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It's over by Little Dumont. Here ya go. I made a Google map with some markers on it. Zoom in or out to see exactly where it is in relation to the dunes. <iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216857937271360156497.0004ba8916f2aa8959590&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=35.636267,-116.275821&spn=0.004177,0.006866&z=17&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216857937271360156497.0004ba8916f2aa8959590&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=35.636267,-116.275821&spn=0.004177,0.006866&z=17&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Dumont Dunes</a> in a larger map</small>

That's a nice piece of work!

For sure!

Sweet video, Adam!

No this was out by Little Dumont. Different spot I think. Thanks man! A few came out killer, but the others it was quite a chore trying to fix an over-exposure issue I had with the wide lens. Not sure what I did wrong but they came out ok after some post processing.

That's pretty much all of the pics, but there's a few misc others in the gallery.

Here's the pics. Gearing up awesomeness vegas style some of the group. (Left to right: chris1223, aceisback, chadwick, aseisback's buddy, Mike B, Eric, and rushjunkie) vegas style Eric's Honda Fixing her up That'll work. Out on a ride stopping for a break and to hit a jump Chadwick Rap Rider Eric The crew rushjunkie and Marble MD giving the ole DDR bird Vegas Style's RZR Little Dumont time. (me) Eric on Chad's Raptor and Rap Rider jumping... I managed to get some kickass shots of Rap Rider playing around. Check out the moon in this pic! sandblower! haha Hiking up to the mines...

Sat AM Chris1223, Chadwick, Eric, Mike B, and I rolled in to Dumont around 8AM. It was a bit chilly when we first got there. We quickly geared up and found out the rest of the group was going to be a little while longer so we headed out for a ride. The dunes were badass! There were no tracks. It felt like summertime, except much cooler. It was super smooth, yet predictable so we got some good fast runs in. Along one of the first rides Mike's exhaust shield came apart ripping the bung out of the pipe causing an exhaust leak. We continued on because it wasn't a major issue and we'd try fixing it up back at camp. Then there was a small mishap when Mike B had to lock up his brakes to avoid hitting Chris1223 and he took a little spill off a dune hurting his shoulder but he toughed it out for the rest of the day and continued to ride. Hopefully nothing is broken. We headed back to camp to find rushjunkie had arrived and then vegas style shortly after. Aceisback and his buddy came over from their camp. We got Mike's Raptor rigged up and we were back in biz in no time. We all headed right back out for a good long ride. On the way back, Mike's bad luck struck again when he got a flat. He had a couple holes in his tires probably from the flats that we went ripping across a couple times. We went everywhere. I don't think there was an area of Dumont that we didn't ride except racing up boring comp hill. lol Vegas Style headed back to grab Mike's air tank and he managed to get it back. Aceisback helped out again and grabbed some tire plugs for MIke. Marble MD and Rap Rider then showed up and we all headed back out again. There wasn't much down time. We were go go go. The riding was great! We had a total of 10 quads and a RZR in the group. Everyone rode great and kept the train going nice and tight. It was a pretty cool sight to see. All 11 of us ripping through the dunes almost in unison form. Again, those dunes were killer! I was feeling great that day and everything felt so fluid and easy flowing. The dunes were even pretty easy to read when the sun was at the highest point. I lost track of how many dune rides we went on. Around lunchtime or shortly after, chris1223 had to head home. He was happy to be back out riding after a long 11/2 yrs away from the sandbox. Rushjunkie's quad was popping and not running right so he unfortunately had to bail out too. Mike sat out the last ride when we headed over to Little Dumont. We stopped and hit a jump for a little while. Then when Eric was jumping Chad's bike he got a flat. Luckily aceiback's buddy ran the wheel/tire back to camp to fix it up while we waited there playing around and bs'ing. Vic and his buddy are some great guys. Always willing to lend a hand and if someone has an issue in the group they treat it as if it's their own. Thanks again guys! After Chad's tire was back on he and Vegas Style headed back to camp and the rest of us went to go check out the mines. I've been going to Dumont since 1998 and to that day I had never been all the way up the trail to check it out. A few others had never seen it either so we made the hike. Not very comfortable in hiking boots, but it was pretty cool to see the old mines and stamp mills that were from the 1880's! We all found out hiking in riding boots sucks pretty bad. It got pretty warm that day too. After Little Dumont we headed back to camp. There was probably about 45 minutes left of sunlight. We were so tired after the hike to the mines and the whole day of riding we actually skipped our last sunset ride. We were spent! It was a long day of GREAT riding with a great group. Trips like this make me want to try and get at least one a month in with the group if everyone could pull them off. Thanks to everyone that came out. I'm looking forward to the next one at the end of the month!