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Damn, you guys should head down to your nearest Marine Corps recruiting office!

Don't know if you're interested in the mining industry or not but they are hiring. Send a PM to cynick and let them know I sent you. Seth is good people and may have some job info. Thanks for your service. Semper Fi Ace

Damn Bruce, sounds like quiite the ride. Hope you get healed up soon. Guess the saving grace is that at least this was at the end of the season and not the start. Had some broken ribs before, not much fun at all. And whatever you do DON'T sneeze!!! Was this on the DS?

Awesome shots. Pic 3 is just insane, conditions we would all love to find each time out but are a rarity. Looks like good times were had.

Hopefully!?!?! You gotta catch up guys. Haven't missed one since 06.

Hittin' up Glamis the 27th-29th then I guess the dirt tires will go on for some Ocotillo Wells and Johnson Valley fun in the sun. May try and make a day trip or two back up to D but it's starting to get hot. 102/103 for Glamis this weekend, hopefully much cooler the following weekend. St. Anthony over Labor Day for DS Days. Have a safe summer folks.

Had to have been there to see a lot of things! Like: Ahhh my a$$ is burning, stand, sway, stumble, stagger, piss in to the wind, stumble a little more, fall, stagger to the hauler, and sleep. :beerpint: Like: Trixie I'm so sorry, but my hearing really is bad. I now know your real name. Like: a whole bunch of Got in some good rides and did a little bit of wrenching along the way but that's par for most dune trips I think. Got to meet some great DDR peeps in Jim and Kris. Hope to hang and ride with you fine folks again next season. Gotta come on down to Glamis for a trip or two. Good meetin' ya. Hope you guys get your EFI issue figured out. I'll see if I can't download some of the pics that I took seeing as to how Ray is having an issue doing so. A big thanks to Jim for leading some killer rides that Dylan could learn on and meet, or exceed in some cases, his limits! He caught on quick and I think he may have our addiction. Not too bad for a rookie... ...Or is it??? Friday evening after the storm. Saturday morning sunrise.

Welcome aboard Tractorboy. Lots of good peeps here and we're always looking to meet more like us. Swing on by. Look for info on the main page and it will have a map of the camping area.

Oh! Well then quads it is. You are more than welcome to join our group. It's small and we're going to be breaking in a couple of dune newbs so nothing as intense as any of Pete's awesome rides but still a fun and enjoyable weekend all the same. I usually try and get up in the cul-de-sac (B-14) but if you don't mind us joining your camp then we'll pull in where you're already set up. Is B-10ish about right? Got stuck as hell last time we went up in the cul-de-sac anyway so I might rethink that area until my load gets lighter.

Sand Pig = Bombardier/CanAm DS650. I believe one guy in the group is bringing a Honda CRF450R. Everybody else on quads though. You heavy hitters don't tear the sand up too bad for us light weights!

Rolling in Friday morning with a herd of Sand Pigs. I guess if four or five makes a herd anyways. Two Dumont rookies in tow so I hope the sand isn't shredded too early in to the trip. Looks to be shaping up for an awesome weekend conditions wise. Ride safe. See ya'll there.

Awesome trip report and pics Mr. Pedro. Really wish I could have made it out but we're shooting for this weekend. Won't be anything like yours though. Looking forward to the next one with you young guys!

I'm Jonesing to get back out there but I've got NASCAR in Fontucky this weekend and Trans Siberian Orchestra on the 1st. So who's planning on going out the 7th-8th weekend? I know it's hard to judge the weather this far out but barring any rain the temps should still be bearable enough to get some ride on.

So you're not still working there then I take it? Wouldn't recommend it at all??? Bruce, I have a friend up in Winnemucca who works the gold mines I can put you two in touch if you would like. I know one of the gold mines over near Elko NV (Newmont Mining) hired 600 people last year and are doing the same thing this year. They had 35,000 applicants for the 600 jobs! I would say experience is a plus. They're looking for Vets too. Former Marine heavy equiptment operator got a job hauling the dirt in and out of the mine in those big azzed trucks for $60K a year. Takes 120 tons of dirt to extract 1 once of gold in that particular operation. Feeds the kids though I guess. Hope you find something soon. Ace

Opps! Sorry, don't know what happened there.

His name is Scott, goes by TheStir, and is the Administrator over at DS650.org. A busy busy man but he may be able to hook you up if he's got time. Tell him Ace sent you. These things are very heavy duty and will last forever. If you can keep up with them!lol

Jeezus! Where to start??? All I can say is that in all the years that I've been going to Dumont I have never experienced the sand like it was when I arrived Thursday morning. We put on 40 miles on Thursday alone. Friday came and we went through fuel like never before. It was still buttery smooth and the few rails out there couldn't even have messed it up. Still pretty deserted too. Saturday came and we hooked up with Pete and the rest of the day ride crew for some hair raising riding to be sure. I think a couple of young studs were quite surprised that two old fat a$$ dudes on sand pigs could hang with them but hang we did! And man was it a blast. Thanks Pete. You lead some amazing rides bro. I guess in all of the excitement to get out and play casual introductions were skipped over. My buddy was BigRay800. I think he lurks here on ocassion but he is well known on all of the DS forums. He's good people and loves helping out as you all observed. He'd do anything for anybody to get them back in the game and out of some effed up situations. By the time we got ready to roll out on Sunday afternoon we had logged 215 miles on the GPS. Was pretty much out of fuel at that point anyway. Being ready to roll out is when the real fun began! I had parked way up on the cul de sac and when I got ready to pull forward it felt like I just broke through and sank. We pulled and dug, pulled and dug, and pulled and dug. Moved the truck and trailer about 30 feet in 2 1/2 hours and we were exhausted and out of water to soak the sand with. Went in search of help, the place was almost cleared out and those who were still there were hooked up. Finally scored and found a Chevy 2500 unhitched. The gentleman came up to help out and in very short order was buried hisself. Stopped before he got in too deep so we hooked up Ray's Ranger and proceeded to have three trucks buried nice and neat all in a line! On the hunt I went again. Found a F-350 who was out riding the first time I visited his camp and he came on up and in very short orded had the three of us out of the ruts and heading down onto the flats. Thanks so much to both of you gentlemen who lended a hand. So long story short: I stop a Baker to dump and a Charter bus is pulled up to the site. Comes up to me after I observe him scratching his head in wonder for a few minutes, ask if I have a hose. I give him my sewer hose, my flush hose, my wand, and some latex gloves. He heads back to the back of his bus, scratches his head some more, comes back over and says he has never done this before and ask if I can come help him. Get him hooked up and pull his T-handle and nothing! The shaft is broken from the slide! Big bouncer dude from the Charter company tells the driver he has to get the tank dumped as the toilet is backed up and almost overflowing into the bus. I'll leave out all of the gory details but the driver gets out of the toilet one ladies shrt, one pair of panties, one pair of socks, two Coke cans, a Pepsi can, and two water bottles. Now he does all of this from the bottom of the tank. Let's just say it was quite interesting and quite messy. I help him clean up his mess and get the wedding party back on their way from Vegas to San Diego. About an hour and change in all. Knocked out my dump and flush in about 10 minutes and head off to 29 Palms. Smooth sailing now and the dunes were so great that even being stuck for three hours and then the ordeal at Valero couldn't put a damper on the weekend. But wait, what the hell was that noise? Heading up the grade from Kelso I look in the mirror and see white smoke and chunks of Goodyear Marathon being wildly tossed about! Get out of harms way and onto one of the softest shoulders I've ever seen in the desert. Give AAA a call and an hour and 15 minutes later help arrives, gets my spare on in ten minutes and I'm back underway. Got to watch a beautiful sunset on Kelso Dunes while I waited and daydreamed about what it would be like to be able to ride the third largest dunes in North America. Got home just in time to clean up and get in bed as I had a class to be in all week long. It was nice to just be able to chill and let the old body recover from 215 miles of the best dune riding I've ever had. Yo Pete, where's my plug kit!?!?! LOL

If anyone happens to see this flag during the clean up please hunt me down. I'm not too hard to find as there aren't many DS's at the dunes anymore. The one pictured is my desert bike and won't be there but they all resemble oneanother. Thanks so much.

Lost my flag out at D on Thursday the 1st. Our first ride pretty much covered everything from Banshee Hill to the North Pole with every nook and cranny in between. We only saw around four or five other riders that day so hopefully someone picked it up. We back tracked our route which wasn't too difficult since we pretty much made the only group tracks that day. Never did see it so I assume it was rescued by a concerned duner. The wind wouldn't have blown it away as it is heavy rubberized nylon. International orange with the black DS650.org logo and my handle, aceisisback, in KISS font. Hit every square inch of Dumont on Friday the 2nd and again on the 3rd with Pete leading the way so no grain was left unturned. I'll be out again for the clean up so if you happen to stumble upon it it is not trash. Would love to have it back as it's a one of a kind and a good friend made it for me. Here's a pic: I appreciate your help. Ace

Is anybody out there???

Yo Pete swing by and get me before y'all head out on this ride. Or at least post up where it departs from and a approximate time. I'll be rolling in around 10 in the morning (Thurs) and am staying until Sunday afternoon. If it's not taken when I get there I'm gonna try and get up in the cul de sac (B-14). Not sure if that's a wise thing to attempt with noone else around to help if you get stuck but I always enjoyed the peace and quiet up there back in the day when Cheese used to go to the dunes. Looking forward to this ride if the dunes have recovered from Pres Day.

Got any pictures or a price???

Yep yep, Idaho! Utah is beautiful then also. Hell those folks will still be in coats then.

Not if you're a Desert Iguana or a Tortise. It will definitely be triple digits then.

Well, because sometimes the wind is roaring past our ears and it sounds like you said PoonFreak! You should expect some weird looks.