Let’s try one more time!
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:03 pm
Hello Almosters !
A great thank you to Giorgio for leading and organizing this drive, and to Rapailo, Rathika and MGhoneim for supporting us !
It was a small convoy and a thrilling drive ! I loved it ! The right amount of challenges, a pinch of adrenaline with a good paced drive, some switching, arches and reasonable size dunes !
I must say I was missing the early morning drives and this beautiful scenery on the way to the Nagrah Hill of Sweihan!
We have been already a couple of times in that area but today we tasted higher dunes, training on bigger arches than usual. It was truly a great experience and we had several mini briefings where Rapailo and Giorgio shared great technical explanations (gears, RPM, angle etc) on how to tackle the dunes. It was very insightful!! Thank you so much for that !
I still need to improve my arrival/exit on the dune as I got crested 2 or 3 times (can’t recall… but I have never used so much my rope except during the GPS challenge…), as well as my speed while going down the big arches, but overall I felt I had a better control and feeling of my car. (Finally !)
Oh and by the way, we drove that old lady’s Dune legend says that her spirit is still haunting the dune… which must be true since Rapailo’s car got offered as a tribute to grant us safe passage… really our marshals are so dedicated and thoughtful!
Many thanks for your time and this wonderful morning !
See you all very soon for more sandy adventures…
Ps : thank you Rathika for the rescue tips
A great thank you to Giorgio for leading and organizing this drive, and to Rapailo, Rathika and MGhoneim for supporting us !
It was a small convoy and a thrilling drive ! I loved it ! The right amount of challenges, a pinch of adrenaline with a good paced drive, some switching, arches and reasonable size dunes !
I must say I was missing the early morning drives and this beautiful scenery on the way to the Nagrah Hill of Sweihan!
We have been already a couple of times in that area but today we tasted higher dunes, training on bigger arches than usual. It was truly a great experience and we had several mini briefings where Rapailo and Giorgio shared great technical explanations (gears, RPM, angle etc) on how to tackle the dunes. It was very insightful!! Thank you so much for that !
I still need to improve my arrival/exit on the dune as I got crested 2 or 3 times (can’t recall… but I have never used so much my rope except during the GPS challenge…), as well as my speed while going down the big arches, but overall I felt I had a better control and feeling of my car. (Finally !)
Oh and by the way, we drove that old lady’s Dune legend says that her spirit is still haunting the dune… which must be true since Rapailo’s car got offered as a tribute to grant us safe passage… really our marshals are so dedicated and thoughtful!
Many thanks for your time and this wonderful morning !
See you all very soon for more sandy adventures…
Ps : thank you Rathika for the rescue tips