Morning Fewbie Desert Drive - Al Ajban to Little Sweihan: Second Attempt - Abu Dhabi - 20 Apr 2025

[Carl Stanley]

I threw together a video of the very close call by the Defender.

It was incredible seen how everyone tackled this very dangerous position. Props to @Myrko for keeping his cool and everyone else for how the situation was approached

[vinayak n]

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi@Luke K P@Aser for the drive !

[_luke_]

16 minutes ago, Carl Stanley said:

I threw together a video of the very close call by the Defender.

It was incredible seen how everyone tackled this very dangerous position. Props to @Myrko for keeping his cool and everyone else for how the situation was approached

Certainly was an interesting angle to be stuck on. 😅

Nice calm recovery as well. 👍

[Johannes Roux]

I have more photos but cant upload any further…

[_luke_]

Great fun today guys. 

We started around 08:15 after our briefing and discussion about the fence with no gaps. @Ale Vallecchi had scouted the length of the fence and decided for go for an explore.

First 30 minutes had us warming up doing some smaller ridges, and looping around a caravan of camels, and the herder in his very ugly Suzuki Vitara. 😂

On our way to head westward we had @Myrko's defender get stuck on some plants at what seemed like a very steep sideways angle. The very low centre of gravity kept it planted, and some rope work defused the situation so that we could continue west towards a waypoint named 'valley of grass'

And we certainly found grass,.. lots of it, and some very very bumpy climbs due to the plants roots.

Next up we had some nice clean ridges to practise on as we entered the Al marmoon nature reserve. We did a couple of.sabkha crossings and spotted many more camels...

Ale guided us close to an oryx farm, and we took a few moments to drive around and get some snaps of the up close and personal.. 📸📸

We then entered the triangle of little sweihan... Where we found even more grass. I nominate a name change to 'North sweihan forest' 😅 we had 1 or 2 refusals and a popout, but didn't hold us up for too long!

Here we said goodbye to amr and Yury while they headed North to solar park, we continued around the military installation towards the Ghantoot royal guard base... Connecting up some more long dunes with some ridge riding in between.

Thanks to everyone driving very strong, we covered a lot of ground and lots of different terrain... Great way to spend a Sunday morning!

See you all again soon

 

Edited April 20, 2025 by Luke K P