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Dear Desertnauts quick briefing about tomorrow's drive to inaugurate the weekend leading to the Holiday Season. It has been planned to cover a relatively short distance, in consideration of the unusually challenging nature of the terrain. We'll meet and deflate next to Murqab's mosque, from where we'll take a track leading to a large triangular sabkha, where we'll enter the first of two technical areas where we'll focus tomorrow. For "technical" areas we mean stretches of desert characterized by very young (not consolidated) and quite low dunes, very close to each other, separated by not very deep, but sometimes sharp, bowls, possibly filled with very soft fine sand. This terrain requires proceeding at relatively low speeds, using a lot of gentle throttling, slowing down while descending the bowls, while accelerating (for a very short distance) to climb out of the bowls, and working a lot with your steering wheel when required to follow the very curvy ridges. This first technical segment has become infamously known as "the road to the Chimney", as the Solar Tower had been nicknamed while under construction. This segment is where Carnity's future Leads are trained to lead by Gaurav. For any first-time lead, it represents a very complex and difficult place to take a convoy, requiring great intuition in choosing the paths of least resistance, and avoiding the most treacherous spots. This technical area will see us proceed in the direction of the Solar Tower. Upon reaching it, we'll veer west, to cross the second, and longer, technical area, while giving our back to the Eye of Sauron, to proceed in the direction of Solar Park, and Qudra. The convoy order will be: @frederic demolder in Second Lead @Amr J at #3 @Abhishek Chikara at #4 @Michael asir at #5 @Pramod B at #6 @Jessica Lambert in the Center position @Misha Puskar at #8 @J-P L at #9 @Ben Lee at #10 @Glenn W at #11 and @Emanuel in Sweep. See you all tomorrow with the goal to start at 2:30 PM. Have a nice Thursday evening.

Of course @Michael asir, it'll be at 2:30 PM. Thanks for noticing. I would not set that departure time even in the summer 😅. So, @Wilfredo Perez and @Jessica Lambert, let's try and extend the drive to both of you. Please confirm before this evening that you still want to join and I will add your names. Thanks.

Thank you @Frans M

Congratulation @Ishak

Hi @Theodoros Andreou, As mentioned by @Fredericits better to get yourself a pajero with a service booklet, as this will cause you less headaches even if it was a bit more expensive . If you buy bit without a clear service history then you will have to spend around 4,000 to 5,000 aed to change all the consumable parts including the timing belt( as the you will have to consider them overdue and needs changing) Anyway good lock with your new purchase

Good morning @Ale Vallecchi Meeting time: mentioend as 02:30 AM , i hope our drive on after noon , kinldy advise

Thank you @Emanuel @Mike M. @Benje_Junior Yes 😅… I never forget that day when on my first drive I brought a full team in the car and got stuck just after 50 meters hitting the sand. All eyes were on me 😅. Thanks to the desert for helping me to remove the front and rear plastic accessories 🤣

Just like any other sport or hobby, off road driving too has it's own etiquette's. Often times these are not spoken out loud or mentioned in public to not to embarrass anyone. If you like to continue off road driving, you should know these basic offroad driving etiquette's and follow them. Pay 100% undivided attention to the instructions: Whether it's in briefing or on radio communication while recovering, give your 100% attention and if you cannot due to some incoming call or passenger distraction, ask them to repeat. Most of the instructions are given so that you can drive safely. If you still live in the mobile world or loud music or radio volume turned down, you will miss out on critical safety instruction that can end up breaking your 4x4 or bones, seriously. Follow the instruction PRECISELY: From as simple as deflate to 12-14 PSI, drive in HI gear, engage to LO as soon as you get stuck. These instructions have been given to YOU for YOUR safety and enhancing your offroad driving experience. If you deflate to 22 PSI instead of 12, you will have endless refusals, stucks and A/T Transmission & Engine will soon overheat. If you don't engage on LO as soon as you get stuck, you will lose the most critical surface area in which LO gear could have saved the day, rather than toiling in HI gear for first few minutes and making the stuck even more worst for your car. Acknowledge the message: Always acknowledge the radio messages as the reliability of radio communication is highly questionable. Step out and help: When you are stuck and someone is helping you, it's a BASIC MANNER to step out of your car and help the Marshal or senior member who is helping you. You can help them clearing the sand, fixing the rope or inspect the stuck or plan of recovery. Sitting inside a stuck vehicle and waiting is the worst and most offending thing to do. If someone is helping you to check tire pressure, then step out and observe, how to delate to precise PSI. Disclaimer: In some 1% tricky angles or situation, if you have a doubt or difficulty to come out, ask the Marshal or senior member: If its safe for you to step out? Please don't assume and sit inside. Observe and learn: Every stuck and recovery has a lot to teach. Observe and learn from your stucks and discuss with Marshals how to not to get stuck again in a similar way. If you don't observe and learn you will end up doing the same mistakes over and over again. Learn Vs Serve: All the knowledge and experience are there to help you learn offroading and not just to serve you. So that as soon as you learn, you start practising it and become more capable offroader and be able to help others in the future.

I am sorry, I think I am going down with a bad case of flu. Apologies for dropping out at the last minute. Basis the last full day drive, I was really looking forward to it. I hope someone can fill my spot.

hi Alex, unfortunately i will not be able to reach ontime, so need to abandon