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Dear Carnity Adventurers @Xavi Moyano @FERNANDO SYRIO @Emanuel @Imteeaz @Patrick @Imran Kashif @DanielN @Pieter Pot @Paolo Pellegrini and @Zed, @Vanessa8580 and I are looking forward to seeing you all at 07:00 in the morning. The convoy order will be as below. Have a great rest of your Saturday :):)

Thanks everyone for the drive. It was really thrilling. Will see u all soon

Great fun drive today as always. Thanks @GauravSoni @Simon D @Sunil Mathewfor keeping us moving along. I'll drop some pics in the gallery for this drive here: https://carnity.com/gallery/category/1710-newbie-al-qudra-dubai-22-apr-2023/

Eid Mubarak to all fellow off-roaders and to your families.

Thank you 😊👍

Yes that is possible, you can just drive back to the meeting point after the drive, we will exit not too far from it …

@Zed and @Pieter Pot you both can join this drive as this will be your first drive for the weekend

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Dear sand surfers! @Benjamin williams @Tatsiana Chase @nithin nk @Shinebabu @Klaus Pedersen @Cristian @Sunil Mathew @PETELCZYC PAJERO - luke @Simon D please find the convoy order for tomorrows drive We will be using channel 1. 44600625 please ensure that you have a radio set on the above channel and flag up at 6 am. For HT tyres, please deflate to 14 psi and for AT at 12. If you need help in deflating, let me know. See you all tomorrow! in case of any emergency you can connect with me on 054 556 4213 For the signups from Sri’s drive, please check the starting point for the drive. https://goo.gl/maps/DW715t4pjRDKfPA69 You are way beyond our reach @Ishak

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@Vanessa8580 @Davie Chase confirmed, always ready to support a meandering-long-but-will-be-fun convoy 😊

Would anyone from the waitlist take Imran’s place?

Copy that @GauravSoni. Enjoy the drive all 👍🏼

@Mohit Gurnani, @Parliament, @Thejas Uthran, @Misha Puskar, @Senthil Kumar, @Juan R, @Rk ram, @Pranjal Varsani1, @george charbel, @premindra rajaram, @Bashar Beasha, @Gaurav Here are the details for the drive: Meeting time: 2:00 PM Meeting Point: Tawi Nazwa Fuel Station: Emarat Reem (you don't have to take detour if you fill here, alternative New ENOC | 1143) Radio Channel: 2 (446.031) Convoy Order:

Nice camp! Will try and be quiet to not wake you up 😜

Be careful when after the dunes, don’t hit our tent 😅 https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=14.0000/55.4104/24.7981&layer=esriworldaerial,SatelliteWithLabels,Satellite,SatelliteWithLabelsContoursMeters,GaiaTopoRasterMeters

Am in if there is space

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Wishing you all and your family a blessed and joyful Eid Al Fitr

I’ve removed myself from the waitlist.

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@Davie Chaseconfirmed!

Eid Mubarak to all !

Such a beautiful start start of the long weekend! @Varun Mehndiratta it was fantastic drive with your lead. I am going to get a nech strap for my mobile @Patrick van der Loo and others @DP1011 yes, lets have a coffee next time together:) and @Felix Obst definitely I will try to find trdelnik for you:) @Gertjan amazing picture of my car.. One more time thtime your for it and all of you it was a privilege to be with you today morning. I am looking forward to the next drive together.

Having a refusal or getting completely stuck is something nobody should feel guilty about, since it's part of the off-roading game. It’s also an essential experience in your learning. Somehow, as long as you can understand what happened so you won’t repeat the same mistake over and over, it’s a must to improve. There are hundreds of reasons why you can get stuck. Some of them don’t directly depend on the driver (it can be related to an engine issue, the terrain, the climate, etc.), while others are just mistakes. Some of them are clear and obvious, others are more unpredictable and difficult to identify… As a big fan of @Rahimdad’s What Went Wrong ? thread, it came to my mind that we could simply adapt his brilliant idea by analyzing, not accidents, but stucks, and try to make together a list of all the possible reasons behind them. Please do share here your guesses, explanations... and videos. I’ll start easy, with one of my best stucks this year, which happened in Area 53 two weeks ago (I borrowed the footage from @Javier M). So... who can tell us why I got stuck here ? Stuck_1.mp4

With the summer coming closer, we will go a little deeper into the dangers of being exposed to the extreme heat UAE brings to us. During off-roading, some activities such as recovery work, replacing tyres, and dealing with pop-outs, are physically demanding, and many of us who are in office jobs are not trained to cope with this amount of heat. Luckily with the help of some basic things, we can minimize the risk of below mentioned issues. The following risks are identified: Heat exhaustion: Warning signs: A person may suddenly look pale. Heart rate will increase and the victim may complain of feeling dizzy and nauseous. A feeling of weakness is also common. What to do: Seek shade immediately and lie down, especially if you’re feeling lightheaded. Apply a cold compress to the forehead and remove extra layers. Heat Stroke: Warning signs: Heat stroke is a type of hypothermia where the body temperature is greatly elevated. If not treated immediately it can be fatal. Symptoms are similar to those of a heart attack, along with nausea, headaches, hallucinations, difficulty in breathing, and agitation, What to do: apply cool water to the skin and place ice packs under the arms to reduce the temperature quickly. Preventive Measures: • Sip some water all day long, rather than just when you are thirsty. If you are thirsty it means you are already dehydrated. • Wear light clothing that can "breathe", but also wear sunblock and keep your head protected with a cap or hat. • Some fruit and vegetables can re-hydrate the body even more than water. Carry some in your cooler. • Water is important, but too much water can be dangerous as it can cause electrolyte depletion. Limit yourselves to 2-3 liters per day. • When recovering a vehicle in full sun, limit your exposure time and take some rest every couple of minutes. Because you are focused on the task at hand, you might completely forget the heat and become dizzy and exhausted. • If at some point you feel unwell, inform your club members immediately. When driving, inform immediately over the radio so the convoy can be stopped. • Keep an eye out for your fellow club members. It is relatively easy to recognize above symptoms in somebody else. Let them take appropriate rest. Please do share your tips, hints, experiences !

Gaurav is right of course, but few people carry water consumption calculators, and when they do, they don't always take them seriously. Nonetheless, a rule of thumb that I learned during my military service in the Namib desert is that drinking a liter of water every hour (spread out over an hour) keeps you more evenly hydrated than drinking a liter of water once every hour. And as @shadow79 said, adding a tiny pinch of salt and a few drops of glucose to every liter of water you take during a hot day goes long way toward maintaining your electrolyte levels.

From my workshop experience what i do is use labanups diluted with water even more if a pinch of salt is added Or just plain glucose powder in some cold water also does the trick On that note I am feeling thirsty now

Very nicely written @Frederic, just like to add two more points: Water intake is dependent on your body weight And also the number of mins you are exercising https://goodcalculators.com/water-intake-calculator/ For same body weight, 3.83 litres is required for 30 mins workout, but 4.9 litres is required if you work out for 2 hours

Great team work, guys ! You have covered almost everything. @WiLfY you're absolutely right, as you can see on this footage (again sorry for the low quality of the video). The question is why I took my foot off the gas, and here, as pointed by @Rahimdad and @Fuad, it was my mistake : not leaving enough distance with @G.huz's car in front. What happened exactly at this point is that I hesitated to steer more left and accelerate. Seeing the heavy wet sand (the night and the morning before there had been heavy rain and haze, good point @Javier M), I was not sure to be able to climb on the left, and in this case a failure could have led me to slid down and then hit the Pathfinder. Last point, and here @Gaurav is also right : after this stuck I had to bring down my tire pressure again. One hour earlier I had deflated to 12/12.5 psi, but with the heat (the temperature was high this afternoon), the gauge was now displaying 14. stuck1_embeded.mp4

Knowing Emmanuel well and driven with him for over 2 years, I think there are two possibilities for this stuck: He carefully moved slightly up to avoid the churned up patch and still slid down, so either his momentum wasn't enough to steer left and up too fast OR His rear tire pressure was more as the car slid down from the back into the churned up patch.

It seems the path was already messed up by the time it was your turn to go there.. I can see the pathfinder barely made it and your car ground clearance was not able to cross through the path because the sand was wet and behaved like mud. I think that if you had made it somebody else would have gotten stuck anyway..

@Emmanuel I'm you biggest fan and with this thread you have won my heart and sure to win many more. Rightfully no shame and good to learn from such videos. @WiLfY spot on, sometimes we should leave little extra space in such situations as we cannot be sure how the car in front will react. Once we drive together in a few drives we pick up on drive habits and judgement gets better.

Guessing.. The car in front slowed down and you took your foot off the accelerator, losing momentum and then stuck. Hmm.. the car in front looks like a Pathfinder.

Sorry @Vanessa8580 I have to drop my self from drive,there is an emergency.

Pulling out sadly… enjoy the ride

Removing myself sadly!

I might have to drop due to work comitment (to be confirmed tomorrow though), so I'll drop out. Enjoy the ride.