AlNashama ANIT & Newbie Trip REPORT

mamoun · Post by **mamoun** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:09 pm

All made it almost on time and we left the patrol station at 2:00Pm. we did it as two groups me & yeiha toke the ANITs others with Caeser "sure he will let us know about his report" At the deflation point, we went through the ANIT briefing. After some questions and answers, we started the fun. The first few kilometers were slow, but things got smoother as people started enjoying themselves.

We had few second tries, Only two stucks and thankfully no popouts. We reached gate 15 to exist at 6:00PM. Some decided to stay for the BBQ gathering while others left for civilazation

Megamo
Yehia
Tweety
Waleed
Jo
Caeser

Thank you all for the great support

braveheart
Rami
Voy
Marco
Sis
NigelB
desertfun
AmruAbbas
ebebeb
Abdul Qadir
Boklyne
kastrato
muzammils
bentleyc080167
Giovanni79
Charan
Ebebeb
Ferran Pous Andres
Stefan
Ziza
Shadi45

Thank you all for joining the trip, hope you enjoyed the track, and see you next time!

Abdul Qadir · Post by **Abdul Qadir** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:31 pm

Thanks Mamoun dear for the trip & log book.

MegaMoe · Post by **MegaMoe** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:05 pm

it was another great day in the desert with great people, nice to meed all the old and new members and looking forward to seeing u all on the dunes again,

desertfun · Post by **desertfun** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:39 am

Thank you all for a great trip. Excellent work by the marshals who had to guide a large group. Some "informative" stucks were thrown in for educational purposes

See you again in the sands soon!

kastrato · Post by **kastrato** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:40 am

Thank you all for everything!
I as very happy to see you all again!
The trip was very good despite the large number of cars participated!
The BBQ was a perfect finish of a great day!
Looking forward to see you all again!

Voy · Post by **Voy** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:32 am

Thanks for organizing the trip.
I'll remember the beautiful Patrol escaping the bowl where it was trapped.
I love the idea of accepting everyone who wants to come to the trip, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to go and enjoy the sand. Thank you for that!
If I could suggest a way we could have improved the experience yesterday, it would have been to leverage the fact we had many great marshals to split the convoy in two. This would have smoothed things.
Also it would have been even better if could have let Intermediates do basic recovery.
BBQ was great. Caesar thank you for Arayes, Yehia for hommous, Boklyne for melted Camembert...
Regards,
Voy

Waleed · Post by **Waleed** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:43 am

Voy wrote: I love the idea of accepting everyone who wants to come to the trip, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able to go and enjoy the sand. Thank you for that!
If I could suggest a way we could have improved the experience yesterday, it would have been to leverage the fact we had many great marshals to split the convoy in two. This would have smoothed things.
Also it would have been even better if could have let Intermediates do basic recovery.

Thank you Voy for your valuable feedback as we always appreciate constructive feedback from our members

One point to clarify, however we have many trips with limited number of cars and in many occasions multiple trips get together and join the Bbq, we still need sometimes to take the opportunity to run a long convoy for the following reasons:

1-Learning opportunity for our members to understand and feel the difference between running a short convoy and controlling long convoy

2-Gaining the required skills on the way how marshals are changing their driving styles or changing the convoy position to keep things under controls due to the different type of difficulties linked to the big convoy

3-Some of our current members are potential leaders in future and need to observe and learn from such scenarios. this will always make them ready to support in our major events which includes 100+ cars

4-As a club we have many events which includes many cars which can reach over hundred cars such as Jamboory and our Marshal run event for which experienced members support is required, thus we always from time to time we take the opportunity to practice the same on lower scale of 15 or 20 cars
Thank you again and see you soon

Maher · Post by **Maher** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:22 pm

Thanks to Scorpionita and Mamoun for orginizing this trip, it was nice to meet this big number of the members in one trip.

After the meeting and the Logbook briefing in the patrol station, Mamoun and Yehya took the ANITs group, then Tweety, MegaMoe, Waleed and me with 15 cars moved in one big convoy to the deflation point where we had small briefing as well and then the fun started, we had nice technical drive between the small dunes, yes it was a big convoy and the nice part of the trip started with the first stuck

we had many stucks and recovery was smothly done by the Marshals and some members under the Marshals supervision, no popouts, few second tries and all went good, by 5:45pm we reached to the BBQ point near the exit where we met the ANITs group.

Thanks Braveheart for the second, great job, and thanks Marco for the sweeping, good communication and feedback. Voy, Sis, Kikitour, NigelB, desertfun, AmruAbbas, ebebeb, Abdul Qadir, Boklyne, Kastrato, Muzammils, bentleyc080167, Giovanni79, Charan, Ebebeb, Rami45 and DannyDarko, it was nice to meet you all, good driving skills, hope you enjoied the trip.
Ferran Pous Andres, Stefan, Ziza and Shadi45 welcome to AD4x4 Family.

Tweety, Megamo, Jo, Waleed, Yehia and Mamoun, Thank you all for the your support, it's always nice to be with you.

See you all in the sand soon

Abdul Qadir · Post by **Abdul Qadir** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:11 pm

It was a nice trip in the leadership of Marshal Ceaser, enjoyed a lot & many thanks for giving me recovery chance. A chance to learn more.

braveheart · Post by **braveheart** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:12 pm

Great Trip ...

Thanks to all who made this trip a great success

Its always great to meet old friends and new ones as well
Since 2008 and am enjoying every trip with this club, lots of smiles and fun.

The intentinal Patrol stuck was educational (dont do this at home

)
Thanks for all your help Marchals.

Hope to see you all very soon
PS: All pictures taken for the Patrol stuck are copyright, below is the price list if you are planning to publish online
100 AED for facebook
50 AED for Youtube
65 AED for Twitter

marco · Post by **marco** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:04 pm

Thanks for a nice afternoon to all.
It was really a great recovery the one of the Patrol.
I enjoyed a very relaxing sweeping task.
The melted camembert was worth the all day....
Ciao
Marco

Yehia · Post by **Yehia** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:32 am

It was another nice day with AD4x4 family , the gathering at the BBQ was great. Me and Giovani stayed late enjoying the fire and had to drive back to Abu Dhabi in fog.
Thanks to everyone and congratulations to all who have their first stars.

boklyne · Post by **boklyne** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:01 am

it was our second trip with the club and again enjoyed despite many recoveries (including one from me !!

) that has slowed the convoy.
Good opportunity to meet other Marshalls, all of them being nice & helpful. Thanks to them.
Now looking forward to the next one, to learn more and again have a great day of fun.

BlackBird · Post by **BlackBird** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:14 pm

Caesar, Mamoun and all the Marshall's: Thanks for another fun trip last weekend. Here are a few photos from the trip ...
All the best, NigelB
https://plus.google.com/photos/10168395 ... 7823659777

muzammils · Post by **muzammils** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:36 pm

The trip was great, as a time to learn many things about mysterious desert. Also to understand little more about my jeep after re gear,
Thanks to Ceaser for selecting the terrain for us, Thanks for Waleed, MegaMoe and Tweety for the Trip support....

Muzammils