How bad are the route conditions?
Hard to say. Our route survey found a good, feasible course and then it changed totally with one of the hardest winters, and we ended up driving the far side of the Moon because things had changed totally, and the rivers were running deeper than on our route survey, and we had a bad sand-storm which we never encountered in a month of checking out a courseso, things change a lot in Mongolia, you need to plan for the worst as a few kilometres of severe rough going can cause a lot of damage if the car is not properly prepared by someone who knows what they are doing. You need to read the book of the 2007 event, published by Veloce and linked from our home page, and study what happened to each entrant every car and their problems are listed.
