading back to civilization in Marakesh. www.outback-challenge.com ~treighsee

Outback Morocco Update-MAYBE last day? From Nathan via Scott's Blackberry: It's mid day on day 5 and the challenge may or may not be over. A huge sand storm blew in mid day that may postpone the last challenge. Visibility is 1/4 mile at best. Everything we own has sand chips picked out of it...

It's still on..... From Nathan via Scott's Blackberry: Were finished with day 4 but it appears that there will be a day 5 after all. Today went well overall. We took it easy in order to preserve the vehicle and the strategy appears to be working well. The first challenge was the cliff hanger...

More from Nathan Day 3 is over and we've made another good showing. We had a good lead going into today so we decided to go easy on the truck and play it safe. The first challenge was a closed course in the dunes. There was a optional hill climb at the end that if you completed it, you would...

Not so technical update from Nathan Lots of sunscreen for the both of is we start off every morning with a copious amount of SPF 35 and we've been living in our full brimmed hats. The Buff that Graham sent me has been a god send. I've been keeping it wet and around my neck all day... Huge...

Scott/Nathan UPDATE #3 From Nathan via Scott's blackberry: Second day is finished and we did well again. A very high level of attrition from the other competitors. Out of 14 teams only seven made the starting line today one of whom stopped after only 5 minutes. We seem to have established...

Advice Hey BajaTaco, Is this the only thread I should be posting updates to? When I first logged in I couldn't find anything specific to the challenge so I just started poting to 2 threads I thought might be OK. Then, of course, I found this one. For now, until I hear otherwise, I will only...

Scott/Nathan UPDATE #2 From Nathan via Scott's blackberry: Finished the first day. Very long day, especially after no after no sleep. 300 mile off road race to nav points along the way. We came in second over all, but their is some debate on the first teams checkpoints. We were the first team...

Scott and Nathan Update I receive almost daily reports from Nathan and Scott on their adventures in Morocco. They got off a 48 hour ferry ride from France to Tangiers Morocco today and have started their 400 mile drive to their race course start. Attached are some selected photos. Here was an...

I receive almost daily reports from Nathan and Scott on their adventures in Morocco. They got off a 48 hour ferry ride from France to Tangiers Morocco today and have started their 400 mile drive to their race course start. Attached are some selected photos. Here was an update from yesterday...