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@_luke_ loved the drive, all ingredients in the best mix! And a vortex.

What a great morning out @Vanessa8580, and everyone that joined in support of this important cause. It was so good to see all the new faces, especially the ladies behind the wheel - please keep on joining future club drives! Thank you @Radhika for the yoga session on top of pink rock, which was more a 'hot yoga' session, and getting the joints moving and 'creaking' for some of us - please share the pictures you took of our poses. @Radhika, you persevered with your Jimny and with @Frederic showing how capable that little machine really is, I hope you continue to drive and enjoy it to the fullest. Also thank you @Vanessa8580 for entrusting me with my 'first' second lead and hope I did the job well. Thank you for all the pictures @Mike M., you should add Drive Photographer to your list of expertise now. Nadia and I hope to see you all again soon on the sand!

It should have been a power-packed start to today’s drive, but the weather had other ideas. Instead, we found ourselves crawling through some technical terrain in very soft sand, blinded by thick fog. A wet layer sitting on top of powdery sand made everything slippery and unpredictable, with a few refusals and short breaks needed along the way. Eventually the sun burnt through the fog and the terrain opened up into a really nice rollercoaster section, criss-crossing ridges and taking some loose lines. 😎 We then pushed through a fence section with the difficulty turned up a notch, before finding some nice big sidie climbs and a bit of ridge riding. After that, we stopped for some tyre maintenance and somehow managed to hear @Frederic and @Vanessa8580 on the radio from around 140 km away. Very mysterious. I’m officially claiming that as a CARNITY record for the longest handheld radio transmission. 😂 We finished with one last spin, finally getting up onto a ridge I’d already had a few attempts at earlier in the drive. We took the win and headed out at 10:00. Great driving from everyone in some genuinely challenging conditions. Looking forward to seeing you all again in a couple of weeks. @ChrisW @_Herman_ @Mahmut @Myrko @Giacomo @Infaz

Thank you @Mark B for a great morning out with some amazing flowing dunes. My confidence on these drives with longer flowing dunes has improved substantially, which makes me want to do even more. Thank you for helping me out when I was in a picle sideways on a very soft dune, the blip method really helped straighten out my back end, which made the recovery not that scary after all, although the tone in my voice was a dead giveaway. I practiced playing manually with my gears and boy does it make a difference. Thank you everyone for the pleasant morning!

Thank you @Emanuel for the lovely afternoon drive and for agreeing to upgrade to FB+. We sure had a lot of bumpiness for the first half but that was followed by some great play areas which was loads of fun. I sure learned a lot about my vehicle on the technical bits (the pesky bushes), and thank you for helping me practice climbing steps, even if it took a few tries at times. Navigating my own lines through these sections with my long wheelbase is surely something I will practice more. It is the first time I had to use my kinetic rope on my own vehicle and looking back at the video I took away the importance of synchronising the 'pull' with rotating of wheels, the first try you pulled and I was too late but the second one was spot on. We saw some amazing cloud formations and with the sunset lighting them up made for spectacular views.

Thank you @_luke_ for the amazing drive! Very impressive stuff to pull off an IM drive in that early morning fog!! Thanks to @_Herman_ @ChrisW and @Giacomo for the support as well. It was great seeing everyone and I really enjoyed the drive! A short video of today’s drive! https://youtube.com/shorts/-1YxfLWWODU?si=HpAOFgmHgMqqP6dt