To make a good trip you need good people and yesterday we had 22 good people in fact there were 22 cars so probably around 30 good people, driving off road is great fun but driving off road with friends like you lot is just excellent fun, I’m glad you all enjoyed yourselves so much, as a newbie Marshal I found out yesterday that to marshal a newbie trip is hard work as I have to find a route we can all get through and marshalling a trip with 22 vehicles is even harder, thanks Jo for picking up all the pieces, thanks to dare I say it the two jeeps that pulled me out when I got stuck (yes we all get stuck sometimes!) even Landrovers
thanks to the addition of not one but three extra marshals that had to drop off their extreme trip due to vehicle technical faults, having you all there was good for the training of newbie’s, the only problem with being at the front finding the route is you miss all the action going on behind 8O .
So the trip Report:
started at BMW at 1.30 with 14 vehicles, got to the petrol station at 2 and number increased to 17, drove towards the entry point and number increased to 18 vehicles, by this point I was concerned that every 4x4 in AD was going to join!
we entered the mussafah deflation point at around 2.30, quick brief of the day and off we set into the dunes, the first stuck was within 5 minutes which gave the rest of the marshals time to arrive, deflate and catch up, the rest of the afternoon was just relatively easy going with the occasional stuck (including myself) and a couple of stops for playtime, we came out from the dunes at around 5pm for a event photo good chat and our goodbye's till next time.
Thanks again to all for making it a great trip, same time same place weekend after next for those that are interested, I put up a trip later in the day
Regards
Doc.
