COVID 19 Compliant - Morning Fewbie PLUS Desert Drive - "Middle-Earth": Solar Park to Faqa - Dubai - 09 Oct 2020

[Ale Vallecchi]

21 minutes ago, Nabil Bishara said:

@Ale Vallecchi it seems to me the spot was taken after I asked to be on the waitlist. I may be wrong but would appreciate if you can check when you have some time. Thanks 

Yes @Nabil Bishara. I will sort it out.  Do not worry. Will confirm to you ASAP. Thanks for your patience. 

[jodha singh shekhawat]

44 minutes ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

Dear @jodha singh shekhawat. Thank you very much for booking a spot on this drive. Nonetheless, as you may have seen from the announcement, this is a drive reserved for Fewbies with 5 or more drives with Carnity.  At the moment you have 3 Fewbie drives under your belt, which unfortunately make you ineligible for this drive. Therefore, I am forced to take you off this list, hoping that you can still find a spot on another drive this weekend. I am very sorry for this inconvenience, and hope to see you soon in another all Fewbie drive.

Thanks for the information sir but After this rank total 5 drive completed my four Fewbies and 1 newbie are completed with carnity. 2 Fewbie with Mr Richard 18th and 25th sep-2020, and 3rd with Mr frederic 2nd oct, and my 4th Fewbies with you 3rd oct, and 1 newbie with Mr srikumar 25th sep, 

[Ale Vallecchi]

1 hour ago, jodha singh shekhawat said:

Thanks for the information sir but After this rank total 5 drive completed my four Fewbies and 1 newbie are completed with carnity. 2 Fewbie with Mr Richard 18th and 25th sep-2020, and 3rd with Mr frederic 2nd oct, and my 4th Fewbies with you 3rd oct, and 1 newbie with Mr srikumar 25th sep, 

Dear @jodha singh shekhawat I meant 5 Fewbie drives alone, not counting the Newbie drives. From Fewbie drive #6 (included) it's possible to register for Fewbie Plus. Even though this is an unofficial rank, some drives are reserved for more advanced Fewbies, due to the more difficult nature of the itinerary. I am truely sorry for this inconvenience, and will be happy to see you in the next open drive. 

[David Ortells]

Hello Ale please ad my to the waiting list !!

[Ale Vallecchi]

19 minutes ago, David Ortells said:

Hello Ale please ad my to the waiting list !!

Hello @David Ortells. You will be #2 on the WL, until I clear the matter of Nabil's precedence to take the drive's last available spot. Thanks a lot. 

[Rajeevan Vickneswaran]

Hi @Ale Vallecchi Can I be added on to the wait list as well please.

[Ale Vallecchi]

@Rajeevan Vickneswaran you have been added on the WL. Thanks a lot. 

[Ale Vallecchi]

Dear @siddharth maheshwari. I thank you for signing up. However, upon checking your number of drives at Fewbie level, it turns out that you have not completed the required minimum 5 Fewbie drives. Therefore I will have to exclude you from this drive, which, as you can see from the announcement, is limited to Fewbies Plus (as defined by the min. 5 drives requirement). I am sorry for this inconvenience, which is however to insure the safety of each drive, based on the level of difficulty that the convoy is expected to meet. I hope to see you soon on another open drive.

15 hours ago, Nabil Bishara said:

@Ale Vallecchi it seems to me the spot was taken after I asked to be on the waitlist. I may be wrong but would appreciate if you can check when you have some time. Thanks 

@Nabil Bishara, I am adding you to the drive's list. See you on Friday.

[Ale Vallecchi]

Dear Desertnauts.

Time to present next Friday AM's Fewbie PLUS drive. 

First of all, just to further clarify the meaning of this unofficial rank, Fewbie Plus refers to those Fewbie drivers who have had more than 5 drives at this level with Carnity. This sub-category intends to offer drives at a level between Fewbie and Intermediate, with a few more challenges, in order to provide an opportunity to hone one's skills toward a future promotion. Consequently the Fewbie Plus drives will be be conducted on more difficult terrains, at higher speed, and will require more refined skills, that should have been developed during the first Fewbie drives.

This drive in particular will venture in what I have called the "Middle-Earth", the land in between Solar Park and Faqa, where one can find a mix of quite technical dunes, long range dune formations and sand canyons, each separated by wide open sabkhas. This combination of terrains will require all kinds of driving skills, from the finesse required to navigate technical dunes, to the momentum, and sometimes the power, needed to sustain going in and out of sand bowls, or side-crossing relatively taller and sharper dunes. As drives normally focus on either Solar Park, Faqa or Little Sweihan, this time we wish to explore also what's in between, that is otherwise skipped on the way to or from these locations.

@Janarthan, @Jeandre Bezuidenhout, @Heisem, @Ilya Golubinsky, @Biju Abdul, @Gregory Perkin, @marks,

 @Tamas Hoffmann, @Islam Soliman , @Nabil Bishara and @Tbone thank for joining the trip.

I will share more info closer to Friday morning. In the meantime, enjoy your week.

[Ale Vallecchi]

On 10/4/2020 at 10:40 PM, David Ortells said:

Hello Ale please ad my to the waiting list !!

Hello @David Ortells. You are IN this Friday's drive. Please confirm. See you soon.

On 10/5/2020 at 8:33 AM, Rajeevan Vickneswaran said:

Hi @Ale Vallecchi Can I be added on to the wait list as well please.

Dear @Rajeevan Vickneswaran you are also IN this Friday AM drive. Please re-confirm. See you soon.