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3 cars at the back me, @Mahmut, and @Marek were planning to run away back to the fence 🤣🤣 until @Davie Chase called on the radio “who’s next?” 🤣🤣. I added last pop out and stuck to make it perfect 👌. Thanks @Davie Chase for a great drive today 🫡. Thanks to @Mark B and @Bjoern for your support 👍🏼👍🏼. looking forward to seeing you all on the future drive

@Ishak, I though we agreed to never speak about these ideas we had up there! The whole drive felt like a classic football match - filled with the usual play-by-play: predictable moves, a few fouls, and some tedious stoppages, to the point that gaia decided to mark this drive as "stopped time" (6h 31min) and counted no drive time at all. But then, in a dramatic twist, we headed into extra time: Tire popouts, countless refusals, intense action, and some unexpected "aerial stunts" that led to, well... let's just say a few dents and scratches. This final hour became the wildest search and rescue I’ve ever experienced with the Carnity crew. What a match! @Davie Chase, our hero of the day and his faithful Wrangler during one of the last descents of the day!

Good morning everyone, The soft sands were certainly our nemesis that dogged us all morning. Thanks @Davie Chase for your kind words summarising my support as S/L and for your leadership throughout the drive. It was certainly most valuable when things got tricky for so many of the convoy in that final leg of the drive. Thanks @Bjoern for helping winching me up enough to then make my own way out of that stuck. Again, our nemesis in her finest hour. Thanks to @Mark B and @Ishak for helping me with my semi-pop outs. I don't recall seeing those before in the desert drives and all mine needed was a bit of air. No jack required. Makes sense, they only looked like a flat tire. I briefly had a S/L today. 🤣 Thanks @Nizar Shawwa for following the plan to make our way back to the convoy. You went down that tall and sharp decent with solid control and appropriate speed. It is so important to listen to the radio and follow the instructions of the marshals and support team. I know ego and or adrenaline can impair our listening abilities but this risks making things worse for yourself and holding up the convoy because what could have been an easier recovery now needed more time and effort. It's for your own safety and for the safety of your fellow drivers. As Davie mentioned, listening up even if it isn't you the marshal is speaking to gives us an idea of what to expect when it is our turn and what to do or not do in order to have a successful attempt. It's also best not to pass another driver in front of you in convoy order or to park beside and above them on a side slope. Especially on a soft sand slope. Safety Bear rant over. 🤣 Have a great rest of the weekend everyone and see you next time on the sands!

This was @Frederic’s plan to keep it a Newbie drive by using the truck as a sand plower to keep the track smooth and tidy for the new guys.

Excellent write-up @Marek. The storyline only begins to tell the tale of what was the 7 September 2024 Fewbie Plus Desert Drive in Nahel, Abu Dhabi. 🤣

Many many thanks to Frederic, Asif , Sree and Zed for todays excellent drive and teaching many practical things when we get stuck . As usual Frederic has selected the excellent spot. It was a great learning and very good experience . thanks a lot .

@Frederic thanks a lot, amazing drive, soft sand creates some difficulties, but thanks to @Zed and other support teams! It was pleasure today!

@Frederic - again many thanks for leading an enjoyable drive today. It was a pleasantly relaxed atmosphere which made dealing with various stucks and refusals on the soft sand no issue at all. Also all credit to your photography skills too! Good seeing you all and look forward to future drives in even cooler weather.

What an amazing drive it was today. I returned to the sands today after a break of 2 years almost finding to the adrenaline filled dune climbings and ridge crossings. My big fat Armada also debuted today. Honestly I wasnt very sure about its performance and I did struggle today with the car and traction control which gave me few stucks and refusals. But all in all my elephant didnot let me down. Coming to the heroes of the day. I am short of words for your leadership @Davie Chase. You kept your calm and and made sure no man is left behind. The episode where most of the cars were stuck behind the dune, it sounded like a warzone on the radio though we coudn see on the other side.You led the army like a general with your orders and advise. I have a video of you looking like a lone survivor. @Mark B your gladiator did fight like the romans saving a lot of us today. Thanks for pulling me out a couple of time. @nithish468 get your car fixed soon. You cannot miss your Saturday ritual. Thank you everyone for the amazing drive. Would love to drive more under your leadership @Davie Chase @Mark B.

Good afternoon desert wanderers @Emanuel, @Nizar Shawwa, @Yusuf Esaf, @nithish468, @Mark B, @Mahmut, @Marek, @Ishak and @Bjoern Thank you all for being on time this morning it is always a good start to get the briefing done and away sharp. As we soon found out that this time of year the sand can be very soft in places and indeed hard underneath. so we started off with a couple of semi popouts for our second lead @Emanuel AKA the White Rhino, but they were quickly dealt with by our center forward @Mark B. we then had a few stucks in the softer sand and between @Mark B and @Bjoern they were dealt with superbly. we had one that took a bit of time to resolve so we went on a short cut up the pylon track towards our exit of Sweihan. Then we turnt right to enter the last patch of sand before exit and boy did that last 30 minutes of the drive give us some fun, so much so that the 30 minutes extended into two hours :). So thank you all for your patience it was amazing that you were all still smile at the end. You guys drove amazingly well apart from the couple of issues mentioned above, so take Solis from this that it was not easy terrain and that we had a few technical stucks to deal with but that we did only have a few that took time to resolve. well done everyone. My Second lead @Emanuel did amazingly well to keep my lines smooth and to react to all of my instructions quickly and accurately. Thanks Emanuel always good to have you in the S/L position. Our sweep for the day @Bjoern did amazingly well keeping me informed and assisting with several of our sucks with his winching skills and usual calm demeaner, thanks and appreciate you being there today, you will sleep well tonight. And lastly to the busiest man on the drive, a big thankyou to @Mark B in the center forward position keeping the middle of the middle of the convoy synced with the front and back, and whilst doing that dealing with all of the stucks, pop outs and refusals that we encountered. Thanks again for all of your hard work and the professionalism and calmness that you showed as we dealt with all of the issues that we faced. Excellent support and great to see you growing into the support role as well as you have. Once again thank you all for your patience and hope to see you on one of my drives in the very new future.😊😊 Have a great rest of your weekend... @RiadJL unfortunately we were all ready to go at 06:15 so could not wait for you as it would not have been fair to all those that were there on time. hopefully you will get on a FB+ drive very soon, if you sleep and cant make the start time +/- 5 minutes, then it is always best to just post on the forum that you cannot make it rather than drive to the meeting point as we may or may not still be there. hope you get on a drive soonest. have a great rest of your weekend

Yes 👍 @Stumpy did it on his Pajero. But no idea about TPMS, that might require some more advanced controller.

Nice @Mike M. and the Black Raptor in S/L.

Yeah thank you @Davie Chase for a great drive today although it nearly killed me 😂 my fitness levels were definitely challenged! Couldn’t have done without @Bjoern who’s winch definitely saved the day! And that cold bottle of water from your fridge saved me 😂 was great to see everyone still in good spirits at the end even tho we were waaaaay over time! So thank you to all of you for your patience. I think we all probably learned something today! I know I did 😊😊 you all drove brilliantly today and I look forward to seeing you all again in the sand soon