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Dear @Carnity members, pleased to offer Jack wooden board, free of cost, just collect it😀. Unless I am on the same drive, I can bring with me. Board will be made as attached photo, in different types of wood, depends on availability of wood. Please advise who wants to have one, to prepare together. Thanks

Dear Desert Wanderers, this RSVP is now closed. Please find below the convoy order for our drive: @Arman, @imranaasghar81, @Abdul Rahman AK, @Gok Krish, @Niki, @Javier Lucero, @Rizwan Waheed, @Dodi Syahdar, @Rob H, @Shehab Alawadhi, @Ale Vallecchi, this drive is going to be technically demanding, as the dunes in this area are quite irregular and can be tricky due to soft patches and nasty bushes. Also, due to the high temperatures of these days, you can expect this drive to take a toll on your car's cooling system, so make sure you check the levels of your fluids before tomorrow morning. This drive will require your full and undivided concentration at every step, so make sure you come well rested and hydrated and that you don’t have any reason for being distracted. Also, please consider carefully if you wish to bring passengers along with you. We will be using Carnity Channel 4 (446.08125Mhz). See you tomorrow morning, ready to go (i.e. already caffeinated, deflated, flagged and briefed) by no later 5:15am (sharp), so make sure you make it to the meeting point at least by 5:00am.

Well done @Hisham Masaad this truly shows your community spirit to share most wanted, difficult to buy, such useful and important offroader gear. I can't recall someone recently approached me for the same as they have been to Jadaf ship building guys without much luck. If possible, keep few spare so we can refer others to pick it up from you in the future.

Thank you for the session @Frederic ! Again a very nice opportunity to enjoy the desert environment and take time to take pictures. Thank you all for sharing tips and experience. We were lucky to benefit from expert advise !

Drive RSVP is now closed. Please go through the tutorial videos and make sure your cars front and rear tow hooks are in order. Hope all of you also have the required gear for the Fewbie level drives. See you all tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM and we will be using Radio channel 2, 446 031 25. 1 Brette JGC Lead 2 @N@ved Wrangler TJ 2nd Lead 3 @Pierre de Maigret FJ 4 @Chinthaka Ruwan X 5 @Nathan Evans Jimny 6 @Alain Canivet-Abikhalil Wrangler Silver 7 @Pacific Wrangler 2 Door CF 8 @Werno Wrangler Grey 9 @Russ Raptor White 10 @Darren Brooke Tahoe 11 @Vineeth John Joseph X 12 @Mehmet Volga Pajero Grey Sweep

Thank you @Gaurav, being one of @Carnity members, will be pleased to offer my help and support. I am already preparing more spare pieces for future and current members. Please do not hesitate to pass any one require the board to me. Sure @Abdul Rahman AK will consider one for you Copy that @Nivin👍

@Hisham Masaad Oh wow, That's so nice and kind of you... i would like to have one too only if possible since i can see you have a long list already... well done👍 and thank you for doing this for the community...

Thanks @RooRzOn, if you want you can still take one and use it as food cutting board in the kitchen.😂 if ok, I can make it smaller for you ..this is special offer for you only, don’t spread, otherwise more demand will come. All others order boards, you can use it as jack board and kitchen cutting board on the other side 😅

Oh wow! Would love to have one if still available. So kind of you!

Hi @Thomas Varghese, @Ilya Golubinsky, @Tero Vallas, @varunmehndiratta, @Amir Amiri, @Abu Muhammad, @Francois Germishuys This is the convoy list for tomorrow, See you all on the sand then! we are going to use Carnity Channel two : 2 44603125

Dear @Hisham Masaad, thanks for your generous gift. I hope I won't have to use it much... but it's good to know that the right board is in the trunk!

Superb @Anish S!!!!! Well done!!!! you are an inspiration to a lot of pajero owners in the club!!!!

@Brette with pleasure @Ashy copy that👍 @Russ with pleasure @Danish Mohammad sure👍

Thanks for the opportunity @Frederic Looking forward to more....

Dear @Hisham Masaad if you can add another to your list, I would be very appreciative. If you have too many orders already then I understand.

@Ammar Naji you were also on my waitlist but I see you have a drive in the afternoon tomorrow. You still want to join tomorrow morning too ? Drive RSVP is closed now Below you can find the convoy numbering for tomorrow's drive We will be using radio channel 1 (446.00625) Newbie drive Pink Rock 28 may 2021 Attendees Level Car Pos # Vanessa8580 Marshal Mitsubishi Pajero LWB Blue 1 TT_Dubai Fewbie Jeep Wrangler JK 2014 2 SL Dwain Fernandes Newbie Mitsubishi Pajero LWB Grey 2017 3 Paolo Pellegrini Newbie Mitsubishi Pajero LWB 2014 Bronze 4 Alfred Alinazar Newbie Mitsubishi Pajero LWB Black 5 Hisham Masaad Intermediate Toyota FJ Cruiser Black 6 CF Talgat Mendibaev Newbie Ford Explorer LTD 2016 Black 7 Anoop Nair Newbie Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Manual 2014 8 Luc Khaldoun Newbie Nissan Patrol 2020 9 Shaaz Sha Intermediate Nissan X-terra 10 CF Rjducos Newbie Ford F150 2019 11 Ivan Pironi Newbie Ford F150 12 Goutam Intermediate Jeep Wrangler SWB Yellow 13 Gauravsoni Intermediate Mitsubishi Pajero LWB Grey 14 SWEEP I hope to see you all tomorrow morning at 5 am !

Hi @Adhir Saxena, @Nithin Vaidir, @PaoloMaraziti; @Ehab; @Jeandre Bezuidenhout; @Chris Wing; @JeromeFJ; @darren thompson; @Ranjan Das Here is the convoy order for the drive tomorrow morning. Radio Channel is 3. Please deflate, flag up and wait in the car for the briefing. COVID is still very real so we will remain strict in making sure our drives are all safe. Please help us keep it that way. @Islam Soliman and @markshave kindly agreed to support this drive. See you all tomorrow morning.

Yes please @Hisham Masaad!! I hope you don’t regret this kind offer 🤣

@Hisham Masaadthank you, I would want one too.

What a wonderful spirit @Hisham Masaad.. thx for your generous offer to the club

@Hisham Masaadi would not mind having one as well. Have been trying to get one for a while now to replace what I have.

@Hisham Masaadone for me please

Looking forward to the drive!

Convoy Numbering 1. SK - XJ 2. Rizwanm2 - Xterra 3. Dwain Fernandes - Pajero 4. Badar Tariq - Pajero 5. Shu Yang - Patrol Y62 6. M. Seidam - Xterra 7. Taufique Surve - Xterra 8. Danish Mohammad - Pajero 9. Abdul Rahman AK - Pajero 10. Gaurav Soni - Pajero 11. Muhammad Kashif - Wrangler 12. Gaurav - Pajero We shall be using Carnity Channel 3 for tonight's drive. See you at the meeting point at 10:00 PM

hi @Ale Vallecchi apologies for withdrawing for this drive. Had a big discussion with my partner regarding addiction for off-roading and literally had to sign an MoU with my partner allocating time between drives 😜 which dictates “only mornings and nights slots to be used for Offroad drives until further notice!!!! “

@Lorenzo CandelpergherAs usual, your lead always make me learn many new technique as well as get more confidence as the result of challenging route selected by you.. look forward to meet you again tomorrow. @all, great to meet you again in this trip, really enjoy the drive with you all.

@Hisham Masaad thanks, i was following you....that made it easy looking at the finesse with which you are crisscrossing etc. @Ahab Shamaa thanks for the pep talks in break times and valuable advice to keep more space between me and car in front, it became better @Rob H, hello, got to say hello to you @Watteau Good to see you again guys, as always fun Pak @Dodi Syahdar, likewise, great to meet you and look forward to driving more with you @Nivin, good to know you from the start of the drive....seeing new friends in this level, awesome... @Lorenzo Candelpergher what a wonderful route you took us through, small area but so much variations to catch up within short distances....exhilarating stuff after some stagnation of adrenalin in Fewbie drives. as always, thanks for taking us safe while keeping it adventurous. Finally, my Car says Sorry for getting hot ending the drive a bit prematurely...I will do some video editing and post shortly, some nice shots have come...

Awesome @Hisham Masaad I dont want one but I just want to celebrate your generosity and I believe this is a great green initiative to recycle unwanted woodchips. Well done 👏👏👏👏

Basic fighting gravity and fishtailing thus the roll. It is a classic how NOT to side slope. As soon as his back end starting going down he should have steered down.

RSVP is now closed I welcome @Zed, @Xavier Treasurer, @Ruan van den Heever, @Farouq Owdeh, @Hasan Wahlan, @Karthikeyan Govindarajan, @Lakshmi Narasimhan, @Warren Flay and @Janarthan to this drive. We will be using carnity channel 4. The convoy list is as in below See you all.

Thanks @Luca Palanca Falsini for putting me in the 2nd lead. I was little apprehensive today morning after getting my 1st shot of vaccine. So many people terrified me into not doing any activities. Thank God I held on to my belief that I'm strong to counter the effects of the vaccine and didn't sign out. Yes I felt little funny after the shot and slept off like a baby whole day but now totally feel charged up and energized after the sound sleep. There is no body pain, no fever, no headache and feel perfectly fine. Hopefully we can have a nice sand dance under your lead tomorrow.

I will be joining you. Probably in the Pajero 😄

@Vanessa8580 Please go ahead and enjoy your drive. I just got my confirmation notice on the afternoon drive. See you next weekend.

Issue sorted out, I am truly ready now thx @Frederic for reminding me to check and saved my drive and day!!!

Hi @Hisham Masaad appreciate your kindness 😊 please if possible can i have one of this ... will be very thankful 💐 Regards....

I am looking for one desperately. please let me know if I can also have one? Thank you.

That's great news for me, I am coming. Thank you so much!

Temporary Convoy List 1) @Frederic - Pajero SWB Blue - Crew 2) @Josh T. - GMC Sierra - Newbie 3) @Jerry Han - Pajero - Absolute Newbie 4) @Sherry Mathew Jacob - Jeep Grand Cherokee - Absolute Newbie 5) @nr999in - Lexus GX460 - Absolute Newbie 6) @Kailas - Jeep Wrangler SWB Red - Expert I am looking forward meeting you guys tomorrow at 05AM. The plan is to introduce you all to some desert driving, with some basic side sloping, and straight cresting excercises. Getting stuck is part of the fun, so please don't feel ashamed or disappointed in case you get stuck. It's a learning experience and we gladly recover vehicles and share the tricks on how to recover yourself. I hope by now you have all watched the Newbie briefing that was posted in the drive topic, this will be your best introduction for taking your first steps into the sand. If you are totally new to desert driving, i would recommend not to bring family members along. It will be important that you feel relaxed and that you can focus on learning the basic skills first. You will be amazed what you will learn in a matter of a few hours. Myself and @Kailas will be supporting you throughout the drive. With regards to tools, have a look at below advice. For your first drive a pressure gauge is enough. From a second drive onwards you will be needing a radio, flag, pressure gauge, and a fullsize shovel: If you have a walkie talkie already, you can program it to our Carnity Channels as per below advice. If not then we will be handing out a spare model that you can use for your first drive with us: We will be using Channel 2: 446.03125 Mhz. Please arrive on time (or before is even better) so we can head out to the dunes quickly after deflating the tyres. See you tomorrow ! PS in case of emergency my mobile no. is 056 504 26 32

@Matt.T @PaoloMaraziti @luis mantecon @Arshad Roojee @Thomas Fumarola @Marky B @Lakshmi Narasimhan @sheri @Nihal17 @Yousef Alimadadi Dear All, Please note that there is a change in the timing, the new meeting time is 4:00PM (instead of 3:30PM). This change is made because of the hot weather, thank you for you understanding.

Hey @Islam Soliman, please waitlist me for this drive 🙏🏻

Amazing innovation...sea paddling to the rescue in the sand..the tyre should be protruding out of the body, something to fix them on the rim..they sounded as Japanese.. absolute crawl control.. wow

DRIVE REPORT Dear Desert Wanderers, I must say I am really starting to get addicted to these Wednesday mid-week morning drives.. Certainly a beautiful drive like the one we enjoyed this morning contributed badly to my addiction.. When you happen to meet @Gok Krish, @Hisham Masaad and @Dodi Syahdar at Last Exit Petrol Station at 4:50am getting the last shot of caffeine before the drive, it's a mixed feeling: on one side you realize you are totally mad, on the other side you realize you are not alone in such madness! We were all set to go by 5:23am, well before the sunrise. We quickly drove around the fence of Solar Park, then headed South towards Little Sweihan, where we reached exactly at sunrise time, only to realize it was so foggy in the distance that we were only going to see the sun much later. We then entered Little Sweihan Area and started testing the terrain and the convoy response, while the light (and visibility) where still quite poor, which - to my disappointment - caused my first pop-out as I completely missed to see a mini but nasty pocket at the bottom of a very innocent small dune. Luckily the pop-out was fixed in no time with the great help of the team and we moved again. With better light we started increasing the level and the pace. @Frederic had rightly warned me that "Little Sweihan can be deceiving" and he certaingly wasn't wrong. The sand is beautifully shaped by the wind in apparently gentle and round fashions and, given the absolute absence of any tracks, it is incredibly appealing, however the dunes layout in this area is very irregular, with frequent small and medium pockets, deep and steep bowls, sharp and curved crests.. in other words, the perfect ground to challenge a well motivated Intermediate convoy, a chance that - of course - we didn't miss!! As we moved slowly east, we had a very entertaining stint of rapid climbs, ambitious criss-crossings, evasive manouvers to get out of deep bowls, all combined in an amazingy fun "spaghetti drive", as can be seen from the below photo, taken real time from my navigator display (this is what I call "Spaghetti Little Sweihan Sauce", which has quickly gained one of the top ranks in my favourite mid-week breakfast menu): As we continued in our restless wandering, we experienced a 2nd pop-out by @Nivin, who was greatly supported by @Dodi Syahdar while the rest of the convoy enjoyed the fantastic morning views, some of which are here below: It was during this short break that we made radio contact with @Wrangeld who was leading a Master Class not too far away. As the 2nd pop-out was fixed, we continued satisfying our off-road appetite with more spaghetti, putting the whole convoy to a hard test. The terrain was indeed quite difficult today, with sudden patches of soft sand and very tight maneuvering spaces in many occasions, but everyone did very well: @Hisham Masaad was a great 2nd lead, following without hesitation my funambulist lines or holding back waiting for me to complete the full round of the next fun bowl. @Gok Krish, at his very first Intermediate Drive, showed a brilliant performance, handling most difficult situations very well and managing every time to get out of trouble by himself. @Ahab Shamaa found hopefully enough challenges for his experienced drive, while providing precious radio guidance to Gok in the occasion of a his very rare refusals. @Rob H managed his Tundra magnificently, considering the inherent difficulty of maneuvering in such tight spots and across many sharp crests. Exiting one of the big bowls he got crested in a moment of hesitation, but a quick winching got him out in no-time. @Watteau had "THIS IS FUN" written in capital letters on his face during the whole drive, exhibiting a 32 teeth smile every time his tinted window was down, as documented in a photo published in a previous post. I guess it must have felt great to handle the F150 across such a demanding terrain! @Dodi Syahdar was equally awesome at the back, managing the drive with very little hesitation, betrayed only by a small tricky step at the entrance of the last big bowl of the day, which costed him his first ever pop-out. As with @Christian Andras last weekend, experiencing the first pop-out after having made it all the way to Intermediate was a bit of a shock for Dodi, but his supercool temper prevailed in just a few seconds as he was already on top of the truck digging into his mega storage box for compressor and floor-jack. @Nivin at the back was as cool as a cucumber, diligently updating me about the status of the last cars in the convoy and super-helpful with Dodi's pop-out. With the 3rd pop-out fixed, we were all in the mood to continue for another couple of hours, but I had the unfair duty to be mindful about the time and to lead the convoy to the sabkha to reach the fence of the military area on the west side and then head north towards Solar Park long range dunes. We moved so fast on the dirt track that @Hisham Masaad raised his concerns about the possible presence of speed traps 😂..., then entered the dunes again starting to ride some very long and appealing crests. It was again a beautiful moment, but it lasted just a few mins as @Gok Krish's Wrangler had a few sudden power cuts due to overheating. After cooling down the car, it was decided to make our way out through the fastest and easiest route, i.e. along the existing dirt tracks, all the way to Bab Al Shams. It was the right thing to do, as we reached the exit point by 8:15am, our intended exit time. Overall we drove 58.2km (approx. 22 on dirt tracks) for a total time of 2h 55', of which 1h 55' moving and 1h 00' stopped, for and average moving speed of 30.3km/h (clearly doped by the long stints on dirt tracks, where we exceeded 90km/h). It was an energizing short morning drive, literally distilled fun in Little Sweihan, thanks to a wonderful and capable convoy. Too bad @GauravSonicouldn't make it today! Kudos to all, as the terrain was all but easy to drive through. And see you next time in the sand!!!!

i want 1 too @Hisham Masaad

Hi @Hisham Masaad Thats nice of you. i just bought the jack and looking for board. Please keep once for me as well. Thank you.

@Hisham Masaad please do keep one aside for me thankyou.