SUP Magazine: Desert Dominance: How Polaris Pulled Off a SXS Win at Dakar

British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so enormous and so desolate that the Arabs call it the Rub’al-Khali, or 'The Empty Quarter.'” A continuous stretch of sand the size of France where dunes loom 700 feet above the rocky desert floor, trailing shadows down their backs like velveteen capes across the scorched earth. Let’s take a moment to put that into perspective: 700 feet is roughly the...