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Must be a non holiday, Jim's is a white pass with red writing. The Holiday Included passes are yellow with blue writing.

That's GREAT news!

Shelly thank you. It was great hanging out with you guys as well! Nice to have some go go go sand peeps in camp. You guys will be smoking Mike once you get those paddles.

Thank you guys.

WOW! Scary. I am happy you caught it and got it taken care of. Like Pete said lots of fresh fruits and veggies and a nice workout routine. Weather right now is perfect for evening walks with the family.

THE DUNES ARE OPEN!!!! Even if the government isn't! BLM was still out there manning his post, checking on things. We saw him Friday and Sunday. Saturday we spent most of the day in the dunes. We arrived about 10:30ish on Friday morning. Adam was already out there chatting it up with the BLM ranger. Really nice guy. We unloaded and hit the sand to lay down some fresh tracks. There were maybe 6 or 7 other camps out there. And Saturday brought many day trippers. The dunes were their normal early season weirdness. Witches eyes, witches ditches, and sand hills and shelves were there weren't any last season. There are about 5 large witches eyes on the right side of comp, you'll want to look out for those. We started out with our usual dune run to the North Pole. Rippled sand, only tracks were ours. Back to camp to have a quick bite of lunch and let the shadows return. Do some adjustments, fill up and back out we go. We just dropped over the second big dune in behind Banshee, when I notice I was getting water on my leg, now that can't be good! So I stop to check things out. I had lost the cap to my radiator overflow. Head back to camp to look around and see if we can find it. No such luck. Fix it with what we can, plastic bag and a rubber band, hole in the top for ventilation. Hey it worked. Just about the time we were ready to head back out. Our new sand peeps, Scott and Shelly and their pops, Don rolled up to camp. As excited as we were for dune runs, they unloaded and we headed out in just enough time for hitting up comp and the epic sunset North Pole run. Scott and Shelly were rolling in their just broke in the motor Rzr XP 1000, they had not had it in the dunes yet, so the sunset run was a nice cruise. Back to camp, fill up, eat dinner, and a slow night cruise to the South Pole. Back to camp, small fire, early to bed to get up at the crack of dawn for a early morning run. After the early morning run, we had some newbies joining us for the day. Marvin and son and grandson, they wanted to "see what all this sand stuff is about" They have a 4 seater XP. Never been in sand before, so we took them on a nice slow cruise to the South Pole so they could get the feel of it and then on a slow cruise to the North Pole. By the time we hit the North Pole there were grins from ear to ear all around! :B I think we may have some sand converts on our hands!!! We split into two groups, I took the slower group around the back road and the front side of the dunes and Mike took the faster group through the dunes and back to camp. By then the sun was right over head again, so Mike and I took a break. But the others were not ready for a break, they had a quick bite and all took off to Little Dumont and the mines. When they got back, they were having wayyyy toooo much fun. You could hear them laughing and hootin before they rolled into camp. We never thought we would find sand peeps who were just as go go go go as we are! We hung out a little longer, waiting for our friend Karl to show up. As soon as he did, we were off again. Back to camp, fill up, Adam had a DJ gig earlier in the day and he arrived JUST in time as we headed back out for a great adrenaline rushing heart pounding, a$$ sliding, balls out sunset run to the North Pole. Scott and his pops headed back, they had only dark goggles. But Adam, Karl, Mike and myself hung out at the North Pole until the sun dropped all the way down. Back to camp for dinner, chatting around the fire, and early to bed. Sunday brought an early morning long long, draggin out leaving as long as we could dune run, with some stops to play, wheelies and jumps and back to camp to load up, when the shadows disappeared and the sun was directly overhead. That is how our first weekend back in the sands of Dumont went..... Wake up, eat, ride, fill up, ride, fill up, eat, ride, ride fill up, ride, ride, eat, ride, sleep.... repeat.. Needless to say today I am AND I LOVE IT!!! Pics to follow...

Make sure you have your passes! BLM is still on duty!

GTP Off Road just rolled into Dumont Dunes Rd... Open and NO CHP!!!

Very nice! I love that place. Can't wait to get back there next year!

http://www.dumontduneriders.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=18767 Thank you again Terry for going above and beyond for the dune community!!!

I get to get my ride on this weekend!! Thank you Terry!!!!!! We will be careful as always!

Isn't Glamis also governed by BLM??? Why would they close Dumont and not Glamis?

GOOD ONE!

Here is a topic going about this subject http://www.dumontduneriders.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=18755 And here is an update: http://www.dumontduneriders.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=18767&hl=

Amargosa is also now BLM governed land just as Dumont is, the only difference is you don't need a permit to enter Amargosa. So I would think if Dumont is closed, Amargosa is closed. I really don't see how they could shut down and close off Dumont. How do they plan to enforce that? They barely have officers there when its open....

That's what I think too!

That is why I am trying find out info. We are headed out Friday morning. We will be working Halloween weekend, so riding is pretty much not going to happen then.

All the information I could find, seems pretty vague on what impact the government shut down will actually have on Dumont. Dumont is not a National Park, so as far as I can tell, there will just be no BLM officers, no BLM services, the bathrooms locked and maybe some signs posted saying closed. I can't find any information on if there will be fines if you are caught on "closed" lands, however, with no services who is going to catch you? But then further down it says they will be on duty. And yes of course the BLM sites are down, making it even more difficult to find any information. Its not like they are going to run out there an put up a fence and a gate across the road and lock it up, that would require BLM employees to work and funding they apparently don't have. http://www.doi.gov/shutdown/fy2014/upload/BLM-Contingency-Plan.pdf

Congratulations on the new ride!

Playtime in the sandbox!!!

I think it is a great idea and makes it a bit more "personal" A lot of times you look at the magazine and yeah the rides are cool, but they aren't necessarily your "everyday" duner. I would rather pick up the magazine and read about someone I could relate to, then someone who is sponsored or has the big $$$ I hope it goes through for you.

I think the pre runner trucks were represented more then the sand cars as well. Some of those were huge beasts I hope I never cross paths with at the dunes on my quad. I crouched down in front of one of those and looked over my shoulder.. gave me a bit of a chill.

Both times we buzzed by Sean you were pretty involved with a customer, so we didn't want to interrupt. There were still several booths with cars. Yes the majority has turned sxs, but the cars are still there lurking around.

Nice! I would have loved to go to that, but duty called and we needed to go to the Super Sand Sports Show. Thank you for sharing the video.