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Totally Well deserved @Waqas Parvez bhai ! Ur patience and knowledge is commendable ! See you Satday and Do we get some promotion sweets too ? 

Just now, Srikumar said:

Inside Pajero bowl

Noted sir ! So I come prepared with enough food, and warm clothes then

Hi Doc @M.Seidam, Can you give a tentative location idea ( So I plan my previous night accordingly ) 

Great to know you via this Intro  ! Welcome to the family @Tharun Kumar V ! See you soon in one of drives and amazing collection of the fleet ! 

Well done @Tharun Kumar V  Am sure you will enjoy the new level ! 

Congratulations @Albarqawi85 for the promotion to new level ! 

Congratulations @Gerrit Buson the well deserved Promotion ! Am sure u will love the fun at this level too ! 

2023 - A fantastic start, couldn't have asked more than to do the drive we experienced - Thanks @M.Seidam for this fantastic drive ! Right from the start till the end , the focus, concentration, judgement of keeping right distance, and the fast pace in second half, it had everything of what we had in 2022 various drives - Hence I would say helped me atleast to recollect of how amazing the times were in 2022 and what 2023 looks like

Great bunch of people in the convoy - And the 2 newbies in IM level - Not even once i felt they were doing first time IM - this is certainly one of very challenging IMs I did and lucky were @Gertjan and @Tareq Al Turq to experience this in their first drive itself ! Congratulations Folks ! 

@Vaibhav - Vaib,  the challenges u accepted all through being second lead and proactively taking alternate lines at times, just assured us, how perfect SL you were. Absolutely fantastic and all times in my mind i was watching what distance you were keeping and wondering on your amazing judgment ! 

Always great pleasure to have @Fabien Monleau @Simon D@Imteeaz @MMansoor as part of convoy ! Great to see you guys and collectively, we made it happen - No Ropes on day 1 of 2023

@Davie Chase - Thanks for sweeping us and I can imagine how more challenging it would have got being in last , with the kind of track we have been over - fantastic feat ! The winch, perhaps some more waiting time for it - I couldn't have the chance to see and learn what magic you did during the pop-out, perhaps need to be next to you next time to learn those techniques

Some pictures in gallery too  See you all soon Gentlemen ! 

Congratulations @GauravSonibhai, well deserved! U always make ur drives a learning and fun experience! Many more to come💥💥🍻

Congratulations @Frans Mon the promotion. 

7 hours ago, Brett Eicher said:

Let's switch to next week, as I think a couple people had plans already this week... including a visit to Liwa festival. So 28-30 Dec (Wed-Fri) if that suits? I'll start putting a tentative plan together, are people okay with a bit of hiking? There are some beautiful vistas that are only reachable by foot.

@Brett Eicher - This comes with a heavy heart ! just got an unexpected office call for 28th and few guests from India whom I need to host , so apologies for this, and please do not move it only for me. 
Although please do share your tentative plan etc. here ! that's a terrific combo of hiking + Drive ! 

Thanks @Kailas for this wonderful drive, and making it enjoyable with those dunes in little sweihan! was perfect weather and perfect drive for a satday morning!! 

@Pieter Potgieter Thanks for being SL and you drove perfect as a SL making sure adequate distancing all times  and @Nathan for being the sweep and keeping an eye on the convoy👍🏻, congrats for ur first ridge riding which u made it appear so easy;)

Must say everyone drove perfectly mature FBs with some key learnings for sure , we all learn everyday💥

@Murtaza Bhuria Thanks to you , we again revised the importance of right PSIs, makes a huge difference and was clearly evident in the second half of ur drive😎
 

See you guys soon in sands, some pictures uploaded on gallery😎

Guys, suits me 28-29-30, post christmas, pls advise ur dates and we go with majority🕺

Thanks @Brett Eicher! Pls do keep posted about this, if the dates work Am IN Too! 

Thanks @Gaurav and @Frederic for this super informative "course" session! 
My key takeaways were break the resistance, types of tugs, and right technic of shovelling, apart from many others you shared yday:) And as u rightly said, with this we should be able to help self and others on recovering with minimal efforts🤞Then intensity of interest was clearly reflected with the extended session and none of us realised it was 8pm:) 

it was great to catch up all and thanks @Waqas Parvez for the snacks🙌🏼.

WOW ! 12 confrimed, 10 WL - Looks like Friday is the new Satday / Sunday ?  Or along with Schools offices also going on winter break :D 😅

Better to be WL 1 than not in the rsvp at all😅,
 

now my evil prayers start: 1. My committed get together is cancelled for some reason and 2. I move to confirm list for some reason😂😂🙌🏼🙌🏼🤞

update : thanks @Gaurav for making my second wish come true, just waiting for first one too now😂

How to recover from a crest without a tug - Can someone please record a video of this being done  @Rob S , even better if the entire drive is recorded with script @Looper ?   ? 

The more "a drive is not to be missed" the more it is inversely related to "my Ability to join the drive" !  I will be among those unfortunate ones to miss this one, and wait eagerly for next one with a hope of not to miss that ! 

Congratulations @Sebb for reaching the Fewbie Level , enjoy your new level