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Right on. Glad you had a good trip and enjoyed it. Be careful, that place is addicting!

I think you MIGHT just have this, Mike! I'll update the homepage tonight.

Man, this is horrible to hear. Thanks for the update, Tess. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.

Very cool! Thanks for the review, Jason. I know many HD guys have always considered these but were leery because of the price. Sounds like they are worth every penny though.

Very nice bike! Joe, you should pick this up.

Great report! BTW, I was the "Corvette on Steroids" on the black Raptor leading that ride. Sounds like you guys had a great time with Mike, Jodi, Aaron and his wife, Gps's's's. Hahaa that's her screen name. Not sure if she ever gets on here anymore though.

vote!

I think it was posted in the trip report, but it's always good to watch again. That weekend was sick. Good times.

yeah true, but it wouldn't be worth my time to drive way over there across town.

ha! unreal

"My Tracks" It's a Google app on Android. I love that app. I use it a bunch on my dual sport rides. You just gotta stay plugged in to a charger because it sucks alot of juice.

We ended up logging just about 60 miles of duning for the day! How's that for some dune coverage? Here are tracks for the day... TOTAL DISTANCE: 59.85 mi MAX SPEED: 59.15 mph MOVING TIME: 2:05 hrs AVERAGE MOVING SPEED: 28.55mph MIN ELEVATION: 371 ft MAX ELEVATION: 1000 ft MAXIMUM AWESOMENESS LEVEL ACHIEVED: HOLY f*ckin sh*t

Then after the photoshoot, we were packing it up getting ready to leave when vegas style realized he was in an unfortunate situation. rut roh! Then after a bunch more duning we headed back to camp for lunch. While chilling we saw a private helicopter come buzzing through camp and VERY low. It was badass! He was way low and was taking some chances the way he was flying. He put on a cool a$$ show! After that we decided on taking a ride out to the Little Dunes for a change of pace. The Little Dunes have a bunch to offer and many overlook that area of the dunes. It only takes about 4 minutes to get out there too. It was well worth it. We even explored an area we had never been to, the mines near the Little Dunes. I'm actually cruising 5th gear in this pic. Doesn't look like it at all though. Visiting the trail to the mines... Heading back... Following Eric... making our way back to the big dunes... So then after we went duning one more time through the big dunes we were on our way back. I was riding next to Steve (vegas style) in his RZR as we approached the finger dune that we were parked near. I thought he let off to let me go ahead. We arrived at camp and cracked a couple cold ones open. Except this time Steve didn't show up. WTF? :thinking: Earlier we got back to camp and Steve didn't show up. I went back out looking for him (mid beer mind you) and found he was literally right next door and just stopped to chat with MarbleMD and NE14SAND. So this time I was like, nah fugg that, I'm not going out looking again for no reason. Come to find out he really broke down this time and walked back to camp! OOPS! Sorry Steve. LOL It wasn't that far tough. He started the truck up and we "rode" the flatbed trailer over to go load the RZR up. hahaa good times! Eric and I were clowning on Chad because of his HORRIBLE balance!!! yyyyeah..... LMFO "So...how the hell is that thing gonna load itself up?" So we decided we had to do it the old fashion way. Ahh sh*t. haha Steve's RZR ended up breaking a belt. Not only that but he bent a rim and got a flat too. So after we got that loaded up, we took a few minutes to enjoy our last few minutes of that epic day, and headed home!

Holy crap. Day trips don't get much better than this one! Merry Christmas to us! Here's my daytrip report with a combination of pics from my cel phone, handheld Olympus Tough, and my Canon 50D. So vegas style and I rolled into D at around 8:30am. I was like a kid on....well....Christmas. Chadwick and Eric were already there and had been out on their first run already. Chad recently moved to Minnesota for work so he was way overdue and ready for some sand. Last month's high was like 1 degree too so not only the sand felt good, but the 60 degree weather felt amazing. Can you tell he was pretty damn happy to be back? vegas style got his RZR unloaded in no time flat thanks to his super-wazoo tilt bed trailer (sorry for the blurry pic) We geared up for our first trip out. I wasn't sure how cold of weather to gear up for, but Eric told me it wasn't that cold. It was probably in the high 40's/ low 50's. I trusted him and glad I did. It was perfect riding weather for a long sleeved thermal and a t-shirt. We headed out and started at the south end. The dunes were like summertime! It was so damn smooth and the dunes were razored out...except it wasn't HOT! It was perfect. It really felt like Christmas. Here's a couple pics from the phone on our first stop, about half way to the north pole. As we were getting ready to leave, Eric commented that "I'm not a mathematician or nuthin, but is there a reason your left side paddle is mounted backwards?" LOL Ends up, the shop mounted Steve's paddle backwards on the tire/wheel he brought in for repair. Then we realized we didn't stop in the best spot. I took a couple scenic shots from that peak. After that, we headed north for a bit, backtracked to the south and then stopped by sand~snake and SDA's camp to say hi. Then we stopped off at MarbleMD and NE14SAND's camp. Good seeing some fellow DDR friends while we were there! Then we all did a run with MarbleMD, NE14SAND, and GP's's's's. haha Along the way, almost to the N Pole, we practially flew off a drop off. I came in pretty hot when I came up to it, locked up the brakes, looked back to try and signal, then flew off of it before I could do anything else. hahaa Luckily I landed it ok because the bottom was just as bad, if not worse, as the drop off transition. As Chadwick and I got out to north pole, we realized pretty quickly we were the only ones there. So back we went to the drop off area. We saw everyone hanging out there. At first I was pretty concerned because that was a pretty dangerous spot that we came up on, but when we got there everyone was ok! Phew! Ends up Mike (MarbleMD) went off that drop pretty fast and ate sh*t. Oh snap. lol Thank god he was ok though. He shook it off like nothing and rode back to camp. couple pics of the drop off... We continued on back towards the south. Then we stopped off for a photoshoot Vegastyle having some fun... Me and Eric... Eric Chadwick SAND~SNAKE Eric on Chad's piano... ....more to come....

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Nothing says Merry Christmas like a... "FWD: Merry Christmas" text message! Fuggin painterjoe! WTF dude! a$$hole!