01maciel Posted February 23, 2023 Share #1  Posted February 23, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) Appreciate your response and contribution. It can always get worse 🙂 M10 + Voigtländer Nokton 50mm 1:1.0 VM Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4697520'>More sharing options...
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war Posted February 26, 2023 Share #2  Posted February 26, 2023 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4701532'>More sharing options...
01maciel Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share #3  Posted February 26, 2023 vor 2 Stunden schrieb war: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Terribly wonderful. I guess nothing can top this anymore 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
war Posted February 26, 2023 Share #4  Posted February 26, 2023 16 minutes ago, 01maciel said: Terribly wonderful. I guess nothing can top this anymore 😉 Oh I'm saving my worst ones....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted February 26, 2023 Share #5  Posted February 26, 2023 (edited) Not quite the worst road surface, but as a road requiring stamina this took some beating: 1126km from Nizwa to Salalah skirting the Empty Quarter in Oman, 1982. There was a sort of asphalt road in adequate condition, but my job was to find water supplies at intervals along it, so I spent most of my time criss-crossing the road and disappearing over the sandhills on either side looking for 'features ' that might help me. My only guidance to the water prospects, beyond a rough geological map, was Wilfred Thessiger's Arabian Sands, written when he crossed the area in the late '40s - he recorded a lot of valuable detail. This is my Subaru 4WD (packed with several spare tyres, jerry cans of fuel and water, sand ladders, shovel etc), and the only two trees in that whole route. Some surveyor found it before me and planted a concrete post next to them. I spent a couple of days on the trip, but only got stuck in the sand once and had to dig myself out with sand ladders - hard work on your own. I picked three locations for wells; when they were drilled, all three produced water, but two were too saline for drinking without treatment - a good result for the times and place! Leica M2 photo, perhaps a Summicron 35, Kodacolor, somewhat heat-damaged. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited February 26, 2023 by LocalHero1953 9 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4701900'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 27, 2023 Share #6  Posted February 27, 2023 Walvis Bay, Namibia - D2 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 8 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4702757'>More sharing options...
01maciel Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share #7  Posted February 27, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) vor 15 Stunden schrieb LocalHero1953: Not quite the worst road surface, but as a road requiring stamina this took some beating: 1126km from Nizwa to Salalah skirting the Empty Quarter in Oman, 1982. There was a sort of asphalt road in adequate condition, but my job was to find water supplies at intervals along it, so I spent most of my time criss-crossing the road and disappearing over the sandhills on either side looking for 'features ' that might help me. My only guidance to the water prospects, beyond a rough geological map, was Wilfred Thessiger's Arabian Sands, written when he crossed the area in the late '40s - he recorded a lot of valuable detail. This is my Subaru 4WD (packed with several spare tyres, jerry cans of fuel and water, sand ladders, shovel etc), and the only two trees in that whole route. Some surveyor found it before me and planted a concrete post next to them. I spent a couple of days on the trip, but only got stuck in the sand once and had to dig myself out with sand ladders - hard work on your own. I picked three locations for wells; when they were drilled, all three produced water, but two were too saline for drinking without treatment - a good result for the times and place! Leica M2 photo, perhaps a Summicron 35, Kodacolor, somewhat heat-damaged. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Thank you for the photo and the interesting story behind it. Now I know how you got your nickname 🙂 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted February 27, 2023 Share #8  Posted February 27, 2023 39 minutes ago, 01maciel said: Thank you for the photo and the interesting story behind it. Now I know how you got your nickname 🙂 The first decade of my career was spent finding water in various dry and remote places, which I very much enjoyed. Then I met a 60+ year old Brit who was a tropical rice culture specialist - condemned by his career to never return home. It coincided with the prospective arrival of our second child, and I took a career diversion to make me employable in this country. I still miss the appalling roads, floods, mud, sand, bridges about to collapse, and makeshift river crossings! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 28, 2023 Share #9  Posted February 28, 2023 Republic of Congo Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 5 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4704385'>More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted March 10, 2023 Share #10  Posted March 10, 2023 State Highway 73 through Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand. Just past Death's Corner. The new viaduct has replaced the most dangerous part on a scree slope but this section is still vertiginous with rockfall hazards. It's also right on the main alpine fault. M10/2.8 90 Elmarit-M.   Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 5 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4717515'>More sharing options...
01maciel Posted March 10, 2023 Author Share #11 Â Posted March 10, 2023 vor 7 Stunden schrieb NZDavid: State Highway 73 through Arthur's Pass, South Island, New Zealand. Just past Death's Corner. The new viaduct has replaced the most dangerous part on a scree slope but this section is still vertiginous with rockfall hazards. It's also right on the main alpine fault. M10/2.8 90 Elmarit-M. Thanks for showing. I remember the road as I drove along it towards Christchurch many years ago. A spectacular area and road indeed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m410 Posted March 12, 2023 Share #12  Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) Perhaps no "worst" road than one that has vanished and that you regularly relied upon.  This Central California back country road existed before the recent very heavy rainfall, the detour is 50 plus miles now.  M10r+90mm f4 ME. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited March 12, 2023 by m410 8 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/368192-worst-roads-competition-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4720311'>More sharing options...
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