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Good weather, strong convoy, and the terrain after some rain was perfect for a nice drive. Glad to see you all, some met for the first time @Juzer Gandhi @Ignacio Quindós and @Adam Jamespleasure to meet you. Nice to see how are you driving and going over different terrains. Well done friends. Unfortunately the pajero was not allowing Juzer sometimes to reach higher points. Adam not sure what was the issue with some climbs, hopefully by more drives you will figure out. @Mahmoud Taha big difference from last drive we met and this one, I can see you have now the power of pushing the car to go over challenges, specially long climbs. Well done bro. @Miguel Codes and @Sam K no comments, all perfectly achieved, well done. Thanks for the support @Mohamad Anwer @Chinthaka Ruwan and @TT_Dubai amazing job, much appreciated. Look forward to see you again in sand. Wish you nice week ahead.

Thanks @Brette for the great drive...i was still on testing mode with my changed car ...had enough opportunities to get used to the car and its gearing Also, really appreciate the efforts put to give special attention to our absolute newbies @premindra rajaram, @Benjamin and @Lewis2009 ...warm welcome to the club, and i believe you got a great intro to this hobby, and please dont feel pressured if you were not able to do some side slopes and straight climbs or if you struggled to get through .. Its a new skill and you need to give it time..and @Carnity is a very patient club 👍.... Good to drive with mostly new faces @Mohammed Sirajuddin, @Sunny84, @Emanuel@Juzer Gandhi @Zulfikhar Naiyar @Pacific - good to see you again, hope all fine and your urgent call from work is sorted out @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler - nice to meet you, and see you on the next drive! Some photos in the gallery...

@Kailas - excellent drive, smooth lines, enough adrenaline and great overall itinerary with intermittent breaks, time to relax and have some small talk ...I should say it was a test for me and the Fortuner, mainly in terms of long climbs, pace and navigating cross tracks at many places with a stock suspension, but my car did not let me down , and honestly i was amazed at its climbing ability on first gear and the way it holds the gear at high revs... I am not a contender to this toyota vs Jeep fight at all bro. you should pick someone of your size, probably @Rajiv Sam or @Waqas Parvez ...i am a good 50 hp less than you guys ..😂 ..anyway so far , am happy with my choice 🤘 Good to drive with you @Felix Obst, and veteran @Ashok chaturvedisir, i echo what @Vaibhav said...always good to listen to you and your experiences and frank opinions.. Good to meet you @Karthik Raptor, see you on the next drive

@Kailas and the team drivers.. It was one of the 100% perfect drive where the thrills and drills were there with absolutly no untold incident. The best part was to sit on a mountain dune on relaxing chairs and enjoy the chit chat. Thanks Kailas sir appreciate very much and look forward to be on your forthcoming drives. I further thank the two recently nominated young support drivers... well done.

Congratulations @Mahmoud Taha for reaching the Fewbie Plus Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. P.S. Trip lead might deny your participation if you don't have required off-road gear. FEWBIE PLUS Drives Attended (Indicative) Minimum 10 Fewbie drives are required within last 6 months for Fewbie Plus promotion. What you'll learn Advance dune and sand reading Advance recovery techniques Rocking and crawling to make path Learn to flatten/compact soft sand patch Self recovery from crest Advance side sloping and long hill climb Advance ridge riding and criss crossing Advance control over technical dunes Slightly faster pace desert driving FULLY control and avoid fishtailing Never fight or challenge gravity Skills required Enthusiastic and positive attitude Willingness to learn and help others Extremely attentive and focused while driving Car Worthiness Any 4x4 vehicle with low range gearing Suitable approach and departure angle Bash plate and skid plate protected Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor. Drive teamwork Manage second lead and sweep positions upon request Intuitive and proactive to support Trip Lead Observe recoveries and offer help, when needed Drive Joining Join Newbie, Fewbie and Fewbie Plus drives Forum participation Active participation on the forum Share drive experience + feedback Share drive pictures in the gallery Post trip report after the drive

Congratulations @Rizwanm2 for reaching the Expert Level with Carnity Offroad Club. Looking forward to seeing you growing further and helping others to learn the art of offroading in a safe environment. Please make sure your Carnity user profile is always updated with all the latest Emergency contact details. EXPERT - Carnity Exclusivity The expert level will offer you continuous improvement in your overall development by alternating between the lead and supporting the drive every week. This way, you will still learn and advance your knowledge by supporting other trip leads in different terrain to understand the complexity and challenges involved and practicing independent lead and convoy management. Carnity Benefits Full access to Carnity without any paid subscription. Join any drive in the “Manage” tab. Carnity Contribution Committed to driving with Carnity off-road club only. Lead a minimum of 6 weekend drives per quarter (3 months). Forum contribution to earn Carnity points. What you'll learn Navigating with or without GPS on the fly. Trip planning, safety exits, and recce skills. Response to vehicle breakdown and accidents. Skills required A resilient, calculative, and rational thinker. Self-reliance, positive attitude, and forward-thinking. Kind, selfless, and considerate of others’ concerns. Car Worthiness Capable 4x4 vehicle with a low range gearing. Suitable approach and departure angle. High profile tires. Off-road gear required Safety flag, tire deflator, tire pressure gauge, shovel, fire extinguisher, medical kit, radio (walkie-talkie), air compressor, tool kit, rated recovery rope and 2 rated shackles, GPS, Floor jack and jack board, tire repair kit, toolbox, tie-down straps, fluids. Drive teamwork Lead Fewbie, Fewbie Plus, Intermediate, or Extreme drives. Inspect the vehicle for safety before the off-road drive. Support all other level drives, proactively. Drive Joining All Levels. Forum participation Active participation in the forum. Share drive experience + feedback. Share drive pictures in the gallery. Post trip report after the drive.

Hi everyone. Let me start by shouting a big thanks to all of you who helped and cared during my unfortunate tire event, specially to @Hisham Masaad and @Mohamad Anwer for doing the technical part and to my good friend @Miguel Codesfor all his tools and gadgets. Sorry for stopping the wonderful drive for a while. 800aed after, I’m ready to go again 😜. Apart from the tire drama, I enjoyed so much the drive. Some lines were unbelievable, Mr. Masaad you are straight on my top 3 leader’s table. The strength of the convoy was also remarkable, with some stellar climbings too… @Mahmoud Taha @Sam K was nice to see you again. Thanks @Chinthaka Ruwan for the CF duties and @TT_Dubai for the sweep. Cheers!

I have this exact configuration in my Y62 cargo: jack plate from Ace Hardware + 10 Tons bottle jack from Speedex. I wasn't sure if this will do well as I have the crocodile jack in my LandCruiser but was too lazy to move it everytime I change cars.... but now thanks to Doc @Hisham Masaad I have confirmation that this configuration is good enough for sand recovery 👍

Thanks @Frederic for a really fun drive, very enjoyably paced, in a beautiful area. Extra marks for finishing next to an ADNOC oasis with a functional air pump. @Anoop Nair @Pascal @Zed @Imran Kashif- thanks for the support, patience and good humour when I provided this week's 'learning opportunity'. Imran and I have posted a few photos of it to the gallery for amusement and education. I will let you know when I post some more photos from my co-pilot Nigel later.

Dear Sand Sailors Thanks for joining in for the drive and making it a fun outing on sand. The terrain, convoy and weather all were worth every minute of sleep we lost last night 😊 Timely arrival of all meant we could start the drive with the first ray of sun light around 5:45am. Small but soft dunes at the beginning of the drive provided us with good place to warm up as convoy sailed through these dunes with no concern at all. Around 615am, 30min into the drive, view of sunrise was too tempting to let go and we took our first break. Well it’s these mesmerizing gifts of nature that bring us back to sand every weekend. As we started to roll back again, there was no stopping this convoy - I continously ramped up the pace, added multiple ridges to our drive, however you guys ensured that by 7am, having travelled around 25Km in less than an hour of moving time , we were already on the top of Pink Rock. And then we started the real high speed car chase.Swaying through countless awesome bowls, criss crossing and riding on top of those lovely ridges, we were almost close to the Big Red, when @salah2u’s patrol decided it’s time for a break and a pop-out. @Beide Worku,s magic fixed it in no time and we were back again. As we reached the Big red, it was clear from word go that it won’t be easy with all the cross tracks and super soft sand. We had our challenges - multiple refusals, my jeep landing in a tricky pocket and couple of small stucks, however the convoy didn’t give up and we all managed to complete our first round to Big red successfully. However the second attempt proved more complicated - while rest of the convoy managed to sail through, by that time @salah2u’s patrol had decided Enough is Enough and just wasn’t ready to go. Re-routing Salah, we climbed a few more high sides of Big red and with sun shining bright, decided to end the drive as planned at 930am. Overall we travelled around 50Km at an average moving speed of 20Kmph - and completed our goals of a high speed drive through a beautiful and challenging terrain. Moving time was around 2hrs 30min, a brilliant outcome for a FBPlus level. Thanks @Morshedi for being a perfect SL, you responded proactively to all my instructions and drove beautifully throughout. Hope your passenger was okay on way back home, this route with all big bowls is never easy on passengers. @Gertjan other than couple of refusal on big red, you had an awesome drive . Handled the FJ beautifully through the ridges and cross-crossings. @takeshi sobue your ridge riding today was a sight to cherish, beautiful control on the car throughout. @Imteeaz thanks for being the back bone of the convoy and handling it all very nicely. @KAMALIO as was with last drive, you did awesome through the drive. Only thing that challenged you was your own jeep and it’s electronics - you should get it checked. Brillant execution of self recoveries as well as tug. @salah2u few refusals, stucks are part of being an off-roader. You generally managed it all very well - it’s never going to be easy handling a Patrol through high climbs in D mode. Let’s get started with top tronics, I am sure you will realize that you have a lot more to unearth out of this beautiful vehicle. @Beide Worku thanks for keeping the convoy together - another perfect drive for you and brilliantly executed the pop-out fix and other recoveries. Thanks all, looking forward to see you all soon.

@Rizwanm2 congratulations 👏🎉

@Ashok chaturvedi @Murtaza Bhuria @TT_Dubai @Gaurav Soni @Brette - I loaded some of Nigel's photos to the gallery quite late so you might not have seen them but they are worth a look Fewbie - Murquab - Dubai - 30 July 2022 - Carnity.com

Congrats and well deserved @Rizwanm2 !!

Thank you @Carnity Family... 🙏 Im very much grateful to be part of this team. Thank you for all the crew, marshal, expert and all the other members for guidance, help and support. I’m very much ready to explore my next level offroad adventure with all of you guys. Lets all learn together and excel our self with fun safe and sound. Cheers, see you guys soon in sand.

Congratulations @Mahmoud Taha on the promotion

Congrats @Rizwanm2 , wohoo soon we're gonna have Extreme Drives again 👍👍👍

Seems I had too many coffees and was thinking of Seidam when replying without double-checking 😂

thank you @varunmehndiratta for the amazing drive, the track was awesome and you know what you are doing, I really had fun, sorry I got distracted a few times, my wife couldn’t handle the quick turns and the speed, no more speed drives for her 😄 thank you @Beide Worku you did very well yesterday as a sweep, it was a perfect route selection on big dunes, and all drivers did Great 💪 @Imteeaz you are right we should be proud! we got a few refusals, stuck, and pop-out but Teamwork got us through. an amazing outing yesterday. thank you guys

Personally, i got myself a 12 ton bottle jack of a Ford f150. I like it as its doing the job properly and compact not taking much of a space in my trunk.

Bottle jack did well today

Thank you very much dear friends... Hope to make up to you guys in the sands 🤗

Congrats @Rizwanm2 for this amazing acheivement:)

@Rizwanm2 Congratulation 🤩. Hope to see you soon.

Congratulations @Rizwanm2

Heartiest congratulation @Rizwanm2; great going. Though i've driven with you in convoys, haven't had the opportunity to drive under your lead - looking forward to doing so.

Thank you @varunmehndiratta, as always a great drive with a mix of everything, with some climbs thrown in for fun. @Morshedi thanks for being our savior from most of the troubles with your great second leadership. @Imteeaz yet again you carried the critical center role beautifully, props!@KAMALIO you did as much support as any of us, thanks for that and nice to ride with you again. And to the rest of brothers-in-ride, glad to have shared a nice morning with you. Wishing all a great week ahead!

Congrats @Rizwanm2 well deserved

Congrats @Rizwanm2....looking forward to joining your drives !!

Congratulations @Rizwanm2 very well deserved promotion. You are up to it and will be happy to support more of your drives 👍

Congratulations @Rizwanm2. Looking forward to drive with you.

Congratulations @Mahmoud Taha

Congratulations @Rizwanm2

A wonderful morning, perfect weather and even perfect convoy. Thanks @Hisham Masaad for a memorable and an amazingly excellent route. The weaving drive just before we encountered the wheel issue was amazing. @Mohamad Anwer Mashallah, your wonderful vehicle powering up the very top of the dunes was a sight to see. As much exciting it would have been for you going up, exactly the same it was for us seeing your rocket ship coast up the top. It was amazing for me to see each of you without exception so competently take on the climbs. @TT_Dubai it was reassuring to see you at the sweep.

@Zed I would always prefer a convoy of 5-6 against one with 13-14 cars. Lets keep it that way for AD drives 🤪...

@Gaurav Soni @Frederic @Zed - check out the gallery now. I think the incident is somewhat exaggerated. Just a bit of an amusing stuck in some very soft sand. Dealt with quite easily and in good humour.

Thank you Hisham and all for another great drive. Editing the videos, lets see how they turn out. See you on the next one.

Thanks @Hisham Masaad for the wonderful drive today. Really enjoyed it. Perfect phase. We started slow at the beginning and push it to the next level in the second half of the drive and entire convoy responded superbly. Thanks @TT_Dubai for the perfect sweep and @Mohamad Anwer for perfect SL. I have uploaded some pictures to the gallery. See you all next time. 🤛

@varunmehndiratta@Beide Worku @Morshedi @salah2u @Gertjan @KAMALIO @takeshi sobue what a drive.... started after the sunrise, and after couple of warm-up dunes, @varunmehndiratta really pushed all of us during the drive. i remember before the drive that @varunmehndiratta was making reference to Intermediate Drives, where the radio was kept silent; well for most of the drives, our radios were barely used. the couple of refusals experienced by us (including pop-outs) were reminding us that the terrain was not an easy one, with couple of steep dunes, super-soft sand, and lots of tracks. the mighty Nissan Y61 struggled with the climbs; maybe time for me to look into an ECU tuning for additional HP and traction. my youngest son accompanied me today after couple of months; he was so excited with the ridge riding, the climbs, the criss-cross, just to name a few of our achievements today. looking forward to drive again with such an amazing lead, and outstanding convoy - we should be proud of ourselves. enjoy the rest of the weekend. cheers