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Nish

June 5, 2014 at 5:13 am #30342

so few registrations.. 🙁
Eagerly waiting for my 2nd drive this friday :'(

[Nish]

Nish

June 1, 2014 at 7:19 am #30315

quote khshareef:

quote MJJ:

I will rename yesterday’s drive as “Camel-gate” (which will be explained later). The newbie convoy was led by Humayan – who decided to steepen the learning curve for the first and few timers alike. By his own admission the route we took was fairly technical and it definitely lived up to it.

Sweep Matthews was kept busy from the off. The first recovery required pulling me off the crest on which I had decided to turn my truck into a giant see-saw (chassis down and minimal contact with front or rear tires). Oops. Once recovered we met with the rest of the convoy that was practicing side sloping. From there Humayan navigated us through/around/over some tight/steep bowls/crests. On the way we had a few stucks, some of which were pulled out of, some of which Matthews took over the car and self recovered. At one point the lead himself needed a helping pull from Matthews, which showed that getting stuck was all part of the sport regardless of experience. All good opportunities to learn from.

As it was getting later we decided to make our way out of the sand, and this is where context will be given to the first sentence. On the way back a SWB patrol came up along side the convoy and told us that we had to exit via a different route. I assume that this was because we were driving into a roaming herd (?) of camels. We changed our direction accordingly…but before long the white patrol was on us again pointing us in a different direction. After a little conversation it appeared that the patrol was just going to escort us to a track and back to our starting point at the mosque. There ended the drive.

Though it seemed like we didn’t cover a huge amount of ground (although we might have) there was a lot to be learnt on the path that Humayan drove us. A good experience all around. Thank you.

Majid

SWB Nissan patrol was CID (Security Guy) for protection of Wild Life camels and gazelles. We were lucky that this guy spotted us only at 5.10pm else our whole drive would have spoiled.

Anyhow nice area to test the skills by all levels..

Dear Majid,

i must say.. a well described brief on the whole trip with each detail .. cheers !! 😉
well i hope the CID thing does not happen with us again.. and i am sure there are loads of other tracks and dunes waiting for us. :drive:

Hey Humayun.. it was indeed an amazing drive and a great learning experience. Not really a rocket science.. but your experience was of tremendous help 😀
Waiting for next drive already.. i hope its soon !

Cheers guyz..
Happy Offroading !!

Nishant

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