TRIP REPORT - Sweihan night drive - Intermediates

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TRIP REPORT - Sweihan night drive - Intermediates

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The trip was supported by Marshal: waqmaster

We met at Sweihan wedding hall at 7:30 PM on Thursday night, and continued to deflation point (24 19.1618 (N), 55 24.9501 (E), which is on the south side of the big farm in Sweihan. From there the plan was to navigate the big dunes in the dark around the farm and finally reach the endpoint which was Sweihan BBQ point.

After safety briefing, the trip convoy was set up with petro as 2nd lead, followed by Caro (Carolyn), futureshock999 (Robert), dsalas (David), 52north (Jules) and Rogue One (Martin) last as sweeper. Marshal waqmaster was supporting from the back.

The convoy did really well, demonstrated great skills and safe night drive culture. 2nd lead (petro) had to change the track a few times to keep convoy out of trouble. Sweeper 52Rouge managed the few recoveries with great skill. At around 10:30 PM we were safely back at the BBQ point. Few of the drivers decided to stay and camp to join the early Sweihan trip Friday morning.

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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Thank you Thomas, it was a very fun trip!
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Many thanks thomas for the great night drive! Good level and challenging parts as well! Lots of fun and looking forward to the next drive.

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Thomas, excellent track!
Was a joy to follow and was set at just the right difficulty level.
All drivers did well and it was a pleasure having such an experienced marshal (waqmaster) with us on the trip.

Till next time,

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Thanks Tompa for accepting me on your trip, everyone drove really well and was really good team spirit throughout. Good communication between the drivers

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