Trip Report Bu Tais Newbie 18 September

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Trip Report Bu Tais Newbie 18 September

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Drivers:
Myself, Ali Akbar, Calvink888, subrsrini, NabilElKourdy, Jonas, Kharadly, ajayan619, BobMob, Kevin and Asif

We all met up at around 7 AM at Bu Tais Gate. After brief, we split in 2 convoys, one led by me and second by Kevin. My convoy consisted of Calvink888 as 2nd lead, followed by Jonas, Bobmob, subrsrini and Ali Akbar as sweep. Weather was nice, only around 25 degC as we started driving towards the trees/oasis where we usually make a break. Drive was a little bit technical and we decided to try out a quite sharp straight crest, which gave us some learning experience as also practice on recoveries. From there we made it to the trees where we made a break and met up with Kevin’s convoy.
Moving on in easterly direction, everybody doing well and approaching the little bit bigger dunes, the Jimny was a bit struggling to get the power out of the engine to climb the hills. I managed to lead us into a big bowl and we spent some good effort collectively trying to get the little Japanese car out. Eventually succeeded but in the meantime Ali’s jeep had completely lost the clutch. We managed to get the car rolling downhill and it was possible to get the first gear engaged and from there, headed straight out to the sabkha and back towards the road out of the desert.

Fun drive and all did well. We learned some new driving skills as well as recoveries :) . Sometimes it is very helpful to have winch in the group…

Wildlife spotted: Some birds. Lizards.

See you soon in the sand.

/Thomas

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