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stop it guys I'm sitting here holding my broken azz rib in pain from laughing so hard. Dammnit "ya fuggin TORTURE CHAMBA!!!" <-- Ya freakin d*ck knuckle you! I thought I already covered that. It was awesome! No really, the duning in back of Sand Mtn is great. Like Aaron said- it is very similar to the fast lines and large dunes of Dumont. It doesn't go as far as I thought, but White Sands goes forever! The dunes in the back are maybe as long as Dumont is.

I'd love to go see Authority Zero and Pepper, but I'm gonna have to pass as well. Funds are really tight with all the trips I have been doing lately. I am however gonna try to catch OPS and the HOTS this Saturday here in Hendo.

nope, still have the same 2 older 660's. why?

yes it makes sence, but I am gonna call you a liar. I opened your pic in PS and looked at the data. You took it at 640 shutter speed. Still a pretty fast shutter though and I understand about the zoomed in thing.

I don't know. That hill is way steeper than it looks. But first you gotta actually GO on one of these trips to find out though!

Excellent shots Tim. Glad you are enjoying your new 50D. I knew you'd love it. WOW. ^ Talk about some seriously expensive equipment! Thats badass Rob!

None of us are usually sober enough at night to do all that.

Nice shots there, Lee. I really like the first and the last one. In the last one you even managed to get some motion blur out of the tires. I take it you slowed your shutter speed down a bunch from the usual 1000+ right?

Great shots Sam.

camp area at sand mountain Can you find my trailer? lol Almost dead center of the pic, but up slightly facing left.

It was considered a busy holiday weekend because well...it was a holiday. As for the camp area: it's pretty big, but it's not like Dumont. It just seems really small from way up on the mtn. You gotta remember. Sand Mountain is over 700 feet tall. At least 2 or 3 times the size of comp at Dumont. There is the Sand Mtn camp area which is open camping like D, then they have 2 campgrounds: Jericho & White Sands which are farther north.

Sunday night was the only time it even really rained all weekend in camp. It was pretty fun though to just chill in the rain despite the fact that I was hurtin, Jack was hurtin, and we were all pretty beat. I kicked on some good tunes, we got a huge azz fire going, and JJ, RoseMarie, and Charlie stopped by. Good times. Charlie and Anna got in a Coke throwin fight. :beer_bang: Hey Mike and Jodi. Here's your backside picture. All weekend we tried getting Chad with a Sharpie or eyeliner. We never succeeded. He's a light sleeper. :surrender: He decided to wake up and join in on the fun. Jakster hangin tough after gettin back from the hospital.

cheers Jakster taking the girls out. just some random pics :atc: the "spider tree" more crazy skies as the weather shifted 3 SSC's at the top I like this pic. Then on Sunday we're watching movies in the hauler as it starts to drizzle. Anna notices out the window of the hauler that Charlie child tagged Sand Mtn DDR style. :beer_bang: Thatta boy Charlie!!! Way cool. :surrender:

some long shutter night shots of sand mtn with some light trails

A view from the backside way off in the distance. After meeting up with JJ (lvnalolife) and friends, we stoppped for some action pics. Charlie Child tearin it up. The skies were interesting all weekend. group photo shoot (minus me of course)

Chillen on Thurs after we got there. The paved loops were a blast for this... :atc: Looking north towards White Sands. Those dunes go forever but you can't go too fast since they are kind of tight and technical. But they're still fun to check out and cruise through. Lookin at sand mtn camp area from the white sands Jakster playin ball w/ one of his girls couple DDR birds for ya some of the really fun STEEP hills to climb (but with a HELMET ) sunset some pics of the dunes in the back from Friday. Sorry the sun wasn't out much so the pics aren't the best some greener dune areas. I bet ponds start to form when it really rains hard there. These are from when we sat at the top of Sand Mtn and just sat & chilled and watched the show... badass Jeep... some rails... turbo'd LTR450 Banshee Then over to the vendors for a hat. I forgot mine. Good thing Racin Dirty was there. Back at the hill... Larry Short in his turbo single seater :beer_bang: (owner of Short Sand Cars who built my car) another SSC and another SSC clean ride more racin action at sand mtn Aaron layin the smack down This Jeep was SICK! :surrender: He flopped the sand mtn razor the next day wayyy at the top. That takes balls with a big ol Jeep. Built Jeeps are big up there. I still have more coming up....

I never got a pm about the date change So now it's the 20th instead of June 13th? :beer_bang: Let me know and I will update it and maybe even send out a e-mail to everyone. ughh

I'll get more pics up tonight when I get time. Mike I didn't get too many backside pics, but there are a few. I also got some pics of some seriously irresponsible people up there. :surrender: I think I need a separate thread just for those! WHY would you not wear a helmet???? I might go get x-rays soon. This rib is killing me. :beer_bang:

Henderson Chevy body shop. They do it all.

k, here are just a few to hold you over :beer_bang: Check out Aaron pulling his signature move when he waxes someone on the hill. He wheelies and looks back at them at the top.

It's a great place for almost every kind of toy. It's about 6 hours from Vegas (towing). From my house in Henderson it was almost exactly 400 miles. Summertime up there still gets pretty warm during the daytime from what I am told. Dunereview.com has a bunch of LS regulars with some good info.

Thanks Justin. We heard other people talk about doing the tour at night as well. That seems like it would be pretty cool. Thanks Lee. Yeah mostly just used the 28-135 for all the shots except the ones from the top of the hotel. Lugging that heavy 70-200 lens all around San Fran was out of the question. We must have walked over 100 miles throughout the weekend.

I haven't put too much time on it since, but it still works great. Rick actually called me the other day at home to check on how everything worked out and to see how the custom harness they made for me worked. I guess he was just touching base to make sure I was happy. Pretty good customer svc right there.

crazy stuff Cole! wow. Good job stepping up and taking control. I hope karma bites those 2 bitchezz real bad.

We just got back from 5 days up at Little Sahara. What an excellent weekend. There's so much to talk about I don't even know where to begin. We covered ALOT of dunes and trails this time. It was awesome. Those dunes in the back of sand mtn are badass. There's some great lines where you can flat out haul a$$. Unfortunatley there were 2 mishaps in our group. I hit a big rock at the base of sand mountain on my 2 wheeler and went flying over the bars. I landed pretty hard either bruising or fracturing a rib on my left side along with some good road rash on my legs. It hurts but I'll live. I still rode the rest of the weekend though. Then yesterday Jakster and Chadwick went out on a ride. Jack rolled his quad over and ended up breaking his shoulder. He went into Nephi for x-rays and they told him it was a 3rd degree AC separation whatever that means. Regardless, it's gonna require surgery when he gets home. He'll live though. He's a trooper. Other than the mishaps, we got a TON of great riding in, the weather was awesome (although it changed by the hour), we ate great, laughed our azzes off, got lots of relaxing in etc etc. Just like a dune trip should be. Good times with some great peeps. I'll get some pics up as soon as they upload from my card.