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It was a good crew and we DID have fun! Thank you so much @Hisham Masaadfor leading a great drive. With more than able assistance from @Rob Sat CF and @Pacificat sweep we plowed a straight furrow through the beautifully refreshed Sharjah dunes (thank you weather). A good mix of technical switchbacks and dramatic bowls joined by some lovely flowing ridges made for an intense morning of fun and stress. Special thanks to @Rob S's lovely passenger for the motivation to try harder, I'm sure he wasn't paraphrasing... Also a special mention to @Mohamad Anwer for pushing me up the hills and @Tom Bfor cheering me down the hills. Looking forward to dragging this crew to Sweihan soon!

@Tom B I totally agree with you, today by far was one of the best drives with @Hisham Masaad the Carnity grand master of Albadayer, we need to name one bowl there after Hisham 😃 😊 😀! Thank you @Hisham Masaad today was a crush course drive covering all of the challenges, it can only get better with you. What a fantastic team 👏 and how great it is to see everyone again since last weekend, with @Tom Band @Mark Dthe group again especially @Warren Flay and his amazing unstoppable SWB Pajero infront of me 3weekends in a row! 😃 @Pacificgreat to see again Dr. And thank you for your support today, you are always very smooth and look relaxed at the sweep position 😀. @Rob Samazing support as always, and no need to go to the gym this weekend my friend, you already had your workout from all the shoveling 💪 😉 Looking forward to seeing you all again soon. Eid Mubarak

@Ale Vallecchi great first half drive loved every minute of it, then the hand off to @JeromeFJ who did extremely well at the front as the leader of the leader of the pack (there is a song in there somewhere) thank you for the picking a great route and we did get to see some oryz . Thanks @Waqas Parvez for doing an amazing job at sweep position, you did a great job supporting the team from the back. @Vaibhav @Paolo Pellegrini @Paolo Morresi @Harshal @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler@Pascal@RiaanJH and @Ashutosh Garg you guys drove amazingly and made the drive fun and a pleasurable experience i hope you all enjoyed it as much as i did. hope to see you all in the sand again very soon

What can I say that hasn’t already been said? FANTASTIC drive today, great convoy, great tracks, great climbs, I could go on. Thanks @Hisham Masaad as always, well done to @Alexanderrr in SL and thanks @Pacific for sweeping us from the back. It was great to finally drive behind you @ASAD. and do the prado proud! unfortunately not many photos from me today, but added a few and some good photos already there! And to those who somehow manage to do the drive while also fasting, well done. Wishing you fantastic week ahead, Eid Sa’id.

@Ale Vallecchi and @JeromeFJthank you for the wonderful route. The drive was really fun. 2 different driving style in one drive. Everyone drove extremely well. @Davie Chase amazing job as a CF and @Waqas Parvez as a sweep we know we have nothing to worry when you both were supporting . It was pleasure meeting with new faces and special mention to the both Paolo’s where I was in between @Paolo Pellegrini and @Paolo Morresi who drove exceptionally well. @Harshal the beast you have needs to be tamed and I am sure with some more drive you will. Hope your son is doing well. @DP1011 , Deepak wranglerhappy to see another wrangler and meeting you. @Pascalamazing drive with no issues whatsoever. hope to see everyone soon on the sand.

Cant have enough words or any courage to rephrase the event...mindboggling. Surreal experience....everyone did the best, though few refusal, bound to happen due to the softness of sand. Everyone has made mark on one or other dune of badayer(hisham) 😜 @Mohamad Anwer. Thank you @Hisham Masaad it was, is and will be great fun to be on your drive. Good to see new folks @Alexanderrr n @Joji varghese. Rest all @Mohamad Anwer @Warren Flay mighty @Mark D, curious learner @Tom B you all were immaculate Proudy prados @ASAD. and @Rob S great. The terrain, lead and spirit of the desert wanderers made this one special. Thank you. Have a great day. Eid in advance. Stress coz he is trying to keep everyone happy in fair way.

Thank you @Ale Vallecchi for initiating the drive, and giving me the opportunity to lead the second part. You were great support and inspiration for the preparation and during the drive itself. From my Absolute Newbie drive that I did with you until today, i have always appreciated the care you take in the selection of the itineraries and the execution of your drives. The first part was a flawless warmup through the high dunes of Quadra around the crescent lake. Perfect start under the lead of @Ale Vallecchi to enjoy the morning light and the virgin sands, but already requiring full awareness of the drivers. A only a few gazelles and cyclists (wildlife ?) were around at this early time. Then we crossed the pylon track to reach the Ghantoot area, and Ale handed over the lead to me. This second portion of middle size dunes is challenging as they are quite tight in places, and present steep slip faces closing the way. But it is the perfect terrain to exercise our driving skills, and it was a pleasure to find a way through the sand valleys, crossing the ridges, riding the crests. There were some traps in the form of soft bowls, sand pockets, or sharp crests leading to a few stucks and refusal, including me being crested, all of them sorted without issue with the support of @Davie Chase and @Waqas Parvez. Then came the third portion, more open with wider dunes and some hard flat sabkha surface between them. Driving there might have been easier, but we were facing another challenge, finding the mighty oryxes, purpose of the drive. The beasts had left their home vacant, with only one of them guarding the place, and we had to wander the area to find the herd. I could finally spot them atop of a crest and we had our 10 min of literally « chasing the oryx », the front cars driving on their side or just behind them, keeping a reasonable distance. The oryxes being clearly superior to our cars in the sand, we turned our way back to reach the exit, to the relief of the passenger of @Harshal. @Ashutosh Garg @Paolo Pellegrini @Vaibhav @Paolo Morresi @RiaanJH @Davie Chase @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler @Pascal @Waqas Parvez it was a pleasure to have you in the drive. Thanks again @Ale Vallecchi for the guidance and support. Enjoy the long weekend and see you soon on the sand !

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi and @JeromeFJ for your lead. Very nice drive, one of the best so far(at least for me). Nice speed and nice dunes. I loved the more technical dunes at the beginning. @RiaanJH was really nice the share the experience and the little secrets of our phenomenal cars. Hope to see you all next week.

@Hisham Masaad, what a drive! Brilliant fun with a superb crew. The best drive I have had in Badayer so far. How these cars hold up with the endless climbing I will never know. Everyone drove superbly and the few stucks we did have were all self recovered which meant we were able to cover almost 60 km this morning! @Rob S, as always, great job as CF. And @Pacific as sweep. @Warren Flay and @Mohamad Anwer you guys drove flawlessly today and thoroughly deserve promotion to IM level. Enjoy the Eid break and see you all soon.

Good morning everyone ! I am very excited to lead the convoy tomorrow after a long time being away from the Sweihan dunes ... Sorry for the people that haven't made it into the drive list, I hope to see you next time ! Below you can find the convoy numbering for the drive. We will be using radio channel 2 (446 03125) Pos Member Vehicle Rank 1 Vanessa Pajero LWB Blue Marshal 2 Varun Jeep Wrangler AD 3 Andrew Pajero LWB White FB 4 Han Suzuki Jimny Yellow FB 5 Fabien Land Cruiser 76 INT 6 Guracharan Land Cruiser Black FB 7 Karthekiyan Land Cruiser FB+ 8 Naveen Pajero LWB Grey INT 9 Rajiv Sam Toyota FJ Cruiser INT 10 Amr Aydin Jeep Wrangler Green FB 11 Deepak Jeep Rubicon Green FB 12 Santoso Jeep Rubicon Blue FB+ 13 Awais Zuberi Chevrolet Silverado FB 14 Harshal Toyota Tundra FB 15 Srikumar Jeep Cherokee Crew Hope to see you all bright and early tomorrow morning at 6 am !

Amazing drive, great crew,lots of challenges and massive learning.Thank you @Hisham Masaad for this drive, giving us chance to try harder and improve, for taking me today for this drive. Thank you @Rob S for helping through the radio and shovelling along with others. @Hisham Masaad's checklist before drive; 1.Make everyone enjoyable drive 2.Find place for 2nd lead to get stuck and exhaust him completely 🤣 (Just kidding) Happy Eid

One of the best ride so far with Carnity. @Ale Vallecchi don't mind going too technical as at the beginning, let's do more! @JeromeFJ you were amazing in taking the lead. I love your car and I think I'll go for that one day! I also loved those 5 - 10 minutes we were driving without interruptions and without any comms only the engine noise. See you soon!

I was bit early to the drive location. After having seen how much time it would take during the Friday afternoon rush time, I prepared to come here accordingly which was almost 20 min early even after stopping for an early morning Coffee and fuel up. Soon enough rest of the team joined. The morning was surprisingly cool and was Faqa was a perfect place to begin the drive, as the Sun rose in the east we began with a briefing. Soon we headed toward the dunes. Plan was to first cross the technical dunes to reach the long range dunes. On the way had two refusal at the same time when @Abdul Basit Khan and @Alfred Alinazar both simultaneously landed in small pocket-ish places. We tugged @Abdul Basit Khan and reached @Alfred Alinazar. While he self recovered himself, masterfully guided by @GauravSoni form one, but directly went ahead and found himself in another one. This time it did not seem like he could recover so we winched him out. Soon we started to move in the technical dunes towards the long range dunes but @imranaasghar81 thought it would be an appropriate time to take revenge on his sea captain friend, making him sick, because he made our friend sick 4 years ago 😝. Luckily we were near an exit so we exited them and continues towards our main play area. The desert in this area was fresh and unblemished by tracks and we had lot of fun. There were a few refusals here but that was part of the learning. Without refusals you will learn 🔔. On the way exit we had a Baja run and yours truly still rules Baja🥳. Finally a timely exit at solar park, before the sun start to scorching the desert. A big thank you to @GauravSonifor a great drive and @Anish S for the regulatory support. Also thanks to the senior members @Ranjan Das & @Ashok chaturvedi for the guidance. It was a great performance by @Jessica Lambert, @KAMALIO, @Alfred Alinazar and @Abdul Basit Khan well done all. Few pics will be posted to gallery soon.

Good morning Team ! Thanks for signing up for this drive, some of you have done this terrain already before, while for other it will be the first time. What to expect ? This is not your typical dunebashing and sidesloping terrain, as it varies from lushy green terrain into farmtracks, and includes some nice technical terrain to test all your skills. We will exit in Falaj Al Mualla, which has the famous watch towers, and is officially in Umm al Quwain, so in fact we will be driving in 2 Emirates Bring your camera and try to enjoy the terrain, as we expect to see goats, donkeys, camels, and lots of vegetation. Consider this more to be a kind of overlanding exploration. I am sure we will have fun and i particularly like the area because there are no other offroaders in sight. As for the convoy list: @Anoop Nair will be on his 51st drive, which i can only applaud as he has come very far and i know i can rely on him 100% to be my second lead. In the center, we will have @Davie Chase who has been recently promoted to support team, and will be eager to demonstrate his magnificent shoveling skills 😁 Towards the back we have really experienced members, and it's great to see @Probir Mukherjee back with us in Carnity. @topgear, and most-probably his super-co-pilot that will be with him will be sweeping our convoy. We will be using Channel 1: 446.00625 Mhz. I hope to see you all tomorrow at 4PM sharp, there will be a small part of the drive in dark, which changes the whole perspective on driving in the sand. There is no need for extra night lights on your 4x4, but if you have them be ready to test them

Truly amazing drive @Hisham Masaad fully charged before long holiday.. fabulous support team by @Rob S@Pacific and a most challenging SL by@Alexanderrr thank you all for your guidance and support.. advance Eid mubarak to all..

Dear @munkybizness @Mario Cornejo @Emanuel @Looper @Sam K @fayez @Jonny90 @Sunny84 @Amr Paple @Ignacio Quindos @pramod @takeshi sobue @Mahmoud Taha Pre-drive details below: 1- Please be on time and bring all your passion for off-roading and pull as much as you can of yourself out of bed.. trust me you will need all of it. 2- Be at the meeting point by 5:30am (or before) and be ready to move max by 5:45am max (deflated, flag erected, 4H on, radio on and set, airbags/traction/abs all set....) 3- Please ensure your programable radio is on, fully charged and set to Channel 1 (446,006) 4- Briefing will be done on on the sand before we start moving 5- Please be prepared for a demanding drive which you will require your undivided attention. Bringing passengers is ok provided they will not be a cause for distraction and don't have known motion sickness or fear of heights. 6- Please ensure everything in the car is tied down and no moving objects 7- Please check all car fluids, tow hooks, and ensure no hanging parts below the chassis. 8- please ensure you come with a full tank (as much as possible) in addition to all necessary gear for this drive level specially your safety flag and radio (NO FLAG or RADIO = NO DRIVE) 9- Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/6p8VvbGjF1XVquyz7 10. Convoy Order:

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi for another amazing drive ! and @JeromeFJ the second half too was as amazing as the first half ! Love the track you chose ! was pleasure seeing again fellow Jeepers @RiaanJH @Paolo Morresi@Davie Chaseand adding to this list @Vaibhav - Was good to connect buddy ! and like wise was good to see some known faces @Ashutosh Garg @Harshal @Paolo Pellegriniand some new too ! ( @Pascal@Waqas Parvez See you all soon again ! Have a good Eid break !

Ale's Oryx Express can't be complete without the Oryxes!

@GauravSoni thank you for selecting a perfect route and play areas. I love the kind of drag race 😎 @Anish S @Looperthank you for your support. @Jessica Lambert @Ashok chaturvedi @Ranjan Das @KAMALIO @Alfred Alinazar nice meeting you guys.

Thanks all! It's strange he felt ill all the way home and even felt queazy an hour after sitting. Maybe it was tiredness from driving from Qatar plus fasting etc. Anyhow it was great to see new faces and I'll make sure I'll drive with you all again soon. Enjoy the break! Imran

@Vanessa8580 Hi Vanessa, I greatly look forward to joining this drive! @RiaanJH Riaan buddy... Maybe I will see you too... 🤞 🙂

Spoke too soon 😜

Thank you @Gaurav Soni for the wonderful drive to kick start the looong weekend. Could experience all - good speed, long virgin dunes, crisscross, ridge riding, shovel, tug and winch. Thanks once again. @Anish S thank you for the second lead; was nice meeting you after a long time. Goutam @Looper, you were great and very active as sweep. Thanks for all the support @imranaasghar81, hope your friend recovered soon and that he is back to normal now. Hope to catch up on another drive soon. @Jessica Lambert, @KAMALIO, @Alfred Alinazar, @Abdul Basit Khan and @Ashok chaturvedi - it was wonderful meeting and driving with you guys. Hope to do so again

@Paolo Morresi the App is called My Trails.

Yippee!

@Vanessa8580 Like wise, been long and am equally excited to ! and looking forward to see you again @Srikumar !

I hope your friend feeling batter now. see you on sand soon buddy..

Thanks @Frederic, looking forward to tomorrow!

Apologies @Alexanderrr just read your message. You can join if you can make

Whatever car I'm driving goes first... don't care about the other 2 💪💪💪💪

Hi @Ale Vallecchi wished to drive with you but not on may second , I hope there will be rush hour 5 😄

@Warren Flayhahahah, our SWB beasties are inseparable I guess 😉🤣🤭🤜🤛

Dear Desertnauts. Welcome to this drive. Our goal will be to move alongside the western border of Al Marmoon's Conservation Area, entering just off the road to Bab al Shams Resort, reaching the Solar Park's pylon lines, and proceeding south from there, until we'll reach a large enclosure and feeding area populated (usually) by a great deal of Oryx. The Oryx Express will test a mix of skills, needed to overcome a couple of technical areas with tall, sharp, ridges and deep soft bowls, as well as long range, more open, dunes. Considering we plan to exit on E14, inland from Sheik Zayed Road, not too close to any gas stations (21 km to the nearest one), it's recommended that you start with a full tank (fill up at Qudra's Last Exit ADNOC station). The convoy order, chosen to alternate Internediates with Fewbie drivers, will be as follows: @JeromeFJ in Second Lead @Ashutosh Garg at #3 @Paolo Pellegrini #4 @Vaibhav at #5 @Paolo Morresi #6 @RiaanJH at #7 @Davie Chase at Center Forward @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler at #9 @Waqas Parvez #10 @Pascal at #11 @Harshal #12, and @munkybizness will Sweep. Looking forward to see you tomorrow morning, ready to leave as close to 6:30 am as possible. Have a nice evening.

Stress coz he is trying to keep everyone happy in fair way.