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Yeah, I had a 185S, came out in '82 I think, front shocks I guess, they moved a couple inches maybe. Then a '83 250R, had the big front tire still. '84 got the 250R with the narrow wheel, air cooled. Then they came out with the water cooled, nope, didn't get 1 went to Suzuki quad.

Just scanned these from about 20 years ago. I'm on the deck and my flying bud is in the blue plane, he flew to Dumont from Apple Valley The cliff on the right is the next pic looking straight at it. Hard to see in this small pic but the dark reddish spot in the middle looks like Bigfoot in the big pic Get along little doggies. There's even a little waterfall there. My bud's on the far right Just some little hole in the wall joint Duniemonkie will like this, look on the right of the pic, looks like a giant monkey head Dumont Stonehendge. The "2001" movie monolith is far left

Same as My 1st post, if it doesn't leak lifting the float up your fuel level is too high. It shoudn't take much pressure to shut off the needle, barely lifting the float up. Should be a tab on the float that pushes on the needle, Maybe it got bent, see it you can bend it upwards a little. There's a specification for the fuel height in a manual but you can test (if the overflow stops) by holding float bowl in place, carb level, and turn on the fuel for a few seconds then off and carefully lower the bowl to see how high the fuel is. You don't want it right at an overflow point or fuel will slosh out.

so .... what was the question?

My earlier post didn't mention a date on the railroad tracks by Dumont so here's the historical quote: From Ludlow, the railroad crossed the SP, LA & SL line at Crucero (Spanish word for "crossing") and extended over Broadwell and Soda (dry) Lakes. By March, 1906, the T & T completed the crossing of Silver (dry) Lake north of Baker. At that stage of the project, survey crews continued to chart a detailed path for the railroad, in advance of the construction operations. In May of 1906, 75 miles of rail had been completed to a point just beyond Dumont, north of the Dumont dunes in San Bernardino County. The greatest challenge that the crew faced was the 12 mile ascent through the Alexander Hills north of Dumont by way of the Amargosa River Gorge. These mountains consist of a sequence of extremely hard and erosionally resistant volcanic rock formations. This great obstacle extended east to west for many miles. Going around it was not an option for Smith.3

I've been going to Dumont since 1973 and it was called Dumont then.

take ONLY the float bowl off, leave the float on, it's what closes the needle valve into the seat, leave the fuel line attached and fuel turned on, with the float lifted up the fuel must shut off, if it doesn't and the needle valve and seat are clean then you need a new needle and seat

Take the carb off, remove the float bowl, hook up fuel line, hold float up and turn on fuel, if it leaks clean/replace needle and seat, if it doesn't leak your float level is too high, make sure your float doesn't have a leak and fuel inside the float. Good luck

Well ...1st you stand on a chair, then ........

I think this is the source, summarized. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is a Federal body created in 1890 and established in its present form by Public Law 80-242 in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government. The Board comprises representatives of Federal agencies concerned with geographic information, population, ecology, and management of public lands. Sharing its responsibilities with the Secretary of the Interior, the Board promulgates official geographic feature names with locative attributes.

Ha, knew somebody would do that, I think when the USGS maps the area they name it, what the criteria is I havent a clue.

When's the last time you been smoked on a quad by an old geezer? :laughoff:

Dumont Hills is the group with the dark ones in the middle closest to the dunes. In researching the Old Spanish Trail that follows the Amargosa River by the dunes I discovered the railroad bed that runs behind Dumont and up the Amargosa was the same line that goes by the old Soda Springs/Zzyzx Army outpost that I posted pics here recently and flew almost to the I40 following them. The railroad name was the Tonopa & Tidewater Railroad and the history described laying track to a point just past Dumont, north of Dumont dunes in San Bernardino Co. I found the hills coordinates on a USGS map and a Dumont Hills search had a result with a satellite/map view.

Dumont Dunes is named after the "Dumont Hills" range. I'll find a pic of the dunes with Dumont hills in it.

Yes, sandbar = finger dunes. I think the opening was "open" but the dunes on each side overlaped, you had to do a little "S" or diagonal to get through. I'm going through the pics and scanning and I'll find one.

Easier to type on the pic. To see the scale of how big the dunes are look at the cable from the red part of the wing, follow it down almost to the ATC track and the specks to the right are bikes/atvs, and the SEAL looks like he's going into the dunes but he's actually landing below me west (outside) OF THE 2ND SANDBAR.

Some areas have stayed the same for a long time then start changing and don't stop, like the big bowl at the upper left of this pic, it was that way till about 6 years ago now it's up-down-sideways there. The top left edge of that bowl is the dividing point at the top of comp. And that use to be a big atc track by the big dunes.

So you know the basics like Av (aperture), Tv (time value=shutter speed) and how they work together, light is like water, aperture is the pipe diameter size and shutter speed is like pressure. Those 2 and the sun at your back is most important.

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The newer buildings were from a "religion-based health spa", if you look on the back side of the little rock hill opposite the newer buildings you can see some ruins from the original construction with a dirt road in front, that's the early Mojave road. You can see strait ditches in the dry basin, they're from a short lived mineral company from the early 1900's, they would run the springs hard water down the ditchs to a shallow pools and let the water evaporate then scrape up the mineral deposits for their little mill. Didn't last long. The facility is a "Desert Studies Center" run by 1 or more universities. At 1 time they had public access if you wanted to visit.

and the atc must be an '83 or older, has the same tire on all 3 wheels. You can see a couple dirt roads heading east in the 1 pic, use to go over to the sand & rock mountain in the distance.

It's called FM ....... Friggin Magic You have to edit the levels, colors etc till they match, it's a pain in the aperture. If you ever want to shoot one again use aperture priority so all the shots are the same exposure and manually set the ISO and White Balance so they don't change during the sequence, the shutter will be the only variable.

Scanned these old pics, Forgot what it looked like then, bushes on comp and around the edge of the flats by the sandbar. Even growing between the little dunes behind comp.

Those pics are about 20 yrs old. Last week I found part of the Old Spanish Trail about 1/4 mile from the Cajon Summit crest, was overgrown with vegetation. Been trying to map it so I can use the metal detector and see what I can find.

ooops, my bad