All met on time this time on a rainy morning, everybody managed to find the meeting point without issues. After a safety briefing and a radio check, the convoy hit the rollercoaster dunes at 7:34am. Convoy order:

- Flaghunter - lead
- Thompa-bjorka - second lead
- Bhav
- Kman - official sweeper
- PearlyGates59 - support
- Emdoc - support

We had good fun in the playground dunes. The sand was still wet and the driving conditions were thus a little more challenging, demanding some extra care. At 8:00 we took a quick break and continued side-sloping, side-cresting and surfing the dunes in the Sweihan direction. At 8:21, Flaghunter got finally stuck on top of the crest, which was expected after six stucks the last time. Kman did a great recovery as always. At 8:38, as we were heading towards a gate that would let us through the fence, EmDoc had a flat tyre which he promptly fixed with the help of the team. After we crossed the gate and headed back to the dunes through a bushy area, Flaghunter got stuck again at 9:00am, messing up his power steering with attempted "right-left-right" self recovery. EmDoc's tyre also gave up around the same time.

Despite some serious and creative car-fixing skills demonstrated by Kman and Testinwork (EmDoc's passenger), Flaghunter's car wasn't in shape to continue the trip, so Kman led the convoy to the nearest gatch on a newbie track. Around 10:00am, Flaghunter left and headed back, along with Thompa-bjorka whose passenger didn't feel very well after the rollercoaster. The rest of the convoy continued towards Sweihan, under Kman's and later EmDoc's lead (on a spare tyre).

(Michael will post the second part of the report as a comment, thank you!).

All drivers did very well, thanks everyone for an eventful rainy morning and see you soon, hopefully on a trip with a little bit more driving and less fixing!

Great trip Mike - really enjoyed this one!

Yes great trip Michal, starting out with your well chosen swooping track in Khazna. After the Jeeps decided to have a break , Kman took the lead towards Sweihan, showing good leading skills by finding very good sloping and cresting lines through some fine bowl clusters. As time started to work against us, I took over and we finally arrived at Sweihan on time at 11:30.

Nice morning with great people.

Till next time

Michael

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The rain made the day cool and comfortable. It was my first time driving in such conditions and, by the way, I did not get stuck!

Thanks to Flaghunter for organizing this trip; a brilliant track seeking dunes which needed some grooming. Although cut short, I am glad Flaghunter reached home safely, thanks to the Jeep thing.

Well done to Kman for leading the 2nd part of the trip to that great bowl. Awesome!

Thanks to Thomas, Matt and Marshal EmDoc for the great support. Matt, do post your drone footage on SocialApp for everyone to enjoy. Despite the whether, it captures the stunning scenery of Al Khazna.