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DRIVE DESCRIPTION Need a quick mid-week night drive? Happy to drive out to Al Fayah? Interested in having a nice sit down tea/coffee before inflating and heading home? If you answered yes to these questions, have I got the drive for you! We will be doing a short blast (2.5 hours max) around Al Fayah on Tuesday night. We will start off heading through the sabkha then making our way back in reverse from the usual course. We will stop the convoy towards the end of the drive, and make some coffee and tea whilst looking at the sky and chatting (30 minute break). The moon will set at 21:30 so we will have a nice dark sky. Don't forget your chair! PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK THE MEETING POINT. THIS IS NOT THE USUAL AL FAYAH MEETING LOCATION. MUST READ AND COMPLY Environmental Policy Offroad Flag Guideline Two Way Radio Guideline Off road Driving Etiquette's Emergency details for all off-roaders Off Road Driving - Roles & Responsibilities DRIVE DETAILS Level: Fewbie and above Meeting time: 20:00 (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2XTqgYD2ajZiyqQH8 Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance. What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), smiles, face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 22:30 (10:30pm) P.S. Only join if you have a compressor to inflate your tires after the drive. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE This drive is limited to 5 cars only. RSVP will close on Tuesday - 17:00. If the RSVP is full, you can add your name to the waitlist, once someone drops, you will be moved to the RSVP list. Latecomers will be returned back - Without any exceptions. Members without RSVP will be returned back - Without any exceptions. Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others. Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month RSVP HERE BELOW

Happy Saturday 👍 RSVP is now closed. See you at 06:30 tomorrow deflated and ready for briefing. We will use channel 8. Convoy will be posted a bit later.... @Zsolt @Krinesh @Sam Selim @Myrko @Diego @Glenn W @Ahmed Farouk @vinayak @Mei Ling @Abhishek Chikara @Aser @Andrew John Melvill

Update 20251120 - The Sunday Plan: There is a large section of dunes just to the south west of Tilal ADNOC, bordered to the west by a farm and to the east by the Tilal drag race strip. Big Sidies, ridge riding and criss crossing. Next we will double back to the south east towards sweihan lake. Small dunes, technical sections. We will try and go straight through the dunes here instead of looping around too much, to train ourselves on the tech stuff before having a short break at the Lake. Westwards again across sabkha and some long range dunes, picking up the speed and connecting nice flowing sections towards the various rock formations. Next we zig zag south through a high technical zone, and across some areas with vegetation, to be rewarded with some TALL WIDE OPEN dunes which we will take big Sidies on and enjoy some high speed runs finishing towards north Khatim. LETS DO IT 💪

would love to catch up and chew the fat @Davie Smooth_Operator but I have previous commitments for Friday evening. Have an excellent night mate!

The drive objectives were layed out, and we delivered. We started off with around 35 minutes playing around doing Sidies in the big dunes right near the desert safaris. It was @Krinesh first night drive, and together we all made sure he had a great debut! 👏 It can be tricky to see the angles and heights of the dunes at night, but everyone drove this area flawlessly, esp as we were pulling big Sidies around Deep bowls and pockets. From here we headed out westwards hoping to catch a easy trail to zone2... Instead I found a fence and drove us into a deadend! Whoops! After we reversed out one by one we managed to get back on track and start hitting some.of the flowing dunes. We followed these flows into the main event where I promptly got stuck in a soft patch, and thanks to some nice guidance on the radio from @Zed got out pretty quickly. This was when we discovered that he would have to impersonate Keanu from speed and keep the RPMS high to avoid engine shutdowns. Next the team found themselves having to shovel me out after getting crested on a ridge. Great team.effort trying to move a mountain of sand, but in the end @Aser tugged the back of my car around so I could use gravity and drive out. After arriving in zone3 we had a few good long range dunes and started encountering some heavy fog rolling in, so high tailed it to the exit a few minutes early to avoid getting stuck in adverse weather. It was a really fun mid week escape with lots of big terrain! Thanks for coming from Dubai @Jose Luis Campos, and good to get a big chunk of the Abu Dhabi carnity crew together @Aser @Dan S @Diego @Krinesh & @Zed Enjoy the rest of your week!

Looks like the site is back. RSVP closed. Convoy order attached. See you at 20:00 @Zed @Aser @Krinesh @Jose Luis Campos @Diego @Dan S