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Lovely weather and nice people are the two most important ingredients for a successful off-road trip.

Today I was lucky with both, plus as a bonus got the support of one of the senior marshals of the club; Mr. Adiga.

Our convoy got together at 5:30 am. Details of the convey:

Jithesh - Lead
Ianski - 2nd Lead
Sameer
Bitto
Shajumon
Umer (sweeper)
Zak (Expert) Floating sweeper
Supporting Marshal: Adiga

After the briefing, the drive started by 5.45 am. White sand, technical dunes and soft sand are some of the peculiarities of this area.

First one hour, we played south of lane 3411. Ianski provided excellent second lead support. Zak and Adiga managed the occasional refusals and second attempts.

In the second leg we moved to north of lane 3411 by crossing the gatch road. Though initially we got nice and flowing dunes, we had to counter a semi technical bushy area. We had to manage the sole recovery of the trip also in this area, which was perfected by Bitto under the supervision of Zak and Adiga.

The intermediate members of the convoy got ample opportunities to learn & horn the skills of slide sloping on some of the nice dunes of the area.

All the drivers did really well.

The trip concluded at the Water Tank at 8.20 am

Big thanks & salutes to the entire convoy members. A special thanks to Marshal Adiga to join the trip and provide valuable advices to the members.

Looking forward for more trips with you guys.

JITHU

Thank you Jithesh for a lovely trip. As you said the two important things are lovely weather the good track and a good team. Very happy to have Adiga with his usual advice and lovely support from Zak. Thank you all for a beautiful morning drive. Let’s fit in more trips if possible during this holidays. See you all soon

Thank you dear Jithesh for orgnaizing and leading this trip, it was my first early morning trip ever, good weather, excelant rout and lovely members,

Very nice trip Jitesh. Good lead and good track. Nice to see all of you again this morning.

Looking forward to our next drive together.

Thank you Jitesh for this morning trip. Lovely weather, nice track and good drivers are really a package of this trip.
Thank you also to Adiga for joining us. It’s good to see you again .

See you all next time

Thanks Jitesh for a lovely and enjoyable ride. Look forward to more rides under your lead!!
Regards
Umar

Nice trip Jitesh, learnt a few tricks it was a first time for me in this area. Thank you Adiga for the valuable inputs and Zak for the support. Awesome convoy.