How is it possible to ride thick soft sand??

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Frog

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I just got back from a trip to Botswana and would like to know how the hell you are supposed to ride long stretches of deep soft sand without coming off? I'm not talking of 50 meters of sand where you can open up and power your way though but hundreds of meters off soft rutted twee spoor with turns or a kilometer of deep rutted sand.
I found that I would start off OK, then get a bit out of shape somewhere, add some power to correct, be OK, get out of shape, add some power.....
The problem was that because I did not want to tap off, my speed would getter faster and faster the further I went untill I started thinking if I come off now I am going to kill myself. So I would have to tap off and then you know what the result is!
Who can ride a big duallie through these conditions without coming off and how do you do it?
 
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