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Draft Agenda for June 11, 2013 Barstow Field Office 10:00 am. Call To Order Pledge Introductions Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes DISCUSSION ITEMS Status of Subgroup membership applications General Dune usage report Up date on DAC/ RAC and fee increase? Friends of Dumont Dunes – Report on the 11th annual clean up March 16, 2013 Members Items From the Floor Adjournment

We're glad to have you guys aboard as a site sponsor. There are quite a few diesel guys on here that could benefit from the work you guys do!

Im in FOSHO!!! Going to be fun, hope alot of people show up

I have to say it was a good camp even when some of the other campers where hardly ever there! Pete your welcome to the extras you needed, anytime. Steve it was fun spending 2 weekends in a row with you too. Looking forward to the next outing? Maybe 5 or 6 days worth?

nice Pete! my trip was low key after a few mishaps on Thursday. cutting my paddle sidewall made it tough on the XP. knobbies just don't work that well in the pink slick sand! still got some nice rides and always enjoy the views weather and friends up there. missed last year for the first time in 6 years was good to be back.

Ha! We ate alot in between rides and I still don't think it was enough. Like I said earlier, we burned LOTS of calories on these rides. They were usually full throttle rides through whoops, trees and jumps with a couple mid throttle cruises when we got tired. It was a blast. Thanks Jill. You guys were great company and thanks for having my back numerous times with the Aleve, spatula, seasoning, and Whisky! haha Looking forward to riding with Charlie once he gets cleared.

Great photo's and report. It's good reading this kinda stuff. Didn't seem like there was too many of these lately!

Once back at camp, we headed out for another long a$$ ride. Chad was waiting for us and started to think something might have gone wrong since we were gone so long. On our ride we stopped at "dead man's cliff", the hill that years ago Abbott led Anna up and she fell straight off. Luckily she only suffered a fractured tailbone back then. Looking south from up there... Love these hills and trails We headed out south again and played around at what I now call the Talladega of Coral. I snapped a few pics on the way back. Mike Chad Then we stopped to get some action shots Then we decided to hit the one way trail and south end fence line again. RIDE RIDE RIDE! On the way back, I snapped a photo of the meadow. Wasn't busy at all. Plenty of space. Mike played ball with Jill and Charlie's football dog lol Ritchie's a-hole dog sh*t in our camp on our bush Charlie walked around some more in his underwear (South Park this time) Then we grubbed big time and made a huge fire. Jill and Charlie gave me a shot or GLASS of Fireball which tasted delish. Chad zonked out pretty early like usual (big tired). Jill, Charlie, Mike and I stayed up for chatting around the fire. It was the perfect day! Monday morning we decided not to go for one more ride. We were spent. So we made a pile of pancakes instead and enjoyed our morning. Charlie had a little friend so he thought. Damn bug pissed on him! "Sons a b*tches!!!" We took the cane beds road home again. A little wash board but not bad at all. I clocked it. It was only 4.7 miles of dirt- pretty much the same as Dumont. On the way home we saw this guy swaying like crazy through the gorge. Scary stuff.

Heck yeah. Not sure why it took me so long to get back up there.

Sunday afternoon: Hog Canyon. Holy crap. We probably only went about 20 miles and it took us about 3 hours. It was very technical; full of sandy switchbacks with rocks and rock face. Nothing like Nevada's terrain. It was quite a challenge but fun. I dropped my bike probably 10 times. lol I was very easily winded after all the duning we did, plus the extra effort needed to ride through the sand on heavy ds bikes, plus the altitude made it difficult to breathe. It was upwards of 7000-8000 feet where we were. The staging area... Looks like a nice jump. BRAAAP Mike went ahead. Oh there he is.... We took the trail up to a really cool overlook that looked down on a section of Kanab. It was a great view. Then we headed out another trail to some really need pinnacle rock formations. Did I mention how soft some areas were? Here you can see the sandy trail coming down from the pinnacles that we were just at. This is a section of rock face along the trail. Fun stuff! You can barely see Mike in the middle/left of the pic. Here is one of my fugg it moments. I had just scoped out a possible route that turned into sand and there was a 2 ft rock ledge I had to get back up from the sand. I was wore out and my arms were rubber, hence the reason I couldn't hold it straight and make my first attempt up the rock face. The sign that you are in some good stuff- bent up license plate. The views were indescribable. Then as we approached the end of the canyon we wondered if it would switchback up the mountain. We came up on this sign. We have a new respect for Utah's trail designation system. Difficult means DIFFICULT. The trail went STRAIGHT up the side of the mountain with only a couple small turns. I waited for Mike to make it up before I even gave it a go. I had to make sure he made it up. This is what it looked like. Lots of dust and noise. hahaaa I thought he made it all the way and I gave it my best. Turns out he only made it 3/4 of the way up! LUCKILY there was a very small somewhat level spot for me to stop and wait. Good thing. I was hot and exhausted. This spot was pretty hairy. It was soft and STEEP! My turn. Time to do this... The first couple attempts the bike would just loop out or kick sideways. I couldn't get enough speed with the 5 feet of run I had. So I decided to start in 2nd gear, rev the piss out of it and dump/ feather the clutch. It worked. I even had to walk/ kick my feet at the top to help it up but I made it. I was pumped. That was insane. Looking back down after we got to the top made it look that much steeper. I don't know if we would be able to go down it. Pics never do as much justice but it sort of shows the steepness I guess. Again, the views paid off. But boy I was tired! We continued on and only came across one more technical downhill section, but it wasn't too bad. A couple more miles of zig zagging through the mountain and we were out of there and headed back to camp at Coral. It sure felt good to ride in a straight line on hard terrain!