When a Jeeper Lead 8 FJ’s into the desert.
This drive start of with
@Agalon sending a cryptic coordinate for the meeting point. Thou I spent some time on it bamboozled me & I could not solve it. When I tried to solve the coordinates, it sent me to some farm in Sweihan. Thankfully Agalon corrected me & sent me the correct coordinates.
Thou the coordinates sent were somewhere in the desert. So, you had to deflate at the road & drive by yourself into the desert. And a hidden location that too. They were pretty much hidden at the bottom of a dune & you could only see them when you were over them.
A great confidence booster going by yourself to the meeting point.
As a fresh intermediate I was placed as the 3rd car. We started off with Barish as the lead. Barish lead the eager bunch of FJ’s in to the desert. In the short time that Barish was the lead…. He started of at a good pace and increase the pace gradually. I gained confidence as the drive progressed.
Unfortunately, something hit the underneath of Barish’s car and it started leaking. That’s the risk the lead car takes. Thank you Barish for taking the risk and creating the path for us. I hope your car gets better. You also unexpectedly taught us a more valuable lesson in recovery.
Unfortunately, the Jeep could not be started and what followed was a master class in recovery. To pull the jeep two FJ needed to be tied together.
@alshamsi_m was in the lead his car was tied to
@rapailo & then in turn to Barish. It was an interesting recovery. I have heard of such recovery’s but never seen it done before.
Shamsi managed to bring the car to Refada. After that Barish got a passenger seat in one of the FJ’s.
After that Bu Salem took over the lead and in no way was he being gentle. He went to live up to the name of the drive. His pace was relentless. There were many times I was hoping someone would ask for a second try or something so I could just have a rest.
There were many areas I was struggling had some second ties as well. At one point I deflated the tires by a further 2 PSI and it made a wonderful difference.
There was so much traffic everywhere. It was a Friday and who ever wasn’t in a Mall or sleeping was here. We had skipped iftar bowl due to the traffic. Pretty much just defaced one side of superbowl. Then we went along to make chappati of every dune from Sony Ericsson to Showaib.
The break I wanted wasn’t coming. The convoy was doing so well. And bu salem showed no inclination of slowing down. Finally, after 1 ½ hours of relentless driving over technical areas & nonstop side cresting, thankfully one of the passengers asked for a break & Bu Salem called for a tea break. I heard in the other convoy there was some flying involved, as they had heard bu salem taken out the tea.
Both convoys met up here and bu salem led out to the finish point. Thou he was still not slowing down. Towards the end he had a pop out. I think if he didn’t have the pop out he would have just kept on going, like an energizer bunny.
@Agalon Thank you for organizing the trip. And thank you to
@Barish &
@alshamsi_m for the Lead.
Looking forward to your lead another time
@Barish 