Arctic 4x4 Rally - Day 7



Today as we move further south the weather gets warmer, starting in Kajaani at -35C we travelled to Tampere (near Nokia) where the evening temperature was a mere -20C.  The theme ofthe day was not to lose at this late stage and all ofthe main protagonists stayed close together.  After finding 17 geo-points, five of the remaining teams found themselves trying to find a control point.  As this point was worth 4 points it was inportant not to miss it.  I suggested that if we all agreed to skip it we would be no worse off, but Peter was having none of it and said he would stay until he found it.  Being just as stubborn it looked like we might end up searching all night when a call to the organiser revealed a slight error in location and an hour and a half of wading around in waist deep snow came to an end, otherwise Peter and I would still be there.



Negotiations taking place



End of the search

With no cut off time there was time for fun and games and photography, we had missed many opportunities to record the beauty ofthe environment in our competitive dash through these fantastic countries so a few minutes were well spent with the camera.






With only two days to go I have no idea what the result will be at the end, in fact no one does because the race diector will only reveal the result in Stockholm on Sunday, suffice to say I think we are in a good position for a high placing with the main competition coming from Peter and Thomas from Sweden in the Toyota with far too many lights ;o)

Lorna's office

The trusty Volvo

What to bring on a rally - a sandwich toaster!

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