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Good morning, hope you had good time and enjoyed your weekend. Thank you all who joined our adventure, which believe was full of action and hope all enjoyed, and apologies for whom they found the drive didn’t meet their expectation 😊. Glad to see all smiling faces at the meeting point, preparing for the drive. As soon as we started, the close by dunes were like calling “start with us” which we did, and left them marked with tracks. Then moved towards other set of dunes, where we had good climbs, till I had my pop out, which was fixed with the help of @Tom B jack, which did not require any additional base…thanks Tom, and thank you for helping fixing the pop out. Started moving again, till we got the second pop out of. @Alexanderrr which was in a tight churned place, got fixed with the help of our great support team. After that moved again, enjoyed climbs, till we got the issue of @Amir Amiri of having noise in his car, made us deciding to keep a group wanted to continue and exiting another few with Amir. Hope Amir not big issue with your car, and will be fixed soon. Went back to the waiting group to exit them as well, since took us sometime to exit Amir due to issues in his car. By the time reached back, decided to reach the super bowl to say hello, and exit. There was really good fun, enjoyed, and thanks to the team to decide to continue and not exiting. That part raised the level of the drive, and then personally thought I had a good desert drive and can exit 💪🏼😅. Despite long convoy, but you my friends made the drive. @Alexanderrr amazing SL and first IM drive. You did really well. I have been in this position earlier when started IM drives, and I know exactly what does it mean 😂. @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler @Mohamad Anwer @JamesThorn @ASAD. @Tom B @Fabien Monleau @Chris Wing good to see you again, you guys did very well. @Mario Cornejo glad to see you again after long time, and wish you a good safe journey, hope to see you soon. Great support team @Rob S and @Waqas Parvez thank you very much for your support. Below summary of what have we done. Look forward to see you again, and since didn’t get enough will in sha Allah visit Shuweib again soon. Have a nice week ahead, take care.

@varunmehndirattaThank you again for such an amazing drive, full of surprises. The drive was short but sweet; I really enjoyed my Sunday drive. Looking forward to another drive this coming Sunday. @imranaasghar81 your instructions were crystal clear for all of us throughout the drive. @Beide Worku buddy i hope that you have been able to get your car fixed; we were worried when you jumped on the other side of that tall dune. @Morshedi awesome SL mate - keep it up. @Sam K thank you buddy for sharing the trick on how to control my car (and traction) rather than the other way round - looking forward to experience this a bit more this coming Sunday. @Jose Thomas not my first drive with you mate - the Xterra is a beast, that needs to be handled with care. @Mahmoud Taha you rose up to the challenge mate - well done @salah2u first time i have seen you pushing your car without fearing a pop-out dude - wise decision to change the rims/tyres. @Prakash Anoop you were amazing in your Jeep @Haitham Khattab apologies mate, was calling you Adam at one stage during the drive - you handle the Jeep like an expert @Imran Kashif you keep amazing me how you push the FJ mate @takeshi sobue you driving with 2 passengers - not an easy task. and yet you still manage to climb all the dunes without any issues - well done Looking forward to drive with all of you in the near future - the team spirit was outstanding. Cheers

"ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul" - For us mortals - i tried translating it - One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Little Sweihan has some of the most awesome bowls, craziest of technical patches and incredibly tall dunes. Bound togather by Shamel through the hot & dark summer nights, this area is undoubtedly the king of desert and rules the Dubai off-road arena. Through this drive, we target to go around (Ring) through this awesome terrain. So, Sand Sailors, in the word of Sir Gandalf “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” - lay around bed this coming sunday or explore this awesome terrain. This drive is organized in full compliance with the COVID19 guidelines. We expect every member that joins this drive to go through below information and and strictly follow these guidelines in order not to jeopardize someone's health, and to ensure we can keep organizing these drives safely. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Fewbie Plus and Above When: 11th September 2022 Sunday Meeting time: 5:30 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions). Meeting Point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ATc8SASUigiP8xo28 Type of Car: Any 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance. What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), smiles, face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 9:30 AM THIS IS A COMPRESSOR ONLY DRIVE. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS DRIVE UNLESS YOU HAVE A COMPRESSOR. ANYONE ARRIVING AT THE DRIVE WITHOUT A COMPRESSOR, FLAG, PROPER SHOVEL AND DEFLATION KIT WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO JOIN THE DRIVE. ALL TOW POINTS WILL BE CHECKED BEFORE DEPARTURE. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE: Limited to 10 cars only. Latecomers will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Members without RSVP will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others. Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month. Please RSVP on below calendar

I would like to thank you Dr. @Chaitanya D for the nice smooth drive . As always its a pleasure to dive with you as every drive is a different leering experience . The convoy drove quite nicely, with a few refusals and stucks here and there which is a normal part of this game. most importantly is to learn from each and every situation. special thanks to @Tareq Al Turq for his great job as a 2nd lead and @Zixuan Huang - Charliefor supporting the convoy and @Danish Mohammadfor sweeping the convoy and making sure all of us safe. it was a pleasure meeting all the new faces as well as the old friends during the drive . and thanks everyone who helped us with the shoveling during the recoveries . @Andrei S @Yerem Davtyan@premindra rajaram @Benjamin @Ahmed Wagdy @Rayas Ali Please share the drives pictures in the gallery section. looking forward to seeing you all again soon.

Thank you @varunmehndiratta for another amazing drive, I enjoyed it a lot, being at the front was super fun and thrilling, It was a long convoy but you managed to control it with the help of @imranaasghar81 , @Imteeaz , and @Beide Worku those guys are amazing! everyone drove really good yesterday, see you all again soon ✌️💛

Sure, will remove myself, by the time I had to reach reading that info, would have been to late to join to this drive 😆

Thank you so much @varunmehndirattafor the amazing drive. I enjoyed every single part of it. The terrain was challenging and required adaptive driving style between auto and steptronic which sharpened my driving skills. Special Thanks to @Morshedi, @imranaasghar81, @Imteeaz & @Beide Worku for their support, clear instructions & patience. Shout out to all convoy friends, you all drove very well and it was a pleasure driving with you all. See you all soon!

Hello guys Excellent drive it's been a while since I've been out and loved every moment sorry about the late start. I got two fines on the way for not paying attention to my cruise control 😕 Thank you Varun for making space for me on the drive I really appreciated it. Haven't seen you in two years but you look younger than I remember you. What's the secret! Everyone drove wonderfully sorry I had to leave quickly at the end I had builders at my house waiting to do some work and the missus was under pressure. I drove to the local adnoc to re pressure and zipped off. Thanks all and see you all again. btw brilliant team work throughout Its the team work and helping and everyone chipping in etc I enjoy more than driving that's for sure. Last thing Mr X terra sorry can't remember your name it's time for a new air filter lol and beide I really hope there wasn't a big bill for your airbags. Kill switch can be done cheap at marshal autocare he did mine for about 120 I think Good night all and have a great week ahead

Wow it’s not even 7:01 and it’s full, we surely have many LOR fans here 🙏🙏

Dear Sand Sailors Thanks for joining in for the drive today morning. It was full of action. Though we started off a bit later than planned, the enthusiasm of the convoy, awesome team work - meant despite all the challanges, we in the end conquered the goal we had set for our selves. Picture below is testimony of how well you all managed the drive. We were throughout above 200mtr mark. Great job all. Area 53 is undoubtedly a challenging terrain usually being explored by Intermediate and above level. However, the camaraderie and skill set of this convoy ensured that there was nothing that could limit us. You all were just awesome - the only time we took rope and shovel out was my own stuck in that pocket. Rest was limited to refusals and were all nicely handled by the convoy. Special thanks to @imranaasghar81 @Imteeaz for all the support throughout the drive and helping the drivers. We had our fair share of vehicle issue - MAF sensor of @Jose Thomas giving up under the severe test and ofcourse the scariest of all - @Beide Worku 's F150 show at the end of the drive. But again the team work and energy managed to beat all that was thrown at this convoy. Really proud to be part of this group. @Morshedi - 2 times in a row, you were just awesome as SL. @Sam K @Mahmoud Taha - apart from couple of refusals you both were awesome on your first FB+ drives. Brilliantly driven. @salah2u the magic of new tyres was very clear today. @Prakash Anoop @Haitham Khattab Red carpet drive for your Red Rubicons. Very well driven throughout. @takeshi sobue - Just another wow drive for you. Also, very nicely executed the tug - an FJ pulling out an F150 was a sight. Thanks for your support. @Jose Thomas - very nicely driven - few refusals at this level of terrain is very well acceptable. @Imran Kashif - another brilliant drive. @Beide Worku - thanks for all the support keeping the convoy togather. Wasnt an easy task today with all the high dunes we climbed today. All the best with your vehicle. Thanks all, looking forward to drive with this awesome convoy sometime soon. Till then have fun.

Thank you @Srikumar, on my 62nd drive with my Y62 I got my 1st pop-out 😂 Definitely need to keep distance from you next time to avoid hearing "Exit exit" when i'm already in the pocket 🙈 It was a small friendly convoy, I can't imagine sharing 8-slices of Parathas with 10-people-convoy 😅. This photo below sums up the Drive Excitement: Good driving with you guys @GauravSoni @MMansoor

Dear Friends a very much awaited exploration drive to most probably unvisited new area by others and certainly not by Carnity . This grid is located between the omani/UAE rocky boarders east . E55 Al Shuwaib road west , the Shuwaib dam north and Al Hiyar south making it as a convergence spot from Dubai ,Abudhabi and Sharjah emirates. its a completely new area with terrain diversity and from the pre info collected we may encounter abrupt steep descenet , supersoft sand, star shaped dunes , and V shape blind ended pockets ..etc and this stems from the geographical location of this land. on the other hand there are few fenced reserves and tracks interconnecting them. Its an exploration drive and not a fast paced one . if you are interested to explore the unknown and if you have done two intermediate drives at least don't hesitate to join this drive. This drive is organized in full compliance with the COVID19 guidelines. We expect every member that joins this drive to go through below information and strictly follow these guidelines. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions Mandatory Safety Requirements Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Intermediate ( minimum with 2 IM drives done ) and above Meeting time: 05:45 Sunday (deflated and ready to move) Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/gU8P2YyafBsQpSUVA Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance. What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), smiles, face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 09:45 P.S. Only join if you have a compressor to inflate your tires after the drive. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE: Limited to 10 cars maximum. RSVP will close on Saturday -9 AM. If the RSVP is full and you wish to join, please mention your name on the drive thread to add on the waiting list Latecomers will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Members without RSVP will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Members that do not confirm the terms of the COVID requirements will be removed from the RSVP list. Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others. Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month. PLEASE RSVP ON THE CALENDAR

General Info This drive is organized in full compliance with the COVID19 guidelines. We expect every member that joins this drive to go through the below information and strictly follow these guidelines in order not to jeopardise someone's health, and to ensure we can keep organizing these drives safely. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions Mandatory Safety Requirements Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Newbie and above When: 10 Sep 2022, Saturday. Meeting time: 5:45 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/NjBkdRiyDXGMhMHR9 Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance. What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 9:45 AM P.S. Only join if you have a compressor to inflate your tires after the drive. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE Limited to 12 cars only. RSVP will close on Friday, 2 pm. If the RSVP is full and you wish to join, please mention your name on the drive thread to add on the waiting list. Latecomers will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Members without RSVP will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS. Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others. Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month. PLEASE RSVP ON THE CALENDAR

No issue at all dear 🙏

Dear @Alexanderrr i can see that you have done only one IM drive and a minimum of two IM drives is requested as i mentioned above . i hope you can understand . thank you 🙏

I barely made it into the group - need to find faster internet speed!!

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/gcc/uae/man-dies-in-accident-in-skydive-club-area-in-dubai Very sad. One of them the day before touched our flag…

Great to see all the regulars returning after summer holidays! Well done @DP1011 , Deepak wrangler on your first IM in badayer area! @Amir Amiri hope the fix is a simple one and your back out in the dunes soon. @Alexanderrr top job in SL, @waqas good sweeping today, and as always, thanks @Hisham Masaad for leading us safely through the sands and finding some awesome dunes to have fun in!

Another thrilling morning playing in the sand, Area 51+2 sure delivers @varunmehndiratta great leadership as always, never a dull moment with you at the helm. @Imteeaz and @imranaasghar81 thanks for holding down the center. As usual team work was amazing. Hope everyone enjoyed as much as I did, wish you all great week ahead. I threw some pics in the gallery. @varunmehndiratta give me a buzz when you get a chance please, wanna pick your brain on a couple of points. Cheers!

An old story forever locked up within me! Today, I have decided to get this outstanding drive into words, still not being enough. Driving through liwa dunes every winter is always a pilgrimage journey for me, where I get the chance to explore more, and this time my plan was to pierce the proper liwa dunes. We had attempted the planned track twice before, which we were unable to complete due to reasons. This time, I had planned on starting from Liwa city, towards the moreeb dune where we can find one of the most tallest dune in the UAE and one of the largest hill climbs in the world. On reaching the moreeb dune, my further plan was to return back from where we had started. Returning back to the start point through the slip face was really challenging for me, but surely @Frederic made my plan much easier by sharing a track which helped me execute it better. "Thank you my Freddy boy" It was quite a short distance, around 70km, with extreme challenge being faced. I believe this track could be the maximum level of dunes which can be attained filled with number of pockets, bowls, sharp ridges and massive slip faces which is next to impossible to climb, and of course the unpredictable soft patches. The dune formation in Liwa is totally different from what we usually drive through. Climbing to the top of the dunes is really challenging, and once you reach to the top, the rolling dunes are marvelous, making it really enjoyable to drive on those sets of rolling dunes. We had a very short and sweet convoy @ShereenMK in his Land cruiser was my second lead promptly correcting the tracks whenever i had an obstacle. @Karthikeyan Govindarajan was behind him in his LC followed by @Mus_hus78 with his co pilot Khaleel bhai in his pajero and finally at the end @Rob H with his black panther tundra. I salute you all for driving in one of the most challenging dunes without a single stuck which is really commendable. It was a beautiful morning on February, 27th 2022 and @Rob H was the first one to arrive at the meeting point and he was waiting for us with deflated tyres and flag on. Everyone showed up after me and we all were set to go on time. After safety briefing and few tips from my previous attempts to cross on those monster dunes, we left to explore them. It was really challenging for me to lead the track and find a easy way out through the pockets and soft patches all over the track. I was the only one who got stuck and recovered 3 to 4 times. At one point, at the time of recovery I ended up with flat tyre and after inflating we noticed that the air was escaping through the rim bead. The challenge was to pop out the tyre to clean the sand. I learnt a new technic from @Rob H (Rob Harper) who is by profession a race car expert on how to pop out tyres without moving the vehicle. After a quick fix we reached moreeb dunes prior to the planned time. We all had lot of fun trying to climb the slip face straight up and exit straight down for almost 1 hour. After fulfilling our quench to play and having quick snacks we planned to drive back to the start point which I planned parallel to the track we went. It was really challenging to drive back through slip face but we did it and exited the drive on time by 3pm. It was a wonderful experience for me which is one of my the best desert drive and looking forward to drive in such terrains again. Salute to all of you for your support and for joining the drive and make my dream come true. See you all this winter - "LIWA Returns" And last but most important, would thank my daughter Zaina, who navigated me throughout the drive and has already started reading the dunes.

Thank you @Gaurav Soni for a great drive and energy… and nice to meet you. I look forward to the next episode! @Rob Sand @Pacific thanks for the great support during the drive and for helping me with my compressor issue at the end and making sure everyone left the sand safe and sound! I hope it gets fixed before my next drive. @Tareckthanks for the sweeping and the shoveling and nice to meet you! I wish everyone a great week ahead

Thanks Gaurav for an excellent practice drive. I always felt that up and over was my weak spot and today's practice was well needed. You had an excellent support team by the way; @Pacificand @Rob S you both were fabulous...Thanks and looking fwd to seeing you all again.

Great morning in the sands! thanks @GauravSoni for leading us through the sands. Well done to @Jaro Tuzinskyin SL and @Tareck for sweeping us at the back! Thanks also to @Pacific with the shoveling as support team! Getting the right balance between Gas and momentum take some time, and changes vehicle to vehicle but plenty of practice today! We managed to recover most vehicles today with some good shoveling and digging "V" channels from the front and rear of the car allowing gravity to help us shift the sand from under the vehicle bellys! I didnt see much of the guys at the back today, but was watching in my mirrors for @jad, Well driven today for your first Fewbie, only one stuck that was resolved without a rope! In front was @Zulfikhar Naiyar, well driven today buddy, and good shoveling from your passenger! Make sure you balance the gap to the car in front with leaving room for stopping, but also close enough to watch the car in front to better judge the terrain and allow you to adjust accordingly. See you all again soon!

Thanks @Gaurav Soni for a great trip! Very nice expenation of the finer points of up and over. Thanks for @Rob S and @Pacific for the great support! More shoveling than tugging today. A few pictures in the gallery! Enjoy!