sand chick

We love you Al. You have been in our thoughts.

Thank you. We don't mind being out there by ourselves, but it would be nice to find some others who enjoy the off weekends. Going to be a great time regardless

Anyone going the weekend before the caos of presidents weekend? We are headed out Friday night after work through Sunday, to enjoy a nice uncrowded off weekend.

Glad everyone is ok. Its not a good feeling at all when you roll.

Same with us we own everything out right. We had a nicer big hauler and downsized to get rid of the payment. Now we have to take two vehicles, but I'll take the $40 in gas for my truck over the hauler monthly payment. We don't buy a bunch of special food, we decided a couple years ago to ride more and drink less. And we live, eat, breathe dunes. Thankfully I found a guy who feels the same way. We don't do anything else, except the special occasions, birthday, anniversary, life mile stones. Some day I would like a rzr, these bones are getting a bit tired, but I won't go into debt for one either I am happy and grateful for what I have and cherish every minute I get to be out in the sandbox.

That looks like a great place to explore! I will have to add this to my "somedays"

So happy you guys made the trip out! That was an added bonus to the best. MLK weekend yet. Wish we would have been able to meet up with other ddr peeps.

Thread jackers :lol:

I ride one too, white rhino is a good friend and just tossing some sh!t my way

Thanks Epic weekend for certain. It was only doing it during side hilling. It was so bad I thought my wheels were falling off and had to dive down to the flats.

I get what you are saying. We don't spend alot of time jumping. I guess to figure out our riding style, just watch any of the videos posted by MarbleMD... we can do that anywhere from 2cnd gear up to balls out. MLK is one of my favorite weekends, since there are very few people out there, usually.

We are always happy to show people around Dumont. In my opinion a good leader is only as fast as their slowest rider. I know there are plenty of others out there not willing to slow down for a newbie, always check before jumping in a line with people you are unfamiliar with. We also like to go when it's not so crowded.

more pics..

EXCELLENT WEEKEND!!! Perfect conditons, little bit of wind, lots of sun, little bit of chilly. I had Friday off, so I finally convinced Mike to let the kiddos play hooky from school. So glad he did Friday was THE perfect dune day. Got out Thursday evening.. super chilly.. light wind blowing.. kids didn't care, they were playing on the quads (Justin Mike's littlest got a new to him 90 Predator for Christmas) before we had finished unloading. Wood supply was super low, so we opted out of a fire Thursday.. counting our wood.. thinking we weren't very well supplied, but it was a last minute trip... I decided to take my truck wood scouting.. zero luck place was picked clean. There were about 6 others camps. Saw some coyotes though. Mike spent the evening fixing the Direct TV box that took a nose dive out of the cupboard.. he's the man and had it up and going for the playoff games on Sat.. I don't want to talk about mine.. lol.. Broncos fan and all. Got up Friday morning to smmmmoooooooth dunes.. the wind had blown all of Thursday night. While making breakfast, I hear someone pulling into camp.. hmm.. who could that be?? It was the wood fairy!!! Some nice guy getting ready to pack it up and go home brought us over a whole load of wood!! THANK YOU!! Whoever you were! Thank you! Saved our butts from being cold or retiring really early. Right after breakfast... dune time... took Mike's littlest Justin out into the big dunes... he's only ridden around camp and the back road to the North Pole, so this was really his first time duning Took him up to the face dunes to play around. Kid took to it like a fish to water. Leaning the right way, gasing it when he needed, slow when he had to. After the face hill play, took him over to comp and let him run the hill a couple of times and then off through the dunes to the North Pole!! Busy holiday weekends are great for hanging out and visiting with friends in camp... but off holiday weekends when you can take your 7 year old out duning to the North Pole.... PRICELESS!!! Something you could never do on Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Years and Presidents Day! Back to camp around the back road, eat some lunch.. go on a fast ride.. practice jumping.. and the sunset cruise back to the North Pole with Justin again The kid didn't take his boots off but to sleep! Back to camp.. refuel with some s'mores and visit with Joe Duner by the evening fire... and get a surprise camp partner Come on Down Love it when your friends just show up out of the blue Get up and repeat... Get up and repeat... Joe Duner lead me on an awesome ride through the back side of comp. Perfect speed totally comfortable (as long as I didn't look out lol.. then I got a little but not too bad) I think a couple more runs like that and I will be better over there. It wasn't to fast wasn't too slow. Had Mike take me into the Super Bowl the easy route.... I now love that spot. Had to be back at work today, so I wanted one more fast ride before leaving... wind was crazy.. all the tracks we put down were being nicely blown away... having a fun ride, but every time I would side hill in the freshly blown sand, my quad would vibrate and the front end would shake like crazy.. not sure whats up with that. Never had that problem before But could not have asked for a better weekend and great memories. There was approximatly 20-30 camps which included sigle hauler camps. Road in was good, washboardy at the begining, but not horrible. Hoping to make it out for the regatta weekend

Well today was a perfect day. Mike's littlen went to the North Pole via the dunes instead of the back road Weather was great windy last night, but a light breeze today. Dunes are smooth, not many tracks left. Counted 30 camps earlier, that included single hauler camps. Hopefully the rest of the weekend is just as great.

Sounds like this is going to be a super off holiday weekend this year. Should be nice sm ooth dunes. Anyone going Friday morning or Thursday night?

Jan 13-16 Monday the 16th is mlk

If anyone is heading out Thursday night or Friday morning , I might be looking for some peoples to ride with.

You camping vendor row? I really don't want to be at vendor row.. soo rocky for Shasta feet. I thought you were camping with us? I am confused, but that's nothing new No matter, we'll find eachother. I maybe out Thursday solo.

Hoping we'll be there for MLK weekend. I have Friday off, so if we did get to roll out it would be Thurs through Sunday. Back to work on Monday.

Thanks Rebecca. You have a wonderful holiday! I will have a cocoa and toasted marshmellow vodka fireside for you tonight. And remember to smile, somebody loves you

We'll be out all weekend, Mike's leaving today. Just us and one other hauler. We'll be in the usual spot.

Only cause I taught you the secret of dune whispering.

Apparently my SARCASM was unappreciated! Not enough laughing guys I guess. My bad! :laughing: