Sandbuddy

On 9/19/2022 at 3:05 PM, dunefreak said:

Wow those dunes look insane right now. I know it's always very razored out and steep in the summer, but that is extreme how steep the face hill has become. 

 

Thanks for the pics and update, Mike. 

Insane is a understatement. Driving North to South you were going up a wall and South to North you couldn't see anything. Very unusual shapes. Back side of comp on the North side is not a razor anymore. It's in the picture of a flattened off area with huge witches eyes. 

Dune report......weather was a little warmer than I thought it would be. Around 95 degrees at 3pm. Dunes were almost unrideable. The wind has blown from the South so bad that the North side was nothing but the biggest drop-off's that I have ever seen. I've been riding at Dumont for almost 40 years and have never seen them like that. Almost everything on the North side of a dune was a drop-off from anywhere around 3ft to 30-40ft. Shadows didn't help much cause you couldn't see the drop off's. I don't think we got over 20mph in the dunes. The pictures show the front of the dunes and you can see how much different they are. If you look you can see the "sandslides". There was only one camp other than ours and the last picture shows the end result of the diesel truck with a 35+ ft 5th wheel that burnt to the ground on his way out about 2am. I don't think anybody was injured. Last thing.....all the people that left your trash there last season, the trash is still there!!! You should go and clean it up!!

Seems to be that there paving all the way to the Ranger station. 
the wind has blown!!  Everything has changed. Massive drop off’s. Big witches eyes. No shadows right now so it’s absolutely unsafe to ride. 

Was in Idaho last month so my car is ready and we already fixed a few things on my brothers car so we're ready. I'll report on the road and conditions. 

The weather is going to be great this weekend so we're going to start this season early. We will be out early Saturday morning so if anybody wants to venture out your more than welcome to camp with us.

Another season coming. 

See ya there.

Pismo was junk duning. Nothing there for buggies. A quick blip of the throttle and it's over. I think it will be way to far for that crowd.

I was there this weekend. The "W" was so hard on Saturday till about 2am Sunday. It was bad enough I could hardly shut the door on the trailer. We spoke with some people that had ran out to the hill around 10pm and saw the rangers there with the side x side on its side and sheets on the ground. I never heard the chopper and we were camped across the road from the ranger station. Always sad to hear.

I'm heading out tomorrow. Should be good.

On 11/2/2020 at 10:13 AM, dunefreak said:

Like every holiday weekend, there's good points and bad. I had a blast, but the every holiday weekend I go, the more I enjoy the off weekends. I didn't appreciate the insanely loud mariachi band music at all times of the day from every direction. The people who blasted that music that loud were really inconsiderate. I wish they'd be a little more respectful of others, especially crazy late at night and at 8AM! 

We had the same problem. Crap music till 4am.

Count me in. There will be a few of us...

You don't spare the skinny pedal for sure.