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Yay!!! found it while some more housekeeping. I used to record two versions one on my phone and another on my son's phone. I had deleted his version but kept mine - but it turned out to be corrupted. Today while housekeeping and removing all the junk I found it in the archived section (Profile>Tracks>show archived) and behold my son's phone version was still there. With this I have some form of GPS tracks for all my drives. My absolute Newbie track is a mess because I was new at it, and I used to pause whenever there was a stoppage and I have patches of it (also I recorded it on AllTrails app, but I imported it to Gaia).

Congratulations @Mohit Gurnanion your promotion. I have seen you quite closely and you do deserve the promotion.

Totally agree. Better loop as many times as you can than to get into trouble. In the earlier days of my driving I used to breakdown the riding / cross crossing into 3 distinct steps I will take. 1. Climb the ridge - do it will commitment and affirmatively 2. balance on the ridge and center yourself - do not try to rush. 3. Exit with the nose down - do not slip of it while getting down. you need to practice a lot. I myself don’t like doing it so in my drives you won’t find many times but you may join drives by @GauravSoni and @Varun Mehndiratta who regularly post drives for the practice.

When you upload videos to YouTube, you must specify that the video is not meant for Kids otherwise it is by default take up in the YouTube Kids. In YouTube Kids it switches off comments as well as background playback (even if you have YouTube Premium) and YouTube would not let the video be saved to viewers playlists as well plus subscribers to the channel don’t get any notifications (learn more). You Do Not want to upload videos in Kids Mode because One: They are not meant for Kids even. Two With kids' mode the exposure that you get on the video becomes restricted and you do not reach your intended audience - your videos are recommended to less than 13-year-olds. You can however edit the setting in YouTube Studio (https://studio.youtube.com/) to specify "No, it's not 'Made of Kids' (go to Profile>YouTube Studio>Content>Video in the Audience section) Example of YouTube Kids more video: 08 07 23 FB Plus_Faqa_fishtailing Bu Tais to Umm Al Oush (i am deliberately not embedding the videos) PS: I will change, if the current video is edited to remove it from Kids Mode.

Thanks @Alexanderrr and @Mark B for joining the drive. And also waiting for me. Somehow I missed my 4 am alarm and got up when the clock said time is 5:00 am. We completed the first 33 km till Murquab hill in about hour and 20 mins without a single refusal in what is definitely an intense technical drive which shows your prowess in the off-road driving skills. while my GPS says the we had a beak of 9 min in the total drive time of 2:30 min drive, I am pretty sure that we stopped about 18 min on the hill itself. The route 66 has stoped being a gravel track and the desert has consumed it completely. it was a mild FB level drive in it as well. In the last section too we drove though some very tall but technical dunes and both of you did an excellent job keeping up with the pace. Towards the end we had our couple of refusals just before the exit and @Alexanderrr it was great to see your Pajero do what it is most definitely can do in capable hands, it was an excellent self recovery from a crest. @Mark B it was amazing to see your extended LWB Gladiator keep up with the track made by my tiny SWB Jeep Wrangler. See you both soon. The black track was my planned track that I planned on my desktop but it did not sync with the phone, but it's miraculous that I pretty much kept with it. There are a couple of sections in the Route 66 that my phone glitched and did not record and skipped a bit of track.

I overslept my alarm, so I am running late by about 15 minutes

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Thanks to one of those refusals I could unwind my winch that got stuck while doing a recovery.

@Alexanderrr, @Mark B, @Joseph Raju it is going to be a short convoy so an exiting drive. The meeting point is: https://goo.gl/maps/6cmG8WSxsjWaafh76 See you all in the morning.

Thank you everyone for joining this drive. From the convoy itself one could tell that it was a formidable line up with all excellent off-road cars. Within the first hour we were able to cover over 60% of the planned track and I was looking to extend the time somehow because we were almost at the end by 7:30 itself. Few refusals here and there and a couple of loops around the track made up of the fast pace and we completed the drive on time at 9 am. @Mohit Gurnani you did an excellent job at second lead today, keeping distance. I hope you had a good practice using that magical A Trac of yours. @Saverio Arena this was your first fewbie drive but you drove very well without any refusals. @Rk ram you drove quite well, with more practice hesitation if any will go away and gradually you will learn where the push the car and where not to do it. Keeping an eye on the front car how it did will guide you towards it. @Deepak Eswar you were flawless on this drive, of course the SWB Jeep Wrangler JL would have made everything easy as well. @Rob S it was great to see you once again, and thanks for anchoring the drive in the middle and being part of every refusal. @Cristian we drive again and hope you had enjoyed the drive. As usual you were excellent. @Juan R the second white wrangler in the convoy, you have driven more than half of your FB drives with me but this time it was different that it was not a surprise lead from me for you 😝. @Arda Yagcioglu welcome back after the break, and I hope all the off-road driving rust has been removed with this one. @Bjoern good to have you at the back and what can I say, you have always been excellent with that car of yours. @Ranjan Das Thanks taking up the responsibilities of the sweep and doing much of the tugging we had to do today. See you all in next instalment of Looper's loops.