This November, we challenged ourselves to cross the longest route in the Badain Jaran Desert in the shortest time!

Badain Jaran, the most beautiful desert in China, was once regarded as a restricted area for life. In recent years, it seems to have become a trend of becoming an "Internet celebrity place".

But its difficulties and risks should never be underestimated. There are many posts on the Internet about traveling through Badain Jaran for several days and nights, and many people failed.

The three southern off-roaders who started playing in the sand in Badain Jaran ten years ago had an idea a few years ago: to challenge the longest line across Badain Jaran in the shortest time. Meng Gen arrives at Space City.

At 7 a.m. on November 9, 2020

At the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert

A small team officially set off from Mengen (Huangcao Lake)

Plan to complete the crossing of the longest east-west line in Badain Jaran in 10 hours

I am an accompanying witness

And for the participants

This is a random test that they have been doing in the desert for more than ten years

They want to give themselves a random test

They were qualified to take this test many years ago

It’s just that I often miss out due to various reasons

However, unfortunately

I failed to submit a perfect answer sheet this time

But I still want to record it Come down

Record people who are crazy about the desert, off-roading, and what they love

[Although the driving time can be said to have completed the challenge

But Since we camped in the desert on the first night

we didn’t wear it out that day as originally planned, so it wasn’t perfect. ]

Menggen (Huangcao Lake)-Space City

The straight-line distance measured on the map is approximately: 289km

Our final actual driving distance: 380km

Most of the whole journey is a straight cut to the Dao Peak

The challenge is not to conquer

It is to learn to respect nature more

You don’t have to go into details to ask how to do this What's the point of doing things?

Ask, there is no

Just because of love, so I did it

Just because of love, so there is no turning back

< p>Introduction to the main members of Challenger

Team Feng, born in 1985, started to get in touch with the desert about ten years ago, and then fell in love with it out of hand.

After a certain competition, he accidentally rolled over while driving a UTV in the desert. After the car rolled over several times, he was seriously injured and life-threatening. Of course he escaped in the end, but the price was the removal of a piece of his liver.

Of course, his family was worried and refused to allow him to play in the desert or off-road. But after he seriously reflected and examined himself, he finally convinced his family: "If you can't play with cars, then there will be no happiness in life."

“After that, I became more cautious. But off-roading is my biggest hobby in my life, and it can also be said to be my only hobby. If I don’t have an off-road vehicle, if I can’t play in the desert, then I Life would be meaningless and unhappy. " Captain Feng and his vehicle for this trip

Shadu, a somewhat domineering name. But Shadu himself is actually a gentle and elegant person, a man born in the 1970s who looks like a child born in the 1980s.

He said that because he has a young mind, he lives a younger life.

When he first came to the desert many years ago, he felt addicted and poisoned. There was no cure for this poison, so he named it sand poison.

Although I, as a southerner, still feel that winter in the northwest is bare, I love the desert so much that I can’t help but go there.

Left: Sand Poison | Right: Nayintai

Nayintai, a Mongolian man living in Badain Jaran Town, is responsible for supplying supplies for this trip.

On the day we were released from the sand, he invited us to have dinner at his home, which was filled with trophies won in the competition. He loves to joke, but when I really praise him as a master, he becomes humble and says, "I'm just playing around."

Nayintai really wanted to "just play around". He wanted to try out his new 80, which was actually a cut-up, N-hand model that was older than me who was born in the 90s. The old LC80.

God 2, born in the 1960s, an old naughty boy.

The ancients said that you know your destiny at fifty. People who don’t understand may wonder why they are still so playful and messy at this age. And it is said that after playing Desert God 2 for more than ten years, I should be tired of it. But there is nothing I can do. If I don’t go to the desert five, six, seven or eight times a year, I won’t feel comfortable.

God 2 loves the two-door Wrangler the most when playing in the desert. After playing it for more than ten years, I can’t get used to other cars.

Challenge itinerary record

On November 8, we arrived and stayed overnight in Yabulai. In terms of distance, it was more suitable to live in Mengen, but considering the accommodation conditions in Mengen and other reasons, I finally chose to live in Yabulai.

At 5:30 in the morning on November 9, we set off from Yabulai Hotel to Mengen (Licorice Lake). We met an Aobao on the road, and Yintai took us around it several times. He said it was a blessing ceremony.

At around 7 o'clock, we arrived at the entrance of Menggen Sand Entrance, deflated the tires, installed the flagpole, and prepared to enter the sand.

It was still dark when we first entered the desert. The bright flagpole lights of the car in front were shining, guiding the way forward like a beacon in the boundless desert.

It is said that this Hanjimei flagpole lamp also has team-building and social functions, but we have not conducted too much research. However, when I decided to camp temporarily at night, I was surprised to see that it could also be used for lighting with camping lights.

For most of the morning, we moved quickly and smoothly without any surprises.

Cycling in the desert is fun, but for more people, having fun alone is not as good as having fun together.

Cooperate to rescue when stuck in a car; guide the direction when lost; share happiness when successfully climbing over sandy mountains one after another. This is also the meaning of having brothers in cross-country.

I suddenly want to share a piece of Gao Jinsong’s words about cross-country again:

“In the eyes of many people, we are a group of boring lunatics with money to burn. But they don’t know that we are During cross-country: we are not snobbish or utilitarian, we do not give in or give up; we work as a team and are willing to give the last bit of food and water to others. We encourage each other to move forward with our sincerity..."< /p>

About Gao Jinsong "The Wrangler has never been a legend, the story behind it is"

In fact, if you look at driving purely: the whole process was smooth, with only a handful of mistakes He carried the truck several times and simply dragged it to get out of trouble. ?

However, I am very ashamed. As a witness of their "examination", I am also a frequent visitor to the desert, but this time I slipped up...

Team Feng and I When we met, he probably saw that I could be surprisingly calm and calm in any situation, so he asked me: "If I have a chance, can I invite you to be my pilot when I go to a competition?"

At that time, none of us would have thought that I would soon be in a situation in Badain Jaran that I could not calm down at all.

At about 11 a.m., I suddenly started to feel dizzy and then vomited. My mental state is okay, but I can't control my uncomfortable state at all.

For this reason, during the rest of the trip, the team had to stop once every 40 minutes to let me take a rest...

Later, due to constant rest, a lot of travel was delayed. . At 5:30 in the afternoon, when the sky was getting dark, we still had more than 100 kilometers to travel.

In the end, everyone decided to "give up the exam temporarily" and camped in the desert that night.

That’s it, let’s enjoy the desert night.

Listen to the breeze and the sound of sand, the crackling of firewood, the singing of stars, the sound of stories...

The hinterland of the desert without light pollution, the vastness at your fingertips Stars (Huawei phones are very powerful).

I don’t sleep very well, but I sleep very well every time I go camping in the desert. Big C said that you are probably suitable to live in the desert.

On November 10th, probably because everyone had given up on the "challenge" mentality, everyone was more relaxed, so the departure time was postponed to 10:30, and with a playful attitude, we slowly and leisurely looked at the scenery and finished the rest of the race. Next trip.

At about 1:30 in the afternoon, we arrived at the Space City, inflated the vehicle and paved the road.

So far, this challenge has crossed the longest east-west line of Badain Jaran in the shortest time and ended in an imperfect way.

Regret? Of course it's a pity.

Sandou even made up his mind to go again on November 11th. The small team also decided to go, but in the end they gave up due to various reasons. Running down one trip is also a big test for your physical strength.

Before setting off, Team Feng once said: If this trip takes 10 hours, just one day will be enough to brag about it for the rest of my life.

Although it is regrettable that it is not perfect, and it may not be something that can be bragging for a lifetime, but what has been experienced is what has been experienced, and that will be a part of each person's life.

Those high moments of success are worth celebrating

Those unfinished dreams are also worth commemorating

Because we have struggled, experienced and tried

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Having worked heartily and crazily for the things you love

This is also a way for each of you to discover the meaning of life

Maybe life itself is hard, but off-roading is a blessing. sugar.

You must know that playing off-road is a kind of spirit. The Raptor's average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is 40 liters.

Part of the picture source: Big C

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