Advance Nahel - Sweihan crossing Exploration Trip

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Advance Nahel - Sweihan crossing Exploration Trip

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All drivers showed up on time @Sweihan Wedding Hall.

After a small chitchat we moved to deflation point. After deflation and briefing we satup the convoy order and radio channel and we started our trip at around 8:45 am from Nahel.

The convoy was as below :

1- Raul - Lead
2- Dan Niccula - 2nd lead
3- Mohammed
4- Artur
5- Razeem
6- Umar - Sweeper
7- Marshal Mytommy support

The level was advance and since we had to cover a bit of a long distance we had to move in fast pace. Everyone was doing very well and we started by climbing the large dunes of Nahel area. We had nice times there with the nice morning weather and scenery.

There was a bit of a tricky ditch where we had our first pop out. It was a great opportunity to utilize our tools and fix the pop out in no time using the air jack.

We reached checkpoint one as per the scheduled time and we took the sabkha to the two trees dune. We had some fun there and then we climbed the big bowl and exited towards Sweihan dunes.

Just before that we had our second pop out and we fixed it in no time also.

On our way back we encountered a nice sand fossil rock and we took our break there. We also were blessed with an amazing weather and started chasing the shades from the clouds that covered the desert on that beautiful afternoon.

We reached Nagra dune at around 12:30 pm, we had a small break and then we started heading out. We reached bbq point at 13:00 hrs as per the plan.

We inflated and all went back safe and sound.

All the drivers did very well, though the pace was fast, all kept up and were able to do most of the maneuvers right from the first time.

Our support Marshal Mytommy was our guarding angel, so big thanks to him.

Big thank you to all the drivers who registered to this exploration trip and see you all on the sand soon

***Raul***

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Thanks Raul for this amazing exploratory trip. Passing through the 2 tree dunes goal posts gave us a bit of "world cup feeling". We had a great time with excellent team spirit. Looking forward to the next trip of that kind.

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It was a lovely drive Raul, in the beginning i felt i will exit midway due to the length of the trip but we kept enjoying the pace and challenges coming across, so we decided to stay till end.

Wonderful company and great learning. Looking forward to another ride soon. Thanks

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Thanks Raul for the wonderful drive. Amazing landscapes and fun terrain. I enjoyed the trip a lot. We covered almost 65 Km and with great fun.
Thanks Thomas for being our eyes from above and keeping us entertained....

Hope to join many such drives in the future.

Im sharing the trip's video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwPEfBHu_E

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