{"id":888,"date":"2023-01-02T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gstraveladventure.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:59:50","slug":"exteme-wahiba-challenge-4-5-nov-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gstraveladventure.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/exteme-wahiba-challenge-4-5-nov-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Wahiba Challenge 4-5 Nov 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year’s Wahiba Challenge did not end up well for me, so there was a lot of thinking whether I should go for this year’s Extreme Wahiba Challenge (EWC) or not. Two weeks before the date we went to have the Halloween party on the dessert and I tried a few dunes – instantly all the doubts were cleared and a full joy returned – with a small nudge from my wife, a decision was made!
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First, a few words about the EWC itself. In short, it is a no-joke dessert crossing with 4-5 cars (short to medium base cars only – due to their wide approach and exit angles 4 door Jeeps qualify too) per team working together and independent from other teams with objective to follow the given route and exist the desert before running out of fuel, water food and needing to be rescued – more about that later. It is not a timed competition per se (although you can win some prize for being the fastest) but the challenge is to finish it as a team in 2 days.
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EWC is organized by the Offoad Ras Al Hamra Club (ORAC) once a year and requires prior theory training as well earlier participation in the the Wahiba Challege.
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The route was North to South with total length of about 70km in the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea was to reach somewhere between IP7 and IP9 on Day 1 and then finish the rest and exit on Day 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had 4 cars and 7 people in our team – 3 Jeeps as shown below (yes a white Rubicon roaming in the back) and 1 Nissan Extera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 1: 7am – last fuelling up in Al Kamil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the email from the organisers it was mentioned to take two cans of fuel – however it didn’t say the can size. So, left to interpretation people took from 20 to 40 liters extra per car. What was meant each car should take 2 x 20 = 40 liters as apparently a can is 20 liters – now we know. At the end, we were short on fuel and if not for the Indonesian team lending us some, we would probably had to leave one or two cars behind to get some extra fuel. Good that nobody worried about this at the beginning as we all were full of joy and excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of us picked a different time of arrival to Al Kamil or the EWC starting point. With no hurry, we all arrived one minute to the hour and were all ready to go! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On route from Al Kamil to the starting point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upon arrival you could feel this sand was not going to be easy on us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Air down to 10-12 psi, ORAC safety briefing and off we went!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon after was the first stuck\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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