8 drivers met up at the Sweihan wedding Hall at 7 AM on the Friday morning. One driver unfortunately did not show up and had not cancelled the drive. 2 drivers that camped after the previous night Night Drive, met up at the deflation point, one of them was futureshock999 who had to start the day with mounting the spare tire after driving over a sharp screw at the deflation point….
But bad start with flat tire turned out to be a great morning. After safety briefing, convoy was set up with febaez (Fernado) as second lead, then caounda (Ossama), dsalas (David), futureshock999 (Robert), Rumblebee (Mike), Mr George (Stephane), freedomlucas (Lucas),Hisham and last petro (Kevin) as sweeper. We warmed up with some easy terrain and on the way to Nagra found a few bigger dunes where we practiced side sloping in a safe way. At Nagra we made a short break before continuing towards the Old Lady dune. On the way there we had to pass a quite technical area with sharp dunes and soft sand, so we got quite a number of opportunities to practice recoveries when getting stuck on straight crests. Finally, we reached the area around Old Lady where the dunes are spectacular. After playing around in the big dunes exit onto the gatch road at around 12 AM and drove back to deflation BBQ point.
Thank you all for joining the trip, I will be having more trips to explore this area. Special thanks to second lead febaez and sweeper petro. Caounda – this was your first intermediare drive and it was not the easiest terrain and the sand was soft but you did well, keep up the good work.
See you all soon out there in the sand, and feel free to post pictures from the trip if you have any.
/Thomas (tompa-bjorka)
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Great trip and a gorgeous area of the desert! See you again soon!!
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Re: TRIP REPORT - 2nd try to Old Lady - Intermediates
It was a great trip!!! The sand was VERY soft, which made for quite challenging ascents. As you wrote, we had a large number of stucks and second tries. I don’t think I uninflated my spare tire quite enough, because I had no traction on that side and had a few myself!
But we got through it, and it was fun!! Yallah!! To the sand!
(Now sitting in Titan to get my flag fixed again...then the tyre shop to see if they can fix this one or patch it - yet again!)
But we got through it, and it was fun!! Yallah!! To the sand!
(Now sitting in Titan to get my flag fixed again...then the tyre shop to see if they can fix this one or patch it - yet again!)
In the sand, there is truth.